Swimming Home Lyrics

Lyric discussion by VictoriousGagaPony 

Cover art for Swimming Home lyrics by Evanescence

The song is so dreamy it makes my imagination run WIIIILD. This is beyond random but work with me.

It reminds me so much of transgendered people. If your parents/peers/etc say things like, "Your life would be so much easier if..." then you would you have to make the change all on your very lonesome (swim an ocean all on your own). Look at the song like the true self talking to the wrong sex and wrong gender that the parents/society have tried to build. And you can't hate that person because that's your past--always a part of you "I adore you still..." The lines "I will no longer understand" could mean 'I don't understand the members of the sex I was born as" and "I can not betray my kind"..."I can not pretend to be a boy/girl and act like the other is stupid".

And then "way down underneath this skin is" is obvious...even though I could have sworn she said "weighed down".

My Interpretation