| Destroyer – Watercolours into the Ocean Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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| Destroyer – Watercolours into the Ocean Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I belive Bajar is looking back on a memory from when he was much younger, naive and carefree. More precisly the memory of a break up, or a girl that was in his life. He references the song "Strawberry wine" Written by My bloody valentine. A song thats about a break, and listening to it " 131" times is evidence enough he must be feel some conection to it. The line " Now it's 1987 all the time: Suggestes he's reliving the momment and over again, as if he cant move past it. " A mildly successful killing rampage, where good writters go to find one thing and stick with it" This makes me think of the idea that many artists/writters feel more free and open to be creative while drinking or taking drugs. " Oh life is bigger than a lide on the run from the united states and her friends on this night made of jewels" I guess this can be taken many different ways. Bajar himself is quoted saying that sometimes he just writes what sounds nice and that it doesnt always have some deeper meaning. So i have attached my own meaning. The united states is thought of as a very powerful country and i think hes uses it as a metaphor for this girl. She has a lot of control over him and will declare war on him at any time. from the first few lines she seems like a very ______ person. So i guess what hes saying is there are otherthings out there then trying to make it work with such a recluse, then cowering before her. The fact that he say the united states AND her friends also gives me strong reason to belive this. " Jewel" suggests rare beauty, seen by the eye but cold and hard to the touch, and "night" which is a running motif throughout his albums even naming one "this night", under these circumstances is a time of solitude and thinking. So its like he can see straight now. As he says in the nest few lines " It took three carabinieri to peel him off the streets of the town she's named after. Dragging the lagoon was a disaster. They found him alive and relatively well..." He admitting he was prety messed up over this girl. Carabinieri are the Italian police, and althoug he doesnt say it im assuming he's drunk and thats why hes being "peeled" off the street. The fact that it took three police officers to get him up, it gives us the images of a very intoxiacated person. As well him saying he was in the town 'she' was na,ed after we understand she's the resons for his drunkeness which we can connect with his depression over this girl. And maybe hes wanting to feel some closeness to her, even if it is just exploring the town shes named after. Although i belive this song to be somewhat auto biographical, halfway through the song insteand of referring to himself in the first person he starts referring to "him". I think hes still referring to himself, just in the third person because it was a time period where he wasnt "himself", hes become a different person. As well in the following lines hes says, "dragging the lagoon" Which makes me think of death or a missing person, which would be him. Drunk and lost, self distructive, he cant find himself. The lagoon reference makes me think of errie, dirty and sludgy water. So maybe thats his way of saying it was hard but i made it out. As he ends the song , "some situiations seel redress, some songs just go testing, testing i took a picture; i was sick of motion" hes saying some things need to be reprementded, somethings just dont go anywhere. I was sick of chasing you around and feeling this way, i need to figure myself out. It makes me thinkg of something else as well, When your really drunk and you get the "spins", so i think hes also saying "okay this is enough i cant feel this way anymore, i canr drink away my problems i need a change" Its interesting he'd use picture because we take pictures to remember things, its almost ironic because hes trying to forget. As he ends the song repeating over and over, "wore her water colours into the ocean, and wore her water colours into the ocean" its as if she were painted onto him, a part of him and he has cleansed himself og her. The ocean is thought of as a large mysteriouse space, uncharted. So its almost a metaphor for life without her, for leaving her and slowly it "dilutes" her "water colours" till he doesnt have her painted onto himself anymore. Although he has rid himself of the girl no matter how diluted water colours are they're still faintly there. We see now hes starts referring to himself in the first person again. Could it be he has overcome his depression and is somwhat back to the person he was before. note: the song was first called song for Acurla (water color) which ended with the line " call me morbid, call me pale" Which is a line from the smiths song, "ha;f a person" also apearing in 1987. Bajar was 15. |
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