"Golden blunders come in pairs..."

If you'd never heard any music by The Posies, or just read some of the lyrics, such as "You're gonna get in the way at the wrong time," or "You're gonna mess up things you thought you would never," you might think that "Golden Blunders" is a dreary song.  It isn't.  It's actually one of the best sets of lyrics I've heard about how everyone makes mistakes, and it's sung with an optimistic undercurrent that suggests everything will be OK, in the end.  "Now that school is done, higher learning's just begun," is an accurate summary of what's to come once you enter the real world.