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Over the sea and far away
She's waiting like an iceberg
Waiting to change
But she's cold inside
She wants to be like the water
All the muscles tighten in her face
Buries her soul in one embrace
They're one and the same
Just like water
The fire fades away
Most of everyday
Is full of tired excuses
But it's to hard to say
I wish it were simple
But we give up easily
You're close enough to see that
You're the other side of the world to me
On comes the panic light
Holding on with fingers and feelings alike
But the time has come
To move along
The fire fades away
Can you help me?
Can you let me go?
And can you still love me
When you can't see me anymore?
The fire fades away
She's waiting like an iceberg
Waiting to change
But she's cold inside
She wants to be like the water
All the muscles tighten in her face
Buries her soul in one embrace
They're one and the same
Just like water
The fire fades away
Most of everyday
Is full of tired excuses
But it's to hard to say
I wish it were simple
But we give up easily
You're close enough to see that
You're the other side of the world to me
On comes the panic light
Holding on with fingers and feelings alike
But the time has come
To move along
The fire fades away
Can you help me?
Can you let me go?
And can you still love me
When you can't see me anymore?
The fire fades away
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"Yeah, I wrote it after a couple of good friends of mine, one Scottish and one American, had come to stay at my flat, and promptly split up after about four years, in my flat. And it was so sad to see what was happening because they were desperately in love with each other but neither of them was brave enough to move. And they just couldn’t make it work and the reason it had resonated so much with me was that I had fallen in love big time for the first time when I went to the States, when I went to school there, with a mad hippy boy from Vermont. I was completely head over heels in love and I would have got married. I mean I am glad I didn’t, but it was incredibly intense and it was an experience that has led me to never underestimate what a seventeen year old can write or what a teenager can feel because it was just crushing. And I suppose it just really took me back to that long distance kind of horror and romance. But it tore me up for a couple of years really. And then sort of seeing it happen again I was like ‘don’t let that happen, you know we’re not kids any more, you two are great’. And thankfully they came to their senses and got hitched."
I, however, find it really personal. Like only someone who'd been in that situation could write something like this. It's too accurate.. I think the first verse is already talking about an LDR that's deteriorating. She's waiting for something to change the cold that she already feels inside, cold that's there because of something that's off in the relationship, something too tough to accept.
"Muscles tighten in her face"...an LDR can take a toll on you. On your mood. Everything seems like a struggle. You feel angry, anxious "Buries her soul in one embrace", remembering those embraces, remembering when you were WITH that person feels like your soul's dying. You're frustrated and angry with the situation, but the second you allow yourself to miss the person, you feel devastated.
The days are full of excuses...I feel like she's writing from the perspective of the one who was trying real hard to hold on to the relationship, while the other person is the one who doesn't want to accept that his feelings have already changed. So he just didn't feel like looking for her, writing to her, calling her. When confronted about it, he'd make up an excuse, because he's trying not to admit (even to himself) how he feels.
It's a painful situation...she just wants it to be over, "can you let me go?" But there's hope, too. Because, aren't they soulmates? So, one last plead: "can you still love me when you can't see me anymore?"
But the truth is there, and there's nothing left to be done. "The time has come to move along". "You're on the other side of the world"..
Can you help me
Can you let me go
And can you still love me
When you can't see me anymore
I think this song is about having to let go of someone because you've realized that they're not good for you anymore. Even though you still love them and think the world of them, you just aren't meant to be together. You're hoping that they'll understand and not make it harder than it needs to be.
Mystery solved! :)
now its in the present, where he is gone, and the passion that transformed her has left too. they both give lame excuses for y they are not talking much, like i am busy, yet they know they could get it right if they put the effort in. but they don't and they see they are emotionally separated as well as physically. The heart yearning is still there but it is pointless so they must move on. she needs him to help her with that, because it is hard for her when there is still a thread of hope.
There is also a little hurt feelings with u can't love me when u can't see me, because the relantionship is based on the physical.
But I would just like to say this was the first song I heard by her (being the first on Eye to the Telescope) and she has been my inspiration since (: