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On A Beach Lyrics
I , I have swum those raging seas
Washed up by an ocean who had tired of me
how i survived i will never know
This wrecks got a home and whole lot of hope
Man on a beach sat on a rock
thinkin of you and the love i got
Saw the devils servant sent her home i said
Bring me your master i don't want his dog .
I'm on fire
I'm full of love and new desire
I'm on fire
I'm full of love and new desire x2
I lit a fire blew ma caunch ??? Nobody comes
I built ma boat from Bamboo but it sunk .
I looked at the sky for vapour trails nobody comes .
I wrote your name on a tree along with the days
this has taken me from you
Man on a beach eating my heart
thinkin of you and the love i got
Saw the devils servant sent her home i said
Bring me your master i don't want his dog .
Man on a beach sat on a rock
thinkin of you and the love i got
Saw the devils servant sent her home i said
Bring me your master i don't want his dog . Do this twice
I'm on fire
I'm full of love and new desire
I'm on fire
I'm full of love and new desire x2
I'm not afraid of too die , there we go .
Washed up by an ocean who had tired of me
how i survived i will never know
This wrecks got a home and whole lot of hope
thinkin of you and the love i got
Saw the devils servant sent her home i said
Bring me your master i don't want his dog .
I'm full of love and new desire
I'm on fire
I'm full of love and new desire x2
I built ma boat from Bamboo but it sunk .
I looked at the sky for vapour trails nobody comes .
I wrote your name on a tree along with the days
this has taken me from you
thinkin of you and the love i got
Saw the devils servant sent her home i said
Bring me your master i don't want his dog .
thinkin of you and the love i got
Saw the devils servant sent her home i said
Bring me your master i don't want his dog . Do this twice
I'm full of love and new desire
I'm on fire
I'm full of love and new desire x2
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This guy is getting beat up by love and bad relationships. The sea is symbolic of his love life. He was drowning in is despair, but managed to get himself to land and regroup. He was washed up and beaten, but the only way to win, is to try love again. He is the wreck "...this wrecks got a home [for his heart] and a whole lot of hope."
He is sitting on the rock, evaluating what he lost (his lover) and feeling sorry for himself, but he is also saying I'm not going to get beaten by this; "saw the devils servant, sent her home..." As if to say, if this is all you got, you're not going to keep me down.
No one is answering his call ("blew my conch" [sea shell] to say he is available. Built is boat from bamboo [he is venturing out again in to the 'sea of love' but it he hasn't found someone yet so it sank. He looks at the sky for vapor trails (vapor trails [from an airplane] being a new relationship, but he is still so far away from a new meaningful relationship). But he is full of love, full of new desire, so he is going to try to find love again.
@jduncan449 I love this song to this day, but would say its about him as a loving person thinking about his mistakes with personal demons and what he holds important to him. Richard has always struggled with emotions and drug use. In my ears he opens with his personal struggles (this wrecks got a home) to me that means he is the wreck but he has a home that he wants to go back to. Thinking of the love i have got! not had can only mean your thinking of a future with some one not the pastrelationships you have went through,...
@jduncan449 I love this song to this day, but would say its about him as a loving person thinking about his mistakes with personal demons and what he holds important to him. Richard has always struggled with emotions and drug use. In my ears he opens with his personal struggles (this wrecks got a home) to me that means he is the wreck but he has a home that he wants to go back to. Thinking of the love i have got! not had can only mean your thinking of a future with some one not the pastrelationships you have went through, cause thats HISTORY which he wrote a long time ago.
wow that's a fantastic deconstruction and interpretation of the song! This is my favourite song off the album, it's great to just lye in bed and listen to it :) $amba
this song has some of the best lines ever: "I wrote your name on a tree along with the days this has taken you away from me" and "i built my boat from bamboo, but it suuuu-nnnk." I love how he sings that last one. classic.