I feel like this song is, for lack of a better explanation, about looking back on one's life. Obviously it wasn't a particularly easy life (getting pulled through dirt, glass and brush against their will; laughed at by city folk for being different presumably) but the narrator is realizing he/she was once a innocent "little fat baby" without a care or a worry, and now they've grown up and are now bruised, possibly cold and bitter about the hardships they've encountered. Saving wisdom teeth I assume has to do with growning older, as far as burning the xmas tree, I don't have a clue (is this tradition somewhere?).
Who knows what Linkous was expressing, maybe he's not even really sure. All I'm sure of is my love of this song, and Sparklehorse in general. There's something about beautiful melancholy music that strikes a chord with my heart and I'll be damned if I can help that.
I feel like this song is, for lack of a better explanation, about looking back on one's life. Obviously it wasn't a particularly easy life (getting pulled through dirt, glass and brush against their will; laughed at by city folk for being different presumably) but the narrator is realizing he/she was once a innocent "little fat baby" without a care or a worry, and now they've grown up and are now bruised, possibly cold and bitter about the hardships they've encountered. Saving wisdom teeth I assume has to do with growning older, as far as burning the xmas tree, I don't have a clue (is this tradition somewhere?).
Who knows what Linkous was expressing, maybe he's not even really sure. All I'm sure of is my love of this song, and Sparklehorse in general. There's something about beautiful melancholy music that strikes a chord with my heart and I'll be damned if I can help that.