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Speed River at my feet running low and flat
I'm sitting here burning daylight,
thinking about the past
and that distance out there
where the earth meets the sky
The slightest move and this river mud
pulls me further down
John's at my side, but he's sitting on firmer ground
John says I look at the moon and the stars
these days more often than I look into his eyes
and I can't disagree so I don't say nothing
I just stare on past his face at Venus rising,
like a shining speck of hope hanging over the horizon
With each passing year that I sit here
that horizon seems to inch just that much nearer
and all that appears on it seems as clear as spit
But if there's on thing in my life
that these years have taught
it's that you can always see it coming
but you can never stop it
Speed River at my feet running low and flat
I'm sitting here burning daylight,
thinking about the past
and that distance out there
where the earth meets the sky
The slightest move and this river mud
pulls me further down
John's at my side,
but he's not noticing that I'm drowning
The slightest move and this river mud
pulls me further down
John's at my side,
but he's not noticing that I'm drowning
I'm sitting here burning daylight,
thinking about the past
and that distance out there
where the earth meets the sky
The slightest move and this river mud
pulls me further down
John's at my side, but he's sitting on firmer ground
these days more often than I look into his eyes
and I can't disagree so I don't say nothing
I just stare on past his face at Venus rising,
like a shining speck of hope hanging over the horizon
that horizon seems to inch just that much nearer
and all that appears on it seems as clear as spit
But if there's on thing in my life
that these years have taught
it's that you can always see it coming
but you can never stop it
I'm sitting here burning daylight,
thinking about the past
and that distance out there
where the earth meets the sky
The slightest move and this river mud
pulls me further down
John's at my side,
but he's not noticing that I'm drowning
The slightest move and this river mud
pulls me further down
John's at my side,
but he's not noticing that I'm drowning
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How someone can fell so alone, lost and the one beside them hasn't a clue.
Sly
@SLYcrafts Yes, exactly. Deep depression is, in part, losing so much contact with even your most loved one that your suicide's impact on that person doesn't even occur to you... it's so removed from the need, the drive to resolve your life, by taking it.
@SLYcrafts Yes, exactly. Deep depression is, in part, losing so much contact with even your most loved one that your suicide's impact on that person doesn't even occur to you... it's so removed from the need, the drive to resolve your life, by taking it.
This song is about depression, real, drowning depression.
Yes, I've always heard this song as a tale of hidden depression... hidden from John, who knows about her plight and is vigilant, but the deeply depressed can hide it so deep that even the vigilant can't see it.
Yes, I've always heard this song as a tale of hidden depression... hidden from John, who knows about her plight and is vigilant, but the deeply depressed can hide it so deep that even the vigilant can't see it.
It's possible that after the events described in this song, Bea kills herself, leaving John grief-stricken and wondering why he didn't see it coming. He might never make peace with this.
It's possible that after the events described in this song, Bea kills herself, leaving John grief-stricken and wondering why he didn't see it coming. He might never make peace with this.
I think it is about drowning in a relationship. Feeling trapped and knowing that eventually it will end- and perhaps one person being in love and the other note.