There are so many songs out there going on about the wonderfulness of being in love but so few that talk really honestly about the intense and often quite disturbing and unpleasant sensations that, that out of control feeling, can have on you. I think this is the only "love song" that has every really spoken to me and told it how it really feels. Tim's honesty and insightfulness, on so many topics, just continually blows me away.
BTW, this song features in a movie "Two Fists and One Heart" and somebody's put the scene of Tim playing this in a bar up on YouTube.
I think this is a break up song for star-crossed lovers. It's what Romeo should've sung to Juliet to avoid all that death. I think it's about sitting at the bottom of the ocean and seeing a possible new love up on the surface, who challenges the direction that this guy has taken in his life and, as much as it hurts him to refuse this love, it hurts him more to leave the bottom of the ocean, where he's heavily invested himself. "Your love is a map that leads to nowhere", he's weighing up the pros and cons of...
I think this is a break up song for star-crossed lovers. It's what Romeo should've sung to Juliet to avoid all that death. I think it's about sitting at the bottom of the ocean and seeing a possible new love up on the surface, who challenges the direction that this guy has taken in his life and, as much as it hurts him to refuse this love, it hurts him more to leave the bottom of the ocean, where he's heavily invested himself. "Your love is a map that leads to nowhere", he's weighing up the pros and cons of being with this new person, and decides there couldn't be a future in the relationship.
It's a really painful decision to make, it's "like trying not to cough". That's brutal! But he won't let go of everything he values that is weighing him down (his work, his family's high hopes, his commitments) just to be with this new person. It's too late to start anything.
That's how I read the lyrics. Tho my interpretation probably says more about my personal life than anything else!
There are so many songs out there going on about the wonderfulness of being in love but so few that talk really honestly about the intense and often quite disturbing and unpleasant sensations that, that out of control feeling, can have on you. I think this is the only "love song" that has every really spoken to me and told it how it really feels. Tim's honesty and insightfulness, on so many topics, just continually blows me away.
BTW, this song features in a movie "Two Fists and One Heart" and somebody's put the scene of Tim playing this in a bar up on YouTube.
I think this is a break up song for star-crossed lovers. It's what Romeo should've sung to Juliet to avoid all that death. I think it's about sitting at the bottom of the ocean and seeing a possible new love up on the surface, who challenges the direction that this guy has taken in his life and, as much as it hurts him to refuse this love, it hurts him more to leave the bottom of the ocean, where he's heavily invested himself. "Your love is a map that leads to nowhere", he's weighing up the pros and cons of...
I think this is a break up song for star-crossed lovers. It's what Romeo should've sung to Juliet to avoid all that death. I think it's about sitting at the bottom of the ocean and seeing a possible new love up on the surface, who challenges the direction that this guy has taken in his life and, as much as it hurts him to refuse this love, it hurts him more to leave the bottom of the ocean, where he's heavily invested himself. "Your love is a map that leads to nowhere", he's weighing up the pros and cons of being with this new person, and decides there couldn't be a future in the relationship.
It's a really painful decision to make, it's "like trying not to cough". That's brutal! But he won't let go of everything he values that is weighing him down (his work, his family's high hopes, his commitments) just to be with this new person. It's too late to start anything.
That's how I read the lyrics. Tho my interpretation probably says more about my personal life than anything else!