weird, last third of the song painted the most vivid picture for me. the line "I could see you, but I couldn't hear you" always suggested to me like it's almost as if our kid the protagonist has died and his spirit or ghost is still connected to this world somehow with unfinished business of some sort, presumably with his childhood love most likely. and the bit about how warm the water felt would be so much more poignant from the POV of a ghost, but anyway that's just the image I always get in my head listening to the ending, which IMO is one of the best outros SW has ever written.
@headphonedust I agree about the imagery, but when I 'feel' those words, I get the sense that her 'death' is one as the result of him not being able to understand and reciprocate love for her in a way he wished he could now. "I can see you." (in memory) - 'but I couldn't hear you' (Communication fail). Gavin laughed when I asked about the meaning to something once in Seattle. 'It's up to you', he said.
@headphonedust I agree about the imagery, but when I 'feel' those words, I get the sense that her 'death' is one as the result of him not being able to understand and reciprocate love for her in a way he wished he could now. "I can see you." (in memory) - 'but I couldn't hear you' (Communication fail). Gavin laughed when I asked about the meaning to something once in Seattle. 'It's up to you', he said.
weird, last third of the song painted the most vivid picture for me. the line "I could see you, but I couldn't hear you" always suggested to me like it's almost as if our kid the protagonist has died and his spirit or ghost is still connected to this world somehow with unfinished business of some sort, presumably with his childhood love most likely. and the bit about how warm the water felt would be so much more poignant from the POV of a ghost, but anyway that's just the image I always get in my head listening to the ending, which IMO is one of the best outros SW has ever written.
@headphonedust I agree about the imagery, but when I 'feel' those words, I get the sense that her 'death' is one as the result of him not being able to understand and reciprocate love for her in a way he wished he could now. "I can see you." (in memory) - 'but I couldn't hear you' (Communication fail). Gavin laughed when I asked about the meaning to something once in Seattle. 'It's up to you', he said.
@headphonedust I agree about the imagery, but when I 'feel' those words, I get the sense that her 'death' is one as the result of him not being able to understand and reciprocate love for her in a way he wished he could now. "I can see you." (in memory) - 'but I couldn't hear you' (Communication fail). Gavin laughed when I asked about the meaning to something once in Seattle. 'It's up to you', he said.