I will follow you into the dark #storytelling #millennials #indiemusic #emo transcript

in the Canon of mid-2000s ukulele core filed under songs that you have probably cried to inside of a Walgreens you'll find the lullabi that both broke and mended the heart of a generation I Will Follow You into the Dark by death C for Cutie is a track best enjoyed in the warm embrace of a cardigan that someone with a Banky tattoo on their forearm left at your apartment after a night of pretending to watch Eternal Sunshine for a spotless mine it is with a V diagram of songs played at Millennial weddings and funerals that probably happened too soon overlaps for those of us went from exchanging screen names to sharing last names who unknowingly had their future co-parents in their top eight this was a song whose true meaning changed with age learning what the words really meant the hard way as we lost parents and friends no blinding light or tunnels to Gates of white just our hands clasped so tight a ballad for the Beloved and the bereaved for the kids who cut thumb holes in the ends of their sleeves who now have kids of their own who we pray with all of our hearts we'll find someone to follow them into the dark