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Debts
This Is Deer Country Lyrics
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And winter comes quick
Sounds like burning
The light of gold quick
Ohhh...
And I am a daughter
From wanting don't move
Comes often too soon
Ohhh....
Lovers taught early choose
Lovers taught late
Sounded like turning
A silvery state
Ohhhh...
And you are the son
Of a father in life
A penniless star-crossed
Of a wolf caught the night
Ohhhh...
And the cold love
And everyone
You know
And everyone
You owe
Make something nice
And Saturday nights
Overwrite words
Written too right
Ohhhh...
And won't songs come fast
To old open wounds
And winter will call your love
Home too soon
Ohhhh...
And the cold love
And everyone
You know
And everyone
You owe
Ohhhh...
And my love,
Whatever happened to
Oh,
Everyone you knew,
You owe me too
The song “Debts” by This Is Deer Country is a melancholic reflection on the burden of emotional debts we carry with us. The lyrics are dense with metaphorical language, requiring careful analysis to fully understand the song’s meaning. The first verse describes the sudden arrival of winter and compares its arrival to the burning of something precious. The second verse introduces the singer, who is a daughter accustomed to dealing with someone’s open anger that comes too soon. The third verse reflects on the lessons taught about love and how it can sound like turning in a silvery state. The fourth verse introduces the other character of the song, the son of a father struggling in life, caught by the wolf in the night. The chorus repeats the idea that everyone knows someone they owe, embodying the feeling of carrying a heavy emotional debt that needs to be paid back. The fifth verse talks about trying to find respite in the small things in life and to overwrite some of the painful memories with positive ones. The final verse suggests that even though time passes and wounds may heal, winter will come and call back our love too soon, reminding us that the debts we carry are never fully settled.
Line by Line Meaning
Winter comes quiet
The arrival of winter is peaceful and calm
And winter comes quick
The winter arrives abruptly
Sounds like burning
The sound of winter resembles that of burning
The light of gold quick
The sunlight during winter is brief and golden
And I am a daughter
The artist is a female offspring
From wanting don't move
The singer does not stop wanting things in life
Your oft open anger
The listener's frequent outbursts of anger
Comes often too soon
The anger is expressed before it is necessary
Lovers taught early choose
People who fall in love at a young age learn to make choices
Lovers taught late
People who are in love at a later stage learn to choose wisely
Sounded like turning
The transition felt like a turning point
A silvery state
The state of love felt like a precious metal, silver
And you are the son
The listener is the male offspring
Of a father in life
The listener's father is still alive
A penniless star-crossed
The listener is fated to suffer from financial difficulties
Of a wolf caught the night
The listener's fate is compared to that of a wolf caught in the dark
And the cold love
The love felt devoid of warmth
And everyone
And each person
You know
Whom you are aware of
And everyone
And each person
You owe
Whom you have debts to repay
Make something nice
Create something pleasant
And Saturday nights
During the weekends
Overwrite words
Erase previous written words
Written too right
The written words were too accurate
And won't songs come fast
Songs will come quickly
To old open wounds
A reminder of past hurtful experiences
And winter will call your love
Winter will stir up the listener's emotions
Home too soon
The artist's longing for love is unfulfilled
And my love,
Refers to someone the singer loves
Whatever happened to
What occurred with
Oh,
Expressing wonderment or exclamation
Everyone you knew,
People the listener associated with
You owe me too
The listener has debts to repay to the artist
Contributed by Ellie A. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
José Milheiro
Countries in the Eurozone do have a debt ceiling, at 60% of GDP.
Portugal, and specially Greece for example, are well above that figure though, which is why they stopped having access to funding in financial markets back in 2010/11.
Basically, the US doesn’t have to worry about it because it issues its own currency, which is also the world trade currency.
The problem with excessive debt is when the central bank (that’s the FED if you’re american) owns too much of said debt. And oh boy, moneyprinter been going brrrrr for a long time now. The fact that the western economies have needed quantitative easing for so long only goes to show how this type of consumer goods based capitalism is broken.
