Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal Lyrics Meaning

anonymous

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Mar 6th 2020 !⃝

I recently went through the lyrics and found a deeper meaning. I was easy for me because I have seen this happen a lot recently with two of my friends. I think it´s a group of young children, all following each other throughout elementary school and being best friends until they get to middle or high school where they branch out and make new friends. The friends have been ¨dying¨ off and joining their own friend circles, and Micheal was somebody´s Best friend of sorts. Micheal ¨died¨, meaning he abandoned someone to follow the others until you broke off.

The red scarfs could be the memories keeping friends barely together, until one breaks loose the memories and makes their own new ones.

And the red blood (related to the red scarfs) could be the memories pouring out, reminding the others of your absence, and wishing you were there.

So in a summary, my thoughts are the pack is a friend group, and Micheal ¨died¨ by making new friends, and red blood and red scarfs are related as memories, the scarfs keeping you together, and blood as the reminder of the ones you´ve lost.

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