The thing with the bath, I think could mean two different things. Many people use the bathtub/shower as a place to sometimes just lay there/stand there...sure you're cleaning yourself off..but you're also reflecting, over all the stress in your life, everything that eats at you, everything that weakens you, etc. The dirt running down the plughole could be metaphoric, like cleansing yourself from this pain/stress. However I could also see this as being a place where a body was found, since the song right before it on the album was about a girl who was abusing pills.
The second half of this song, perhaps he pissed his jeans because he found her in this state, the same way he has many times before, maybe she's just passed out again, or maybe this time she's really dead. This happens often, he's fallen to his knees in fear and worry like he did the first time, the last time (that's what makes me think she's dead) and all the times in between.
The thing with "I can't believe I chose mountains every time you chose the sea"
-Generally, I think we like to think of the sea as calm, open, breezy -- easy.
-Mountains, you have to climb, you have to survive, you can fall and die, etc.
I thought this sort of meant, "I can't believe I had the will to stay here, struggling through this with you, when you always tried to take the easy way out" He chose this hard life because he loves her, while she kept trying to chose the easy way out of her misery.
Or if you look at it from The Sea Is a Good Place, mountains are facing yr problems, but all she wants to do is be dragged away to another seashore, and not face them.
Or if you look at it from The Sea Is a Good Place, mountains are facing yr problems, but all she wants to do is be dragged away to another seashore, and not face them.
The thing with the bath, I think could mean two different things. Many people use the bathtub/shower as a place to sometimes just lay there/stand there...sure you're cleaning yourself off..but you're also reflecting, over all the stress in your life, everything that eats at you, everything that weakens you, etc. The dirt running down the plughole could be metaphoric, like cleansing yourself from this pain/stress. However I could also see this as being a place where a body was found, since the song right before it on the album was about a girl who was abusing pills.
The second half of this song, perhaps he pissed his jeans because he found her in this state, the same way he has many times before, maybe she's just passed out again, or maybe this time she's really dead. This happens often, he's fallen to his knees in fear and worry like he did the first time, the last time (that's what makes me think she's dead) and all the times in between.
The thing with "I can't believe I chose mountains every time you chose the sea" -Generally, I think we like to think of the sea as calm, open, breezy -- easy. -Mountains, you have to climb, you have to survive, you can fall and die, etc. I thought this sort of meant, "I can't believe I had the will to stay here, struggling through this with you, when you always tried to take the easy way out" He chose this hard life because he loves her, while she kept trying to chose the easy way out of her misery.
But why would he have 'liked there to have been' more times he found her like that?
But why would he have 'liked there to have been' more times he found her like that?
Also, mountains - fixed, sea - constantly shifting?
Also, mountains - fixed, sea - constantly shifting?
He wants a fixed relationship, but she doesn't.
He wants a fixed relationship, but she doesn't.
Or if you look at it from The Sea Is a Good Place, mountains are facing yr problems, but all she wants to do is be dragged away to another seashore, and not face them.
Or if you look at it from The Sea Is a Good Place, mountains are facing yr problems, but all she wants to do is be dragged away to another seashore, and not face them.