well its 4am and i can't sleep and i've got this song in the brain.. so here is how i've interpreted it..
He wants to be so much more for this girl than he is, he wants to be the one person who can provide her with comfort and security, he wants to be loved and needed but instead he is like background noise - he may be there with her now while she is sleeping but she is not dependent on him, she could get by without him.
I see the ship in the bottle as representing the metaphorical shell he's built around himself.. the real him is this delicate easily damaged complicated ship, made up of imperfections, but he's created this outter stronger 'bottle' in hope that she will love him and feel secure and safe with him for it.
But she is searching for this perfect love which is impossible, digging into his past, thinking and analysing things too much and theres this fear that she will find these imperfections and find out how he has built this 'bottle' and as she is looking for this impossible/intangible love she will leave him and they will never grow old together..
But on the otherhand if she ever 'knew who he was' and discovered this vulnerable, fragile yet beautiful ship within the wine bottle, maybe she could learn that she mustn't adore what is impossible, or love what is intangible, and that she actually loves this person for who he is, for his imperfections, and recognises that he has built this ship in the bottle to try and protect her
and that if she can understand this and love him in spite of this, their love will never grow old.
Hmm. whether any of that was comprehensible i don't know,
but that's my take on it.
well its 4am and i can't sleep and i've got this song in the brain.. so here is how i've interpreted it..
He wants to be so much more for this girl than he is, he wants to be the one person who can provide her with comfort and security, he wants to be loved and needed but instead he is like background noise - he may be there with her now while she is sleeping but she is not dependent on him, she could get by without him.
I see the ship in the bottle as representing the metaphorical shell he's built around himself.. the real him is this delicate easily damaged complicated ship, made up of imperfections, but he's created this outter stronger 'bottle' in hope that she will love him and feel secure and safe with him for it. But she is searching for this perfect love which is impossible, digging into his past, thinking and analysing things too much and theres this fear that she will find these imperfections and find out how he has built this 'bottle' and as she is looking for this impossible/intangible love she will leave him and they will never grow old together.. But on the otherhand if she ever 'knew who he was' and discovered this vulnerable, fragile yet beautiful ship within the wine bottle, maybe she could learn that she mustn't adore what is impossible, or love what is intangible, and that she actually loves this person for who he is, for his imperfections, and recognises that he has built this ship in the bottle to try and protect her and that if she can understand this and love him in spite of this, their love will never grow old.
Hmm. whether any of that was comprehensible i don't know, but that's my take on it.