Cats In The Cradle Lyrics Meaning

Our children reflect and echo uncannily our fathers successes and failures.

Cats in the cradle lyrics meaning. Cats in the cradle lyrics. The song reminds us that a hurried and busy life of work causes loss of person-to-person connection interaction and love. Taken together its words mean something entirely different than they would on their ownliterally a cat inside a babys cradle.

- the one far away who is unreachable idealized by the child who sees the father as his male role model. Basically the cats in the cradle is the son and the silver spoon is the father in the sense that the son is at home while the father is away making money to feed silver spoon and take care of the childs welfare. Cats in the Cradle Personally I feel like this song doesnt convey the point I think it was supposed to.

Cats in the Cradle. And when he has children of his. The other lyrics make sense.

And the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man on the moon When you comin home Dad I dont know when but well get together then You know well have a good time then Well he came from college just the other day So much like a man I just had to say Son Im proud of you can you sit for a while. The repetitions of the cats in the cradle indicate the child is at home alone - and the silver spoon which is a symbol of wealth the father has to earn. Ill be home in ten and well get together then.

The little boy blue is the child that is sad because his father is away while the father is represented by the man on the moon - the one far away who is unreachable idealized by the child who sees the father as his male role model. Song Meaning I cry to this song sometimes because the general song meaning is that a dad doesnt have the time to be with his child and help him grow and the child starts to grow and needs stuff from his father. Writen by Harry Chapins wife Sandy long before their son was.

Cats in the Cradle is narrated by a man who becomes a father in the first verse. Invest in every moment. Man In The Moon could be about the human features children see when they look at the moon.