I'm pretty sure that in this song what we are waiting for is not love but it is instead death. We are with our lover waiting to miss him/her. I think Isaac likes to play around with this, writing something that can conventionally be taken in another way but really inverting it and making it negative (see the lyrics to Gravity Rides Everything as another example of this, also a song about death).
Expanding on the connection to Gravity Rides Everything, there are several lyrics that match up quite well. Right off the bat you've got a reference to motels:
Expanding on the connection to Gravity Rides Everything, there are several lyrics that match up quite well. Right off the bat you've got a reference to motels:
Oh, got to see, got to know right now
What's that writing on your shelf
In the bathrooms and the bad motels
Oh, got to see, got to know right now
What's that writing on your shelf
In the bathrooms and the bad motels
and slightly later you have this pair of lines that are repeated, with some changes:
and slightly later you have this pair of lines that are repeated, with some changes:
When we die, some sink and some lay
But at least I don't see you float away
When we die, some sink and some lay
But at least I don't see you float away
Which I think lines up beautifully with the lines in this song:
Which I think lines up beautifully with the lines in this song:
We treat mishaps like sinking ships and
I know that I don't want to be out to drift
As tenserock said, both songs at first glance can be interpreted as one thing, and if you look more closely they can also be interpreted as songs about death. Furthermore they actually share several metaphors. Meaning that in the context of this song, being "out to drift" could be interpreted in the same way as in Gravity Rides Everything, and refer to the narrator's body literally drifting in the sea after death.
Maybe this duality was unintentional but I think that due to the fact that Isaac uses several recurring themes as metaphors throughout his songs (e.g., driving, urbanization, nautical) that it is a very real possibility that there were supposed to be parallels.
I'm pretty sure that in this song what we are waiting for is not love but it is instead death. We are with our lover waiting to miss him/her. I think Isaac likes to play around with this, writing something that can conventionally be taken in another way but really inverting it and making it negative (see the lyrics to Gravity Rides Everything as another example of this, also a song about death).
Expanding on the connection to Gravity Rides Everything, there are several lyrics that match up quite well. Right off the bat you've got a reference to motels:
Expanding on the connection to Gravity Rides Everything, there are several lyrics that match up quite well. Right off the bat you've got a reference to motels:
Oh, got to see, got to know right now What's that writing on your shelf In the bathrooms and the bad motels
Oh, got to see, got to know right now What's that writing on your shelf In the bathrooms and the bad motels
and slightly later you have this pair of lines that are repeated, with some changes:
and slightly later you have this pair of lines that are repeated, with some changes:
When we die, some sink and some lay But at least I don't see you float away
When we die, some sink and some lay But at least I don't see you float away
Which I think lines up beautifully with the lines in this song:
Which I think lines up beautifully with the lines in this song:
We treat mishaps like sinking ships and I know that I don't want to be out to drift
As tenserock said, both songs at first glance can be interpreted as one thing, and if you look more closely they can also be interpreted as songs about death. Furthermore they actually share several metaphors. Meaning that in the context of this song, being "out to drift" could be interpreted in the same way as in Gravity Rides Everything, and refer to the narrator's body literally drifting in the sea after death.
Maybe this duality was unintentional but I think that due to the fact that Isaac uses several recurring themes as metaphors throughout his songs (e.g., driving, urbanization, nautical) that it is a very real possibility that there were supposed to be parallels.