The Sea and the Rhythm

First off.....BEAUTIFUL SONG!!!! But then again, what has Sam done that isn't? Anyways... My take on this was originally that is about his mother rocking him as a baby. I don't claim to "know" that this is right, but i will definately try and support my claim: ---milk from your breast is on my lips------- not many ppl. seemed to want to go into this when they said this was solely about sex. I'm asking you to look at it for what it is. Poets don't write things for no reason. i personally have trouble equating drinking breast milk with sex. I mean, its sensual, but not in an erotic or sexual way. It's about the close bond between a mother and child. Hence, this line (in my opinion) specifically refers to what has been going on before these thoughts occur. (milk is on lips) ---Lovely your/lovelier(not sure) words from your mouth to me------------ Infants hear words without recognition of what they mean. I think babies can sense moods from how someone is speaking. I feel that the mother is singing to the child because of this line. The baby hears the words and recognizes they are lovely, even without knowing their meaing. ---my hands...move over you--------- Reminds me of how a baby clutches to its mother when being breast fed. ---we're the sea and the rhythm there---------- Just as waves in an ocean have a rhythm as the tide moves in and out, I feel that the baby is being rocked in a rocking chair back and forth. ---waves and wind and night is black---------- Eyes closed (all of these things are black, and therefore in his imagination), the infant imagines simplistic things like the ocean. ---Scent of long black hair, spread out like your breath across my back------------- The infant's senses are strong because his mind is still developing. So he smells his mothers hair, which is laying over his back like her breath, which is on his back as well. She is holding him and rocking him to sleep, so they are close. He is small enough to be held, so hair & breath can spread out easily across his tiny back. ---Your hands move like waves over me-------- His mother is rubbing his back, perhaps burping him as he has just been fed, according to my theory of the song. Simplistic thought of an ocean (like waves...) as he dreams and drifts to slip/burps? ---Tonight, we're the sea------------ Yes, i know. When people have sex, they roll around in bed and they are connected. I think this is very intentionally meant to sound borderline sexual because of the EXTREMELY close bond between a mother and child. Ginsburg wrote about his mother in a similar manner, but he was more extreme. I think if we look at it from the narrators perspective, though(an infant) we would not see this as sexual because Infants have no knowledge of sex. They just feel things. This song is mostly about feeling things. It really makes me long to go back to the time of innocence when things were so simple. We obviously can't remember those times very well becuase our minds were still growing. We cannot go back to our infancy because, besides the obvious physical impossibilities, we have no real recollection of such a time. I feel that this song is an attempt to do just that. To seek the end of afternoon and see things through innocent eyes again.