This is the song I associate with my first and only love. When we met I didn't really believe in 'love' and dismissed it as a load of sentimental nonsense. Then when I met him, I know what to do with my feelings, I was foolish and he left me after a few months. Towards the end of our relationship, I heard the Mortal Coil interpretation of this song, with the vocals by Elizabeth Fraser, and it was like it was written for me. In the months to come, I would listen to it over and over, and it never lost significance.
Now, I suspect that nobody is interested in reading a line-by-line analysis of what this song means to me, but the beauty of the internet is that I can do it anyway, and those who don't want to read it don't have to :P
'Long afloat on shipless oceans, I did all my best to smile / Till your singing eyes and fingers drew me loving to your isle.'
This is how I was before I was in love. Going about my life, unaffected and detached.
'Did I dream you dreamed about me?'
I love this line. This was all the more meaningful to me after our split. Wondering if the other person still wants you.
'Were you hare when I was fox?' or 'Were you here when I was flotsam' or 'full-sail' or whatever it is. Either way, I feel like it's questioning whether the other was noticing and watching for much longer than the narrator has realised.
'Now my foolish boat is leaning.'
I'm starting to change my ways...
'For you sing / Touch me not, come back tomorrow / Oh my heart shies from the sorrow.'
Elizabeth Fraser sings this line so beautifully. The fact that when one person is fickle and doesn't seem to know what they want, the other's heart is breaking.
'I'm as puzzled as a newborn child.'
Seeing the world afresh...
'Should I stand amid the breakers, or should I lie with death my bride?'
for me, this felt like a reference to my two states of mind... should I face up to the pain, or should I act as if it doesn't hurt?
'Swim to me, let me enfold you, here I am waiting to hold you.'
I love how the invitation is turned around in this song. First it is one person and then the other who is offering the love. This is just how it was with me and my partner.
No other version of this song moves me, really. The original I find pretty dull. Fraser's voice is magic, she could take any lyrics and make them significant.
After many months, the person I associate this with came back to me, and we're still together now. But this song still moves me just as much as ever. :)
its certainly a song we will never forget, my girlfreind doesnt want me anyone because I did something wrong, I cant blame her - it feels like we both have broken hearts.
I truly would like to put things right - the song is tragic, sad tender but very loving , like ruderless ships crashing against the rocks, sometimes the strom is too much - I so much want to sa to her, Sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am
Waiting to hold you
its certainly a song we will never forget, my girlfreind doesnt want me anyone because I did something wrong, I cant blame her - it feels like we both have broken hearts.
I truly would like to put things right - the song is tragic, sad tender but very loving , like ruderless ships crashing against the rocks, sometimes the strom is too much - I so much want to sa to her, Sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am
Waiting to hold you
Well, I do appreciate it and I enjoyed your analysis of this song. I associate it with death though, mainly because I watched a movie called "The Lovely Bones" about a 14 yr. old girl who was murdered. Even though it wasn't a true story, it very well can be any story for a child who is murdered.
Well, I do appreciate it and I enjoyed your analysis of this song. I associate it with death though, mainly because I watched a movie called "The Lovely Bones" about a 14 yr. old girl who was murdered. Even though it wasn't a true story, it very well can be any story for a child who is murdered.
The reason it stuck with me is because when I was a teen, I was involved in a search for a young girl who was kidnapped. Since it was the final day for the search, and the search had gone on...
The reason it stuck with me is because when I was a teen, I was involved in a search for a young girl who was kidnapped. Since it was the final day for the search, and the search had gone on for several days, they told us to look for anything that could be a grave, or any other signs of her body. We didn't find her that day and on the way home, I couldn't stop crying. I wanted so badly to find her alive and I was severely depressed. Believe it or not, she was found the very next day - and she was alive, and then I really cried - totally overwhelmed in happiness! She was one of the very few found alive, although she had been molested. She hadn't eaten in several days; She was covered in cuts, scratches and bug bites, and was living in a filthy grassy ditch with her kidnapper, who was caught with her by the Border Patrol. I'm sure she developed emotional problems from it, but still, she lived, and as long as you still have life, you always have a chance to live the best life you can.
