¤ milky moon ¤

"Wolf spider crouch in your funnel nest
if I knew you once, now I know you less."

As a long enemy of the wolf spider (they LOVE my room), I thought it was odd that in Go Long, it mentioned their "funnel nests" since I didn't recall them living in nests as opposed to dark cubbies. So I looked it up, and while wolf spiders can reside in burrows of sorts, (under rocks, in logs, etc.) they don't really build nests. Then I found this website. Says this spider common in Kentucky can resemble the wolf spider
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/casefile/spiders/funnel/funnel.htm
Maybe this is what that verse meant? That easy confusion? It also fits with the Kentucky theme. I feel like i'm on to something.

It could be that the resemblance is there and "wolf spider" is a more dramatic thing to call someone than "grass spider", which sounds benign despite still having six too many of everything, or "funnel weaver", which sounds like a character at a Renaissance Festival.

Agree with Jordan, also the idea of a 'funnel nest' is very poetically charged in terms of the relationship she's describing which makes the less-than-100%-factual element fairly irrelevant to me.

I thing it's more about the symbolism than the truth. Most musicians don't really focus on scientific accuracy.

A funnel nest is the spider's own creation. It's trap is made of itself, which seems interesting, though I could be reading too far into it.