I think its about a miscarrage and how that in turn broke down a relationship.
I saw a life and I called it mine
I saw it drawn so sweet and fine
And I had begun to fill in all the lines
Right down to what we'd name her
She had seen the baby through a scanned image and found out that it was a girl and had started filling in the lines in her baby book, right down to what she'd name her. You can here the sweet and gentleness in Joanna's voice as she thinks about the life that was once there.
In the next verse however you can hear the despair and sadness as she recall the death of this child, particularly in the line "the creek is lying flat and still" The baby is still inside her and it has died. The next line follows... "it is water though it's frozen" as in; it was a life or a person even though had died and stopped moving. She uses winter as a metaphor for death. In the winter everything looks as though it i dead, cold and hard to deal with.
@eggsforlegs No. She sees that the end of the relationship is clear and inevitable. She had already projected their life together, planned it in her head, right down to thinking of a name for their baby. But now she realises they must part as she knows his nature won't change (water is still water even when frozen).
@eggsforlegs No. She sees that the end of the relationship is clear and inevitable. She had already projected their life together, planned it in her head, right down to thinking of a name for their baby. But now she realises they must part as she knows his nature won't change (water is still water even when frozen).
Such a beautiful and sad song.
I think its about a miscarrage and how that in turn broke down a relationship.
I saw a life and I called it mine I saw it drawn so sweet and fine And I had begun to fill in all the lines Right down to what we'd name her
She had seen the baby through a scanned image and found out that it was a girl and had started filling in the lines in her baby book, right down to what she'd name her. You can here the sweet and gentleness in Joanna's voice as she thinks about the life that was once there.
In the next verse however you can hear the despair and sadness as she recall the death of this child, particularly in the line "the creek is lying flat and still" The baby is still inside her and it has died. The next line follows... "it is water though it's frozen" as in; it was a life or a person even though had died and stopped moving. She uses winter as a metaphor for death. In the winter everything looks as though it i dead, cold and hard to deal with.
@eggsforlegs No. She sees that the end of the relationship is clear and inevitable. She had already projected their life together, planned it in her head, right down to thinking of a name for their baby. But now she realises they must part as she knows his nature won't change (water is still water even when frozen).
@eggsforlegs No. She sees that the end of the relationship is clear and inevitable. She had already projected their life together, planned it in her head, right down to thinking of a name for their baby. But now she realises they must part as she knows his nature won't change (water is still water even when frozen).