To say that it simply doesn’t matter, however, is a bit childish, imho
khawaja Sibtain
Why have a debt ceiling if you raise it every time? It's not like the it's helping to keep the debt low.
Nikola Demitri
One of the biggest issues is that we’re working off the oldest rule book of any country on the planet right now, the US Constitution, which has been outdated in a variety of ways for quite some time, and is holding this country back big time. As long as that ancient text is the rule book, you have this stupid and broken system the way it is, and it’s unlikely these antiquated and useless structures like “the debt ceiling” are going away. I agree with Matt Christman, the Constitution should have been scraped for an updated version after the Civil War, as it was in part responsible for getting us to the point of Civil War in the first place. The means for changing it are just too difficult when the political system/party system is so broken, and with everything that’s happened in this country in this century so far it’s more clear than ever that the Constitution has got to go, and we need a drastic overhaul of what our system looks like, and how it functions. (Obviously capitalism is the even broader/larger issue, but you could say that about nearly every sociopolitical issue, so it’s not saying much.)
PS - I’m not saying the Constitution is irredeemable, or trash, or anything like that, so don’t come at me if you’re still attached to it for some reason.. There are various aspect of the Constitution I’d want to preserve, especially a bill of rights, and I’d want most of those original rights to be maintained, as well as most of the later amendments establishing rights, and I’d want that part expanded greatly to include all human necessities (housing, healthcare, etc). I’m just saying, the damn thing is old, and the material situations/contexts of NOW clearly require something more updated, and more democratic.
carl culleton
@Colin Seguin the exact mechanics vary by country, but I think the main difference is that in the US elections are proscribed by set dates, whereas in other countries the elections can be brought forward by various means. Even where more than a simple majority is required to do that the reality is usually that a minority party that votes against calling an election will be seen as being to cowardly to try and actually win an election, so it’s fairly rare that if a ruling party want the early election, that smaller ones block it. So for example even though the U.K. has a fixed term parliament act which says that elections can only be called every 5 years, in the last 6 years we have had 5 general elections, and there’s rumours of another one next year.
So in other countries if the legislature can’t agree they can say well if we can’t decide, we’ll let the public do so - rather than blow up their economy or get stuck in endless legislative gridlock.
Timothy Cannon
Because it takes a vote to raise it, so if the people didn't want it raised in theory they would vote different people in and not raise it. The tea party tried and failed at this I believe. Bunch of losers if you ask me.
Xtensioncord TV
@Colin Seguin in Canada for example budget bills are made by the leading party and if 50% of our MP's(the equivalent of the US congress) doesn't vote for one of them it triggers a reelection. The way canada works though is that instead of "directly" voting in the Prime Minister (the equivalent to the US president) we vote for our MP's and whichever party gets the most MP's wins the general election.
Colin Seguin
@carl culleton wait really? Can you elaborate on that it sounds really interesting
The Dynast Queen
If you can raise your debt ceiling it's not a real threat. It's like when an animu character keeps saying "This isn't even my final form" every time they get into a fight, at a certain point no one is wow'd anymore as it means nothing.
José Milheiro
Countries in the Eurozone do have a debt ceiling, at 60% of GDP.
Portugal, and specially Greece for example, are well above that figure though, which is why they stopped having access to funding in financial markets back in 2010/11.
Basically, the US doesn’t have to worry about it because it issues its own currency, which is also the world trade currency.
The problem with excessive debt is when the central bank (that’s the FED if you’re american) owns too much of said debt. And oh boy, moneyprinter been going brrrrr for a long time now. The fact that the western economies have needed quantitative easing for so long only goes to show how this type of consumer goods based capitalism is broken.
To say that it simply doesn’t matter, however, is a bit childish, imho
José Milheiro
@A V I’ve read “The poor suffer what they must” which gives a bit of a more historical context on the global financial system of today.
I’ve been meaning to read more of Varoufakis, thanks for the suggestion!
A V
For a more in-depth analysis on the recycling of global debt via the American financial engine, I recommend "The Global Minotaur" by Yanis Varoufakis.