I think most of you guys are missing the point. This song is absolutely beautiful an done of the most sorrowful songs I have ever heard.
Yes, she is an Aquarius and is describing those traits, but more importantly she is expressing an incredibly strong sense of helplessness. In my opinion, she is most certainly talking to God/ a higher being, as someone before me mentioned. She is asking for God's help, and and she feels he isn't doing anything to help her. She has terrible luck in life and everything she does, she does wrong. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't get ahead. Life has dealt her a bad hand, in a sense... water which she cannot hold.
At first, she is actually "clenching water in her fists", so she has the water, but then it "slips slips right through my fingers." Later on, she tells God, "you've seen me lose all the water from my hands" and pretty much is asking why he has done nothing to help her. Everything in her life has gone wrong, and he has done nothing to interfere. He has just sat back and watched.
She references being as Aquarius, ( which is pure genius) "born of a sign that carries water, but in a month that brings just ice" she is saying she was doomed (in life) from the very start. She feels like she never had a chance to do right.
Just my two sense. One of the best songs ever written, both lyrically and musically... for lack of a better word.
I think most of you guys are missing the point. This song is absolutely beautiful an done of the most sorrowful songs I have ever heard.
Yes, she is an Aquarius and is describing those traits, but more importantly she is expressing an incredibly strong sense of helplessness. In my opinion, she is most certainly talking to God/ a higher being, as someone before me mentioned. She is asking for God's help, and and she feels he isn't doing anything to help her. She has terrible luck in life and everything she does, she does wrong. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't get ahead. Life has dealt her a bad hand, in a sense... water which she cannot hold.
At first, she is actually "clenching water in her fists", so she has the water, but then it "slips slips right through my fingers." Later on, she tells God, "you've seen me lose all the water from my hands" and pretty much is asking why he has done nothing to help her. Everything in her life has gone wrong, and he has done nothing to interfere. He has just sat back and watched.
She references being as Aquarius, ( which is pure genius) "born of a sign that carries water, but in a month that brings just ice" she is saying she was doomed (in life) from the very start. She feels like she never had a chance to do right.
Just my two sense. One of the best songs ever written, both lyrically and musically... for lack of a better word.