Lyrical Interpretations

tasha039 · 08-07-2003, 04:23 PM

This will be a lot to ask, and thanks to those whom have already helped, but does anyone know most all the interpretation of all the 'O' songs. Especially 'Volcano' and 'Cold Water'...and 'Amie'

Thank~Natasha

gally45 · 08-09-2003, 10:39 AM

Cold water is supposed to be about turning to god in times of despair when your on the edge and nothing else seems to help, god is alwaysthere etc. personnally I think its about swimming in the sea in Ireland cause its feckin freezin most of the time! anyway I think the important thing is what it means to you and not what its supposed to mean if you know what I mean! <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif">

tasha039 · 08-10-2003, 01:13 AM

Gally, where as that it is true, I should interpret it how I want, I still believe in preserving an artist's art. I would just feel better if I knew I could relate to a song because that is what its original intent was. Though thank you very much for the cold water explanation. It is one of my favorite songs. How cold is the water in Ireland. Do you guys (Irish citizens) ever able to go to the beach and have fun, with the sun shining?

gally45 · 08-11-2003, 04:48 AM

Yeah Natasha it gets warm in the summer great weather here at the moment so its not too bad, and waves are pretty good on the west coast so u can go surfing any time with a wetsuit. At witnness damien was saying that "I remember" started out as a happy song kinda folk song after meeting a girl at the local celbridge GAA (football) club and he was in great form walking home and started writing a song "I remember it well the first time that I saw..." anyway he thought it was pretty sh*te and didnt think much more of it" anyway turns out that the girl he was singing about later screwed him over basically and he turned itinto an angry song which he also thought was sh*te! anyway in the studio he decided to mess around and put the two songs together and came up with "I remember" so I hope thay helps, take it easy, Shane

drainer · 08-16-2003, 10:57 AM

This probably sounds ridiculous but I think Volcano is about a young girl's infatuation with Damo, she read too much into a shared embrace and it meant far more to her than Damo himself.

Does anyone else think it is more than a coincidence that "Amie" is French for a female friend? Is this what the song is about or, like the Volcano girl, am I reading too much into things?

Gatsby · 08-16-2003, 11:44 AM

i dont like to try and take apart the lyrics to analyse them... i just leave them as they are and interpret them whatever way i want to... it doesnt matter to me what the singer meant by them i just enjoy making my own presumtions<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley1.gif">

Wheels · 08-16-2003, 03:15 PM

Someone said on this board that Amie was the name of one of the characters in the story of O...

Gatsby · 08-16-2003, 05:54 PM

i really wanna see this sotry of O book... i hear it was made into a film as well!!

Sionna · 08-16-2003, 08:51 PM

Me being a fool like I am,went to easonsasked for 'the story of O',bought it got home and realised it was the wrong book!About some writer from Hotpress!Yes I know I'm a twat!

Gatsby · 08-16-2003, 09:14 PM

no twat isnt the word id use... maybe...SPA!!!<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif">

Sionna · 08-16-2003, 09:59 PM

I love u too Jeweller <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley4.gif">

Gatsby · 08-16-2003, 10:04 PM

Dont mess with my feelings like that fiona... you broke my heart already when u told me u were a lesbien... i cant take much more of it<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley6.gif">

Sionna · 08-16-2003, 10:35 PM

Lol!!I cant think of a come back,its way to late/early in the morning,ooh ill get u Simon <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif">

Gatsby · 08-16-2003, 10:41 PM

Okay... and if u dont u can always get the "POWER" Rangers to get me!!!! muhahahaha<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley4.gif">

Sionna · 08-16-2003, 10:49 PM

That was low jewjew!Oooh ooh since every1 here calls me fifi,can we call jeweller jewjew for a while,its his fave nick name!

Gatsby · 08-16-2003, 10:53 PM

I am rubber u are glue<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley16.gif">

Sionna · 08-16-2003, 10:58 PM

whatever u say bounces off me and sticks to u<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif">

daol20 · 08-17-2003, 04:11 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>

"JewJew!!!" Ha! Thats a keeper!!!

Originally posted by Jeweller on 17August2003

<HR>

Dont mess with my feelings like that fiona... you broke my heart already when u told me u were a lesbien... i cant take much more of it<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley6.gif">

<HR>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<SCRIPT language=javascript>postamble();</SCRIPT>

So Fifi! You play for the pink team ha? You kick with your left foot. I'm liking you even more!

And Jewjew! Why would that break your heart. "They're" more fun anyway!<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif">

Sionna · 08-17-2003, 05:06 PM

Damn it my secret is out!<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif">Go on Dar!keep callin him Jewjew.

daol20 · 08-17-2003, 05:16 PM

I've already forgotten what other name he goes by!!!!

