If he was something special, I wouldn't have this song.

Christina Perri is incredible. I personally love her because she is a huge advocate for To Write Love on Her Arms (an organization dealing with self-injury), but her music is fantastic in a gentle way. In all of her songs that I’ve heard, she incorporates her independent spirit and her heart breaks and sorrows into one. Blue Bird is my song for this post.

            Before reading this post, I advise listening to the song so you can understand what I mean when I describe it to you. Here’s a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO5NLUOD8v8

            The song starts with a simple question: “How the hell does a broken heart get back together when it’s torn apart? Teach itself to start beating again…” and of course it makes me wonder. How do people bounce back from heart break? I’ve been dumped once, and man it sucked. Luckily I realized what a jerk the guy was, but the rejection still stung. How to people go on with their daily life if the person they were dating or married or whatever just decides to leave? If my cat up and left me I’d be devastated. And I clean his barf and poop. I feel empty like my life is over when a show I like ends. What would I do? How would I go on?

            The song describes a friend coming to Christina, asking her about (I assume) an ex-lover. She refers to this friend as a blue bird. “This little blue bird came looking for you, I said I hadn’t seen you for quite some time. This little blue bird came looking again, I said we weren’t even friends- she could have you. Don’t you think it was hard? I didn’t even say you died… But it wouldn’t have been such a lie. ‘Cause then I started to cry.” I think by this she means the person she knew had died, maybe the lover turned into a jerk or changed himself drastically. She didn’t tell her little blue bird that he had changed, only that she was free to be with him.

            “This little blue bird sure won’t give it a rest. She swears that you may be better than all the rest. I said, “No, you’ve got it all wrong! If he was something special, I wouldn’t have this song.” Don’t you think it was hard? I didn’t even say that you died…” Christina is obviously upset that this lover is making her blue bird so happy but rejected her. That stupid blue bird won’t give her a break.

            “This little blue bird won’t come ‘round here anymore… So I went looking for her- and I found you.” Maybe blue bird and the lover broke up, maybe Christina snapped on her “If he was something special, I wouldn’t have this song.”. Either way, the end of the song makes you question if Christina went back to her ex-lover, or if the blue bird won.