6-30-11 - "Mistakes We Knew We Were Making" ~ MAE

Here's one from one of my favorite albums of all time.  I talked about the album and the band in previous posts, so I won't rehash that now.  This song has a great syncopation to its 6/8 timing, kind of makes you imagine a waltz in a movie or something, and closes with an ethereal outro.


The lyrics are pretty heavy; sounds like young lovers took a relationship to the physical consummation and ended up conceiving.  They weren't prepared for a life-changing event of that magnitude, yet they knew beforehand that a baby was a potential consequence of their decision (hence the song title).  They had to grow up fast, but ended up seeing the wondrous side of creating a new life, and that sometimes even our mistakes can work out for good.


Or at least that's how I'm interpreting it... what do you think?

"Riding on the fumes that spark us
while igniting dreams..."