Up and Down and Back Again Lyrics
A song about getting lost in conformity?
It's about losing someone you love slowly, and having to come to terms with it. The feeling of being lost "in the water deep" is helplessness.
this song reminds me so much of mirrorball-era neil young. you know, the album he did with pearl jam.
It's about being lost in an overwhelming world. And being tossed around again and again, on the sea of people and places and events, which seem to dictate who you are, and the constant pressures (of the metaphorical sea) which become almost commonplace to the person in the choppy sea, so that when steadiness is found, it's almost distasteful in that it is a change from what the person is used to. Of certainty making things uncertain, and of being unable to see for all the problems and issues you have, of looking at yourself, and feeling you might be moving ahead in a way you don't quite understand, but are willing to accept.
Becoming famous and well-known. "When your walk on role becomes a major part". Changing into a celebrity and forgetting who you really are, and becoming what society wants you to be. "Pride comes before a fall".