Sunday, December 18, 2016

Cranes in the Sky

Cranes in the Sky by Solange explores the idea that no one can run away from their ever-so-present problems, no matter how hard they try.


"Yeah, it's like cranes in the sky
Sometimes I don't wanna feel those metal clouds
I tried to run it away
Thought then my head be feeling clearer
I traveled 70 states
Thought moving round would make me feel better"

Through her music, Solange expresses grief/regret of some kind, which most conclude is a recent breakup . Whatever "it" may be, she literally tried to run away from it. The lines having to do with cranes and clouds feels very abstract until you think about it in terms of self-caring and healing. The picture of cranes flying in the sky is very peaceful- as opposed to the picture of heavy, metal clouds. The heavy metal clouds represent the feeling of your world being so heavy that it could crash down on you, but it also represents how unnatural that you can feel after something like a breakup. She did not want to go from loving her peaceful life while in this relationship to feeling the cold hard clouds while coming down from this high caused by the relationship. Throughout this song, Solange manages to abstractly describe the intense feelings that come after ending a relationship.


2 comments:

  1. What do you think she means by "I traveled 70 states"? (as far as I know there is 50 states) Why 70? Why not 50?

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  2. Because sometimes people mive around a lit and they even return to a stste they lived in before and it can even be other countries as sometimes they aer refered to as states- so she moved a lot and all over trying to escape.

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