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First think of a name
OK
Try to keep it the same
All day
Now go over your lines
Relax
And get in the character
Now open an eye
Nice try
Put a foot on the floor
One more
'Cause we're going live in 5
Four
Get in the character
I was thinking we could walk on water
And still find reasons to swim inside
Now I'm worried there's a bigger wave
Just behind this one
I was thinking there's a bigger wave
Just behind this one
OK
Try to keep it the same
All day
Now go over your lines
Relax
And get in the character
Now open an eye
Nice try
Put a foot on the floor
One more
'Cause we're going live in 5
Four
Get in the character
I was thinking we could walk on water
And still find reasons to swim inside
Now I'm worried there's a bigger wave
Just behind this one
I was thinking there's a bigger wave
Just behind this one
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To me Bigger Wave opens up with a description of our ego as a mask. OSI seems to have an affinity for creating a seperation between aspects of existence such as an almost Freudian psychological break-down and, even further, seperating that entire model from the physical form we as conscious beings exist within. There seems a focus on super ego temperance in the first verse that can be pretty easily seen by the almost call-response format the lyrics take, like an internal dialogue.
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