I love the beginning of this track, the beat and progression of the beat immediately caught my attention. For me personally if the beginning of a song, the first 30 sec doesn’t capture me I go to the next, kind of the same thing with reading a book, the first 30 pages are important. When Niki’s voice came in I was captured, she has such a different sound that is sweet, but not too sweet and seductive.
Oh my heart is like an eagle, I love to fall from the sky
It’s so beautiful, I see right through the water’s edge
And I love your hands, I let them lead me into the cage
So tender but your body was warm, and so frail,
But your eyes like mine, the color of ice”You can’t keep me down, I am done, I am furious
Fear the lioness paint her face black and golden“
The lyrics are like nature singing to you. I did a lot of research at NYU about Greek poetry and Sappho is a poet who writes similarly to the lyrics in this song. I love using nature to describe life and emotions because if you think about it our emotions feed off of nature. In this track I thought maybe she was talking about a lover at first but I think its much deeper then that, I think its about your feelings and emotions and not letting them over come you and keep you down, you always have to keep pushing forward..
Really take a listen to the words in this one and maybe you’ll come up with a different idea of its meaning…Enjoy!
