These guys are so awesome live I can't believe it! I saw them with Band of Horses and they totally stole the show (in my opinion). Please go see them live!! You won't regret it!
Anyway, I just wrote a paper about The Old Man and the Sea and argued a point about how the sharks keep circling around the boat and this symbolizes a cyclic pattern which the Old Man cannot stop that ends in some sort of self destruction. In the case of the book, the Old Man loses his prize catch to the sharks and no one gets to see his victory!
I think the song is about despair and a self-destructive personality that comes out of that despair. Any artist can relate to this song. It's about that weird moment when you realize that everyone around you is totally indifferent to what you think is important. So what can you do? You just go crazy...the whole thing is very sort of self-destructive no? Like the boat is sinking more and more as the song goes on...
One line that sticks out for me: "Turn the water red like you want it to be" Like all he wants for himself is just to get torn apart by the sharks. And yet the sharks, "Don't feel loss" So even the sharks are indifferent to the killing of him! Interesting...
These guys are so awesome live I can't believe it! I saw them with Band of Horses and they totally stole the show (in my opinion). Please go see them live!! You won't regret it!
Anyway, I just wrote a paper about The Old Man and the Sea and argued a point about how the sharks keep circling around the boat and this symbolizes a cyclic pattern which the Old Man cannot stop that ends in some sort of self destruction. In the case of the book, the Old Man loses his prize catch to the sharks and no one gets to see his victory!
I think the song is about despair and a self-destructive personality that comes out of that despair. Any artist can relate to this song. It's about that weird moment when you realize that everyone around you is totally indifferent to what you think is important. So what can you do? You just go crazy...the whole thing is very sort of self-destructive no? Like the boat is sinking more and more as the song goes on...
One line that sticks out for me: "Turn the water red like you want it to be" Like all he wants for himself is just to get torn apart by the sharks. And yet the sharks, "Don't feel loss" So even the sharks are indifferent to the killing of him! Interesting...