"Watching You Without Me" - A low point of intense (physical) aloneness. The character has slipped into a semi-unconscious hallucinatory state. But her relationship with herself and her will-to-survive are ‘talking all the time’, telling stories to maintain spirits... formulating abstract theories and hypotheses to deal with the situation…
A ghost story, an out-of-body story, a wandering soul story… This love-song is a story about her ‘talking to’ her loved one to overcome her sense of aloneness… She brings the two of them together, serving her need to comfort herself and her need to comfort (reassure) the other that helps to define that self…
Her extreme situation makes her physically weak but mentally expansive…
In WYwoM, we ‘float’ between several (hypothetical) realities/stories/‘worlds’ - the anxious loved one, the desperate protagonist, the rescue search mission (sound of waves & SOS code)…
The song is a state of unknowing, between this world and the next… Between what should have been and what is, etc.
Hence: ‘But I’m not here…’ = denial (this isn’t happening); acceptance (‘reality’ of drowning/not being); fear (partner’s ‘reality’); sense of change; etc.
"Watching You Without Me" - A low point of intense (physical) aloneness. The character has slipped into a semi-unconscious hallucinatory state. But her relationship with herself and her will-to-survive are ‘talking all the time’, telling stories to maintain spirits... formulating abstract theories and hypotheses to deal with the situation…
"Watching You Without Me" - A low point of intense (physical) aloneness. The character has slipped into a semi-unconscious hallucinatory state. But her relationship with herself and her will-to-survive are ‘talking all the time’, telling stories to maintain spirits... formulating abstract theories and hypotheses to deal with the situation…
"Watching You Without Me" - A low point of intense (physical) aloneness. The character has slipped into a semi-unconscious hallucinatory state. But her relationship with herself and her will-to-survive are ‘talking all the time’, telling stories to maintain spirits... formulating abstract theories and hypotheses to deal with the situation…
A ghost story, an out-of-body story, a wandering soul story… This love-song is a story about her ‘talking to’ her loved one to overcome her sense of aloneness… She brings the two of them together, serving her need to comfort herself and her need to comfort (reassure) the other that helps to define that self… Her extreme situation makes her physically weak but mentally expansive…
In WYwoM, we ‘float’ between several (hypothetical) realities/stories/‘worlds’ - the anxious loved one, the desperate protagonist, the rescue search mission (sound of waves & SOS code)…
The song is a state of unknowing, between this world and the next… Between what should have been and what is, etc. Hence: ‘But I’m not here…’ = denial (this isn’t happening); acceptance (‘reality’ of drowning/not being); fear (partner’s ‘reality’); sense of change; etc.
"Watching You Without Me" - A low point of intense (physical) aloneness. The character has slipped into a semi-unconscious hallucinatory state. But her relationship with herself and her will-to-survive are ‘talking all the time’, telling stories to maintain spirits... formulating abstract theories and hypotheses to deal with the situation…
"Watching You Without Me" - A low point of intense (physical) aloneness. The character has slipped into a semi-unconscious hallucinatory state. But her relationship with herself and her will-to-survive are ‘talking all the time’, telling stories to maintain spirits... formulating abstract theories and hypotheses to deal with the situation…
You're on to something there.
You're on to something there.