This song is an extended metaphor, comparing the break-up of a relationship to the loss of a ship at sea. Although the narrator knows the love in her life is gone ("I knew that ship was empty by the time it hit the rocks") she can't seem to accept its absence entirely ("Though I saw it splinter I keep looking out to sea"). Like the survivor of a disaster, she is doing her best to learn lessons from the love she has lost, but reflects somewhat bitterly on human nature in both seafaring and relationships.
I've also heard this called "The Windows Talk".
This song is an extended metaphor, comparing the break-up of a relationship to the loss of a ship at sea. Although the narrator knows the love in her life is gone ("I knew that ship was empty by the time it hit the rocks") she can't seem to accept its absence entirely ("Though I saw it splinter I keep looking out to sea"). Like the survivor of a disaster, she is doing her best to learn lessons from the love she has lost, but reflects somewhat bitterly on human nature in both seafaring and relationships.