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I'm curious about the final line of the musician Kishi Bashi's song "Atticus, in the Desert":
あたま ふらふら ゆびさき が かたくなる
I understand the direct translation of this ("head dizzy fingertips get hard") but it seems as if there must be a figurative or poetic meaning to ゆびさき が かたくなる. Otherwise it just sounds like disconnected nonsense.
指先が硬くなる is not a well-known idiomatic phrase. Judging from the rest of the lyrics, the person(?) in the song is about to be swallowed by sand. So I feel this line suggests his finger is so dried that he cannot move his finger anymore.
