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Mar 2nd 2010!⃝I love this song, and the video for it always makes me chuckle. But I think I see it a bit differently from most of you fine folks out there. So, bear with me, and please forgive any spelling mistakes. ^^
I get the feeling this song is about a young couple, quite an early relationship that neither of them are sure about. They go to the beach, likely because they don't have the money or freedom to do much else, but the narrator, most likely a young male, feels that the location is somehow inadequate. "it's only water and sand" Maybe he's worried the setting isn't good enough for the girl? He likes her well enough, but doesn't like the way she is "apologetically dressed in the best" and so perhaps seemingly high maintinance?
"On the cold wet dirt I cry" Is unlikely to refer to actual tears, but to an emotional outcry, it's like he's begging this girl "Don't you wanna come with me? Don't you wanna feel my bones, on your bones? It's only natural." He longs to feel some deeper connection with her, because so far she has been superficial and shallow. The boy is combining his lust with a yearning to find something deeper and more spiritual about the girl, he wants the sensuality of skin, but he also wants to find something cleaner and purer deep down, and while he stumbles to explain it, the closest he can think to it is bones. The clean, hard core of what we are, the structure that holds us up, much like our morals or spirituality.
"A cinematic vision ensued/like the holiest dream." It feels like what follows next isn't really happening to him, it's like a sacred vision, he is a part of it, but separate somehow. "An angel whispers my name, but the message relayed is the same: 'Wait till tomorrow, you'll be fine.'" He was getting so into the idea of this dream that he almost believed he might get what he asked for, but the girl just tells him to wait. From the sound of it, it isn't the first time this has happened, "The message relayed is the same" but this time, he isn't entierly satisfied with her answer. "But it's gone to the dogs in my mind" And he wants to persist. Usually this internal conflict is ignored, "When the dead of night comes calling to save me from this fight" ie he finds something to persuade himself not to persue, but he realises that this was never really a resolution to how he felt, he was ignoring how deeply his feelings ran. "They could never wrong this right" he knows that his emotions are well founded, he feels he's done the right thing, but that now is the right time to progress.
So he keeps asking her, he gets more fluent with his speech, and he opens up to her, perhaps hoping she will do the same.
"(Never had a lover)
I never had a lover
(Never had soul)
I never had soul
(Never had a good time)
And I never had a good time
(Never felt whole)
I never felt whole."
This could be his subconscious making him realise the reasons he craves so desperately to get closer to the girl, and he begins to realise how lonly he has been, and how much he just wants some intimacy and human connection. He decides to explain this to her, He wants her to know how he feels, because he wants her to trust him. He asks her again, but less tentatively. He has now convinced himself that he's right, and that they should pursue the relationship. Not in a way that is meant to pressure the girl, and not in any perverted manner. Perhaps te girl is being prudish or coy with him? Perhaps she wants to give in, but is nervous?
I could just be grasping at entirely the wrong end of an utterly different stick, but hey! Thats the joy of opinions. :3
