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Drag me by my ankles
To the bottom of the ocean
There I'll stay forever
Until you come back from England
The London bombs
I stayed up forever
Tried to call your number
But you were lost forever
In the early days of winter
The London bombs
Dirty little town on the Thames is calling you away
I stay up forever
Try to find the answer.
In the sun I wait for you
The London bombs
Dirty little town on the Thames is calling you away
The London bombs
To the bottom of the ocean
There I'll stay forever
Until you come back from England
The London bombs
I stayed up forever
Tried to call your number
But you were lost forever
In the early days of winter
The London bombs
Dirty little town on the Thames is calling you away
I stay up forever
Try to find the answer.
In the sun I wait for you
The London bombs
Dirty little town on the Thames is calling you away
The London bombs
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I think its more about distance than anything else. The torture of everything that was going on with his girlfriend (who was supposedly in London at the time of the bombings), was worse than drowning at the bottom of the ocean (probably a reference to how the mob used to put people's feet in cement and then throw them in a lake or the ocean or whatever, to drown them)...and then the rest of it is about how he couldn't get onto her...and how what was going on in London was distracting her from being able to tell him that she was alright.
Great song, great singer, great band! Keep making good music Eskimo Joe!
He said 'Tames', when it's 'Tehms'
i read in earlier posts that its about him emailing his gf after the bombings which makes total sense, but when i hear this song i like to think that his lover has been killed (But you were lost forever, in the early days of winter) and that he waits for her (In the sun I wait for you) however she is never coming home! and he begins to resent london (Dirty little town on the Thames...)
thats the best thing about music and lyrics, everyone can interpret them in different ways!
kav was sitting in an internet cafe and was writting a very in deepth email to his then girlfriend or ex-girlfriend. after he sent the email she said to him she couldn't deal with what he had just said because some bombs had gone off down the road
and that he was so so scared for her.
and because of all the commotion she hadn't contacted him.
but they're all just bits and pieces of the same story really.
it's a beautiful song.