| James Vincent McMorrow – Sparrow and the Wolf Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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to me, this song represents less of a divorce and the child caught between, but rather the harshness and callousness of the male ideal versus the concern and empathy of the female ideal. the choruses are from the point of view of the male, who knows how wonderful and understanding and pure the female can be, but knows how dangerous it can be for that sort to travel the road of life unprotected. in the first verse, the sparrow (female) and wolf (male) work together to do what it takes to survive; it requires the taking of a life to feed to both of them, and they're united in that fashion, but while the sparrow wants comforting, the wolf is a mean creature, and knows what must be none and has the heartlessness to do it. but the repeated choruses reveal the wolf's weakness, compared to the sparrow's strength: he knows and sees no joy in life, he only knows to look out and stay wary and to be strong and protect, while the sparrow is (implicitly) vulnerable to the vagaries of the world, she sees goodness and beauty, something the wolf is incapable of understanding, though the sparrow he hold very dear, once again implicitly because she had the heart he doesn't. |
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