This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. To me, it is a lot less depressing than what many others here are feeling.
I see the first stanza as the singer reflecting upon herself and all the doubt and uncertainty she encounters and the bitterness that arises in life, but she realizes that love flows and that is what matters.
The chorus expresses the way the course of life sweeps us away like a riptide and that her feelings send the darkness and pain away and underneath, leaving her wondering if and wishing she could follow the ways of the riptide.
The third stanza shows the singer again encountering horrible suffering and doubt and a general dissatisfaction for life and the way things are.
Then as the song begins to take on a more upbeat pace, the chorus again arises in a different form to elaborate the singer's wondering if she can be swept away by the riptide of love with new a hopeful and optimistic outlook.
@Pterodacyl I agree completely with you, but I will add that to me this could be about the feeling of lost love or unrequested love, a certain bitterness in the middle of an immense tenderness. One comes to the realization that never the less love exist on his own, it does not diminish or stop to exist because is not reciprocated, it flows in new ways, towards yourself, towards life, towards people, a certain kind of consciousness about existence, hopeful and optimistic, but never the less an exhausting learning process. To me is an amazing song because it translates for...
@Pterodacyl I agree completely with you, but I will add that to me this could be about the feeling of lost love or unrequested love, a certain bitterness in the middle of an immense tenderness. One comes to the realization that never the less love exist on his own, it does not diminish or stop to exist because is not reciprocated, it flows in new ways, towards yourself, towards life, towards people, a certain kind of consciousness about existence, hopeful and optimistic, but never the less an exhausting learning process. To me is an amazing song because it translates for me in that way, which could not necessarily the real meaning, but that's the good thing about good songs.
This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. To me, it is a lot less depressing than what many others here are feeling.
I see the first stanza as the singer reflecting upon herself and all the doubt and uncertainty she encounters and the bitterness that arises in life, but she realizes that love flows and that is what matters.
The chorus expresses the way the course of life sweeps us away like a riptide and that her feelings send the darkness and pain away and underneath, leaving her wondering if and wishing she could follow the ways of the riptide.
The third stanza shows the singer again encountering horrible suffering and doubt and a general dissatisfaction for life and the way things are.
Then as the song begins to take on a more upbeat pace, the chorus again arises in a different form to elaborate the singer's wondering if she can be swept away by the riptide of love with new a hopeful and optimistic outlook.
@Pterodacyl I agree completely with you, but I will add that to me this could be about the feeling of lost love or unrequested love, a certain bitterness in the middle of an immense tenderness. One comes to the realization that never the less love exist on his own, it does not diminish or stop to exist because is not reciprocated, it flows in new ways, towards yourself, towards life, towards people, a certain kind of consciousness about existence, hopeful and optimistic, but never the less an exhausting learning process. To me is an amazing song because it translates for...
@Pterodacyl I agree completely with you, but I will add that to me this could be about the feeling of lost love or unrequested love, a certain bitterness in the middle of an immense tenderness. One comes to the realization that never the less love exist on his own, it does not diminish or stop to exist because is not reciprocated, it flows in new ways, towards yourself, towards life, towards people, a certain kind of consciousness about existence, hopeful and optimistic, but never the less an exhausting learning process. To me is an amazing song because it translates for me in that way, which could not necessarily the real meaning, but that's the good thing about good songs.