"I'll be going now
either way that the wind blows
I'll be back though
Leave a light in the window
When the waves die down
I'll be halfway 'round
and I'll call you
When the sun blocks out
hold the radio up to the phone
I was dreaming I was heading west thirty days faster
Had a fever
woke up in a sweat
bailing out the water
Can't go on
Can't go back
Heard your voice coming through the noise
wrote it in the radio log
Hurt my head, wondering what you said
so I threw it overboard"
This one's easy. He's stepping out of a relationship, asking for a timeout to think things through. He tells her that when the "waves die down" (meaning the emotional turmoil) he'll go back to her.
But at a given moment he dreams he's "heading west" (traveling 'west' is always a theme for hopeful change in Moore's works), meaning in his mind he's already leaving her behind; forgetting her. He can't go on because he's still heartbroken and needs someone to love or care for him, but he can't go back because it's already too late and no longer feels as strong for her as he did.
She then calls him because she misses him and speaks her mind about his wanderlust, after which he writes it down "in the radio log" (probably meaning he wanted to write a song about it). He couldn't make sense about it all, though, so he decides to just let it go.
"I'll be going now either way that the wind blows I'll be back though Leave a light in the window When the waves die down I'll be halfway 'round and I'll call you When the sun blocks out hold the radio up to the phone
I was dreaming I was heading west thirty days faster Had a fever woke up in a sweat bailing out the water
Can't go on Can't go back
Heard your voice coming through the noise wrote it in the radio log Hurt my head, wondering what you said so I threw it overboard"
This one's easy. He's stepping out of a relationship, asking for a timeout to think things through. He tells her that when the "waves die down" (meaning the emotional turmoil) he'll go back to her.
But at a given moment he dreams he's "heading west" (traveling 'west' is always a theme for hopeful change in Moore's works), meaning in his mind he's already leaving her behind; forgetting her. He can't go on because he's still heartbroken and needs someone to love or care for him, but he can't go back because it's already too late and no longer feels as strong for her as he did.
She then calls him because she misses him and speaks her mind about his wanderlust, after which he writes it down "in the radio log" (probably meaning he wanted to write a song about it). He couldn't make sense about it all, though, so he decides to just let it go.