I like this song a lot, but what I don't get is the lines of the chorus. They don't seem to be related at all. Every dog has its day means that even the dumbest/ugliest/unluckiest/[fill in bad attribute here] person will at one point get their minute of fame, or moment on top of the world. OK. Then "Like every woman she gets her own way". In the context of this song, that line has to refer to the sea. "She" often refers to ships, but not in the chorus. A ship never gets her own way, it's always the sea that has control. The sea always gets its way. But what does that have to do with "every dog has it's day", other than conveniently rhyming? Then the last line, I assume that "you" means the sea as well, but why would he switch from referring to the sea in third person in the second line, to second person in the last line? Is he in fact talking about two separate things? Or am I just trying to analyze it too much?
I like this song a lot, but what I don't get is the lines of the chorus. They don't seem to be related at all. Every dog has its day means that even the dumbest/ugliest/unluckiest/[fill in bad attribute here] person will at one point get their minute of fame, or moment on top of the world. OK. Then "Like every woman she gets her own way". In the context of this song, that line has to refer to the sea. "She" often refers to ships, but not in the chorus. A ship never gets her own way, it's always the sea that has control. The sea always gets its way. But what does that have to do with "every dog has it's day", other than conveniently rhyming? Then the last line, I assume that "you" means the sea as well, but why would he switch from referring to the sea in third person in the second line, to second person in the last line? Is he in fact talking about two separate things? Or am I just trying to analyze it too much?