| Owl City – The Saltwater Room (Ocean Eyes Album Version) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I've loved this song from the first time I've ever heard it, but I thought it seemed like a very sad song. But since I've now read some of the comments made by others, I realized that this song could be totally the opposite. I now have formed my own idea based on some of other's ideas, so I may repeat myself a bit in my description: I believe it's about a girl and guy that are friends who are starting to develop feeling for each other. The guy seems to have many emotional problems. Now the breakdown of the lyrics. "I opened my eyes last night and saw you in the low light" -The guy wakes up and instantly starts thinking about what went on last night -The "low light" probably refers to literal low light, meaning its nighttime, which is easily identifiable with the lyrics to come "Walking down by the bay, on the shore, Staring up at the stars that aren't there anymore" -That's pretty self explanatory; she's walking by the shore at night, no doubt accompanied by the guy "I was feeling the night grow old" -No need for explanation "and you were looking so cold, So like an introvert, I drew my over shirt, Around my arms and began to shiver violently" -She's cold, so he gives her his over shirt to sacrifice his warmth for hers "Before you happened to look and see the tunnels all around me, Running in to the dark underground" -This is where it seems to get more emotional. I think this refers to him having emotional problems, mainly, loneliness "All the subways around create a great sound" -There's two ways I can take this: 1- This is referring again to these "tunnels running in to the dark underground" where there are possibly subways in these "tunnels" and scream with joy when he's with her and to me seems that he feels like all his problems go away when he's with her (like loneliness). or 2-He literally means he hears subways and simply likes the sound of them. "To my motion fatigue, farewell, with your ear to a seashell" -He's thinking of how great he feels when he's with her as he watches her put a seashell to her ear. "You can hear the waves in underwater caves, As if you actually were inside a saltwater room" -She hears the typical sound of the "ocean" when she puts the seashell to her ear -The "saltwater room" may be an actual thing of existence that I'm unaware of, but I'm pretty sure they don't exist, so I think this is just possibly a figment of imagination to the guy because he loves the sea. "Time together isn't ever quite enough" -Obvious "When you and I are alone, I've never felt so at home" -His loneliness is cured when he's with her "What will it take to make or break this hint of love? Only time, only time" -Now at first this was the part of the song that made me feel like this was a sad song, but again, my views have changed -I now believe she's wondering what would "make or break" the start of their developing feelings for each other, and he answers that time is the answer, because their "hint of love" would fade over time if neither of them did anything about it, but in order for feelings to develop, it takes time... so it answers both parts of the question "Can you believe that the crew has gone? And the wouldn't let me sign on" -This could be a reference to a sea crew that he wanted to join because of his love for the ocean, or it could be old friends that left him behind in some way or other. Either way, it seemed to have hurt him, which is probably part of those emotional "tunnels" "All my islands have sunk in the deep" -I'm not really sure about this part. My only thought right now is that it could possibly be financial debt because the islands (money, source of wealth, etc.) have sunk (debt) "And I can hardly relax or even oversleep" -He can't sleep because of his problems "When I feel warm with your hand in mine, When we walk along the shore line" -He's recalling good memories with her "I guess we'll never know why sparrows love the snow" -This is the part that I'm most unsure of. I think he's using this as an analogy of sorts to his situation with the girl; apparently sparrows love the snow (I don't know if that's true or not) and he doesn't know why, and he also doesn't know exactly why he feels the way he does when he's around this girl "We'll turn out all of the lights and set this ballroom aglow" -We're going to fix the problems and let our love grow Well I believe that's it. I love this song so much I've spent like 20 minutes typing all of this up, and it's pretty much just come to me when I was listening to it a little while ago. Anyways, my thoughts are that this song isn't a sad song at all, but the starting of love. I hope you like my thoughts :) |
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