i always got the impression that his sister had lived an awful life. whenever i heard the first stanza, i always thought that he was talking about his little sister being taken advantage of ("wandering fingers").
like, his parents were supposed to be the ones taking care of her, and protecting her from evils ("supposed to be glorious and fine") when they were actually the ones causing the evil.
and that's why he would want to be "hard on the family" (because they abused her)
and now, because she's had a fucked up childhood, she gets married to a deadbeat drunkard, because she's never had a normal relationship.
i always got the impression that his sister had lived an awful life. whenever i heard the first stanza, i always thought that he was talking about his little sister being taken advantage of ("wandering fingers").
like, his parents were supposed to be the ones taking care of her, and protecting her from evils ("supposed to be glorious and fine") when they were actually the ones causing the evil.
and that's why he would want to be "hard on the family" (because they abused her)
and now, because she's had a fucked up childhood, she gets married to a deadbeat drunkard, because she's never had a normal relationship.
i dunno, maybe i'm reading into this wrong.