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WAXAHATCHEE 3 Sisters + Tigers Blood discussed in the Oxford American feature

I bring up another line, “It plays on my mind how the time passing holds you like pocket change.” It sounds to me like a reflection on how the world has treated someone recklessly, right in the hard phonetics of “pocket change.” When she first sings it, earlier in the song, the lyric exudes mercy: “It plays on my mind how the time passing covers you like a friend.”

“The world has spared you,” Katie explains. “We’ve watched so many people not be spared, and you have been. And what a blessing. But also, how does that happen? Time’s jostling you around, time is fucking with you, but still, it’s holding onto you, and you still exist.”

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“Held it like a penny I found / It might bring me something / It might weigh me down,” Katie sings on the chorus, which swells into a singalong toward the end of the recording, as it does every night on tour [...] The “Tigers Blood” chorus is a miracle lyric, one anyone can hang onto to stay afloat in the depths of a vexed relationship in flux, loving someone but accepting the necessity of keeping them at a distance.

“This relationship with this person is two things at once,” Katie says. “It can be so magical and one of the more significant relationships in my life, and I also completely drown in it when things are bad.” As we discuss how the campfire-style vocals were inspired by Rilo Kiley’s 2002 song “With Arms Outstretched,” I recall a scene she’d described to me years ago: Katie, Allison, and Sydney as kids standing front row at a mid-aughts Rilo Kiley show, singing along, tears flowing.