Lyric discussion by HiOnMusic 

Cover art for Hope There's Someone lyrics by Antony and the Johnsons

oohhhhhhhhh. really, what more can be said about how this makes me feel? beyond tears (but i am literally shivering, not from physical cold, as i listen to this). who needs drugs when there's music like this? (hence my username). i can't stop listening to this song. "beautiful" is a pathetically inaccurate word

my parents don't like aatj because they think antony sounds "too queer." personally, i'm a practicing and believing monotheist, but i don't understand how someone damned for his sexuality could have been given such a gift in life; homophobia doesn't make sense, especially when listening to this

i think this is as much about yearning for true love and acceptance--in this life-- as much as fear of death; other than that i don't have much to say about the song's meaning that hasn't already been said here, except about the seal's watershed: someone said it's referring to a leaking seal, but watershed is actually an ecological term referring to wetlands around rivers, etc; here it may mean the middle place referred to earlier, not quite the solid ground of life but not the deep water of eternity either. the seal may be the line between life and death that's supposed to be clear-cut but isn't and instead is somewhere hidden in the watershed. or it might just have a personal meaning to him

aah, rambling comment. oh well. this song is the kind that fills my body, my heart, my soul, and threatens to tear me apart. i had to say something