Sadly to say, I also associate this song with death in that, I grew up closely involved in law enforcement (police explorers), and attended eight police funerals (two were double funerals in the same day), and one was suicide. I never went into law enforcement after so many funerals. I also have known too many people who committed suicide.
As for why I've seen so many deaths and suicides, I have no clue. (I also have seen two children hit by cars and die in front of me. The first was when I was seven: my classmate died in front of me.) I've asked God that question many times, but I guess that's just the way it is. In counseling, they actually called me a "$hit Magnet" (which I didn't appreciate). For a long time, I thought everyone experienced the kind of life that I have, but they said no. They also told me I should write a book, but I never have.
So, as you can probably see by now, this song has a LOT of meaning to me. There is another song that helped me through my severe depression called "Stand A Little Rain" by the NItty Gritty Dirt Band. I don't associate that with relationships. I associate it with depression. If you ever read this, listen to that song. It's an excellent song and as I said, it helped a great deal to pull me out of my depression.
Thank you again for taking the time to put your analysis into writing, I'm saving it in my documents, along with the lyrics to "Song of the Siren," so I can read it from time to time. You helped me a lot. :)
PS: I'm sorry this was so long, but reading your analysis got the wheels in my little brain turning, lol.
@LittleRedShoes You should definetly listen to Rose Betts version. I'd never heard the song before...but wow did it immediately catch my heart.
@LittleRedShoes You should definetly listen to Rose Betts version. I'd never heard the song before...but wow did it immediately catch my heart.
I felt something similar. I met someone who sparked something in me no one has ever been able to spark.
But ultimately my spark was bigger in my heart than in my head. I lost her. I lost my will to live for a time. I long for someone else to make me as willing to face the future hand in hand, with all the wonders of life we can share.
I felt something similar. I met someone who sparked something in me no one has ever been able to spark.
But ultimately my spark was bigger in my heart than in my head. I lost her. I lost my will to live for a time. I long for someone else to make me as willing to face the future hand in hand, with all the wonders of life we can share.
One day perhaps, I dont hold...
One day perhaps, I dont hold on to hope, but welcome its spontaneous surprise.
This is the song I associate with my first and only love. When we met I didn't really believe in 'love' and dismissed it as a load of sentimental nonsense. Then when I met him, I know what to do with my feelings, I was foolish and he left me after a few months. Towards the end of our relationship, I heard the Mortal Coil interpretation of this song, with the vocals by Elizabeth Fraser, and it was like it was written for me. In the months to come, I would listen to it over and over, and it never lost significance.
Now, I suspect that nobody is interested in reading a line-by-line analysis of what this song means to me, but the beauty of the internet is that I can do it anyway, and those who don't want to read it don't have to :P
'Long afloat on shipless oceans, I did all my best to smile / Till your singing eyes and fingers drew me loving to your isle.'
This is how I was before I was in love. Going about my life, unaffected and detached.
'Did I dream you dreamed about me?'
I love this line. This was all the more meaningful to me after our split. Wondering if the other person still wants you.
'Were you hare when I was fox?' or 'Were you here when I was flotsam' or 'full-sail' or whatever it is. Either way, I feel like it's questioning whether the other was noticing and watching for much longer than the narrator has realised.
'Now my foolish boat is leaning.'
I'm starting to change my ways...
'For you sing / Touch me not, come back tomorrow / Oh my heart shies from the sorrow.'
Elizabeth Fraser sings this line so beautifully. The fact that when one person is fickle and doesn't seem to know what they want, the other's heart is breaking.
'I'm as puzzled as a newborn child.'
Seeing the world afresh...
'Should I stand amid the breakers, or should I lie with death my bride?'
for me, this felt like a reference to my two states of mind... should I face up to the pain, or should I act as if it doesn't hurt?
'Swim to me, let me enfold you, here I am waiting to hold you.'
I love how the invitation is turned around in this song. First it is one person and then the other who is offering the love. This is just how it was with me and my partner.
No other version of this song moves me, really. The original I find pretty dull. Fraser's voice is magic, she could take any lyrics and make them significant.
