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My name spells joy
I can't remember darkness
Except a dream you saved my life
Do you wonder what you saw
Floating softly at the Nile's edge?
Wandering eyes
Commitments never can last
It feels so cold to know our name
I've never known you and I never will
What difference does indifference take?
Do you regret what you saw
Floating softly at the Nile's edge?
Alone
Do you regre,
Regret what you did
Running softly,
Softly from the Nile's edge?
Alone
Alone
I can't remember darkness
Except a dream you saved my life
Do you wonder what you saw
Floating softly at the Nile's edge?
Wandering eyes
Commitments never can last
It feels so cold to know our name
I've never known you and I never will
What difference does indifference take?
Do you regret what you saw
Floating softly at the Nile's edge?
Alone
Do you regre,
Regret what you did
Running softly,
Softly from the Nile's edge?
Alone
Alone
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The song has sort of a biblical reference about it.
The Prophet Moses was placed in a basket on the river of the Nile by his parents when the Egyptians decided to kill every Jewish male child, because they feared an uprising of the Jewish slaves. Because his parents obviously didn't want him to suffer that fate, they placed him in a basket and drifted him down the river, in hopes he would be spared, he was found and eventually taken in by the Pharoah's wife or daughter, which one escapes me now.
The "Wandering eyes commitments never can last" line alludes to his father perhaps leaving him and his mother for another woman. And to Jon it feels so cold to know his fathers name, because he'll never know him. And probably never will
It's asking his father if he feels regret or sorrow for what he did in abandnoning him. Much like Moses parents as they watched him float down the river in a basket
Beautiful song though, my favorite off of the album. The chanting on top of the amazing but simple guitar is almost haunting, and when Jon's voice comes in and displays such calm, and then wildly swings into anger and distrust I get chills.
I'd like to hear someone's thoughts on this song's lyrics. What do you suppose it's about?
Sounds like he is becoming disillusioned, to what I have no idea. Love the song though. Jon, how do you do it?
Wow, PeteSzebin you really nailed it I think. I never thougth of it like that but again, what's great about this song is that it can be taken several different ways for each person.
I don't know anything about the artist, but to me i think peteSzebin is basically right. I just wanted throw in the possiblity of the artist being openly adopted. that line, "Except a dream you saved my life" seems to suggest the person who left him behind did him a favor. I myself am adopted, it kind of captures how I feels sometimes. I feel grateful and yet, there I times I wonder if my birthparents are proud of me, or care. Also, Moses was adopted.
The song is about John's father, but he wouldn't comment it any further. He wanted fans and listeners to interpret it in their own world.
Personally it's about you learning the truth about things, and it pains you so much that you'd wish you never saw it.
this song is about hoplessness. it's about discovering some truth about yourself that you don't like and trying to forget what you know.
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