It's about how the memory of a departed love one can suddenly come to you from out of nowehere. The city draped in net? A coral reef, dead coral, as "there were hundreds of people living here....." "Speedboats flying above......." - mans intervention. So I imagine she's on holiday, in boat over the coral, her mind is wondering and maybe she puts a hand in the water. And from nowhere this memory of her dead mother materialises. This is how memories of lost loved ones usually appear. For Kate, it was a deeply personal song which dealt with the death of her mother more than a decade after the event. She was in 2 minds whether to put it on the album becuase it's so deeply personal, but to anyone who has suffered a similar loss will immediately connect with this. It's a beautiful song which you feel more than you hear.
It's about how the memory of a departed love one can suddenly come to you from out of nowehere. The city draped in net? A coral reef, dead coral, as "there were hundreds of people living here....." "Speedboats flying above......." - mans intervention. So I imagine she's on holiday, in boat over the coral, her mind is wondering and maybe she puts a hand in the water. And from nowhere this memory of her dead mother materialises. This is how memories of lost loved ones usually appear. For Kate, it was a deeply personal song which dealt with the death of her mother more than a decade after the event. She was in 2 minds whether to put it on the album becuase it's so deeply personal, but to anyone who has suffered a similar loss will immediately connect with this. It's a beautiful song which you feel more than you hear.