After many months, the person I associate this with came back to me, and we're still together now. But this song still moves me just as much as ever. :)
its certainly a song we will never forget, my girlfreind doesnt want me anyone because I did something wrong, I cant blame her - it feels like we both have broken hearts. I truly would like to put things right - the song is tragic, sad tender but very loving , like ruderless ships crashing against the rocks, sometimes the strom is too much - I so much want to sa to her, Sail to me Let me enfold you Here I am Waiting to hold you
its certainly a song we will never forget, my girlfreind doesnt want me anyone because I did something wrong, I cant blame her - it feels like we both have broken hearts. I truly would like to put things right - the song is tragic, sad tender but very loving , like ruderless ships crashing against the rocks, sometimes the strom is too much - I so much want to sa to her, Sail to me Let me enfold you Here I am Waiting to hold you
Well, I do appreciate it and I enjoyed your analysis of this song. I associate it with death though, mainly because I watched a movie called "The Lovely Bones" about a 14 yr. old girl who was murdered. Even though it wasn't a true story, it very well can be any story for a child who is murdered.
Well, I do appreciate it and I enjoyed your analysis of this song. I associate it with death though, mainly because I watched a movie called "The Lovely Bones" about a 14 yr. old girl who was murdered. Even though it wasn't a true story, it very well can be any story for a child who is murdered.
The reason it stuck with me is because when I was a teen, I was involved in a search for a young girl who was kidnapped. Since it was the final day for the search, and the search had gone on...
The reason it stuck with me is because when I was a teen, I was involved in a search for a young girl who was kidnapped. Since it was the final day for the search, and the search had gone on for several days, they told us to look for anything that could be a grave, or any other signs of her body. We didn't find her that day and on the way home, I couldn't stop crying. I wanted so badly to find her alive and I was severely depressed. Believe it or not, she was found the very next day - and she was alive, and then I really cried - totally overwhelmed in happiness! She was one of the very few found alive, although she had been molested. She hadn't eaten in several days; She was covered in cuts, scratches and bug bites, and was living in a filthy grassy ditch with her kidnapper, who was caught with her by the Border Patrol. I'm sure she developed emotional problems from it, but still, she lived, and as long as you still have life, you always have a chance to live the best life you can.
Sadly to say, I also associate this song with death in that, I grew up closely involved in law enforcement (police explorers), and attended eight police funerals (two were double funerals in the same day), and one was suicide. I never went into law enforcement after so many funerals. I also have known too many people who committed suicide.
As for why I've seen so many deaths and suicides, I have no clue. (I also have seen two children hit by cars and die in front of me. The first was when I was seven: my classmate died in front of me.) I've asked God that question many times, but I guess that's just the way it is. In counseling, they actually called me a "$hit Magnet" (which I didn't appreciate). For a long time, I thought everyone experienced the kind of life that I have, but they said no. They also told me I should write a book, but I never have.
So, as you can probably see by now, this song has a LOT of meaning to me. There is another song that helped me through my severe depression called "Stand A Little Rain" by the NItty Gritty Dirt Band. I don't associate that with relationships. I associate it with depression. If you ever read this, listen to that song. It's an excellent song and as I said, it helped a great deal to pull me out of my depression.
Thank you again for taking the time to put your analysis into writing, I'm saving it in my documents, along with the lyrics to "Song of the Siren," so I can read it from time to time. You helped me a lot. :)
PS: I'm sorry this was so long, but reading your analysis got the wheels in my little brain turning, lol.
@LittleRedShoes You should definetly listen to Rose Betts version. I'd never heard the song before...but wow did it immediately catch my heart.
@LittleRedShoes You should definetly listen to Rose Betts version. I'd never heard the song before...but wow did it immediately catch my heart.
I felt something similar. I met someone who sparked something in me no one has ever been able to spark. But ultimately my spark was bigger in my heart than in my head. I lost her. I lost my will to live for a time. I long for someone else to make me as willing to face the future hand in hand, with all the wonders of life we can share.
I felt something similar. I met someone who sparked something in me no one has ever been able to spark. But ultimately my spark was bigger in my heart than in my head. I lost her. I lost my will to live for a time. I long for someone else to make me as willing to face the future hand in hand, with all the wonders of life we can share.
One day perhaps, I dont hold...
One day perhaps, I dont hold on to hope, but welcome its spontaneous surprise.