Morgan
Baron/Baroness of EvThreads
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Post by Morgan on Jun 6, 2013 11:17:13 GMT -5
Don't know if we've gotten over this before but I would like to start a discussion about the meanign of the expression "swim lonely" as used in this song. I hacve an idea but I'm not sure since I'm not a native english speaker. Help a brotha out!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2013 13:08:38 GMT -5
To me it's a fairly straightforward lyric, even a little disconnected from its context in a way that you there isn't really a greater meaning to be found in the surrounding lyrics. 'Swim' is a stylistic choice as demonstrated on Ev3... Amy loves 'water words'. To me it just means that whatever it is she is trying to do, she (or whoever she is referring to in the song) has to do it alone. If using swim is specifically a reference to the ocean, which could be simplified to mean a large, open, dark, and unknown place, it makes some sense to infer that whoever is wandering alone, trying to find their way out is doing so in said endless, unknown place... Which one could interpret as being the 'darkness' that 'feels so wrong', but I'm just kind of throwing ideas out there, I haven't thought this through. I sometimes wonder if Amy even thinks about it much, heh.
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Post by AeternusAmatorius on Jun 6, 2013 13:49:18 GMT -5
Morgan: Well, the song was inspired because Amy felt alone and literally couldn't see the stars in Lisbon. I think "swim lonely" was used to symbolize the fact that when you feel alone, you feel depressed and feel like everything is crashing down around you and that you'll never be happy again. Sometimes people who are depressed or suffer from depression on a regular basis explain it as though they feel like they're constantly treading water to keep their head above the water and to keep from drowning. Of course that is a metaphor and it just says that they constantly have to fight to feel happy or fight for their happiness. Another way to look at it, is that depression is so consuming (to the sufferer and even close family and friends) that it just "swallows you up like a wave". So because the phrase was used as "We're wandering now, all in parts and pieces. Swim lonely. Find your own way out" or "We're wandering now, all in parts and pieces. Swim lonely, find your own way out." would most likely mean that she's alone and feels lost in the vast sea of lights in Lisbon ("the mechanical light's of Lisbon frightened it away") she would have to swim the sea of lights and find her way out to find the star she was looking for. This may also be a far stretch but I often find myself asking "Whose star is/was she looking for if she was so upset that she couldn't find it?" Maybe it's her sisters star? Just throwing that out there. Or, since she wrote most of this song by Terry's bedside when he was in the hospital, maybe it was a star for him to help him find his way back to health (another long shot based on the words in the song, I know). People used to navigate using the stars.
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Post by turdyturderson on Dec 23, 2017 9:15:41 GMT -5
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Post by AeternusAmatorius on Dec 23, 2017 15:26:32 GMT -5
OH MY GOSH! I HAVE BEEN WANTING AMY TO POST TUTORIALS OF HOW TO PLAY EV SONGS FOR LIKE EVER!
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