Father And Son By Cat Stevens Summary

I was once like you are now and i know that it s not easy.

Father and son by cat stevens summary. Father and son cat stevens activity 1. The official music video for father son by yusuf cat stevens now in hd. Subscribe subscribed unsubscribe 199. This song features two distinct characters a father and a son who are both portrayed by cat stevens.

The song was about a boy who wanted to join the revolution against the wishes of his conservative farmer father. Father and son is a dramatic lyric in four stanzas inclining not quite decisively to blank verse. Father and son is a popular song written and performed by english singer songwriter cat stevens now known as yusuf islam after his conversion to islam in 1977 on his 1970 album tea for the tillerman. There s so much you have to know.

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Find a girl settle down. As the title suggests the song frames an exchange between a father not understanding a son s desire to break away and shape a new life and the son who cannot really explain himself but knows that it is time for him to seek his own destiny. You re still young that s your fault. Cat stevens originally wrote father and son as part of a proposed musical project starring nigel hawthorne called revolussia that was set during the russian revolution and could also have become a film.

If you want you can marry. Perhaps all imaginative writing is autobiographical. It s not time to make a change. Father and son summary.

The neutrality of the and in the title understates the poem s tenor suggesting. By jessica shelton december 30 2019. Look at me i am old but i m happy. But father and son remained now in a broader context that reflected not just the societal conflict of stevens time but also captured the impulses of older and younger generations in general.

And they re not particularly having a dialogue with each other. Cat stevens father and son lyrics meaning. Rather the father is addressing the son and the son is countering the father s argument though in a soliloquized manner as if he is actually speaking to himself. Father and son cat stvens jedai luke jedaimusic.

Interviewed soon after the release of father and son stevens was asked if the song was autobiographical.