since suzanne never really liked how the music turned out on "days of open hand", she would probably say the opposite of what you do at the end of your post and actually not agree with me at all. but i sense this album as a whole, as i said before, not divided into words and music, and as that it is truly an experience.

what i've been trying to say is that spirituality has always been there in suzanne's work. whatever drives its expression has changed over the years as the story and history of a particular life unfolded. and what you see as complete opposites, the "open hand" and the "fist against eternity", i feel as manifestations of the same desire: that her music (the whole of it) would leave a mark on someone and possibly on the world, as a legacy that is passed on hand by hand (therefore the image of leaving her music on someone else's "open hand").