This song embodies the fundamental nature of poetry. The aural and lyrical imagery strongly evokes a sailing-ship on the ocean, depicting the periods of calm and gale quite clearly and evoking the feelings of the crew. Naturally, the underlying message is powerfully sexual. Water itself is a sexual symbol, and the song courses through the entire encounter, from seeking a partner to "make my sails fill", to the dropping of one's barriers, "I have always held the wheel, but I let the wind steal my power", to completion. Consider the inversion "to the deepest mountains, too high and beautiful to see": if that does not describes the loss of one's sense of self in the throes of passion, what else could it mean?
This song embodies the fundamental nature of poetry. The aural and lyrical imagery strongly evokes a sailing-ship on the ocean, depicting the periods of calm and gale quite clearly and evoking the feelings of the crew. Naturally, the underlying message is powerfully sexual. Water itself is a sexual symbol, and the song courses through the entire encounter, from seeking a partner to "make my sails fill", to the dropping of one's barriers, "I have always held the wheel, but I let the wind steal my power", to completion. Consider the inversion "to the deepest mountains, too high and beautiful to see": if that does not describes the loss of one's sense of self in the throes of passion, what else could it mean?