Father And Son Cat Stevens Lyrics Meaning

Justin from bakersfield ca i heard cat stevens also say that this song could be about a son who has a new found faith and the father wants him to stay with his religion.

Father and son cat stevens lyrics meaning. Father and son live yusuf s cafe 4. Hard headed woman live in japan. Notably this song was born about a russian family where the son wants to join the revolution but his father wants him to stay home and work on the farm. It s the basic relationship between a father and son.

And they re not particularly having a dialogue with each other. Stevens made up the story but his relationship with his own father was an influence on the song. The father is explaining about all the things he knows through experience but the son won t listen as he s young. When he appeared on the chris isaak hour in 2009 stevens said.

Hint the if they were right id agree but its them they know not me i heard him say that in a interview on a san francisco radio show. It s always been that way. Cat stevens tea for the tillerman album lyrics. Son how can i try to explain cause when i do he turns away again it s always been the same same old story from the moment i could talk i was ordered to listen now there s a way and i know that i have to go away i know i have to go father it s not time to make a change away away away just sit down take it slowly.

He was running a restaurant and i was a pop star so i wasn t following the path that he laid out. This is about a russian family where the son wants to join the revolution but his father wants him to stay home and work on the farm. It s a little melancholy but not about death. The son answers back with the typical response of a frustrated youth that being that his father s love for him is limiting his potential and holding him back.

Few know that cat stevens originally wrote father and son as part of a proposed musical project with actor nigel hawthorne called revolussia that was set during the russian revolution. Cat stevens father and son lyrics meaning. Into white live troubadour 9. Father and son is as much about my relations with my father as my relations with society.

By jessica shelton december 30 2019. It s the same thing as when i talk about business. Hard headed woman live japan 6. The words emphesize the love the father has for his son and his desire to see his son happy and not broken by the world.

The son thinks his father won t listen to him as he s simply told to listen. 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.