| Sam Baker – Waves Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I first heard this song on the Bob Harris show on Radio 2. It affected me as deeply as it seems to have done many others from the first hearing. It is a very touching song, and others have pointed out that Sam Baker’s, slightly gruff, almost awkward delivery of the song is actually very apposite and a significant part of the song’s power. The more heavily produced versions of this song lack what the raw unproduced versions have that are exactly what make it so good. The meaning? Well, of course, this song is about loss. A widower going down to the bay he shared a love of with the woman with whom he spent fifty years. Clearly, she knew she was dying before she died — she told him he’d be fine when she was gone. But she was wrong. Fifty years hardly seems transient when you are living it. But it is transient, and the waves give tangible expression to that by washing away her name in the sand. |
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