They turn pretty into beautiful and ugly into real. Hersh explains that Sunny Border Blue is the name of a flower she saw in a Minneapolis park while on tour. It sounds happy and sad, just like the record, which has a silver lining. The first half was written about being in Spain and is as beautiful as Spain. The second half is so pissed off.
Songs are big deals, just like kids.
You can't shut them up. You have to accept their syllables if you want to be moved. The silkworm is unbelievably cool. They entwine their bodies while making a silk strand. This is a song about putting energy into a place where you're going to grow.