My grandmother used to say you could tell everything about a man by his hands. What he'd worked at, what he'd carried, what he'd been willing to pick up and not put down. This song is about the emotional version of that. The things I went through that I used to be ashamed of — the hard years, the broke years, the years I wasn't sure I was going to figure it out — I don't carry those as wounds anymore. I carry them as proof. The organ on this track was essential. It had to feel heavy because what I'm talking about is heavy. But it resolves. It always resolves."
