I posted this last year but not until the day after, so this time I'll get it right. April 14 marks the date of both Abraham Lincoln's shooting in 1865 and Titanic hitting the iceberg. (In both cases, however, it wasn't until after midnight, and therefore April 15, that the final act of the drama played itself out.) In this song Welch links those events to memories of a small-time rock show witnessed as a teenager, and by implication the mingled glamor and tragedy of life as a whole.
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