I have a bit of a different take on this song... I've been single my whole life (somewhere in the vicinity of two decades), and about a month ago I met a boy who has become my first boyfriend... and I used this song to describe to him how odd I felt. I was "happy in my harbour" when he came in and my world's gone upside down and I'm definitely "floating on an ocean and confused." I've always been so independent, even as a baby. I had my own world, my own harbour, and I don't know what to make of things now, and he seems confident things are fine and he's had several girlfriends before me, and I'm out here with no understanding of things. Maybe soon I'll find a sense of equipoise, and I'll "know where I want to be" with him. But for now, I'll have to content myself with this silent sea of confusion. It's not like it's all that bad - just such a flood of uncertainty. Anyway.. that's how I take this song.
I have a bit of a different take on this song... I've been single my whole life (somewhere in the vicinity of two decades), and about a month ago I met a boy who has become my first boyfriend... and I used this song to describe to him how odd I felt. I was "happy in my harbour" when he came in and my world's gone upside down and I'm definitely "floating on an ocean and confused." I've always been so independent, even as a baby. I had my own world, my own harbour, and I don't know what to make of things now, and he seems confident things are fine and he's had several girlfriends before me, and I'm out here with no understanding of things. Maybe soon I'll find a sense of equipoise, and I'll "know where I want to be" with him. But for now, I'll have to content myself with this silent sea of confusion. It's not like it's all that bad - just such a flood of uncertainty. Anyway.. that's how I take this song.