Broken Fingers
A song from Pretty World that Toppermost called probably his best to date.
Sam Baker, from Pretty World (2007)
Baker told Lone Star Music Magazine that the song commemorates the German boy killed in the Peru blast, whose blue eyes he still remembers; the title refers to the injured fingers of his left hand. The reviewer at Toppermost called it probably his best song to date, connecting it to Dylan's line that behind every beautiful thing there has been some kind of pain, and felt the live version brings out the melody more than the studio one. A live version is the penultimate track on Horses and Stars (Buffalo, July 2018, released 2019).
Baker is presumably the sole writer, though no source confirms it. We could not verify a recording date or studio, chart history, a video, covers or samples, or a setlist count.
On stage
- 2018-07, Buffalo, New York Recorded for Horses and Stars.
Sources
- Sam Baker's state of grace, Lone Star Music Magazine
- Sam Baker, Toppermost
- Horses and Stars, FolkWorld