I am a darker poet

[rm]

Okay, you know that Decemberists song We Both Go Down Together where the singer makes the word "tramp" have three syllables? I still always hear it as "triumph" which makes the line "I found you a tattooed triumph, a dirty daughter from the labour camps" which is about 800 times more disturbing and interesting than "tattooed tramp" and I can't shake it. I mean, my god....

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I've got to stand fast here against the raging torrent and say again that the song is way better as a ridiculous woe-is-me parody of self-important morbid teenagers than as anything that could ever be taken seriously. It's your classic "I'm so beautiful and tragic and haunted and you're so overawed by my flawless breeding you've become a passive receptacle for my suicidal delusions so hey let's go kill ourselves! Huzzah!" Which is hi-lar-ious. It's the perfect companion track to "Common People". If you make it a forced labor camp (especially anything to do with the Holocaust-- no Nazi I ever heard of would describe himself as "coming from wealth and beauty" so smugly. They were Socialists, yo.), you remove the class element, and the whole structure of the sarcasm collapses. So I think it's better-- not darker, but way-ass funnier-- the way it was intended.