All Your Yeahs

All Your Yeahs

Beach House

I believe the we in the song is either her present self and future self OR past self and present self talking to one another. In either case, the latter has knowledge of events that will occur on the former. It’s despite this knowledge, the latter tries to console the former. For the rest of the annotations, I’ll use present and future selves.

It is difficult to conceptualize ourselves as a different self than the day before but not as difficult to compare and see a difference in ourselves from today to 10 years ago. As we are the sum of our experiences, so has a person lived more each day. Few people have experienced anything without agreeing to do something or ‘our yeahs’.