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Re:Um...not to interrupt or anything....
The World Can Wait...
I sat here listening to the song and trying to come up with a good adjective for it, but failed miserably. I really, really like it, let me leave that there...
My general interpretation is that the person singing has gotten hung up in the seriousness and worry of life; the first section talks about "best laid plans" and "typical fears." Then comes the acknowledgement that many situations get the best of the person going through them and results in some form of a break down (this is not the first time/something ends in just tears...). At this point the singer looks outside herself and wonders aloud about the various religions that people take comfort in when they are in difficult situations.
Then comes the chorus. Despite all the things going on in life and the temptation to get bogged down in the confusion of them, the singer stops and tells the world to go away for awhile. She takes comfort in a relationship that brings sanity into the craziness (I want to drink the water from your well/I want to tell you things I'd never tell).
But then reality sets in and the singer has to go back to the craziness she checked out of to refresh herself during the chorus. This time there is a desire to engage the world and not just hide from it (I want to feel and then some/I have five senses/ I need thousands more at least). Then the singer proceeds to state that she's going to remember life now; the photograph and page of paper symbolize the recording process the smorgasboard (moveable feast) of life goes through before it can become the "black and white" of memory that rolls through the singer's head. Yet even though the singer has a better perspective on life and isn't as overwhelmed by it as in the beginning of the song, she still watches "the movie of my [her] life" with a critical eye because there is always room for growth based on previous experience.
Then comes the refreshing period again as the chorus repeats. The singer refreshes herself in time away from the world again, and plunges back into the relationship that provides an anchor point for her in the insanity of life.
"haven't I said enough" now?
Heather
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