This is one of my favorites from the album... I agree with the war interpretations, but I never saw it that way at first.
"...we feel alone in a strange blue ocean and we're all scared as death to die" makes me think of soldiers in boats preparing to storm the beaches during WWII and being afraid of not surviving the battle.
But also in terms of thinking about the song in terms of how it relates to the word "LOVE," the basis of the entire album, it sounds to me like something caused a separation between two people and he senses "...we will be alright, I wish for peace with electric silence, to keep our hearts beating on our minds, and we will see that we're all connected when we awake to the tunnel's light"
The two "Suit up..." sections... The first one, I see as the guys getting ready to go out looking to find the right girl to be with forever "on vacation with endless stay and reservation" and the girls are sad and "dying inside" from being hurt in the past and are just waiting to truly be loved.
The second "Dance with your best friend" part, to me, is just telling the girls to stop going for what they can't have and try and giving things a go with the guys that obviously care about the them. To pick the guy that they can accept for who they are without fighting and trying to change them... "show yourselves and take what you ask for, let it go, no fights on the dance floor"
And the "night gets better", final refrain is just like an anthemic declaration that it was all worth the wait in finding "LOVE"
This is one of my favorites from the album... I agree with the war interpretations, but I never saw it that way at first.
"...we feel alone in a strange blue ocean and we're all scared as death to die" makes me think of soldiers in boats preparing to storm the beaches during WWII and being afraid of not surviving the battle.
But also in terms of thinking about the song in terms of how it relates to the word "LOVE," the basis of the entire album, it sounds to me like something caused a separation between two people and he senses "...we will be alright, I wish for peace with electric silence, to keep our hearts beating on our minds, and we will see that we're all connected when we awake to the tunnel's light"
The two "Suit up..." sections... The first one, I see as the guys getting ready to go out looking to find the right girl to be with forever "on vacation with endless stay and reservation" and the girls are sad and "dying inside" from being hurt in the past and are just waiting to truly be loved.
The second "Dance with your best friend" part, to me, is just telling the girls to stop going for what they can't have and try and giving things a go with the guys that obviously care about the them. To pick the guy that they can accept for who they are without fighting and trying to change them... "show yourselves and take what you ask for, let it go, no fights on the dance floor"
And the "night gets better", final refrain is just like an anthemic declaration that it was all worth the wait in finding "LOVE"
Just my take...