| Passion Pit – Seaweed Song Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is about a girl he loves who was diagnosed with terminal cancer at an early age and sudden. He thought he knew she would fight and win but she knows she won't... thats how he thought he knew, and didn't accept it. "someday you'll see surrounded by angels a top of the sea" Someday you will believe in faith and meet your maker, to everyone this lyrics apply. "between these walls her backs casts shadows frighteningly tall, I slow to a crawl, I shout and and she hears nothing at all" The place she is fighting cancer, her home.. whatever. She is loosing weight and he shouts fight give it you all to overcome this, but she doesn't her him because she knows its beyond her. He slows to a crawl in his absorption of what is happening, its unbelievable, shocking. "Stay the same, because everything else will change" is a desperate message to everyone to not change and take a dark corner like she did, its inevitable, you can't prevent it, don't wish you were any different because it might be as good as it gets. He puts himself in her shoes by expressing what she feels and knows with the tide reaching her chin, she's freezing to the bone, she's cold from starving due to inability to eat from treatment and her body shutting down. "Just watch your body go".... give in, you lost control, you are on a one way ticket, you'll never feel at home is you hang on, its not going to change, your gone. We will always remember you, and hopefully you are going to a new and better place.... nobody knows, we hope, we believe, but you and life as we know it are over. Its sad, its overwhelming, its something we fear and never want to face but will... sooner than expected of not. I lost my dad suddenly to cancer when I was 24... this song, hearing it after the event immediately made me know what the song was about..... for myself at least. It encapsulated my feelings and experience. Everyone will likely relate to this differently, I don't think is as naive and trite as most people interpret. As you grow older and experience more, this song relates to your most tramatic exeperience you have experienced. Whether its a simple crush and not getting the girl, or really loosing somebody to powers completely out of you control... where everybody looses.... in this life at least. |
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