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Floating Lyrics
floating alone you couldn't see the land so you gave in
so you gave in
you dropped your head below until there was no way to swim
you couldn't see the waves and how they'd pull you in
you couldn't see the anger that would come from this
floating along
motionless they found you after dawn
through all those days
no one thought to think that you were barely holding on
you couldn't see the waves and how they pulled you in
you couldn't see the anger that would come from this
hang on to what you've done
all of those days couldn't be so wrong
should the years never come
you couldn't see the waves and how they pulled you in
you couldn't see through darkness that would never end
now floating was the only chance you'd ever miss
you couldn't see the anger that would come from this
so you gave in
you dropped your head below until there was no way to swim
you couldn't see the anger that would come from this
motionless they found you after dawn
through all those days
no one thought to think that you were barely holding on
you couldn't see the anger that would come from this
all of those days couldn't be so wrong
should the years never come
you couldn't see through darkness that would never end
now floating was the only chance you'd ever miss
you couldn't see the anger that would come from this
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i could be meant literally, that means going out for a swim and never coming back, or just symbolic for drifting through life and then letting go - anyhow it's quite clear that it's about suicide.
i don't think there's ever a case of a literal meaning in songs. like poems, songs are written symbolically. that's why songs are beautiful :)
i disagree with you, because sometimes artists may want to address something "real" that has happened to them (or others) in life, even if disguising it through symbolic language.
i disagree with you, because sometimes artists may want to address something "real" that has happened to them (or others) in life, even if disguising it through symbolic language.
i doubt whether somebody that howie knew actually drowned him-/herself (which would be the obvious interpretation), but the song is quite clearly about suicide. it even addresses the fact that a suicide might often come unexpected to others ("through all those days no one ought to think that you were barely holding on") and damage the ones left behind ("you couldn't see the anger that would come from this")....
i doubt whether somebody that howie knew actually drowned him-/herself (which would be the obvious interpretation), but the song is quite clearly about suicide. it even addresses the fact that a suicide might often come unexpected to others ("through all those days no one ought to think that you were barely holding on") and damage the ones left behind ("you couldn't see the anger that would come from this").
personally i think, howie wrote a tune about suicide, but uses the drowning as a metaphor. the line "you couldn't see the land so you gave in" just refer to somebody giving up in life, not being able to solve his problems.