Being that Alicia Keys was always an intellectual artist highly in tune with the feminist aspect of African-American history, chances are the title of this song (“Caged Bird”) was inspired by the highly-renowned 1969 autobiography of...
The lyrics of this song are simple enough. They focus on the vocalist’s topsy-turvy feelings for the addressee. That is to say that she has the tendency to perpetually “(fall) in and out of love” with...