Blossom Dearie
A wry love song that argues against the cliché that romantic feeling is just a seasonal chemical accident. The singer catalogs…
romantic skepticism vs. sincerity nature as false cause seasonal metaphor
Air
A hushed, anxious love song built almost entirely from confessions of shyness and longing, addressed to a girl the narrator…
unrequited longing shyness and inhibition idealization of a love object
Nina Simone
A catalog of natural images—birds, rivers, blossoms, stars—builds toward a declaration of liberation and renewal. Simone's…
liberation and freedom renewal rebirth through nature
