Next of Kin Lyrics
Interesting fact - Molly's father, John Morris Rankin, actually did die by drowning. The circumstances were nothing like the song, though; he was driving on a winding highway in Cape Breton, and he hit a pile of road salt that had been spilled on the road. He lost control of the truck and plunged off a 25 metre cliff into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
These makes me think about two people not being sexually/emptionally compatible.
Or about not wanting to date someone with substance abuse issues...
sounds like dating someone with a drug dependency and having to let them go
Straightforward, if you listen to the lyrics: she went into the water with her boyfriend, and he died. He didn't know how to swim, and was also drug-impaired. Pretty song though.