The text is about the changes the lead singer experienced when he had his child. The song describes the empty feelings he possessed before the child came to his life, and his transitional feelings, from despair to the hope he feels after the child is born.

Through the medium of the song “cailin”, the persona expresses his changed emotion through the catalyst of his daughter who gives him new meaning for life, which transforms him into a better person.

The emphasis of the song is drawn from the context of the lead singer

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, little girl”, “keep little, “keep little girl”, “unwritten law”, lead singer, sense security, despair hope, meaning life, change self, expresses changed, conveyed quote,