Am I the only one who sees a connection between the first narrator and Eli the Barrow Boy?
"Wished for gold so I could buy you a palace" and "Would I could afford to buy my love a fine robe."
Both of them have a dead lover:
"You were still alive" and "but she is dead and gone and lying in a pine grove"
Both Eli and the first narrator drown too.
I think the song has two narrators. The first drowns. The second mourns the first. The second narrator comes in after the guitar solo.
"I've got nothing to hold on to" has two meanings- literally, he's out in the ocean and exhausted and doesn't have anything to keep him afloat. It could also be interpreted as he has lost everything in his life, so what's the point of living.
Or I could be reading too much in to things. Either way, Meloy is a brilliant lyricist.
Am I the only one who sees a connection between the first narrator and Eli the Barrow Boy?
"Wished for gold so I could buy you a palace" and "Would I could afford to buy my love a fine robe." Both of them have a dead lover:
"You were still alive" and "but she is dead and gone and lying in a pine grove" Both Eli and the first narrator drown too.
I think the song has two narrators. The first drowns. The second mourns the first. The second narrator comes in after the guitar solo.
"I've got nothing to hold on to" has two meanings- literally, he's out in the ocean and exhausted and doesn't have anything to keep him afloat. It could also be interpreted as he has lost everything in his life, so what's the point of living.
Or I could be reading too much in to things. Either way, Meloy is a brilliant lyricist.