LisaOBrien · 08-17-2003, 09:02 PM

so jewjew eh??? haha

so you're a laser beam sionna????

FredDaNinjaPunk · 08-18-2003, 09:46 AM

Hey, you can get most of the novel online starting here...

http://www.volweb.cz/tkudrna/soop1.htm

Have to say, its not really my cup of tea

Sionna · 08-18-2003, 10:03 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by LisaOBrien on 18August2003
<HR>

so you're a laser beam sionna????
<HR>
</BLOCKQUOTE>A laser beam?Never heard that one before!

daol20 · 08-18-2003, 12:08 PM

Thought iwas the only one! Explain.

julia · 08-18-2003, 12:16 PM

I was just curious does any boday know what Damien means when he say's Eskimo Friend? Do you think he is talking about drugs somehow? Just wondering, would appreciate any input thanks

Sionna · 08-18-2003, 05:53 PM

Hey me and my friends thought that!!check out the thread 'A theory or 2...' Cause I look to my eskimofriend when I'm down.......

LisaOBrien · 08-18-2003, 09:08 PM

lesbian.....laser beam.....geddit....jaysus....<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif">

Sionna · 08-19-2003, 12:27 AM

Ye Limerick people tut tut!<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif">

Nocturne · 08-19-2003, 01:57 AM

I've heard someone mention that "Volcano" seems to them to be that of a guy (or maybe Damien, from a past experience) who had slept with a girl and it was just a one night stand with no strings attached. However, she thought it was more than that and looked at it as love, and he implies she's tooyoung to understand it was just sex. That's what someone I know of came up with and to me it makes sense. Just thought I'd mention it...

Wheels · 08-19-2003, 04:02 AM

jbalogh, his Eskimo Friend is a friend of his from Finland, who looks a bit like an Eskimo. He was writing the song while depressed that he couldn't write a good song (!) and she had just left and he saw her picture... somethinglike that.

08-07-2003, 04:23 PM	#1
tasha039 Eskimo Regular Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: United States Posts: 669	This will be a lot to ask, and thanks to those whom have already helped, but does anyone know most all the interpretation of all the 'O' songs. Especially 'Volcano' and 'Cold Water'...and 'Amie' Thank~Natasha __________________ THE PRICE OF A MEMORY IS THE MEMORY OF THE SORROW IT BRINGS. -COUNTING CROWS

08-10-2003, 01:13 AM	#3
tasha039 Eskimo Regular Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: United States Posts: 669	Gally, where as that it is true, I should interpret it how I want, I still believe in preserving an artist's art. I would just feel better if I knew I could relate to a song because that is what its original intent was. Though thank you very much for the cold water explanation. It is one of my favorite songs. How cold is the water in Ireland. Do you guys (Irish citizens) ever able to go to the beach and have fun, with the sun shining? __________________ THE PRICE OF A MEMORY IS THE MEMORY OF THE SORROW IT BRINGS. -COUNTING CROWS

08-16-2003, 11:44 AM	#6
Gatsby Eskimo Regular Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 5,809	i dont like to try and take apart the lyrics to analyse them... i just leave them as they are and interpret them whatever way i want to... it doesnt matter to me what the singer meant by them i just enjoy making my own presumtions<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley1.gif"> __________________ "Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And on fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." https://www.twitch.tv/simonjmusic

08-16-2003, 05:54 PM	#8
Gatsby Eskimo Regular Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 5,809	i really wanna see this sotry of O book... i hear it was made into a film as well!! __________________ "Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And on fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." https://www.twitch.tv/simonjmusic

08-16-2003, 08:51 PM	#9
Sionna Eskimo Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,131	Me being a fool like I am,went to easonsasked for 'the story of O',bought it got home and realised it was the wrong book!About some writer from Hotpress!Yes I know I'm a twat! __________________ Emmett Tinley World Domination Commission (ETWDC)

08-09-2003, 10:39 AM	#2
gally45 Eskimo Regular Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 147	Cold water is supposed to be about turning to god in times of despair when your on the edge and nothing else seems to help, god is alwaysthere etc. personnally I think its about swimming in the sea in Ireland cause its feckin freezin most of the time! anyway I think the important thing is what it means to you and not what its supposed to mean if you know what I mean! <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif">

