Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: folk
Song Meaning of “Sifters” by Andrew Bird
Sifters speaks to the process of finding the right one to love, the search for true connection amid a world that pulls us in different directions. The song speaks to the uncertainty of this process, the vulnerability of opening up yourself to someone else. The song subtly hints that life is like a sifter, where everything that doesn’t do us good will eventually be shaken out by time, allowing us to become what we need to be in order to experience true love. The lyrics “The wind will whisper, turn slowly on the wheel, until I fall out, left out in the real” describe the feeling of searching for something that seems impossible to find, and the moment when being shaken free of all the other distractions is the only way to experience life and love in its truest form.