| Iron & Wine – Someday the Waves Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don’t know if there is an official meaning to the song, but it has it’s interpretations. My interpretation is as follows: “Waking before you I’ve got a fever and a childish wish for snow” -- I think the “fever” and “childish wish for snow” isn’t so much actually wishing for snow, rather a child’s feeling in wanting it to snow. The wishful anticipation for her to wake is as if he is a child waiting by a window early morning looking to the sky. “Seems like a long, long time Since I spun you to this borrowed radio” -- Probably my favorite line of the song. I can’t help think of “The Bridges of Madison County” when I hear this line of when they first dance in the kitchen. I think in a way it’s clouded my idea of what this song is about because I’ve molded it around that line. -- There’s a since of regret in this line. Perhaps a “wish I woulda” tone to it. I think that is why it flows perfectly into the next line -- “You pick a place that’s where I’ll be Time like your cheek has turned for me” -- I think the chorus really is a request to make things right again. I think that in this moment of “waking” the writer has fully realized how much he loves this person sleeping next to him. And out of that realization has come an awareness that nothing is worth losing this person. “You pick a place that’s where I’ll be,” is a commitment to making thinks work no matter how hard or long it might take as heard in “Time like your cheek has turned for me.” It seems that she has been the one turning the other cheek up to this point and now it is his turn. “ Someday the waves will stop Every aching old machine will feel no pain Someday we both will walk Where a baby made tomorrow is a gain” Every human dies and will no longer feel any pain, but with death comes birth. I think that this is symbolic to the dying relationship at hand with a chance to start a new. “Waking before you I'm like the lord who sees his love though we don't know Seems like a long, long time Since I've been above you seen and loved you so You pick a place that's where I'll be Time like your cheek has turned for me” This is in a way restating the first verse again. It is in this moment that the realization of how much love there really is inside still burning. She lays there unknowing of his revelation. The next line restates a sense of regret of how things had been going. He hasn’t loved her in this way since the beginning. And now, as the chorus restates, he’s ready to make things better again. That’s my take on it anyhow and is probably way off the mark. NW |
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