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Metal Water Wood Lyrics
You found me, you found me
Burning, burning in despair
You said then, "I know dear,
It has been a brutal year"
Take my shattered dreams
Wash them away out with the tide
Take these shattered dreams
These shattered dreams of mine
Wash them away with the tide
Metal, water, wood
"Be like water,"
You tell me, "Be like water"
Pull that horizon down
Pull that, pull that horizon down
Line that horizon up
Like the captain does with his instruments
You tell me, "Be like water"
Metal, water, wood
I feel like an imposter should
As you shapeshift through the earth
You knew me as fire
You have always been
Metal, water, wood
"Be like water"
You tell me, "Be like water"
Pull that horizon down
Pull that, pull that horizon down
Line that horizon up
Like the captain does with his instruments
You tell me, "Be like water"
Metal, water, wood
Take my shattered dreams
Wash them away out with the tide
These unwanted pieces
Wash them away out with the tide
Take these shattered dreams
These shattered dreams of mine
Wash them away with the tide
Metal, water, wood
Metal, water, wood
How to be like water
Show me how to be like water
Metal, water, wood
Burning, burning in despair
You said then, "I know dear,
It has been a brutal year"
Wash them away out with the tide
Take these shattered dreams
These shattered dreams of mine
Wash them away with the tide
Metal, water, wood
You tell me, "Be like water"
Pull that horizon down
Pull that, pull that horizon down
Line that horizon up
Like the captain does with his instruments
You tell me, "Be like water"
Metal, water, wood
As you shapeshift through the earth
You knew me as fire
You have always been
Metal, water, wood
You tell me, "Be like water"
Pull that horizon down
Pull that, pull that horizon down
Line that horizon up
Like the captain does with his instruments
You tell me, "Be like water"
Metal, water, wood
Wash them away out with the tide
These unwanted pieces
Wash them away out with the tide
Take these shattered dreams
These shattered dreams of mine
Wash them away with the tide
Metal, water, wood
How to be like water
Show me how to be like water
Metal, water, wood
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I've always thought there's something sad about this song. It reminds me of Chocolate Song, which has my only truly hated line in any Tori song -- "no, I need to be more like you." I'm only reading what I'm reading into this, but I've always seen this song as an extension of that lyric from Chocolate Song. It's like someone is telling her to change as a person, to someone completely new, someone more like themself.
You knew me as fire You have always been Metal, water, wood
Be like Water. You tell me be like water.
Is she saying someone wants her to be everything she is not (MWW), and be just like that someone who is already MWW and not be the one this she truly is (Fire)? Be like water. Water and Fire can't exist together.
In chinese philosphy - Wood feeds Fire as fuel Fire produces Earth Earth bears Metal Metal collects, filters and purifies Water Water nourishes Wood (water leads to growth of flowers, plants and other changes in nature)
Just my thoughts, but it makes me feel sad how her lyrics of late repeatedly narrate a person who has lost confidence in who they are, and is not who they think they ought to be/or are being told to be?