Swallowed

It's a story about a lost love. The pain it causes has to be swallwed and move on. That even if surrounded by friends and family you're alone. In this world she was the one who save you from its sorrow. And you don't belong here anymore so you have to get away, because you miss her a lot.

The greatest song ever...

song writers like metaphors. It has to mean something and make sense to them... and it leaves the listener to interperate it himself. Every song has a different meaning to each different person who listens. Music is beautiful that way. How i love metaphors

(although i cant seem to figure out this song... has no meaning to me i guess... good song though.)

please make bush comments. they are such a good band, they deserve way more comments than they have. I wanna know what other people think of their songs mean too. Bush rules!!!

I don't know how I feel about the meaning of this song quite yet. Even with out lyrics, the music to this song brings out it's own emotions. I love it. I see how people can assume this song is about drugs, but more so, I believe it's about a girl. Maybe even both subjects. He's hurt, struggling, confused and trying to make a difference. At the end, he finally realizes he needs to make a change, get away, and make things okay again. Great song.

I agree this is a song about him missing his love... but...I think it is about how he can only rely on the person who he loves "Heavy 'bout everything but my love"

Hte whole world is pulling at him b/c of his fame; he gets pissed, he gets tired, he gets depressed, he is hurting from all of the pressures "piss on self esteem...." I think he also talks about how the person he loves does not understand the position he is in "hey you said you would love to try some..." Finally he loves the person not matter what" Sharp about every on but yourself" could refer to his defensiveness towards every one but the one he loves.

Pretty Simple....

Drug Use....Not be happy about your life or the direction it's taking. Waiting for that change to happen but until the only escape is drugs.

Being "heavy" about something is to have emotional distress. So by saying he's heavy about everything but his love could mean that theres a supportive love interest or that in the way he loves those around him he finds relief.

Being with everyone but yet not, is a simple but beautiful lyric. He's being disassociative about his interactions with others. You can surround yourself with people, try to distract yourself but those feelings of anxiety and uncertainty remain. Sort of spacing out when around people.

This song speaks exactly of two things. A love and an addiction, a love so passionate that he does not forget (his soul mate), and an addiction that suffers consumes it: the story is summed up that he or he lost his great love for his addiction. And wants to find that great love that he or he has lost.

How come theres like no comments on any bush songs? That pisses me off...Bush is and was a great band. They may have lost a little bit of their goodness on their last cd, but their first two cd's were amazing and this song is amazing also. And i'm not sure exactly what it's about but oh well i still love it!

i think that this song does have to do with love, but i also think that it invloes drugs. Im sure that im way off, but everytime i listen to it, i can't help but think it. "i slip some boil away", "hey you said that you would love to try some", i don't know, thats just waht i think. and plus, people need to make more comments about them, they have hardly any and the are the best fuckin band

I totally agree with babyelf. To me this song is about a man that is looking for his love because she's the only person that has sense to him.