I take a more literal view of the song. I think Kathleen is an old girlfriend or something, and she's dead, and he's thinking about walking out into the ocean to kill himself so he can see her in the hereafter. Thinking of the last verse especially in that way, it makes perfect sense.
I take a more literal view of the song. I think Kathleen is an old girlfriend or something, and she's dead, and he's thinking about walking out into the ocean to kill himself so he can see her in the hereafter. Thinking of the last verse especially in that way, it makes perfect sense.