Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
She is an emerald
In a shining, shining winter
Rosette in a snow globe
Ride it up, clean and gold
I spread love
She is anticipating on it
Magic and old invention
Leanin' out the window
Callin' out, woah no
She sees what no one sees
Far away, with you
While every need, and water blue
We'll sail away, on this boat
Till suddenly it's new
Who made loss or whatever alone?
I know I cannot wait that long
I don't know what I should be lookin' at
But I will look wherever I'm told
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
I'm caught up in a storm
That I don't need no shelter from
All I want and all I need
Right here with me
You're right here with me
Call to me, soft and sweet
Cool the fire that burns in me
Catch me when I lose control
Look into my eyes
Look into my eyes
I'm caught up in a storm
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
In a shining, shining winter
Rosette in a snow globe
Ride it up, clean and gold
I spread love
She is anticipating on it
Magic and old invention
Leanin' out the window
Callin' out, woah no
She sees what no one sees
Far away, with you
While every need, and water blue
We'll sail away, on this boat
Till suddenly it's new
Who made loss or whatever alone?
I know I cannot wait that long
I don't know what I should be lookin' at
But I will look wherever I'm told
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
I'm caught up in a storm
That I don't need no shelter from
All I want and all I need
Right here with me
You're right here with me
Call to me, soft and sweet
Cool the fire that burns in me
Catch me when I lose control
Look into my eyes
Look into my eyes
I'm caught up in a storm
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
Bitte orca, orca bitte
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Dave Longstreth supposedly named the album 'Bitte Orca' because he liked the way the words sounded next to eachother. nothing more. sorry for all you addicts out there; not every song has to do with sex........
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When a songwriter or lyricist picks words simply because they sound well together, one has to wonder if at some subconscious level the artist intuitively connects to some latent meaning in the words or sounds of the words. <br /> <br /> "Bitte" has been used in French, German, and old Norse. In German it's a polite word, a word of supplication. This song has a few lines of pleading: Call to me, soft and sweet / Cool the fire that burns in me /Catch me when I lose control. So there's that possible connection.<br /> In French "bitte" can also stand for a mooring post (probably this is what led to its use as a slang term for a penis). The image of a mooring post could connect with the idea expressed in the song that the the person wants and needs their love object rather than refuge from the storm. That is, one's love or the object of one's love serves instead of a mooring post. <br /> <br /> Orca is of course the name of the whale, but the sound "ork" or "orc" (as in orca, orcinus, orc-neas, orch) is associated with death, the underword, monsters from the underworld in various historic European languages, and was assigned to the whale because of the assocation between "orcus" and "killing" or "death." Killer whales can be vicious preditors of other sea mammals. At the archetype level the fusion of the opposites of love and death, or love and killing, is often made. One kills one's ego and replaces it with devotion to one's love object, or one participates in the cycle of aging and death to make room for new life in one's descendants. <br /> <br /> Doubt any of this was consciously in mind when bitte and orca were combined in this song, but knowing the historical roots and some deep meaning-structures of these words only adds to the beauty of the song for this listener.