| Little Dragon – Feather Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is about a woman rejecting the expectation of commitment. Women are expected to fall in love and get married and settle down. That's not what this woman wants. She doesn't want everlasting love; bandits are never there for long, they strike and then run, move on to the next. Society doesn't expect men to want to commit, in this sense, she'd rather be a man. "A man with the other" might mean a man with the other woman; not his wife, not his lifelong commitment, but that fleeting affair or fling. When the man is with that fling, he's at his best, most virile, most alive. That's what she wants. "Rather be a whisper in heaven" -- she'd rather die -- "than a daughter locked in your prison" -- than get married and stuck in something she can't get out of. "You are airborne / you've got silver rays" -- an affirmation of the value of her true nature. This song also conveys a sense of apprehension, though. She knows commitment is not what she wants, but she wonders if she can happy floating along on her on. "Will it ever float / will it ever soar along?" She worries that she won't be able to achieve the sense of weightlessness that a lack of commitment might offer. The last verse expresses even more doubt -- "did it all for your feathered hand" -- she feels that maybe her rejection of commitment is narcissistic or selfish. Or, perhaps the feathered hand is just a further reference to her identity as someone who can't be tied down. And again she wonders "Will it ever float?" whether she can truly have the weightlessness in life she so desires. |
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