Although many of the songs obviously support Rasputina's research of old southern custom's and songs I think no other song on the album reflects the desperation and hardships that the poorer classes faced. The song is about poor workers - either in factories, railways, mines etc who would suffer from horrendous injuries.
"He got hurt by the blast.
Oh woe is he, unable to see
In front of his face."
Many times if you were very ill or in pain you had to get up and go to work anyway. Back then if you got hurt that was it - your time was up since there wasn't any health care and the bosses sure as hell didn't care what happened. You can see this reflected in the lines
"One kind of fold, they don't know it's broke.
The others don't care.
They just sit and complain about imagined pain.
About an uncle who fell down the stairs."
The rich are in a different class than the workers. They live a life comfortable enough that they can afford to obsess over little things in their health. To make matters worse around the time many of the songs Rasputina researched a lot of workers were getting replaced by machinery. This was really a hard time for a lot of people.
Although many of the songs obviously support Rasputina's research of old southern custom's and songs I think no other song on the album reflects the desperation and hardships that the poorer classes faced. The song is about poor workers - either in factories, railways, mines etc who would suffer from horrendous injuries.
"He got hurt by the blast. Oh woe is he, unable to see In front of his face."
Many times if you were very ill or in pain you had to get up and go to work anyway. Back then if you got hurt that was it - your time was up since there wasn't any health care and the bosses sure as hell didn't care what happened. You can see this reflected in the lines
"One kind of fold, they don't know it's broke. The others don't care. They just sit and complain about imagined pain. About an uncle who fell down the stairs."
The rich are in a different class than the workers. They live a life comfortable enough that they can afford to obsess over little things in their health. To make matters worse around the time many of the songs Rasputina researched a lot of workers were getting replaced by machinery. This was really a hard time for a lot of people.