This was the first Decemberists song I ever heard, so it might just be a random early album track to other fans but it will always have a special place for me. It is still among my top 5, I'm sure, if I ever stopped to compile one.
[Edit: First post was a test, kept getting error messages]
@forestlass But I recently found a post on his substack where he is teaching how to play this song, and he gives the briefest backstory. All he said is that he was inspired to write a song about a gymnast after watching the Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire, which has a character who is a trapeze artist who has just been told her circus is closing down. The film is about two angels who move around Berlin listening to the thoughts of mortals
@forestlass But I recently found a post on his substack where he is teaching how to play this song, and he gives the briefest backstory. All he said is that he was inspired to write a song about a gymnast after watching the Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire, which has a character who is a trapeze artist who has just been told her circus is closing down. The film is about two angels who move around Berlin listening to the thoughts of mortals
This was the first Decemberists song I ever heard, so it might just be a random early album track to other fans but it will always have a special place for me. It is still among my top 5, I'm sure, if I ever stopped to compile one.
[Edit: First post was a test, kept getting error messages]
@forestlass But I recently found a post on his substack where he is teaching how to play this song, and he gives the briefest backstory. All he said is that he was inspired to write a song about a gymnast after watching the Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire, which has a character who is a trapeze artist who has just been told her circus is closing down. The film is about two angels who move around Berlin listening to the thoughts of mortals
@forestlass But I recently found a post on his substack where he is teaching how to play this song, and he gives the briefest backstory. All he said is that he was inspired to write a song about a gymnast after watching the Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire, which has a character who is a trapeze artist who has just been told her circus is closing down. The film is about two angels who move around Berlin listening to the thoughts of mortals