‘I Feel Just Like a Child’ - Devendra Banhart, 2005

Today’s song was the second single from the album Cripple Crow by that strange folkster known as Devendra Banhart. I had the pleasure of seeing the guy at the village a few months back and it was decent/good live gig. The place was completely packed and at one stage some guy from the audience was given the opportunity to sing one of his songs while Devandra et al were on a break. Apparently this is the norm at Banhart gigs so kudos to him for that.

The entire album contains 23 songs some good and some not so good but overall the album is definitely worth a listen. In this song I think Devendra sings about pressures of being a relatively famous musician and the problems it brings in terms of time, expectation and demands. For other folk it can mean exactly the same thing whereby friends, family, co-workers etc, want and expect things from when u feel your not in a position to deliever or else you just couldn’t be arsed hence you want to go back to that place where there was no responsibility and feel just like a child again. Lyrically there are reference’s to child activity throughout the song e.g.

‘And I need you to sit me on your lap
And I need you to make me take my nap
Could you first pull out a book and
Read me some of that
Cause I need you to make me take my nap‘

and

‘And I need you to help me blow my nose
And I need you to help me count my toes
And I need you to help me put on my clothes
And I need you to hide it when it shows‘

All of this is done in Devendra’s own indomitable style, anyway check out a video of the song here

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September 21st, 2008 at 5:29 am
[…] written about this topic before on a previous post about a Devendra Banhart song here. While Devendra was singing specifically about his life or the life of a well known musician (I […]