Fisherman's Blues Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Quonset 

Cover art for Fisherman's Blues lyrics by Waterboys, The

You have got to be kidding me. Where are the drug references? Maybe I'm not cool enough to notice them.

This song is about the distance between our ideal lives and our lives in reality. Its about wishing to be freed from our constricted, problem-filled lives and to get in tough with something transcendent.

Drugs could be one of the problems to escape from, but they're hardly implied by the song.

Beautiful song, BTW.

'with light in my head and you in my arms' - heroin reference in first two verses

'with light in my head and you in my arms' - love reference in last verse

I'd initially thought the drug angle not there too, but it's not implausible.