The song is sung as if from the perspective of a child. The song is not about death, it's about life outside of our life, the world outside of our existence. The song is about what is observed, but not interacted with: the I and My pops up twice, but the rest of the song is what is seen and heard. Our lives are like islands, we live within the shell, but what lies beyond our lives? There's these strange people around us who we can see and hear, but can never really know, and places and people beyond them, each islands and continents to themselves beyond the watery borders of our own lives. Where does this ocean go?
The speaker endeavours to "fly" to attempt to escape from herself, not by dying, but to explore the greater world around her and the people in it, worlds unto themselves.
To pair it up with Ghost in the Shell's themes, Motoko considered the 'net the sum of humanity's ideas and consciousness, and considered it (indeed) vast and infinite. In the movie and in anime, she does venture off on her own to explore it, breaking out of her life and experiences and transcending her own body.
The song is sung as if from the perspective of a child. The song is not about death, it's about life outside of our life, the world outside of our existence. The song is about what is observed, but not interacted with: the I and My pops up twice, but the rest of the song is what is seen and heard. Our lives are like islands, we live within the shell, but what lies beyond our lives? There's these strange people around us who we can see and hear, but can never really know, and places and people beyond them, each islands and continents to themselves beyond the watery borders of our own lives. Where does this ocean go?
The speaker endeavours to "fly" to attempt to escape from herself, not by dying, but to explore the greater world around her and the people in it, worlds unto themselves.
To pair it up with Ghost in the Shell's themes, Motoko considered the 'net the sum of humanity's ideas and consciousness, and considered it (indeed) vast and infinite. In the movie and in anime, she does venture off on her own to explore it, breaking out of her life and experiences and transcending her own body.