Hospital Bed

What a lovely song! I'ven't a clue on what it means, however......

i think is about this guy who is confined to a hospital bed and uses his imagination and has these wild daydreams in order to make himself feel less miserable. and at the same time this character is realizing all the stuff he took for granted in the past. he can't wait till he gets better and gets out of there nad be with his loved ones.

It's about drug rehab.

Peeing into a jar represents getting tested.He then tries to leave but this second person he is reffering to (i assume it is his girlfriend) keeps him there.Grabbing onto the spider's neck is a withdrawl hallucination.

I don't know about the squeezing of the blue out of the sky however, nor the rest of the song.

More generally however, this song can be about anyone going through a really rough time in their life, but they have one person that helps them get through it, and stays with them the whole way.

Such lovely instrumentation.

I agree that it's about drug rehab, for the most part. But there are so many recurring themes in Seabear's music - owls, cats, wolves, lakes, arms, etc. It's like a fixation.

I think it's about a terminally ill patient.

The lines: "I tried, and I tried To squeeze the blue out of the sky The yellow out of the sun"

Suggest to me that he is trying to take in as much as possible from life before his ineluctable death.

hm, i think that he's terminally ill, but i don't think that when he says "So I grab on and hold to the spider's neck" he's going out of the hallucination, but getting out of the hospital, so he can live the best of his last moments with his love (he even says that there, the days are long). and it's not necessairly a drug problem, but any health problem.

and in the final verses,

"Like a rabbit in a human skin coat You'll dance on the yard Like a wolf flipping good-bye notes You'll howl at the sky

So show your cat teeth to the lion and grab unto his main vein"

i think he means that the last days were the best, as she's dancing, but that he's dying and saying that it's going to be hard on her, but that she has to put herself together and face it so she can live again.

oh, and a correction. i think this part:

"In that big invisible moment The king on my shoulders With the time we'll make it into sand Agreed into me keeping your hand"

is

"and that big, invisible boulder you keep on the shoulders with the time, we'll make it into sand agreeing you're keeping your hand"

corrections noted. thanks. :)

i kinda want to say its about depression, and someone sticks by his side through it. "Because I'm sick and the days are long" during depression, time doesn't seem to move. "I tried, and I tried to squeeze the blue out of the sky the yellow out of the sun" maybe he was trying really hard to not be depressed, so he tried living to the fullest. And that big invisible boulder you keep on your shoulders with the time we'll make it into sand a grain you'll keep in your hand." maybe she's carrying the weight of his depression and trying to help, and maybe over time it'll go away, but not fully, and they'll always remember that it was there.

but then again some parts don't fit. so maybe not.

I really don't think it's "I peed tight in a jar", I always heard this line as "a bee died in the yard".

I believe that it's a description of an altercation between two people that placed one into a hospital bed... or simply of 'making love' I can't pull out every word hence why I found this site. But, it's all there. I'm afraid I can't post the details it affords me, but use your imagination. And lets just say that the progression and acceleration of the Violin is her feeling the music. I see it as doing a little jumping around from separate points of view and interpret it as being very metaphorical. So I see why people hear different things. But everyone else is no more wrong than I am right. After all thats what a great song is.. A tune to your real drama.

PS I wish I had found Seabear a lot sooner. Very beautiful!