Music Review // Chorus of Courage "Sweet Little Hummingbird"

 

Songs like this are rare because "Sweet Little Hummingbird" not only has this message of positivity but the music itself makes you feel good.   As the song starts with pianos it turns into this dreamy acoustic rock sound.   The melody pours out and it can be somewhere between Shawn Mullins and The Wallflowers.   I just feel that certain era of late 1990's rock in here, where the melody came through as well.

As the song sings the chorus it also brings out lines such as: "You've magically moved through your own healing" and "It was never your fault / what happened".    This makes it feel like this song is for the victims and for the survivors of various terrible things that can happen in your life.  I'm not going to even begin to imagine or try and describe what types of things these could be, but if you've gone through something like that and are still here, then you are the hummingbird.

I'm someone who enjoys birdwatching and birds in general so I know that the symbolism, some would say, of the hummingbird coming to visit you is a sign that your troubled times are over and the healing can begin.    This feels especially meaningful given the lyrics of this song- that a hummingbird was chosen for the title.  I imagine someone being pulled from a building, being saved, and told "It's okay now, it's over now".

Even if you don't feel like you can relate with the lyrics of this song in the way that you don't have trauma, there is still a nice message here in that pain can be over and healing can begin.  At some point, we all go through something and so this is just a nice song as well to remind us that whatever we're going through will eventually end and also, perhaps most importantly, that we are not alone.