Sea Song

This is one of the most lovely love songs ever written -I can't believe no one else has commented on it! I love wyatt's poetic turn of phrase.

The strangest love song I've ever heard, and certainly one of my five favorite songs... Talking to the sea as if it was his lover, and in such words ! ("your madness fits in nicely with my own", how beautiful and weird to say it to the one you love...) When I heard those lyrics, I couldn't help thinking of a French author from the end of the 19th century called Lautréamont and his haunting and terrifying masterpiece "Les Chants de Maldoror". Has anyone ever read this book ? The problem with Wyatt's songs is that it's impossible to put by words the vocal arrangements on them, especially Wyatt's "solos" (Coltrane had his sax, Wyatt has his alien voice...)

I think it's about being in love with someone changeable and 'moody', and also touching on Wyatt's own immaturity, as he sees it. The sea is used as a metaphor for the woman's changing moods. Not exactly a new idea, but a very beautifully expressed one here.

This song does not seem to me to have much of a concept, per se, but is rather more of a mixed jumble of pure emotion that goes to your soul and moves you like little else can. I'm just getting into this album, widely regarded as a masterpiece of Canterbury Prog, but this is an impressive beginning.

Great song indeed. Extremely creative. I'm in love with this master piece. A love story between 2 unusual people.

This first album solo of Wyatt came after he fell or jumped from a window during a party while drunk and could not walk anymore. He said later that this album would not exist without this accident due to his self-destructive tendencies. One can reasonably think this song is a lot about himself and his insanity, but not without a sense of hope as can be felt at the end of the song.

This song is uber creepy. I can't put my finger on it. It's like a really strange photo where you know that is someting wrong with the picture, something out of place. It's like when you feel you're being watched, but you turn around and see nothing.

I think this is a song about his insanity, or meeting this other side of him that comes out like the "tides."

I read in my biology class that the structure of a man's penis was derived from fish, and I know that "foam-crested brine," is supposed to be jizz. It's a song about a wet dream, and how it didn't leave him feeling fulfilled. Sure, his wet dream may have felt good while it was happening but, once he woke up in the morning, he realized that his appetite for sex was gone. He talks about waiting for the next full moon(when he regains what he lost) so he can lose it all again.