I was listening to the song “The Deeper In” by Drive-by Truckers for the fifteenth time or so, and realized that it was about incest.
Your oldest brother was away at a home
and You didn’t meet him til you was nineteen years old
Old enough to know better, old enough to know better
but you took to his jaw line and long sandy hair
How he made you feel like none off the others
and the way he looked at you touched you deep down in there.
Oh… deep down in there. I get it. It’s a really humanizing portrayal of an incestuous couple, based on the true story of the only two people ever convicted of consentual incest. They had four children. It makes sense as an opening track to Decoration Day, an album that deals mostly with family, youth, and marriage. I recommend it.
My favorite line from the album: “Well my daddy didn’t pull out, but he never apologized.” From “Marry Me.”
Here’s the song.
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