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Saw You Drown Lyrics

As through your shattered eyes
It all came together
And your heart cries
Weeping through the weather
Another way to change your mind
I'm weaker than they say
To leave this all behind

Don't you know
I'm the end of what we are
And right below us
The last thing you'll see

In the water
I saw you drown
Down the water
Saw you drown

As through my shattered sight
You're no longer here
And my heart cries
Skeeping through the light
Another way to change my mind
Never is the day
To leave this all behind
The only way to stay
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seven On May 09, 2002
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This song, for me, it's about someone (poetic persona) that hurts (betraying, lying or something else) a loved one and IT, the loved person, even though has forgiven him (to poetic person) is getting far away, getting more bleak, is getting cold... It is "drowning". The person that relates that situation, figured out that and is bad as well. I've separated the song with, on my point of view, who speak what on lyrics:

Poetic Persona: As through your shattered eyes It all came together And your heart cries Weeping through the weather Another way to change your mind

Here, the PP see into shatted eyes of the loved one the sadness, and the everything what happened came together on his head... It'd be great if he could change the past to change the mind of its (loved one)

Loved one: I'm weaker than they say To leave this all behind The only way to stay

The loved one thought that could pass over this situation... To forget the all the pain caused... But it knows, now, that is weaker, as they friends said, for that; to leave everthing behind... the only way to keep on and stay by side of PP.

PP: Don't you know I'm the end of what we'll be And right below us The last thing you'll see

PP sees how happy the end of boths (PP and Loved one) would be if he hasn't done commited the mistake.... This thoughts pass over his head... And he knows that last thing that he’ll see - say his thoughts - it's the loved person more and more unhappy for to can’t erase his mistake....

In the water I saw you drown Down the water Saw you drown

Here it’s metaphore! The PP sees that loved one drowning in its sadness…. And can’t do anything. In this pont, of my view (of course), the loved one has commited suicide.

PP As through my shattered sight You're no longer here And my heart cries Sleeping through the light

The loved one has gone (suicide, maybe)? The heart cries, he can’t sleep on night just when sun comes – but barely… What to do? Suicide thoughts on his head…

Another way to change my mind Never is the day To leave this all behind The only way to stay

There are another way to change his my from these dark thoughts? Now everthing is dark, the days don’t come anymore… The suicide it’s the only way to leave all this pain behind… The only way to stay by side of love one – together in death.

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It's about the relationship, the woman wants to see more options and wants to move out, and thinks that she is stuck in this relationship, she is crying and weeping shedding tears everytime as she has better prospects somewhere else constantly making her boyfriend of being worthless and not capable of fulfilling her desires, hence he gets weak to object and in the end let her go!

Negative
Subjective
Sadness
Relationship
Longing
Heartbreak
Uncertainty
Change
Cover art for Saw You Drown lyrics by Katatonia

im not quit sure, it sounds like he is soo depressed, and he has drowned his parnter maybe awesome song

Cover art for Saw You Drown lyrics by Katatonia

im not quit sure, it sounds like he is soo depressed, and he has drowned his parnter maybe awesome song

Cover art for Saw You Drown lyrics by Katatonia

I think it's very self deprecating. He's falling apart and blames himself for everything and that it was him that forced them apart. The drowning is a metaphor for his moods probably, and she couldn't deal with it cause people are crap and just add to the depths instead of helping.

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awesome song

Cover art for Saw You Drown lyrics by Katatonia

I think it's the end of a relationship, and the verse and the bridge is sung by the narrator, which drowns himself while the other person who is singing the chorus part watches, being scarred for life.

I think so because of the "The last thing that you'll see" before the chorus, and because it fits better with my own interpretation of the song.

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I think thats a very good point D.B. however i think it may be more metaphorical then that maybe?

maybe the "drowning" is as someone else said, and it refers to drowning in emotion/problems

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Perhaps water is synonyme for alcohol.

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It sounds to me like the speaker is telling their loved one that they want to leave. The loved one is sad and distressed by this, which makes the song's speaker more sad and distressed than they already are. I'm guessing at the second half of the song, the loved one dies or falls into a deep depression. Metaphorically drowning in sorrow, or literally the speaker drowned them to break things off or to end the loved one's internal conflict..?

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