I think it's about young love. Whether it be male or female (I prefer it more as the female singing this), they begin dating. The sea wall, I think, is just a metaphor for how it is in the beginning. "Hold my hand so you don't fall".
They begin to get serious and she lets him take her home. The lines, "We'll touch 'til it feels right
You won't say "love" but I might" simply tell that they have sex for the first time and she already has a feeling that he doesn't love her as much as she does, hence why she says she might say it, but he won't.
The end, really, is the break up. He has her for sex and then he leaves her. There's still one heart, both of theirs but two different thoughts. One, of the innocent who was heart broken, and the other who hurt them.
I also think the meadow is again, just a nice metaphor to end the song. It started with the sea, and ended in a meadow. "I hope I die in the arms of a child
In a meadow where the thistles grow wild" I don't think it's any reference to some sort of religion or anything. I think it's kind of, a more beautiful way to say, "I just wish I could die". Obviously it's got to hurt.
I think it's about young love. Whether it be male or female (I prefer it more as the female singing this), they begin dating. The sea wall, I think, is just a metaphor for how it is in the beginning. "Hold my hand so you don't fall".
They begin to get serious and she lets him take her home. The lines, "We'll touch 'til it feels right You won't say "love" but I might" simply tell that they have sex for the first time and she already has a feeling that he doesn't love her as much as she does, hence why she says she might say it, but he won't.
The end, really, is the break up. He has her for sex and then he leaves her. There's still one heart, both of theirs but two different thoughts. One, of the innocent who was heart broken, and the other who hurt them.
I also think the meadow is again, just a nice metaphor to end the song. It started with the sea, and ended in a meadow. "I hope I die in the arms of a child In a meadow where the thistles grow wild" I don't think it's any reference to some sort of religion or anything. I think it's kind of, a more beautiful way to say, "I just wish I could die". Obviously it's got to hurt.