There's a reason this song has endured. I think it's because it nails something that doesn't really get nailed too often and although the twee indie that populated the indie charts in the 2000s aped it aesthetically they couldn't replicate its heart as it were. There's the paradoxical beauty of Moe's singing voice which wonderfully mirrors the paradoxical beauties in the songs. It's a good adjective to use about love, sticky. It's not something one can wipe off easily and it is slightly socially unacceptable because it takes you out of society a bit. There's a vulnerability to it as well as a kind of valour. Have you ever noticed how all children are invariably somewhat sticky? What is really at the songs core is the savage tenderness of love. One of the motifs Lou uses in the lyrics is highway robbery and one can't help but think of Dick Turpin and Black Bess and the sacrifice involved. I'll do anything for you, anything you want me, I'll do anything for you, ,oh oh,I'm sticking wid you. One can't help but think of Bess ridden to death just outside of York. It is like a nursery rhyme but a Grimm one. There's a line Saw you hanging from a tree and I made believe it was me. If that's not love I don't know what is.
When we swing we hang past right and wrong.
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