anonymous April 15th, 2007 07:43PM  
I would like yall's feedback but I think this song and the whole album Deja Entendu have a lot of allusion to Moby Dick, the book. The band talks a lot about the sea and I don't know let me hear what yall think.

anonymous May 25th, 2007 08:14AM  
I think this is about a relationship that is going worng, no matter what they try. The voice is desperately trying to hold on to what they've had, but he can't "Need you like water in my lungs."
Then when its like "Your tongue is a rudder..." and that bit its like saying that what ever happens it is down to what is being said.
When it says "You know that you are not alone" I think he means that the gril knows that he will always be there for her.
Basically I think Jesse is using a boat and a ship wreck as a metaphore for a relationship falling apart (the boat is the relationship)

Could be wrong though, could be a load of bollocks that seems to fit!

Tlk2themaninchrj August 10th, 2007 11:02PM  
Yep the ship is definitely a metaphor for a relationship. It was good but it went bad. When it talks about how the tongue is a rudder is probably saying how important your words are so choose them well. It says the tongue is a rudder that steers the whole ship. That's said in the bible but not in the exact way. In another place in a song it says "I need you like water in my lungs." That sounds like he's saying he still wants her but it's hurting him.

anonymous July 25th, 2008 02:46AM  
We sent out the SOS call.
It was a quarter past four in the morning when the storm broke our second anchor line.
Four months at sea, four months of calm seas only to be pounded in the shallows off the tip of Montauk Point.

Means:

We need help
It's four in the morning and the fight/argument broke out
It was the second time
Four months together that was nice and easygoing only to be ruined by something

anonymous April 22nd, 2009 11:21PM  
It is pulling from the Bible. "The tongue is a rudder..." refers to James 3:4-5. He is using a metaphor from the Bible to describe a real-life situation.