To me this song is about empowerment and freeing yourself from your chains. It's taking a risk, there's a lot of uncertainty, but it's telling yourself to go and run that mountain down, break that which is holding you down, beat the powers that are weighing you down. A bandit does things on the bandit's own terms, whereas a lover is tied down-- in a bad relationship, love is a prison. Being a daughter in your prison is being in a relationship where the power dynamics are unequal; she is treated as inferior in a condescending manner. It takes a lot of courage to leave a bad relationship because love is a mountain that is hard to run down-- but go run it down girl. This song is to encourage, it's to reassure oneself but the reassurance comes from a state of self-doubt. Will it ever float? Will it ever soar? Do it all for the feather, do it all to free yourself.
To me this song is about empowerment and freeing yourself from your chains. It's taking a risk, there's a lot of uncertainty, but it's telling yourself to go and run that mountain down, break that which is holding you down, beat the powers that are weighing you down. A bandit does things on the bandit's own terms, whereas a lover is tied down-- in a bad relationship, love is a prison. Being a daughter in your prison is being in a relationship where the power dynamics are unequal; she is treated as inferior in a condescending manner. It takes a lot of courage to leave a bad relationship because love is a mountain that is hard to run down-- but go run it down girl. This song is to encourage, it's to reassure oneself but the reassurance comes from a state of self-doubt. Will it ever float? Will it ever soar? Do it all for the feather, do it all to free yourself.