This interpretation is of just a part of the lyrics:
"Screaming agony.
And you snatch your rattling last breaths
With deep-sea diver sounds,
And the flowers bloom like
Madness in the spring."
To me, this sounds exactly like a deep sea diver who had something serious go wrong with his dive and had divers bends. The symptoms - agonizing bends and visual hallucination is exactly what happens. And Divers Bends or the Cassion Disease is incurable. Once you have it, you live the rest of your life out in agony.
In fact, this is one of the first songs of Tull that I heard and to me the imagery of a deep sea diver who's career was ended abruptly by divers bends was very very strong - it came out both in the lyrics and the title.
This interpretation is of just a part of the lyrics: "Screaming agony. And you snatch your rattling last breaths With deep-sea diver sounds, And the flowers bloom like Madness in the spring."
To me, this sounds exactly like a deep sea diver who had something serious go wrong with his dive and had divers bends. The symptoms - agonizing bends and visual hallucination is exactly what happens. And Divers Bends or the Cassion Disease is incurable. Once you have it, you live the rest of your life out in agony.
In fact, this is one of the first songs of Tull that I heard and to me the imagery of a deep sea diver who's career was ended abruptly by divers bends was very very strong - it came out both in the lyrics and the title.