Cats In The Cradle Lyrics Meaning

What you have strove for all your life can become too much to bear at the end of the day.

Cats in the cradle lyrics meaning. The line The Cats in the Cradle was to my mind a reference to The Cats and the Cradle a Dutch Fairy tale. Cats in the Cradle is narrated by a man who becomes a father in the first verse. Our children reflect and echo uncannily our fathers successes and failures.

The commercial song is Cats in the Cradle by Joseph Angel Pulse Music. 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. Not long after his sons birth the father is repeatedly unable to spend time with him due to his job despite his son looking up to him and saying he will grow up to be just like his father.

Harry Chapin included various symbols of childhood in the lyrics as reminders of how quickly it ends. 3 Examples of Cats in the Cradle. The phrase cats in the cradle is a classic idiom.

A song with a meaning behind it and a moral but still i always found it sad. 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. The chorus begins with The cats in the cradle and the silver spoon Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon a catchy but mysterious couplet in a song that is otherwise very straightforward.

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. Writen by Harry Chapins wife Sandy long before their son was. The song reminds us that a hurried and busy life of work causes loss of person-to-person connection interaction and love.

Little boy blue and the man on the moon. Whats more you arent likely to be able to figure out that meaning through deduction. You simply must know the expression outright.