I believe this song is still along the lines of the war theme this album is about.
The first thing that came to my mind is a picture of couple just on a swing during a sunny day. They're both just savoring up their time together it seems because the man is about to leave for war, whether by draft or by volunteering to go as a soldier, the song doesn't really say but the lack of this indication makes it all the more romantic.
The next stanza keeps on with how everyone is about keeping things the way they are. People want to fight for what they have.
"Cold, cold water bring me 'round" brings to mind how the man is sailing away and but he is wanting to go back. "[He's] feet won't touch the ground" feels like he's kind of losing touch. He continues his musings and feels like that day is such a perfect day but in a homesick kind of feeling. In his mind, he still wants to be on that swing, soaking up sun with his love.
The next stanza is still about the man's musings. "Morning" to me sounds like the time when he's to come back, and hoping that nothing has changed: that him leaving to fight has preserved what he had on that swing. He continues to look around at him at the soldiers who "move all the time inside a perfectly straight line," but he really cannot help but want to "curve away." Maybe, while he looks on at the line of soldiers, the sun is bright and again its a perfect day, like those days he spent on that swing.
The last stanza is amazing. It leaves you hanging because it doesn't say that the man returns. It does however bring us to the conclusion of his thoughts. He finally realizes that this "perfect day" doesn't really have anything to do with the swing or anything around him, but it's all centered around his love. He remembers the swing and notices how perfect the weather can be, but what it all comes down to is that everything is naught "without [her]." He's reason to fight is her. Its almost implying that he doesn't care for any patriotic or political reason as to why he's fighting, its all a waste of time without her. He doesn't mind that he's missing out on blue skies or getting grey skies, its all worth it with her.
I really enjoyed how the song put so much emphasis on the "perfect day" and at the end, it really had nothing to do with the weather.
I believe this song is still along the lines of the war theme this album is about.
The first thing that came to my mind is a picture of couple just on a swing during a sunny day. They're both just savoring up their time together it seems because the man is about to leave for war, whether by draft or by volunteering to go as a soldier, the song doesn't really say but the lack of this indication makes it all the more romantic.
The next stanza keeps on with how everyone is about keeping things the way they are. People want to fight for what they have.
"Cold, cold water bring me 'round" brings to mind how the man is sailing away and but he is wanting to go back. "[He's] feet won't touch the ground" feels like he's kind of losing touch. He continues his musings and feels like that day is such a perfect day but in a homesick kind of feeling. In his mind, he still wants to be on that swing, soaking up sun with his love.
The next stanza is still about the man's musings. "Morning" to me sounds like the time when he's to come back, and hoping that nothing has changed: that him leaving to fight has preserved what he had on that swing. He continues to look around at him at the soldiers who "move all the time inside a perfectly straight line," but he really cannot help but want to "curve away." Maybe, while he looks on at the line of soldiers, the sun is bright and again its a perfect day, like those days he spent on that swing.
The last stanza is amazing. It leaves you hanging because it doesn't say that the man returns. It does however bring us to the conclusion of his thoughts. He finally realizes that this "perfect day" doesn't really have anything to do with the swing or anything around him, but it's all centered around his love. He remembers the swing and notices how perfect the weather can be, but what it all comes down to is that everything is naught "without [her]." He's reason to fight is her. Its almost implying that he doesn't care for any patriotic or political reason as to why he's fighting, its all a waste of time without her. He doesn't mind that he's missing out on blue skies or getting grey skies, its all worth it with her.
I really enjoyed how the song put so much emphasis on the "perfect day" and at the end, it really had nothing to do with the weather.