"We know!" I hear you cry, "it's an absolute abomination of a song!" To that I would say to you, "Sir/Madam, please find another corner of the internet to darken with your turdy quips!" But really, it was a very quick process apart from the DAYS I spent trying to find something more erudite to sing in the choruses. "This one took very little time to come together. When the imagery is already laid out on a plate (or the floor) for you, well, you should make lemonade with it. The camerawork was positively Hitchcockian. It was just so well directed and strikingly beautiful. You can have Hypocritical Shitter for your next band name, by the way. But bear with me whilst I write an entire fucking song about one of mine. The possibilities are limitless therefore I CANNOT BE SURPRISED BY WHAT HAPPENED IN YOUR DREAM. "I don't care about other people's dreams. Sadder than any failed relationship-sadder than a dog dying.Now, we hand you back over to 'Hypocritical Shitter' Scott, to talk us through the album. And I think that the mere fact he feels like he needs to die in order to feel important, appreciated, and loved is absolutely one of the saddest things I have ever heard. He wants his death to mirror the deaths of important figures-he wants people to know about him. He just wants to feel important and relevant in this world. It shows that while our narrator is clearly impoverished, he is also quite depressed as well. Something else noteworthy is that it is heavily implied that the individual singing “Die Like A Rich Boy” is the subject of the previous track on the record, “Lump StreetÛ-a song about an impoverished couple wishing to escape from that lifestyle.īut the true tug on the heartstrings come a bit later in the chorus when the musical texture thickens up with low piano chords and a string section and Hutchinson sings in one of the most heartbreaking ways possible:Īnd it is the final line that I believe is truly one of the saddest lyrics I have ever heard in my life-sadder than the final lyrics of “Poke ” sadder than anything from the musical theatre canon. Imagery created in the lines “car crying babies” and “thick, white skull on the ground” contribute to the feeling of despair, and the desire to not “die in the bony arms of the state” show that the narrator is not entirely pleased with his dependence on benefits. This firmly identifies the narrator as quite a poor individual-someone suffering not only from poverty but also something else we’ll discuss later. To be laid to rest in the wake of the faded town I won’t die in the bony arms of the state Starkly accompanied by finger-picked acoustic guitar, Hutchinson croons at nearly the top of his tessitura, setting the scene for the song to come:įrom the car crying babies and switchblade daysĪnd the thought of the thick, white skull on the ground With strikingly similar instrumentation to the aforementioned “Poke,” bandleader Scott Hutchinson and the rest of the Scottish band are right in their indie-folk wheelhouse. I’m sure you already are assuming how the song sounds purely based on the title, and you probably are not far off. However, with the release of their 2016 record Painting of a Panic Attack, both of those titles have been awarded to a new song-the album closer “Die Like a Rich Boy.Û Long-time readers of “Another Kind of Currency” may recall a column I wrote my freshman year about Frightened Rabbit’s “Poke,” which I always considered not only one of their most depressing songs (saying something if you know FR’s catalog), but also one of the most depressing songs ever.
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