☝️ Key Points
- The person feels restless and dissatisfied, even though it's not even spring yet.
- They wish to be somewhere else and have new experiences.
- The person feels happy but also melancholic, because it feels like spring to them even though it's not spring yet.
Interpretation
The lyrics of the song "It Might as Well Be Spring" by
Sarah Vaughan are about a person who feels restless and dissatisfied, even though it's not even spring. The person compares themselves to a restless willow tree in the wind and a nervous puppet on a string. Although they say they have spring fever, they know it's not spring yet.
They feel dreamy and dissatisfied like a nightingale without a song. The person wonders why they should have spring fever when it's not even spring. They wish to be somewhere else, walking down a foreign street and hearing words they've never heard before from a man they haven't met yet.
They feel busy like a spider spinning daydreams, and as happy as a baby on a swing. But they haven't seen crocuses, buds, or the flight of a robin yet.
Although it's not spring, they feel in a cheerful but melancholy way as if it were spring. They explain that they feel this way because they know it's not spring, but it feels like it is.