This song is amazing. It's my favorite Crooked Fingers song, right next to Doctors of Deliverance. Not only are the guitar and piano riffs simple and catchy, but the guitar that comes in toward the end is a wonderful musical que back to Bachmann's Archers of Loaf days. The song, to me, is about living life on the defensive, stabbing friends in the back "so you stabbed a wounded arm
And you drank the blood of a bleeding friend", and feeling rejected "Through a town you were never welcome in". The wrecking ball is symbolic of the overly played defense mechanism of lashing back out at those or that which seemingly offends you, for the satisfaction of revenge. "If it makes you feel good, you can make them feel bad It's an easy call". It's so true. It's too easy-- It's a natural, even primal response, but it demeans humans to beasts when they cannot control their "wrecking ball".
The wrecking ball mentality can destroy one's emotions and capacity for compassion. "Now all your love's a grave and every year disappears." What a wonderful song.
"Take a swing and watch them fall
You're a wrecking ball."
This song is amazing. It's my favorite Crooked Fingers song, right next to Doctors of Deliverance. Not only are the guitar and piano riffs simple and catchy, but the guitar that comes in toward the end is a wonderful musical que back to Bachmann's Archers of Loaf days. The song, to me, is about living life on the defensive, stabbing friends in the back "so you stabbed a wounded arm And you drank the blood of a bleeding friend", and feeling rejected "Through a town you were never welcome in". The wrecking ball is symbolic of the overly played defense mechanism of lashing back out at those or that which seemingly offends you, for the satisfaction of revenge. "If it makes you feel good, you can make them feel bad It's an easy call". It's so true. It's too easy-- It's a natural, even primal response, but it demeans humans to beasts when they cannot control their "wrecking ball". The wrecking ball mentality can destroy one's emotions and capacity for compassion. "Now all your love's a grave and every year disappears." What a wonderful song.
"Take a swing and watch them fall You're a wrecking ball."