Looking up from underneath
Fractured moonlight on the sea
Reflections still look the same to me
As before I went under

And it's peaceful in the deep
Cathedral where you cannot breathe
No need to pray, no need to speak
Now I am under all

And it's breaking over me
A thousand miles down to the sea bed
Found the place to rest my head
(Never let me go, never let me go)
(Never let me go, never let me go)

And the arms of the ocean are carrying me
And all this devotion was rushing out of me
And the crashes are heaven for a sinner like me
But the arms of the ocean delivered me

Though the pressure's hard to take
It's the only way I can escape
It seems a heavy choice to make
But now I am under, oh

And it's breaking over me
A thousand miles down to the sea bed
Found the place to rest my head
(Never let me go, never let me go)
(Never let me go, never let me go)

And the arms of the ocean are carrying me
And all this devotion was rushing out of me
And the crashes are heaven for a sinner like me
But the arms of the ocean delivered me

And it's over and I'm going under
But I'm not giving up, I'm just giving in
I'm slipping underneath
So, so cold and so sweet

In the arms of the ocean, so sweet and so cold
And all this devotion, I never knew at all
And the crashes are heaven for a sinner released
In the arms of the ocean delivered me

(Never let me go, never let me go)
(Never let me go, never let me go)
Delivered me
(Never let me go, never let me go)
(Never let me go, never let me go)
(Never let me go, never let me go)
Delivered me
(Never let me go, never let me go)
(Never let me go, never let me go)
Delivered me
(Never let me go, never let me go)
And it's over and I'm going under
But I'm not giving up, I'm just giving in
I'm slipping underneath
Ooh, so cold and so sweet


Lyrics submitted by ValH1618, edited by Cryhavic, Michelle31, OsbornLove, sabanana, Elluna, IsaFlow, CyberDream, MycroftJr, starchmuffin, Cat97, culprit, malina5432no, novembermayhem

Never Let Me Go Lyrics as written by Tom Harpoon Paul Epworth

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    Symbolically the ocean -generally the water element- stands for the sentiment. She feels like floating in a sea of emotions. A whole new universe reveals to her ,embracing and serene but also "cold" and possibly unfamiliar.And yet open to discover! "Not giving up, but giving in" may be understood as surrendering to her feelings while not being afraid anymore to unravel her true core in a world of cynical rationalisation in search even of her darkest repressed desires. So,the main pro-chorus verse "Never let me go" is addressed to the personification and synecdoche of the ocean as the constant flow of emotional perception. Water cannot find a solid shape. As a result it overwhelms any attempt of rational filtering. Florence Welch elaborated on the title and meaning of the song "What the Water Gave Me": "It's a song for the water, because in music and art what I'm really interested in are the things that are overwhelming. The ocean seems to me to be nature's great overwhelmer.It's about water in all forms and all bodies. It's about a lot of things; Virginia Woolf creeps into it, and of course Frida Kahlo, whose painfully beautiful painting gave me the title". Björk in her song "Oceania" for the 2004 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony uses again the Ocean as a symbol of the archetypal matrix. Figuratively this embodies the constant sentimental urge to return to the uterus, the point of birth and life and semantically the protective nest. And when you get "life" ,you also get "death" as a balancing natural force. That is the point when this glimpse of the death drive comes into the song's meaning. The drive towards death, self-destruction and the return to the inorganic: "the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state", originally proposed by Freud in "Beyond the Pleasure Principle",where he wrote of the "opposition between the ego or death instincts and the sexual or life instincts".

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