its amazing how far music can come.. 24 years after it released and its one of the most heartfelt songs ive heard
Left behind everything I knew
All the colors but bone-white and sky-blue
Hit the continent running
Engines were humming just to break through
Antarctica, my only living relative
Antarctica, I can't wait anymore
Under ice there's a world moving slow
Carnelian stars and the bars down below
Serve only vodka and gin
I try to stay drunk so nobody knows
Antarctica, my only living relative
Antarctica, I can't wait anymore
And then there's morning
Each one feels like the first one
A morning, so clean, so pure
Nothing so clear, now that I'm here
When I get back to the city
Everything's cluttered and pretty
I won't regret my return
I'll just remember the wind and the snow
And the howling so loud
That it alone drowns out the inside of me
Antarctica, my only living relative
Antarctica, I can't wait anymore
I can't wait anymore
I can't wait anymore
Carnelian stars and the bars down below
Serve only vodka and gin
Carnelian stars and the bars down below
All the colors but bone-white and sky-blue
Hit the continent running
Engines were humming just to break through
Antarctica, my only living relative
Antarctica, I can't wait anymore
Under ice there's a world moving slow
Carnelian stars and the bars down below
Serve only vodka and gin
I try to stay drunk so nobody knows
Antarctica, my only living relative
Antarctica, I can't wait anymore
And then there's morning
Each one feels like the first one
A morning, so clean, so pure
Nothing so clear, now that I'm here
When I get back to the city
Everything's cluttered and pretty
I won't regret my return
I'll just remember the wind and the snow
And the howling so loud
That it alone drowns out the inside of me
Antarctica, my only living relative
Antarctica, I can't wait anymore
I can't wait anymore
I can't wait anymore
Carnelian stars and the bars down below
Serve only vodka and gin
Carnelian stars and the bars down below
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This might be a shot in the dark...
But spawning off of the verse... 'Under ice there's a world moving slow Carnelian stars and the bars down below Serve only vodka and gin I try to stay drunk so nobody knows'
Maybe the world/stars/bars happen to be the writers personality/self. The point of drinking would be to mask it because it feels good (and nobody knows there's a world underneath the ice of the booze).
I would suppose the first two chunks would be leaving behind everything for the booze and hitting the vodka hard because 'I can't wait anymore'.
The verse pertaining to morning might be symbolic of that state where you're completely numbed by drink and feeling good about it.
Perhaps getting back to the city might be relating to sobering up and getting on with life?
Like I said... I'm way overtired and I'm probably way off.
i think you have some good ideas especially because the last two lines,<br /> "and the howling so loud that it alone drowns out the inside of me"<br /> <br /> its as if shes hiding her true self like you said earlier