It's the glare from the reflection
Making patterns in your eye
It's the looking back in anger
For every second slipping by
Undertow has come to take me
Guarded by the blazing sun
Look at everything around us, well
Look at everything we've done

Please, anyone?
I don't think I can
Save myself
I'm drowning here, please
Anyone?
I don't think I can
Save myself
I'm drowning here, please
Anyone?
I don't think I can
Save myself
I'm drowning here please,
Anyone?
I don't think I can
Save myself

There's a tiny little window
Swarms of locusts fill the sky
Maybe I'd just disappear
If I can't keep my head above the tide

Please, anyone?
I don't think I can
Save myself
I'm drowning here, please
Anyone?
I don't think I can
Save myself
I'm drowning here, please
Anyone?
I don't think I can
Save myself
I'm drowning here please,
Anyone?
I don't think I can
Save myself


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A Drowning Lyrics as written by Mariqueen Arrabaca Maandig Atticus Ross

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    My Interpretation

    I agree with Joe K. It seems that she just can't let that old partner go and she is losing herself in her own thoughts and sorrow from the breakup. That relationship was the thing holding her above the surface but without it and without the one she was with she is alone and is sinking again.

    She is looking back in her past in the beginning,

    It's the glare from the reflection/Making patterns in your eye - may mean that she is blind to the faults in the relationship that caused it to end in the first place because she just wants so badly to be stable once again.

    It's the looking back in anger/For every second slipping by - the anger that he isn't coming back to her, or maybe from what he did to her.

    Undertow has come to take me - her emotions overwhelming herself.

    Guarded by the blazing sun - the longer she is staying "above the surface" or in the relationship, the safer she feels, but the sun is burning her. It is better off that she doesn't stay in the sun.

    Look at everything around us, well/Look at everything we've done - her seeing what they accomplished when they were together, maybe in an attempt to point out the good things to make him come back.

    The chorus is quite self explanatory i think.

    There's a tiny little window - representing hope for a life after the breakup.

    Swarms of locusts fill the sky - blocking her view of the window, so she can't see it clearly.

    Maybe I'd just disappear/If I can't keep my head above the tide - if she doesn't fight long enough maybe she will stop trying and just go away from life and be trapped forever in a downward spiral.

    I like it. Different from NIN but still has that feel to it. Hopefully the other songs coming with the EP will be a bit more lively at some points, not that this song isn't great. I felt maybe a bit too deep today with lyrics....may have gone a bit far with this song hah. probably wrong but thats what i see.

    Ultrakittyon May 07, 2010   Link

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