I think most of you are taking one line in the song and using it to define the entire thing.
I think the first verse is just an intro, setting the scene and introducing the lake. I think the 'porridge' line is just that the lake is scummy and I think it happened long ago because she makes it sound like the teens have been swimming in it like that for a while. The genius next door is probably a smart teenager with a high school food service job, very antisocial and secretly very depressed. I think the rest is fairly straightforward, he decides to commit suicide in the lake, which is ironic because it's the same lake that other teens hang out at a lot, but he is not part of that crowd. He goes in the middle of the night and drowns himself. I think the orgasm line may have to do with potentially having an orgasm when you drown, but that is not the focus of the song. I like the idea that maybe he was really just looking for love, and that the orgasm may relate to that if he only had found love he would have been happy.
Overall, Regina is the narrator here and she says he's a foolish child because even though he's apparently a "genius" of some sort, he really doesn't realize that there's so much more to live for.
I think the chorus is amazingly beautiful,
"If you just hold in your breath
'Til you come back up in full
Hold in your breath
'Til you thought it through"
But in the end, she's just telling a story and the poor boy dies. Life goes on, and basically nobody even notices that he's gone. I think the "secret" that he might be keeping is that he's so unhappy. People may think he's so satisfied with his life being smart or something, but really he's very lonely and depressed.
I also really like the concept somebody proposed that he wanted to make a big scene, and that he just wanted to be noticed. It's sad really.
As ridiculous as some Regina songs can be I just can't see her writing a song about a porridge-like lake and meaning it is filled with sperm, in a sad story of a boy drowning himself for an orgasm. It just doesn't seem as probable as a song about suicide and a depressed teenager. But like I said, there are some strange Regina songs too, so who knows.
I think most of you are taking one line in the song and using it to define the entire thing.
I think the first verse is just an intro, setting the scene and introducing the lake. I think the 'porridge' line is just that the lake is scummy and I think it happened long ago because she makes it sound like the teens have been swimming in it like that for a while. The genius next door is probably a smart teenager with a high school food service job, very antisocial and secretly very depressed. I think the rest is fairly straightforward, he decides to commit suicide in the lake, which is ironic because it's the same lake that other teens hang out at a lot, but he is not part of that crowd. He goes in the middle of the night and drowns himself. I think the orgasm line may have to do with potentially having an orgasm when you drown, but that is not the focus of the song. I like the idea that maybe he was really just looking for love, and that the orgasm may relate to that if he only had found love he would have been happy.
Overall, Regina is the narrator here and she says he's a foolish child because even though he's apparently a "genius" of some sort, he really doesn't realize that there's so much more to live for.
I think the chorus is amazingly beautiful,
"If you just hold in your breath 'Til you come back up in full Hold in your breath 'Til you thought it through"
But in the end, she's just telling a story and the poor boy dies. Life goes on, and basically nobody even notices that he's gone. I think the "secret" that he might be keeping is that he's so unhappy. People may think he's so satisfied with his life being smart or something, but really he's very lonely and depressed.
I also really like the concept somebody proposed that he wanted to make a big scene, and that he just wanted to be noticed. It's sad really.
As ridiculous as some Regina songs can be I just can't see her writing a song about a porridge-like lake and meaning it is filled with sperm, in a sad story of a boy drowning himself for an orgasm. It just doesn't seem as probable as a song about suicide and a depressed teenager. But like I said, there are some strange Regina songs too, so who knows.