2013-06-01 The Fillmore (San Francisco)
Setlist
Banter
- This is a song about how if you feel defeated and trodden upon you and wasted – not in the good sense of wasted – you find some small glimmering that manages to carry you through the next sixty seconds and then you do that enough times to make an hour, and then you do it enough times to make a day... and then you keep right on doing it. (Amy AKA Spent Gladiator 1)
- At the front of this record is the last song we just played, which is a song about persevering in a really positive and triumphal way. There's the other side of that where you say, "Well, I will dig my nails into the side of the cave wall this morning, so that tomorrow when I wake up in the same cave, I'll at least see that my fingernails had enough strength left to make an impression." (Spent Gladiator 2)
- This is a song about the rear-view mirror, which is a weird place to hang out because the ones in your car, like, you drive and the thing in it gets smaller and then it's gone, right? But then there's the other internal rear-view mirror where the shapes grow bigger and larger according to their own sort of calculus that you can't really figure out. But you sort of have to have faith that eventually you'll be far enough down the road that the thing that was there constantly, for most of the drive, will recede and recede and be invisible. (Never Quite Free)