Over the past few years, “Thumbs” has become a fan-favorite Lucy Dacus song. She started playing it live in 2018 and fans quickly latched on to the then-unreleased track, so much so that a Twitter account devoted to the song popped up. Recently, Dacus started mailing fans VHS tapes featuring the song, and now, finally, “Thumbs” has officially been released.
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Dacus says the smoldering, emotional, and understated song was written during a 15-minute car ride to dinner in Nashville and further explains:
“Like most songs I write, I wasn’t expecting it and it made me feel weird, almost sick. It tells the story of a day I had with a friend during our freshman year of college, a significant day, but not one that I had thought of for years. I started playing it live a month or so later during the Boygenius tour after Phoebe [Bridgers] and Julien [Baker] encouraged me to. I knew I wanted a long time to get used to playing it since it made me feel shaky, so I ended sets with it for about half the shows I played in 2019. Before I played it, I would ask the audience to please not record it, a request that seems to have been respected, which I’m grateful for.”
Listen to “Thumbs” above.
