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Track #2 on 2005’s Picaresque, “We Both Go Down Together” is a song narrated by a man from the British upper class who is in a relationship with a poor peasant girl (Miranda). The song then describes the details their ruinous, and ultimately deadly, relationship.
In a reddit AMA in 2015, Colin Melo...
[Verse 1]
Here on these cliffs of Dover
So high you can't see over
And while your head is spinning
Hold tight, it's just beginning
You come from parents wanton
A childhood rough and rotten
I come from wealth and beauty
Untouched by work or duty
[Chorus]
And oh, my love, my love
And oh, my love, my love
We both go down together
[Verse 2]
I found you, a tattooed tramp
A dirty daughter from the labor camps
I laid you down on the grass of a clearing
You wept but your soul was willing
[Chorus]
And oh, my love, my love
And oh, my love, my love
We both go down together
And my parents will never consent to this love
But I hold your hand
[Verse 3]
Meet me on my vast veranda
My sweet, untouched Miranda
And while the seagulls are crying
We fall but our souls are flying
[Chorus]
And oh, my love, my love
And oh, my love, my love
And oh, my love, oh my love
And oh, my love, my love
We both go down together
We Both Go Down Together was written by Colin Meloy.
We Both Go Down Together was produced by The Decemberists & Chris Walla.
The Decemberists released We Both Go Down Together on Tue Mar 22 2005.