Fairly obvious one, unless I'm missing something. Somebody, a sailor, yearns to be at sea again but can't be for some reason. Oddly enough, I can see this song as a prequel to the frame narrative of the Decemberists' "Mariner's Revenge Song", with the latter song's speaker's mother being the woman mentioned in this one. I'm certain that's purely incidental, but I thought it was a fun coincidence.
Fairly obvious one, unless I'm missing something. Somebody, a sailor, yearns to be at sea again but can't be for some reason. Oddly enough, I can see this song as a prequel to the frame narrative of the Decemberists' "Mariner's Revenge Song", with the latter song's speaker's mother being the woman mentioned in this one. I'm certain that's purely incidental, but I thought it was a fun coincidence.