Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

Has anyone reading this ever nearly drowned or suffocated due to any reason? This song gives me that feeling. It is somewhat more literal than the other interpretations in that the sea is actually drowning the protaganist slowly by suffocation. It is the feeling when you are at the bottom of the ocean and after seeing something or someone beautiful, you have two choices. -swim back up and survive. -follow the mysterious thing and die.

It represents the rationality that one would rather die while looking at something beautiful than live in their own dull world. 'I'd be crazy not to follow Follow where you lead. Your eyes, they turn me.'

It is the feeling that you are suffocating, and yet the pure beauty of this thing is masking the fear that should be present, and replacing it with happiness and love. I also believe that the arpeggios and overall mood/texture that is used throughout the song really reflects n it's meaning, whether my interpretation is correct or not.

'Everybody leaves, when they get the chance, and this, is my chance.'

This may represent the knowledge of the person drowning that their time is running out, and if they are to escape, that this moment is their last chance.

Even if my interpretation is pointless and stupid, (Although, no interpretation is ever wrong) I still believe that this song holds immense power and an attitude toward dying that is unfathomable and yet so deeply human.

'I get eaten by the worms. And weird fishes.'

This stanza is different in that the texture of the song changes, highlighting the vocals. These lines most certainly attain some beauty and perfection to a death at the bottom of the ocean. Not decaying in a wooden box or being burnt and spread etc.

The last line, (I hit the bottom and escape etc) is perhaps the only stanza that supports the suicide theory more than mine, in that if he were hoping to survive, hitting the bottom of the ocean would probably make him even more screwed than before, although, nevertheless, i love the change in texture and the way Thom sings these last lines.