Another possible interpretation would be to say it's about finding inspiration in love. The narrator is stuck at the bottom, unable to free himself because he is lacking the inspiration to move ahead. The eyes that turn him are those of someone who comes along and inspires him to believe that he can do something. He now has something to go towards. Perhaps the light that he wasn't able to see down there in the bottom of the ocean.
So this could be a song about an artists' struggle to escape writer's block and start creating again.
Another possible interpretation would be to say it's about finding inspiration in love. The narrator is stuck at the bottom, unable to free himself because he is lacking the inspiration to move ahead. The eyes that turn him are those of someone who comes along and inspires him to believe that he can do something. He now has something to go towards. Perhaps the light that he wasn't able to see down there in the bottom of the ocean.
So this could be a song about an artists' struggle to escape writer's block and start creating again.