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“ This is a song about a bunch of friends of mine who really liked methamphetamine. -- John Darnielle introducing Letter From Belgium, Harvester Performance Center on 2017-12-04 08:53 pm · 93

“ I had to leave tour and cancel a tour date to go say goodbye to my mother-in-law, who was dying, and I wrote this song for her later. -- John Darnielle introducing Matthew 25:21, Tipitina’s on 2012-01-21 08:19 pm · 38

“ This is a song about sitting alone in a room, waiting for something to happen; a subject that’s most insufficiently addressed by pop music. You know, because not everybody, really, is going to find the one they love but everybody is going to spend some time alone in a room waiting for something to happen. -- John Darnielle introducing Absolute Lithops Effect, Dan’s Silverleaf on 2014-06-20 06:38 pm · 486

“ This is a song about how you remember your times that you spent in the thrall of the evil that lives inside of you. We identify these evils as external evils because it’s a lot easier than suggesting that your dark times actually are a function of some… thing that’s always in there, like the Blob. It’s like, no matter how hard you freeze it, you know, it somehow thaws and comes out and ruins you for season after season.



But it’s never permanent; it feels like it’s going to be permanent, but it’s not permanent. But it feels like it is. And you get away from it and you remember, ‘Oh, that was- that was a dark demon running my house at that time.’ -- John Darnielle introducing In Memory of Satan, The Wexner Center on 2015-04-22 05:02 pm · 298

“ This is on We Shall All Be Healed. It’s a song about wondering whether you’re actually going to get healed. -- John Darnielle introducing The Young Thousands, The Wexner Center on 2015-04-22 09:10 pm · 202

“ Every so often, when you travel through this world, you may see a person and you say, ‘As sure as I’m standing here and by the holy name of the god that made me, I’m going to stab that person in the eye with a foreign object.’ -- John Darnielle introducing Foreign Object, The Wexner Center on 2015-04-22 06:24 pm · 1667

“ This is a song about a couple of people who are going to get themselves a delightful little divorce. One of these days. -- John Darnielle introducing Southwood Plantation Road, Grand Park on 2011-08-05 07:11 pm · 152