I think this song is about a woman the singer loved so much that he killed her and drowned her as this was the only way he could put himself at ease. some of us are familiar with the phrase "I LOVE IT SO MUCH I WANT IT TO DIE" and i thing this is what this song deals with.
the man in love with Stella is not evil, just unbalanced by his love for someone he cannot attain. "she knows there's people watching her" tells us that she is aware of her beauty and indicates the singer is out of her leauge so to speak.
"She cant come out tonight, cause the sea was so airtight", "bottom of the ocean she dwells" point towards him drowning her.
THE SONGS CLIMAX - IT'S MEANING
She went down down down there into the sea,
Yeah she went down down down there, down there for me, right on
So good, oh yeah, right on
For me this is the man recollecting the way her dead body sank to the ocean floor, and how he was satisfied and found peace. I know this is a morbid interpretation but i believe with aman as complex as Paul Banks and band as 'Dark' as interpol it is feasible that the characters in these song's are not all innocent lovers, save that for pop music. Interpols lyrics if they can teach us anything (they are, let's be honest fairly ambiguous) teach us that love is not for a select group of society, and perhaps the things we do for love are not always wholsome or traditonally good, such is it's nature.
Shakespeare described his tragic hero Othello as "One that lov'd not wisely but too well." Othello loved his wife so much that he was blinded by it and killed her in vain. Interpols hero in this song however doe's not regret his killing, perhaps it is his way of showing love. who knows. hehe.
I think this song is about a woman the singer loved so much that he killed her and drowned her as this was the only way he could put himself at ease. some of us are familiar with the phrase "I LOVE IT SO MUCH I WANT IT TO DIE" and i thing this is what this song deals with.
the man in love with Stella is not evil, just unbalanced by his love for someone he cannot attain. "she knows there's people watching her" tells us that she is aware of her beauty and indicates the singer is out of her leauge so to speak.
"She cant come out tonight, cause the sea was so airtight", "bottom of the ocean she dwells" point towards him drowning her.
THE SONGS CLIMAX - IT'S MEANING
She went down down down there into the sea, Yeah she went down down down there, down there for me, right on
So good, oh yeah, right on For me this is the man recollecting the way her dead body sank to the ocean floor, and how he was satisfied and found peace. I know this is a morbid interpretation but i believe with aman as complex as Paul Banks and band as 'Dark' as interpol it is feasible that the characters in these song's are not all innocent lovers, save that for pop music. Interpols lyrics if they can teach us anything (they are, let's be honest fairly ambiguous) teach us that love is not for a select group of society, and perhaps the things we do for love are not always wholsome or traditonally good, such is it's nature.
Shakespeare described his tragic hero Othello as "One that lov'd not wisely but too well." Othello loved his wife so much that he was blinded by it and killed her in vain. Interpols hero in this song however doe's not regret his killing, perhaps it is his way of showing love. who knows. hehe.
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I don't think you can find one other person who agrees with that!!!
I don't think you can find one other person who agrees with that!!!
@joefox Are you the same person that wrote the one about drowning on Obstacle 1? It doesn't work, okay?!
@joefox Are you the same person that wrote the one about drowning on Obstacle 1? It doesn't work, okay?!