Frontman Chris Thile sings "Douglas Fir" about five years later.
There's a Clara in that song too:
"No sooner does the Fir grow tall
In Clara's dream
Than we lose our little girl
And gain (and gain) a sugar plum fairy"
Clara is a daughter who's already died. He's sining to her. He's not asking her to come back ("Someday don't wake up I want you to get some rest").
But he's talking to her all the same and possibly struggling with suicidal thoughts in the wake of the tragedy.
Bottom line, there's a lot of himself that can't be separated from who he is in relation to her: her father. And there's a lot he wants to tell her regardless of whether he'll make it out of his grief ("It's gonna be a long night... your eyes are not a window, they're a one-way mirror to my soul")
But he still ends with trying to let her go. "I want you to get some rest."
Frontman Chris Thile sings "Douglas Fir" about five years later. There's a Clara in that song too:
"No sooner does the Fir grow tall In Clara's dream Than we lose our little girl And gain (and gain) a sugar plum fairy"
Clara is a daughter who's already died. He's sining to her. He's not asking her to come back ("Someday don't wake up I want you to get some rest").
But he's talking to her all the same and possibly struggling with suicidal thoughts in the wake of the tragedy.
Bottom line, there's a lot of himself that can't be separated from who he is in relation to her: her father. And there's a lot he wants to tell her regardless of whether he'll make it out of his grief ("It's gonna be a long night... your eyes are not a window, they're a one-way mirror to my soul")
But he still ends with trying to let her go. "I want you to get some rest."