The singer is with his wife (as he sings of his wedding ring) on a boat out to sea, who jumps into the ocean to take her life (the wind is still, ergo no storm set the boat in motion having her thrown over board), and when he sings that "you were never a steady bold one" it could refer to that she isn't brave enough to face the problems in life and instead takes her life (which also would explain the windless night-part).
But, there is a silver lining, as sung:
The morning brings
Lord a fresh young breeze
to fill our sails
to end the doldrums
Our lucky ship
speeds across the sea
This perticular excerpt, of course, also brings the thoughts of it being somewhat more imaginary, such as a dream dying, or maybe a set back in the singer's life that brings misery, but following rain is always sunshine.
There might be countless more explanations, but this is the one that comes to mind for me. Very beautiful song, it has that same perfect, wonderful gloomy feel that Brothers in Arms has. Just...perfect!
I'd say these lyrics are pretty straight forward.
The singer is with his wife (as he sings of his wedding ring) on a boat out to sea, who jumps into the ocean to take her life (the wind is still, ergo no storm set the boat in motion having her thrown over board), and when he sings that "you were never a steady bold one" it could refer to that she isn't brave enough to face the problems in life and instead takes her life (which also would explain the windless night-part). But, there is a silver lining, as sung:
The morning brings Lord a fresh young breeze to fill our sails to end the doldrums Our lucky ship speeds across the sea
This perticular excerpt, of course, also brings the thoughts of it being somewhat more imaginary, such as a dream dying, or maybe a set back in the singer's life that brings misery, but following rain is always sunshine.
There might be countless more explanations, but this is the one that comes to mind for me. Very beautiful song, it has that same perfect, wonderful gloomy feel that Brothers in Arms has. Just...perfect!
I'm not sure there's enough information to decide that she has taken her own life. Other than that, though, I think you've nailed it.
I'm not sure there's enough information to decide that she has taken her own life. Other than that, though, I think you've nailed it.