This song seems to me to be about a sense of ennui or an existential crisis. Maybe even a sort of wander lust. The river is his(the narrator's) home, but it's constantly changing, he can't stay in one place or he'll fall into ennui: "Lord take me away/ for I just can not stay/ Or I'll sink in my skin and my bones." The second verse shows how he "goes with the flow" (pardon the awful cliche). The third verse seems to me to be talking baout finding a lack of satisfaction, even with a faster pace or a "deeper" or more interesting life. The narrator just sees it as "A tune for the journeyman's tale." Which reminds me of the line from Macbeth, "Life is a tale told by a fool, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
The song seems to be a person going through his/her life, each verse getting a little older. By verse four everything seems repetitive. the water is so wide you can hardly see the horizon. By verse five, the only landmark left is the Sun. "I'm everywhere now" is probably more metaphorical than literal. Philisophically he's "everywhere." He doesn't have any boundries, but he also doens't have any direction. "The way" means his personal philosophy, his guiding principals. His "way" is a promise to something so ephemeral that it only lasts a second or two. No philosophy sticks for very long.
The Chorus feels to me like his apathy towards dying. "The water can't drown me" because I don't care if I live or die.
So... yeah. There it is...
This song seems to me to be about a sense of ennui or an existential crisis. Maybe even a sort of wander lust. The river is his(the narrator's) home, but it's constantly changing, he can't stay in one place or he'll fall into ennui: "Lord take me away/ for I just can not stay/ Or I'll sink in my skin and my bones." The second verse shows how he "goes with the flow" (pardon the awful cliche). The third verse seems to me to be talking baout finding a lack of satisfaction, even with a faster pace or a "deeper" or more interesting life. The narrator just sees it as "A tune for the journeyman's tale." Which reminds me of the line from Macbeth, "Life is a tale told by a fool, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." The song seems to be a person going through his/her life, each verse getting a little older. By verse four everything seems repetitive. the water is so wide you can hardly see the horizon. By verse five, the only landmark left is the Sun. "I'm everywhere now" is probably more metaphorical than literal. Philisophically he's "everywhere." He doesn't have any boundries, but he also doens't have any direction. "The way" means his personal philosophy, his guiding principals. His "way" is a promise to something so ephemeral that it only lasts a second or two. No philosophy sticks for very long. The Chorus feels to me like his apathy towards dying. "The water can't drown me" because I don't care if I live or die. So... yeah. There it is...
u sound like u been through this
u sound like u been through this