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Lyrics:
My shadow's side so amplified
Keeps coming back to dissatisfied
Elementary son, but it's soul
My lover fair with everywhere
Was innoce...
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Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-10-22 21:35:36 Rating:  "You don't form in the wet sand" I believe it means that you're not all you're cut out to be.
Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-10-23 18:11:38 Rating:   I believe this songs, gives the messege of you're not all you're cut out to be, "you don't form in the wet sand, you don't form at all" meaning you don't have everything going for you that you thought you did.
Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-11-17 18:17:37 Rating: I believe what he is trying to say in this song is that he was dating a girl he thought he was interested in but then he realized there was nothing to her.when he says,"you don't form in the wet sand" I think he is trying to say that she has no personality and pull herself out of a hole she dug, which is drug addiction.
Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-11-25 16:19:42 Rating: I saw an interview on youtube and when John was jamming Anthony overheard him babbling what sounded like 'Wet sand'. So though the meaning of wet sand is what you dudes have already said, they stumbled across it accidentally.
Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-11-27 01:14:16 Rating: "you don't form in the wet sand" the ideas he had about certain things aren't concrete. The beliefs he had in certain people or things aren't real enough to make a mark in sand.
It's probably about a girl or drug addiction or both. But it's universal to anything we put too much faith in, or rather when we put faith in the wrong things.
Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-12-24 11:06:30 Rating: i agree with people above. He is dating this girl who he thought would be fantastic, yet he comes back "so dissatisfied" like he says in the song. She doesn't turn out ot be what he wasnts and he loses love for her and when he says"you don't form into wet sand" probly means she didn't quite fit in his life like he imagined.
like I've said before I'm not great at getting what I want to say out there.
-timma
Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-01-23 04:36:03 Rating: I thought it was about losing a lover or close friend :
"My shadow's side so amplified" - There is noone beside him anymore besides his shadow.
"You're the best I know" - Thinking back on their past and how close they were.
"My sunny side has up and died" - The best part of him is gone.
"Universal shift into a love
The travesty that we have seen
Are treating you like Benzadrine" - He realises he had true feelings for the person but when they were alive he abused them (Benzadrine was a speed like drug orignally used as medicine but was abused for the effects)
"My what a good day for a, walk outside
I'd like to get to know you a little better baby
God knows that I'll really try" - Wishing he'd realised how much he truely cared for the person and is thinking back on his behaviour. I also see the line "My what a... walk outside" as ironic.
"I saw you there so unaware
Those hummingbirds all in your hair
Elementary, son, but it's (soul)
The disrepair of Norma Jean
Could not compare to your routine" - Originally he was attracted to her for her purity, which he took away. I think the Norma Jean would be reference to Marilyn Monroe, he is saying that her tumble from grave doesn't compare to the character in the story.
"I thought about it and I brought it out
I'm motivated by the lack of doubt
I'm concentrated but I'm not devout
The mother, the father, the daughter" - Thinking on how his actions brought the person to and end (Getting them onto drugs?)
"Right on the verge just one more dose
I'm traveling from coast to coast
My theory isn't perfect but it's close
I'm almost there why should I care" - He let this person pass as he was more concerned with getting high, the line "Right on...one more dose" suggests he pressured this person.
"Oh you don't form in the wet sand
You don't form at all
Woah you don't form in the wet sand, I do, yeah" - Walking on the beach, he leaves footprints but they're alone. Wondering why he lived and they didn't. Could also be seen as realising he has a second chance.
Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-02-01 21:47:50 Rating: This was said by the artists in an interview
love but not only the the bright side of love but also the dark side of it and it just bunched together and loving it all
Submitted by: midnitegreen
Added: 2007-04-23 17:24:42 Rating: It is a mysterious song and has more meaning than you would think.
Submitted by: midnitegreen
Added: 2007-05-03 18:10:12 Rating: Sand that is wet is mud. Maybe it is about lack of clarity.
Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-08-09 19:06:11 Rating: "You don't form in the wet sand" means many things to me. It means you have no depth. You are a shallow person. You don't make an impression. You are not like me. We could have been good together but you didn't see it.
Submitted by: sbusa
Added: 2008-03-10 05:02:25 Rating: "On the verge, just one more dose/I'm traveling from coast to coast."
-I think this is referring to Anthony's drug addiction, when he would travel to different places to get away from California, where he would do a drug binge and then return home.
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