Everything's okay
Walks along the dock
With some sailor's pay
Shoved down in his sock
Everything's okay
With some little boy in blue
Who don't know you like I do

Everything's okay
Took him back to town
Well, I didn't get paid today
So I'm in the lost and found
And I wonder if that clown
Knows just what to do
What to say and what not to

The pretty words that you whispered
Maybe I misunderstood
Somebody's not paying attention
What they promised and their word isn't good

Everything's okay
I'm looking for you now
Down here by the bay
Where the water pounds
Up against the wall
That I'm coming to
Because I can't stay away from you

I don't need no satisfaction
And I don't take just because I can
Sometimes I get a strong impression
That you just don't understand
That kind of man

Everything's okay
I can see your face
Down there in the waves
Painted and erased
But I'm told it's just
The reflection of the moon
A big fake resembling you

I'm going to go down in the water
And fill my mouth up full of sand
And I'll be waiting still impatient
With my dead imagination
While you're with some other man

Everything's okay
I'll be with you soon
I'm walking out to place
My arms around the moon
Yeah, I'll be with you soon
Just as soon as I pay
I'll walk across the water
Everything's okay
Walk on the water
Everything's okay


Lyrics submitted by imajar, edited by afreijat

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    My Interpretation

    I think this song is a story about a guy (possibly Elliott) and his best friend who is a cop. The guy is very sad and depressed but he doesn't kill himself because he loves his girlfriend and no one will ever know her and lover her like he does now. But when she leaves him for his friend cop. The guy is lost, he sees her everywhere and misses her so much. He may find a new girlfriend but shes just not the same. Similar to a reflection of his old girlfriend but its all fake. But he keeps say everything okay when in reality it is not.

    calvin1015on March 08, 2017   Link

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