Desert Island Questionnaire Lyrics

[Verse 4]
Pretend that you were stranded on a desert island
What would be the message that you'd spell out for the plane?

Say the engine failed when that plane was flyin'
If you were the pilot, would you curse or would you pray?

No one's gonna cry at this John Doe funeral
Not a lot to say, didn't even have a name
Light a candle just in case he was someone's friend
Throw some flowers on the grave

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Playing on the ever popular game:

“What would you bring with you if you were stranded on a desert island?”

The song starts out hypothetical but covers some really dark scenarios and finishes by making us questioning how much we really think of the dead.

In his guest column for Q Magazine, Oberst had this to say about Desert Island Questionnaire :

This is a song about modernity and the good vs evil tug o’ war of the universe. It asks some age old questions and doesn’t answer them, which I hate. I think despite all our technological advances in communication humans are the loneliest they have ever been. I fear for the future. I fear for you. I fear for myself.“

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