This is easily my favorite song in 9. Just amazing.
In his shows (I've been to a few), Damien does say that this song is about being stuck in a song-writer's block (as mcmahon3 said), but like most of his songs, it is so nuanced and multi-layered you cannot assign it one particular interpretation. It will mean something different to everyone who listens to it. That is part of Damien's genius.
I don't think he is depressed, but just in a deep funk. And he is wondering whether his Muse will be able to help him climb out again. All the things she was to him (open door, sandy shore, bridge in this storm, someone to keep him warm) represent the figurative ways he feels she has helped him break out of this funk -- an open door in this mental "prison" he is trapped in; sandy (and perhaps sunny) shores to which he can swim after being (ship)wrecked; etc. He's in a rut, that's why everything's kinda the same ("nothing is lost, it's just frozen in frost"), even his feelings for her ("I've still got me to be your open door/sandy shore/bridge/warmth"), which to me seems like they looked to each other for inspiration. I don't know anything about Damien's and Lisa's personal relationship but I can imagine them being each other's Muse. Maybe this was written at a time when she was testing other waters (and we know she did eventually) and he was faced with the prospect of losing her. Heck, I'd hate to lose Lisa, and I'm a hetero female.
This is easily my favorite song in 9. Just amazing.
In his shows (I've been to a few), Damien does say that this song is about being stuck in a song-writer's block (as mcmahon3 said), but like most of his songs, it is so nuanced and multi-layered you cannot assign it one particular interpretation. It will mean something different to everyone who listens to it. That is part of Damien's genius.
I don't think he is depressed, but just in a deep funk. And he is wondering whether his Muse will be able to help him climb out again. All the things she was to him (open door, sandy shore, bridge in this storm, someone to keep him warm) represent the figurative ways he feels she has helped him break out of this funk -- an open door in this mental "prison" he is trapped in; sandy (and perhaps sunny) shores to which he can swim after being (ship)wrecked; etc. He's in a rut, that's why everything's kinda the same ("nothing is lost, it's just frozen in frost"), even his feelings for her ("I've still got me to be your open door/sandy shore/bridge/warmth"), which to me seems like they looked to each other for inspiration. I don't know anything about Damien's and Lisa's personal relationship but I can imagine them being each other's Muse. Maybe this was written at a time when she was testing other waters (and we know she did eventually) and he was faced with the prospect of losing her. Heck, I'd hate to lose Lisa, and I'm a hetero female.