To me, "mama wolf" seems like a metaphor for capital "N" nature, its wildness, and its beauty.
Nature is both a kind of "mother" in that we all come from and depend on nature, and it is a "wolf" because it is untamed, wild, and dangerous still. I think this characterization is actually very evocative and interesting.
The singer kind of recognizes "mama wolf" during birth, when in teh womb, when in the mountains, or the woods. He ends it with "when you're under me", which almost seems like a kind of lament; mama wolf is dead, or perhaps our wildness has been exorcised, and has been erased from our nature, though we are still reminded of it.
To me, "mama wolf" seems like a metaphor for capital "N" nature, its wildness, and its beauty.
Nature is both a kind of "mother" in that we all come from and depend on nature, and it is a "wolf" because it is untamed, wild, and dangerous still. I think this characterization is actually very evocative and interesting.
The singer kind of recognizes "mama wolf" during birth, when in teh womb, when in the mountains, or the woods. He ends it with "when you're under me", which almost seems like a kind of lament; mama wolf is dead, or perhaps our wildness has been exorcised, and has been erased from our nature, though we are still reminded of it.