I always figured that sage was quite possibly talking about both a woman he knew and music itself. Maybe someone he knew that was an incredible artist, someone who taught him things, someone who never got a chance to blow up and be recognized as a talent for a lot of reasons. For some reason I get this feeling that if it was about a woman she was the type who was a little self destructive, someone who had big appetites, large dreams and had trouble coping with the fact that she wasn't reaching a huge audience.
@ANHoax The liner notes thank a specific person he claims is more talented than him. So your correct on that point, but the rest of the song is about her and the criminal justice system. Clipping her wings is putting her in jail, and he talks about how they restrict her movements(parole or probation). On a deeper level it speaks to the fact that black people in America still aren't free, that years of systemic racism haven't ended, they just traded slavery for mass incarceration and endless probation, racial profiling, etc. If you disagree that black people...
@ANHoax The liner notes thank a specific person he claims is more talented than him. So your correct on that point, but the rest of the song is about her and the criminal justice system. Clipping her wings is putting her in jail, and he talks about how they restrict her movements(parole or probation). On a deeper level it speaks to the fact that black people in America still aren't free, that years of systemic racism haven't ended, they just traded slavery for mass incarceration and endless probation, racial profiling, etc. If you disagree that black people are still second class citizens, I recommend the documentary called the 13th on Netflix. In my lifetime we've had two openly racist presidents, and the presidents before that specifically came up with new ways to keep black people down (Google southern strategy for details), but it was essentially a plan to stir racial animosities in the south, using dog whistle politics to signal to southern voters that the president was against blacks.
I always figured that sage was quite possibly talking about both a woman he knew and music itself. Maybe someone he knew that was an incredible artist, someone who taught him things, someone who never got a chance to blow up and be recognized as a talent for a lot of reasons. For some reason I get this feeling that if it was about a woman she was the type who was a little self destructive, someone who had big appetites, large dreams and had trouble coping with the fact that she wasn't reaching a huge audience.
@ANHoax The liner notes thank a specific person he claims is more talented than him. So your correct on that point, but the rest of the song is about her and the criminal justice system. Clipping her wings is putting her in jail, and he talks about how they restrict her movements(parole or probation). On a deeper level it speaks to the fact that black people in America still aren't free, that years of systemic racism haven't ended, they just traded slavery for mass incarceration and endless probation, racial profiling, etc. If you disagree that black people...
@ANHoax The liner notes thank a specific person he claims is more talented than him. So your correct on that point, but the rest of the song is about her and the criminal justice system. Clipping her wings is putting her in jail, and he talks about how they restrict her movements(parole or probation). On a deeper level it speaks to the fact that black people in America still aren't free, that years of systemic racism haven't ended, they just traded slavery for mass incarceration and endless probation, racial profiling, etc. If you disagree that black people are still second class citizens, I recommend the documentary called the 13th on Netflix. In my lifetime we've had two openly racist presidents, and the presidents before that specifically came up with new ways to keep black people down (Google southern strategy for details), but it was essentially a plan to stir racial animosities in the south, using dog whistle politics to signal to southern voters that the president was against blacks.