lab rat blues (the goldfinch)

so i was thinking about how lab rat blues is a boris/theo song, and the reason goes something like this:

they’re drunk one evening in boris’ room, maybe a few weeks after theo blacked out and showed boris the painting. boris keeps thinking about it, because it’s worth a lot of money, but also he’s fucking thrilled at the fact that theo, who has this increasingly tarnished innocent shine, has been carrying around this stolen painting - this huge secret crime - for years. he’s delighted by it, in the way that it can be delightful to learn new things about people whom you thought you knew absolutely.

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