The Mountain Goats: This Year

The Mountain Goats, founded in 1991, are a california based indie/ Folk rock band. This year is a song off their 2005 EP Dilaudid. The song tells the story of a teenage boy running away from home for the day, something i’m sure we would all love to do right now. The song talks about the boy’s desire to escape his abusive household and his adventures on one good day. The chorus “I am going to make it through this year, if it kills me” was something of an anthem for me going into senior year. Originally, I my interpretation was “I’m taking a lot of hard classes this year, but i’m going to make it through”. It has become significantly more literal over the past couple weeks.