Fitzcarraldo by The Frames (video is The Swell Season) – In one recording, Glen introduces the song by saying “This song was written after watching a movie about a man who pulled a ship over a mountain. I think we’ve all got a lot of ships we’re trying to pull over mountains.” In another he describes it as though you’re moving forward and sometimes you hit this invisible wall and so you try to go around it, but you end up go all the way around the world and just end up right back where you started rather than just going through it to begin with.
[Note: Glen Hansard is the leader of both The Frames and The Swell Season. The song was originally released on the The Frames' 1996 album Fitzcarraldo.]
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