I think this song is written from the eyes of two different people. The first line is himself. He has dronwed and he is looking up and he sees an image of possibly a firefighter ("Floating overhead, undoing his helmet"), the image of the firefighter is sillhouetted and spinning due to the ripples of the water (ever look up from under water?). The next stanza is from the rescuers point of view. When he says "i saw two of me there", it is simply his (the rescuer) reflection in each eye of the man he is saving. I'm not exactly sure what is ment by the lines "There's an ugly buzz that hovers just above the quiet. I found a way to make it silent", but it would be my best guess that he is refering to the tone of a heart monitor when a person flat lines, and when he makes it silent, he has brought the person back. The last two stanzas are from the view point of the man who drowned, he is coming back to life "coming up for air".
I think this song is written from the eyes of two different people. The first line is himself. He has dronwed and he is looking up and he sees an image of possibly a firefighter ("Floating overhead, undoing his helmet"), the image of the firefighter is sillhouetted and spinning due to the ripples of the water (ever look up from under water?). The next stanza is from the rescuers point of view. When he says "i saw two of me there", it is simply his (the rescuer) reflection in each eye of the man he is saving. I'm not exactly sure what is ment by the lines "There's an ugly buzz that hovers just above the quiet. I found a way to make it silent", but it would be my best guess that he is refering to the tone of a heart monitor when a person flat lines, and when he makes it silent, he has brought the person back. The last two stanzas are from the view point of the man who drowned, he is coming back to life "coming up for air".