This song, from the mid 1980's, is still relevant today and is slam on critics like Simon Cowell (X-Factor; Idol).
This song is probably about when the songwriter was a struggling musician and got cut down by music critics (the mocking birds). Perhaps he had people saying his band would fail. He made the "past mistakes" of paying attention to them (now he knows better). Other musicians had their hearts and careers broken by mocking birds ("tears" and "dreams, they broke one-by-one, all for the mocking bird."). Yet his band "played one more song," despite the nay-sayers, until they made it.
"But the sweetest sound of all the mockingbirds / Couldn't hope to match one note of any song we played" brings up that while music critics may play instruments, they are mostly not performing musicians. As the lyrics say, after years pass that "time will tell" ... not any music critic.
This song, from the mid 1980's, is still relevant today and is slam on critics like Simon Cowell (X-Factor; Idol).
This song is probably about when the songwriter was a struggling musician and got cut down by music critics (the mocking birds). Perhaps he had people saying his band would fail. He made the "past mistakes" of paying attention to them (now he knows better). Other musicians had their hearts and careers broken by mocking birds ("tears" and "dreams, they broke one-by-one, all for the mocking bird."). Yet his band "played one more song," despite the nay-sayers, until they made it.
"But the sweetest sound of all the mockingbirds / Couldn't hope to match one note of any song we played" brings up that while music critics may play instruments, they are mostly not performing musicians. As the lyrics say, after years pass that "time will tell" ... not any music critic.
@lyricalONE Very good analysis!
@lyricalONE Very good analysis!