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Because We Have To Lyrics
A calm sea awaits, blue skies and sun
Inviting and smiling and dancing around
The wind pushes north, through the straits, towards the clouds
The sun rests her head on the water around
By morning, our voices will sink with their shells
Her belly exposed, up towards the sun
Lays hindered and splintered and makes not a sound
Ahead of her bow, a doll chain takes form
Of women and children that someone adored
In a last dance, hand in hand, they float all around
Inviting and smiling and dancing around
The sun rests her head on the water around
By morning, our voices will sink with their shells
Lays hindered and splintered and makes not a sound
Of women and children that someone adored
In a last dance, hand in hand, they float all around
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I think this song is about the end of a relationship, expressed through the metaphor of a sinking boat. Even though everything is beautiful in the beginning (the water is "calm" and there are "blue skies"), a shadow forms over their relationship as "wind" and "clouds" move in. The break-up is portrayed as a splintered boat, washed up on shore, that can no longer be of use to the couple. The "women and children" are all the positive things that happened in the relationship (women and children are the first to be evacuated from a sinking ship), but in the water, they drown. That is, they cannot be repeated because the relationship is over for good.
@mister care-too-much Karazija does use a lot of boat/sailing metaphors, and I think undoubtedly 'Friends Make Garbage' has that meaning, but to me, this song is very much about mortality, how peace awaits after death, the 'sun rests her head' ie a sunset, the end of things, and how all will be lost in time 'our voices will sink with their shells.' The "Doll chain taking form," Is a reflection of generations past (and possibly future,) showing the links between all humans, and how we all share a common fate.
@mister care-too-much Karazija does use a lot of boat/sailing metaphors, and I think undoubtedly 'Friends Make Garbage' has that meaning, but to me, this song is very much about mortality, how peace awaits after death, the 'sun rests her head' ie a sunset, the end of things, and how all will be lost in time 'our voices will sink with their shells.' The "Doll chain taking form," Is a reflection of generations past (and possibly future,) showing the links between all humans, and how we all share a common fate.