| Dave Matthews Band – Little Red Bird Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| jack-i think this is a great song too. not sure what Dave intends it all to mean, but I responded w/ my interpretation in a seperate post. hopefully some others will offer their opinions too. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Little Red Bird Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I love this song. Can't say for sure what Dave intended it all to mean, but for me it made me think a lot. What is considered "good" can differ drastically based on different perspectives. In the first verse I interpreted "catching crumbs" as doing the bare minimum to get by, while "get a job" is analogous to going out/working hard to improve one's situation. Thinking back to my own childhood I could relate. My father always pushed me to do more and do better, but all I ever wanted was for him to recognize and praise the minor accomplishments I had already made. Verse two touches on a common Dave theme, i.e. smypathy for the plight of native americans in this country (see: Don't Drink the Water). I feel like the story of Gen. Custard is a common story in white American history as omen for what can happen if you get too cocky and take your oppenent too lightly. A great lesson, yes; and likely a celebrated victory for Native American history ... but sadly a victory that ultimate did nothing to prevent the ultimate mistreatment of Native Americans in this country. As an interesting sidenote, I've always heard that British history books have a 100% different written history of the American Revolutionary war than we're generally taught in public schools in the US (British history being much more favorable to the British and less crediting to the American side of things). Just another example, using wars, as how different opinions can be on what is/isn't good. The third verse is my favorite. Just stepping back and thinking about human civilizatoin in generally I would assume most people would applaud all the amazing technological and infrastructural, ect. advances our kind has made since cavemen/Biblical times. However, given the level of immorality present in much of our culture today I would wonder if our Creator would share such a positive view. Again, this is all my personal opinion/interpretation. I'd be interested to hear what others think. Dave would call this a "tiny" little song, but to me it's a very powerful prose of peotry. |
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