The frontman of Death Cab For Cutie has revealed the meaning of their single “I Will Follow You Into The Dark.”
Frontman Ben Gibbard spoke to NMEand revealed the somber meaning behind the song, which appeared on the band’s third studio album Plans.
“I think what it is about ‘I Will Follow You Into The Dark’ that connects to people is the fact that we are all going to lose everyone in our lives,” he said. “Everyone in our lives is going to die. We too will die someday, and people will mourn us.”
He went onto explain why it is important that we keep this fact in our minds: “In the same breath that one gains wisdom and experience with age, there is a period of your life in which it feels like you’re going to weddings every weekend and there’s a period in your life when it feels like you’re going to funerals every weekend.
“I think it’s very important in our relative age group that we recognize that we’re living in a very special time in our lives where we’re going to far more weddings than funerals.”
He then continued: “Death is an ever-present fear. If not a fear, then an impending reality in our lives. We like to think that when people leave this life, we will see them again some day. Writing a love song that deals specifically with the inevitable death of one’s partner and that you will follow that person into whatever the afterlife is or is not, that’s something that people can relate to.”
Death Cab For Cutie’s upcoming album Thank You For Today will be released August 19th.
