![]() ![]() In Christine McVie’s own words, Songbird is "about nobody and everybody…in retrospect, it’s like an anthem…a little prayer of sorts." What words could more aptly describe this incredible song. This song gets it's tinge of sadness from the fact that, despite your best intentions, you never really have that much control over love at all.Īlso, there is a bittersweet tone in the line "and the songbirds keep singing, like they know the score.". When you truly love someone you don't want them to ever feel a moment of pain.especially pain that you have caused, "but most of all I wish it from myself". It also openly affirms one lover's sense of responsibility for the power they now feel they have over the other's life. It's tarnished but in some way, stronger.like never before. They are the kind of promises that come thoughtlessly easy in love that is still new and shiny, but take a much deeper and more sacred meaning after the love has been tested in the fire. Songbird Lyrics by Fleetwood Mac from the Fleetwood Mac/Rumours album- including song video, artist biography, translations and more: For you, therell be no more crying. But these promises seem sad, as though coming after a disagreement, with the songbirds as the only witnesses. It could also be a song made up of the kind of promises you pledge when lying in the arms of a lover, late in the night. She could have been listening to the birds chirping in the morning and she looked down at the man she was with and thought how wonderful it was and wonderful it was going to be - and as she hears the birds singing they sing the feelings and confirm them-its about love and how great it is. Others believe Songbird to be about lovers and friends in general. ![]() ![]() The song shows how much these people meant to her and how big a role they played in her life, and the need for the members of the band to get along with each other and keep on singing. There were hard times between all of them, and the "songbirds" she sings about are all the members of the band. Songbird is most often believed to be about the members of the band, and how the turmoil they were going through was affecting her life. The call for lyric interpretations also invoked quite a varied response as to Songbird’s origins and meaning. Seldom can any song invoke the pure emotion that Songbird can. ![]()
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