I really like this tune. I wonder whether this album Fingerlings drew its title from this song ("take these fingerlings from my fingers").
To me, it's sort of a nostalgic wish to go back in time to the era when one could head out west to the frontier and leave all your past, troubles, debts, friends, enemies, and shame behind you. It's a rambunctious song, but its driving emotion seems to be shame or guilt fighting with a desire to keep living (hence the hesitation when it comes to jumping from the burning hotel or climbing higher to certain death). The song doesn't really resolve whether the narrator would embrace or reject suicide; all we know is that he'd like to keep living but start all over (out west)--which isn't a realistic option anymore.
I really like this tune. I wonder whether this album Fingerlings drew its title from this song ("take these fingerlings from my fingers").
To me, it's sort of a nostalgic wish to go back in time to the era when one could head out west to the frontier and leave all your past, troubles, debts, friends, enemies, and shame behind you. It's a rambunctious song, but its driving emotion seems to be shame or guilt fighting with a desire to keep living (hence the hesitation when it comes to jumping from the burning hotel or climbing higher to certain death). The song doesn't really resolve whether the narrator would embrace or reject suicide; all we know is that he'd like to keep living but start all over (out west)--which isn't a realistic option anymore.