The song seems to refer to the transience state of someone who is contemplating or even experiencing suicide or death. The way it is described makes me believe it's an incursion inside a woman's mind, rather than a man's. ["Daughter of unconscious fate", "Gentle til the end", "The heart is full and now it's spilling"].
The sea can be considered a symbol of death, dying being similar to drowning of the body and its descending towards a dark abyss, while it is also the way the soul is freed from the body, ascending towards an upper state of consciousness. [ "Out on the sea we'd be forgiven/ Our bodies stopped the spirit leaving" ]
The gloomy weariness and curiosity makes her no longer see dying as a sudden and painful end, but as a gentle walk towards another possible, maybe more enchanting existence. [ "Wouldn't you like to know how far you've got left to go" ]
Sometimes I believe it is someone dear who is talking to her, like her mother, but it may simply be her inner self questioning the meaning of her existence. She probably feels guilty for the things she couldn't accomplish or finds herself unworthy of the things she has had until then. [ "Somebody's child/ Nobody made you/ It's not what you stole its what they gave you" ]
She is alone and in despair, at the edge between life and death, she feels as if her soul is trying to escape her body ["In or out you go/ In your silence your soul/ Would you rather go unwilling/ The heart is full and now it's spilling/ Barreling down the steps/ Only a moment left"]
"In hind of sight" is probably a reference to the brain itself, being incapable to reason a way out of her agony or at least an excuse to soothe her mind, letting time decide on her fate ["In hind of sight no peace of mind/ Where you begin and I'm defined/ Daughter of unconscious fate/ Time will tell in spite of me"]
She complies with time's decision, the end is approaching as she is calmly embracing it. The bending of the shadows happens at dawn, here dawn being death itself [ "It begins and we'll be fine/ Where shadows bend and suddenly/ The world becomes/ And swallows me in" ]
She reveals that death "takes shape just the same", no matter who we once were in this world, without telling if there's something else to expect after death.
The song seems to refer to the transience state of someone who is contemplating or even experiencing suicide or death. The way it is described makes me believe it's an incursion inside a woman's mind, rather than a man's. ["Daughter of unconscious fate", "Gentle til the end", "The heart is full and now it's spilling"].
The sea can be considered a symbol of death, dying being similar to drowning of the body and its descending towards a dark abyss, while it is also the way the soul is freed from the body, ascending towards an upper state of consciousness. [ "Out on the sea we'd be forgiven/ Our bodies stopped the spirit leaving" ]
The gloomy weariness and curiosity makes her no longer see dying as a sudden and painful end, but as a gentle walk towards another possible, maybe more enchanting existence. [ "Wouldn't you like to know how far you've got left to go" ]
Sometimes I believe it is someone dear who is talking to her, like her mother, but it may simply be her inner self questioning the meaning of her existence. She probably feels guilty for the things she couldn't accomplish or finds herself unworthy of the things she has had until then. [ "Somebody's child/ Nobody made you/ It's not what you stole its what they gave you" ]
She is alone and in despair, at the edge between life and death, she feels as if her soul is trying to escape her body ["In or out you go/ In your silence your soul/ Would you rather go unwilling/ The heart is full and now it's spilling/ Barreling down the steps/ Only a moment left"]
"In hind of sight" is probably a reference to the brain itself, being incapable to reason a way out of her agony or at least an excuse to soothe her mind, letting time decide on her fate ["In hind of sight no peace of mind/ Where you begin and I'm defined/ Daughter of unconscious fate/ Time will tell in spite of me"]
She complies with time's decision, the end is approaching as she is calmly embracing it. The bending of the shadows happens at dawn, here dawn being death itself [ "It begins and we'll be fine/ Where shadows bend and suddenly/ The world becomes/ And swallows me in" ] She reveals that death "takes shape just the same", no matter who we once were in this world, without telling if there's something else to expect after death.