Underwater Silence

i think this song is about some guy that thinks that he is in a girl's body. he screams at her but still she doesnt hear him... she's in some kind of comma where the only thing she isnt aware of is him. "keep me alive in you...", this is the line that makes me think this song is about this. also, "here in your empty... claustrophobic in your skin" its a great song!

I'm kinda surprised no one has commented on this song yet. I love this song! I'm not really sure what this song is about. I guess it's just about someone who is kinda dead inside it sounds like to me. but someone else might come up with something better than that.

I am surprised also... I'm a crazy music collector, who only listens to bands' music which are all great, on all their songs and albums. This, currently would be my favorite song. I think it is about someone, a girl, who has medical problems?-which is put into a coma, and how her guy misses her of when she was awake.. I'd put this song as a 5 on the rating, and yet I did. Awesome lullaby if you can sleep to it on low volume. Lol. Audiovent made this song fantastic.

I feel the song could be about depression. The singer is singing to someone who's depressed or perhaps in a rut that they can't look beyond or refuse to escape.

In the first stanza it seems the person being sung to has distanced themselves or perhaps just closed themselves off (here in your coma, here in your sleep) and thus is unable to realize that the people who care are reaching out (you cannot hear me, although I scream).

I think the chorus is the point where the singer asks questions, states what he sees;

"You dream under lonely eyelids, Find what your looking for? You sleep in underwater silence (Alone)"

So I think the singer is basically asking, "You've distanced yourself, did you find what you're looking for or are you still lost?" I'm not sure whether the addition of "Alone" at the end of the first chorus is the reply of the lonely person, or just an observation by the singer about the 'singee'.

The second stanza illustrates best how alone the person being sung to is (herein you're empty/there's no breeze), how trapped they feel (claustrophobic in your skin), and how they probably feel unable to respond to others' reaching out to them (refuse reflections). Although, as that last line is followed by "when they're from me" I wonder if perhaps the person being sung to is just distancing themselves from this person singing, maybe the singer knows it hence that last line, "so in my eyes they will end".

While the depressed person is the one whose state is described by the title I think the person singing is affected too, while at times this song sounds to be his last effort to reach the person he's singing to he's giving it his all, begging them to 'hold on' and remember that he is there to help, 'keep me alive in you'.

The two things I thought this song might be about, for all the (mundanely detailed) reasons above is either depression, or a bad breakup.

The great thing about this song is the versatility of it's lyrics to represent certain situations (good songs should have that right?). All those comments made previously were pretty good and it was interesting to read the various ideas the song inspired about it's meaning. Glad to see Underwater Silence was appreciated by others, it's most certainly a great one.

I've always listened to the song taking it as a very literal 'ohgod you're comatose let's sing about how I miss you' song, using the stillness in its literal sense, as opposed to a metaphor.

I viewed underwater as the sob wave-of-tears junk, and the silence as 'her' inability to acknowledge the crying. The lonely eyelids happen to belong to the singer, and the descriptions are his imagination running with what sort of world she must be in.

'Tonight, you are emotionless, hold on and on..', as a coma patient must to..um. Not die.