Firstly, what an utterly brilliant and beautiful song. Cave’s best in my view.
It’s a song about sorrow. Or depression. Simple as that for me. Personified into a child,
It’s an outside force which the ‘you’ can’t resist despite loathing it. The you is susceptible to the sorrow and that means the you surrenders to its call.
The water references are brilliant. Water can kill but it is also represents the beauty of nature and the transience of life. Sorrow is only interested in the first bit and doesn’t hear the water moving,
The hand lifted up and down again for me is back to the water but in a metaphorical sense being drowned by the sorrow.
Firstly, what an utterly brilliant and beautiful song. Cave’s best in my view.
It’s a song about sorrow. Or depression. Simple as that for me. Personified into a child,
It’s an outside force which the ‘you’ can’t resist despite loathing it. The you is susceptible to the sorrow and that means the you surrenders to its call.
The water references are brilliant. Water can kill but it is also represents the beauty of nature and the transience of life. Sorrow is only interested in the first bit and doesn’t hear the water moving,
The hand lifted up and down again for me is back to the water but in a metaphorical sense being drowned by the sorrow.
What a masterpiece.