Anyone know the meaning of the song "The String And The Wire" by Ryan Adams?

Oh sweet Tennessee rose all split up into parts

Go fetch the string and the wire

Go fetch the string and the wire from the kitchen drawer

And I'll try to mend you up some more

Warm, warm wind blow on these here two hands

How they froze up fright

They got too numb to knot the ends

Go fetch the string and the wire

Go fetch the string and the wire from the kitchen drawer

And I'll try to mend you up some more

They put poison in the well

Made your sister cry and run

So I'm sewing up a blanket spread

To keep the jailhouse warm

So go fetch the string and the wire

Go fetch the string and the wire

And a couple empty cans of tin

So we can hear her cry again

They put powder in the shells of your brother's lonely gun

I'm afraid they don't make string and wire I know that's strong enough

So go fetch my spinning spool

Go fetch my spinning spool underneath the bed

And I'll sew you up a handkerchief instead