Okay so We Both Go Down Together is one of those songs where it sounds really sweet, but once you look at the lyrics it’s really fucked up
TW: non-con/rape, suicide, questionably murder?
Essentially, the plot of the song (because most Decembrist songs have plots and it’s fucking amazing) is one of a very dominant and manipulative lover from upper class who fell in ‘love’ with a woman from a rough childhood and lower class [You come from parents wanton/A childhood rough & rotten/I come from wealth & beauty/Untouched by work or duty]
They have less than consensual encounters, with the narrator rather clearly taking advantage of his ‘lover’ and raping her in an idyllic place [I laid you down on the grass of a clearing/You wept, but your soul was willing]
In the end, he convinces her to commit suicide with(?) him because “My parents will never consent to this love”
They meet on the “cliffs of Dover” and presumably jump together [While the seagulls are crying/We fall, but our souls are flying] (but it is a question of if the narrator followed through or if this was just a ploy to kill her)
So that’s the song, which leaves HORRIFYING implications for TGS I think!
In my opinion, based on the cover, Jekyll would be taking the place as the narrator, as he also comes from upper class, blah blah blah whatever and then Hyde would be the woman from the lower class bc that’s what he pretends to be
While I HEAVILY doubt the implication that Jekyll and Hyde would be romantic, especially in the direction of the song, but the overall message of ‘going down together’ still remains
There’s the possibility that Jekyll commits ‘suicide’ with Hyde, or that Jekyll simply pushes Hyde off the cliff and kills him (cliffs also likely make a connection to the cliffs of insanity, as Jekyll/Hyde and Frankenstein have to like scale cliffs in that I believe)
Essentially it would be Jekyll either somehow managing to blame Hyde for everything and not taking the potion presumably (killing him) or Jekyll AND Hyde becoming unhinged, probably being more like themselves in the actual J&H novella (suicide pact)
It’s all just making me think too much and I’m going to explode I fucking love the Decemberists pls go listen to We Both Go Down Together it’s only like 3 mins long and fucking BEAUTIFUL