Lyric discussion by Nairanna 

To me, this song's about feeling so unwanted in life that she commits suicide by drowning.

And it's peaceful in the deep 'Cause either way you cannot breathe No need to pray, no need to speak Now I am under

She's finally finding some kind of peace from whatever she was going through, and no longer feeling the need to pray for release or speak to explain herself

Oh, and it's breaking over me A thousand miles out to the sea bed Found the place to rest my head

She's found the place she wants to be, far away from anyone else who might try to hurt her.

(Never let me go, never let me go Never let me go, never let me go)

This is her begging the ocean never to let her go, to keep her safe in oblivion and death and not just wash her up on a shore.

And the arms of the ocean are carrying me And all this devotion was rushing over me And the crushes are heaven for a sinner like me But the arms of the ocean deliver me

For me, this says that the ocean is pulling her in, devoted to her, which no-one ever was in her life. The crushes are heaven might mean that the ocean crushing her is like heaven because it's punishing her for what went wrong.

Though the pressure's hard to take It's the only way I can escape It seems a heavy choice to make But now I am under, oh

It's hard to go through with it, but it's the only way she can escape from the hell of her life. To others, it might seem like too heavy a choice, but she doesn't regret it.

And it's over and I'm going under But I'm not giving up I'm just giving in

I think that this means she's not giving up what she had, she's giving in to what she wants.

Oh, slipping underneath So cold and so sweet

I heard this as sleeping; showing the ocean as a bed, something comforting, as if dying's like a dream.

In the arms of the ocean, so sweet and so cold And all this devotion, well, I never knew at all And the questions I have for a sinner released As the arms of the ocean deliver me

She finally dies; she's been released from her sins, and the ocean's giving her all the devotion she never had.

perfect interpretation. this is literally everything that i interpreted.

This is my favourite song, I listen to it all the time, it rminds me of some one special that i have in my life at the moment. This song motavates me and helps me get through tough things that I come across every so often.

@Nairanna I definitely agree with you. This song is obviously about drowning to death. IThe lyric is actually "Cathedral where you cannot breathe, no need to pray, no need to speak", which makes a little more sense. Also, I don't think the pressure is about the pessures of life, but the physical pressure at the bottom of the ocean. Drowning is a pretty painful way to die.

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