New Mama Lyrics
No clouds are in my changing skies
Each morning when I wake up to rise
I'm livin' in a dreamland.
ancient reasons,
that turn to lies
Throw them all away
Head in hand,
gift of wonders to understand
And open all the way.
No clouds are in my changing skies
Each morning when I wake up to rise
I'm livin' in a dreamland.
such a cool song. doesn't fit tonight's the night at all really though, its so hopeful, whereas the rest of the album is so sad. i hear it was written for carrie and zeke.
To me this song speaks to how a small child sees the world; And how a parent sees the world like child again, when they see it with their own child.
who is new mama?
For years when the album first came out I listened casually to the lyrics and thought it was about a new girlfriend, wife, or lover. That meaning of "mama."
But after really listening to the lyrics, I take it more literally, his wife/girlfriend has had a baby; she's a new mother. The "head in hands" might be the narrator holding his new child, cradling the tiny head in his hands. The child can be the "gift of wonders" to "open all the way." But also that gift could be the gift of the love for the "mama," whether she's a new mother or not.
So either way, or sort of both at once.