I might be totally wrong on this one, but this is what I think. I have a very vague understanding of the song.
I think the song is about a mistake.
The first stanza means... ??? I'm not sure what the sea would have to do with his mistake, but the mistake may be personified here ("Think somebody's following me"--the mistake is haunting him).
The second stanza may mean that it feels safer to pretend it didn't happen ("trying to play it dead...feel safe that way") than to admit that it did ("displaying"=admitting that it DID indeed happen) and deal with it.
The chorus means that it was a mistake to throw away the positive things in his "golden life" (It was a big slip for me to roll up my golden life.) The next sentence stresses his regret (SHOULD HAVE). As for the reference to his energy, there's probably a little more to it than I can understand.
Now for the stanza beginning with "I'm awake today." Thw window may offer a distraction from the mistake the speaker made (looking out at something else). Hence the "washing my dreams away" bit.
The stanza beginning "Been through shaky times" is obvious. It used to be awful for the speaker and his audience, but from here on out, the narrator vows that it will all be ok.
The end of the song is:
????
Inside my heart
????
Inside my heart
which MAY be a key part of the song.
Again, this might not be what "Julian Plenti" meant exactly. :)
I might be totally wrong on this one, but this is what I think. I have a very vague understanding of the song. I think the song is about a mistake.
The first stanza means... ??? I'm not sure what the sea would have to do with his mistake, but the mistake may be personified here ("Think somebody's following me"--the mistake is haunting him).
The second stanza may mean that it feels safer to pretend it didn't happen ("trying to play it dead...feel safe that way") than to admit that it did ("displaying"=admitting that it DID indeed happen) and deal with it.
The chorus means that it was a mistake to throw away the positive things in his "golden life" (It was a big slip for me to roll up my golden life.) The next sentence stresses his regret (SHOULD HAVE). As for the reference to his energy, there's probably a little more to it than I can understand.
Now for the stanza beginning with "I'm awake today." Thw window may offer a distraction from the mistake the speaker made (looking out at something else). Hence the "washing my dreams away" bit.
The stanza beginning "Been through shaky times" is obvious. It used to be awful for the speaker and his audience, but from here on out, the narrator vows that it will all be ok.
The end of the song is:
???? Inside my heart ???? Inside my heart
which MAY be a key part of the song.
Again, this might not be what "Julian Plenti" meant exactly. :)