This song is about being landlocked, so to speak, in your own personal and necessarily self-serving existence so long as you are alive. To breach your little island would be to be free; free of the need to maintain your ego and physical safety; free of defending yourself, both physically and emotionally, at the expense of others. However, the island is the only thing keeping you alive, and leaving the island can only happen in death. Hence, the desire for true freedom can only be attained in death. It is the desire for more than this cage of human form and mind that we have been given. To reach the water is to attain a kind of spiritual freedom that we are as of now incapable of. Along with the unfulfulling nature of this island, even the things we can enjoy are all only permanent, and it can be no other way. So we long for something permanent, the only thing of which we know is death. All we can do in life when we need to get away from our self-serving yet impermanent existence is just walk away, walk away, walk away...
This song is about being landlocked, so to speak, in your own personal and necessarily self-serving existence so long as you are alive. To breach your little island would be to be free; free of the need to maintain your ego and physical safety; free of defending yourself, both physically and emotionally, at the expense of others. However, the island is the only thing keeping you alive, and leaving the island can only happen in death. Hence, the desire for true freedom can only be attained in death. It is the desire for more than this cage of human form and mind that we have been given. To reach the water is to attain a kind of spiritual freedom that we are as of now incapable of. Along with the unfulfulling nature of this island, even the things we can enjoy are all only permanent, and it can be no other way. So we long for something permanent, the only thing of which we know is death. All we can do in life when we need to get away from our self-serving yet impermanent existence is just walk away, walk away, walk away...