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From Here You Can Almost See the Sea Lyrics
Come the weekend
And we’ll long gone baby
Just like the old days
Letting the world flow through me
Just a parasite in the line
I'm smoking, killing the time
How long’s a piece of twine
What use is sympathy
From here you can almost see the sea
If you would hold still
Could make a clean incision
We could sit back
And watch the demolition
Little puppy dog in a box
Somebody’s picking the locks
Must want the darn from the socks
Here comes the cavalry
From here you can almost see the sea
Just another fool in a line
I dream of high clouds
Flushed with the light of daybreak
I'm gonna dive in
To a water so cold it makes your bones ache
Fingers, knees and knuckles scraped
All of the rubbish heaped
A piece of cardboard taped
Up where the bedroom window pane used to be
From here you can almost
From here you can almost see the sea
Just another fool in a line
Just another fool in a line
I saw a film once
Where all the airholes froze up
A killer whale swam
Under the blue ice
'til her heart stopped
And we’ll long gone baby
Just like the old days
Letting the world flow through me
I'm smoking, killing the time
How long’s a piece of twine
What use is sympathy
From here you can almost see the sea
Could make a clean incision
We could sit back
And watch the demolition
Somebody’s picking the locks
Must want the darn from the socks
Here comes the cavalry
From here you can almost see the sea
Flushed with the light of daybreak
I'm gonna dive in
To a water so cold it makes your bones ache
All of the rubbish heaped
A piece of cardboard taped
Up where the bedroom window pane used to be
From here you can almost
From here you can almost see the sea
Just another fool in a line
Where all the airholes froze up
A killer whale swam
Under the blue ice
'til her heart stopped
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Does anybody know what the song is actually about? I have a feeling (although I am unsure why) it's about illness of some sort, I have a feeling it's written from the perspective of someone in hospital? I know, probably complete nonsense but there you go...
This is the best song off of the new album!
Everyone should listen to this song!!!
"If you would hold still Could make a clean incision We could sit back And watch the demolition "
wow...
This song seems to indeed be about illness or, more specifically, getting older and the slow march towards death. These are the thoughts of someone near the end. From here you can almost see the sea = from here, I'm not far from heaven, I'm not far from the afterlife.\
A piece of cardboard taped to where the windowpane used to be seems to be a reference to someone in the hospital, being held together when their body clearly wants to give out. This person is "another fool in the line", waiting to die and move on to the afterlife.
"Here comes the cavalry" = death is coming soon, to save the narrator from the pain they're currently in.
Dark favorite.
A couple at the end of their life, maybe they've been squatting in a building now being demolished or the "demolition" is society's collapse from a cataclysm (they're picking the locks, must want the darn from the socks). Committing suicide to avoid the horror of being old folks under siege by young ghouls. Think of McCarthy's "The Road", countless events of history.
He's choosing his own way out and dreaming of more poetic endings. Dream of diving into water so cold it makes your bones ache. Hesse's young character dies like that in the Glass Bead Game. "Saw a film once" - Orca dying in the movie ("Orca") with ice freezing over the air holes.
Two cold water endings - to "see the sea" seems to be looking to the big sleep.
Such a bleak and beautiful song.
[Edit: splainations moar]
@charles108 Interesting take on the song
@charles108 Interesting take on the song