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Fingers Fall Lyrics
Doctor doctor, where's the doctor
wringing wet,the woman hollered
bandage wrapped around her hand
collapses as they run to help her
Help her up and offer water
did somebody call the doctor
loud machines so foreign to her
sent her splattered red against the wall
As they fall,as her fingers fall
as they fall,as her fingers fall
as they fall,as her fingers fall
In the back a black piano
sits in silence,what do we know
of its past and of a time
and of the place it occupied
In the parlor with the daughter
playing for her drunken father
listening until he cried
you could hear it echo out into the hall
As they fall,as her fingers fall
as they fall,as her fingers fall
as they fall,as her fingers fall
In a bra and under wear,
she's balanced now upon a chair
a letter written,tucked inside
a paperback,the rope is tied
around her neck and through the rafters
this is it,she'll show those bastards
everything she said was true
and now she'll be the envy of them all
As they fall,as her fingers fall
as they fall,as he fingers fall
as they fall,as her fingers fall
wringing wet,the woman hollered
bandage wrapped around her hand
collapses as they run to help her
Help her up and offer water
did somebody call the doctor
loud machines so foreign to her
sent her splattered red against the wall
as they fall,as her fingers fall
as they fall,as her fingers fall
sits in silence,what do we know
of its past and of a time
and of the place it occupied
In the parlor with the daughter
playing for her drunken father
listening until he cried
you could hear it echo out into the hall
as they fall,as her fingers fall
as they fall,as her fingers fall
she's balanced now upon a chair
a letter written,tucked inside
a paperback,the rope is tied
around her neck and through the rafters
this is it,she'll show those bastards
everything she said was true
and now she'll be the envy of them all
as they fall,as he fingers fall
as they fall,as her fingers fall
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I'm going to assume the woman in the song is the same person mentioned in all three stanzas as I try to interpret what I think this song means:
In the first one she is in a hospital,possibly after a suicide attempt - the "bandage wrapped around her hand" could indicate self harm. The "loud machines so foreign to her" is a bit hard to figure out,maybe it's a metaphor for her mental problems(?) Same with "sent her splattered red against the wall" - maybe she cut her self badly and was bleeding everywhere and was struggling with doctors trying to restrain and sedate her(?)
The second stanza sounds like a flashback to her childhood playing the piano for her "drunken father". The third is obviously the woman about to hang herself,having left a suicide note,and this attempt is assumed to be successful("this is it,she'll show those bastards"),or she believes it will be successful.
"Everything she said was true" - could refer to something that happened to her that no one believed and was a source of her trauma.