Dan Mangan, on You’re Going to Die: The Podcast:
“I think that the song that best describes my thoughts on death & grief is without question ‘No Tragedy Please’… That whole song is one of my proudest bits of lyricism. And I can even just kinda like spit it out:
‘What I can take, it will be tes...
What I can take, it will be tested
What can break me has a name
So when I’m calm and feeling rested
There’s still a devil at the gate
And I have learned that if I let it
It will coax my ease away
So maybe too many things really matter to me?
And maybe loss just affirms the value of everything?
Maybe love is a curse and we’ll never be free?
Maybe there in the sting lies the real poetry?
Just no tragedy please, just no tragedy please
If I could read what the cards tell
Could I live with what they say?
Or would I just sit there shuffling and re-shuffling
Try to fix the deck my way
What is this long and painful process?
Learn to leave things as they lay
So maybe too many things really matter to me?
And maybe loss just affirms the value of everything?
Maybe love is a curse and we’ll never be free?
Maybe there in the sting lies the real poetry?
Just no tragedy please, just no tragedy please
There’s nothing more that I need
Just no tragedy
No Tragedy Please was written by Dan Mangan & Drew Brown.
No Tragedy Please was produced by Drew Brown & David Ives & Darrell Thorp.
Dan Mangan released No Tragedy Please on Fri Oct 28 2022.