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Low Roar // Because We Have To.

The wind pushes north, through the straits, towards the clouds

The sun rests her head on the water around

By morning, our voices will sink with their shells

Her belly exposed, up towards the sun

Lays hindered and splintered and makes not a sound

Ahead of her bow, a doll chain takes form

Of women and children that someone adored

In a last dance, hand in hand, they float all around

Sounded normal right? Peaceful and what not. But the meaning to this song is rather depressing. And sad. And the truth. I think this song is about the end of a relationship, expressed through the metaphor of a sinking boat. Even though everything is beautiful in the beginning (the water is "calm" and there are "blue skies"), a shadow forms over their relationship as "wind" and "clouds" move in. The break-up is portrayed as a splintered boat, washed up on shore, that can no longer be of use to the couple. The "women and children" are all the positive things that happened in the relationship (women and children are the first to be evacuated from a sinking ship), but in the water, they drown. That is, they cannot be repeated because the relationship is over for good.

There are alot of things in this world, but never the same love twice. 

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