08-11-2003, 04:48 AM	#4
gally45 Eskimo Regular Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 147	Yeah Natasha it gets warm in the summer great weather here at the moment so its not too bad, and waves are pretty good on the west coast so u can go surfing any time with a wetsuit. At witnness damien was saying that "I remember" started out as a happy song kinda folk song after meeting a girl at the local celbridge GAA (football) club and he was in great form walking home and started writing a song "I remember it well the first time that I saw..." anyway he thought it was pretty shte and didnt think much more of it" anyway turns out that the girl he was singing about later screwed him over basically and he turned itinto an angry song which he also thought was shte! anyway in the studio he decided to mess around and put the two songs together and came up with "I remember" so I hope thay helps, take it easy, Shane

08-16-2003, 10:57 AM	#5
drainer Eskimo Friend Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Ireland Posts: 31	This probably sounds ridiculous but I think Volcano is about a young girl's infatuation with Damo, she read too much into a shared embrace and it meant far more to her than Damo himself. Does anyone else think it is more than a coincidence that "Amie" is French for a female friend? Is this what the song is about or, like the Volcano girl, am I reading too much into things?

08-16-2003, 03:15 PM	#7
Wheels Eskimo Enigma Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Peoples Republic of Cork Posts: 7,900	Someone said on this board that Amie was the name of one of the characters in the story of O...

08-16-2003, 09:14 PM	#10
Gatsby Eskimo Regular Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 5,809	no twat isnt the word id use... maybe...SPA!!!<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif"> __________________ "Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And on fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." https://www.twitch.tv/simonjmusic

08-16-2003, 09:59 PM	#11
Sionna Eskimo Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,131	I love u too Jeweller <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley4.gif"> __________________ Emmett Tinley World Domination Commission (ETWDC)

08-16-2003, 10:04 PM	#12
Gatsby Eskimo Regular Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 5,809	Dont mess with my feelings like that fiona... you broke my heart already when u told me u were a lesbien... i cant take much more of it<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley6.gif"> __________________ "Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And on fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." https://www.twitch.tv/simonjmusic

08-16-2003, 10:35 PM	#13
Sionna Eskimo Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,131	Lol!!I cant think of a come back,its way to late/early in the morning,ooh ill get u Simon <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif"> __________________ Emmett Tinley World Domination Commission (ETWDC)

08-16-2003, 10:41 PM	#14
Gatsby Eskimo Regular Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 5,809	Okay... and if u dont u can always get the "POWER" Rangers to get me!!!! muhahahaha<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley4.gif"> __________________ "Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And on fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." https://www.twitch.tv/simonjmusic

08-16-2003, 10:49 PM	#15
Sionna Eskimo Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,131	That was low jewjew!Oooh ooh since every1 here calls me fifi,can we call jeweller jewjew for a while,its his fave nick name! __________________ Emmett Tinley World Domination Commission (ETWDC)

08-16-2003, 10:53 PM	#16
Gatsby Eskimo Regular Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 5,809	I am rubber u are glue<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley16.gif"> __________________ "Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And on fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." https://www.twitch.tv/simonjmusic

08-16-2003, 10:58 PM	#17
Sionna Eskimo Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,131	whatever u say bounces off me and sticks to u<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif"> __________________ Emmett Tinley World Domination Commission (ETWDC)

08-17-2003, 04:11 PM	#18
daol20 Eskimo irRegular Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southern Yemen Posts: 2,091	<BLOCKQUOTE> "JewJew!!!" Ha! Thats a keeper!!! Originally posted by Jeweller on 17August2003 <HR> Dont mess with my feelings like that fiona... you broke my heart already when u told me u were a lesbien... i cant take much more of it<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley6.gif"> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <SCRIPT language=javascript>postamble();</SCRIPT> So Fifi! You play for the pink team ha? You kick with your left foot. I'm liking you even more! And Jewjew! Why would that break your heart. "They're" more fun anyway!<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif"> __________________ You leave me here bereaving from the words so hard and plain Saying the love that we had was just selfish and sad To see you now with him is just making me mad Oh so kiss him again just to prove to me that you can an I will stand here and burn in my skin

08-17-2003, 05:06 PM	#19
Sionna Eskimo Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,131	Damn it my secret is out!<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif">Go on Dar!keep callin him Jewjew. __________________ Emmett Tinley World Domination Commission (ETWDC)

08-17-2003, 05:16 PM	#20
daol20 Eskimo irRegular Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southern Yemen Posts: 2,091	I've already forgotten what other name he goes by!!!! __________________ You leave me here bereaving from the words so hard and plain Saying the love that we had was just selfish and sad To see you now with him is just making me mad Oh so kiss him again just to prove to me that you can an I will stand here and burn in my skin

08-17-2003, 09:02 PM	#21
LisaOBrien Eskimo Regular Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 411	so jewjew eh??? haha so you're a laser beam sionna???? __________________ and everytime she sneezes i think it's love...

08-18-2003, 09:46 AM	#22
FredDaNinjaPunk Eskimo Regular Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 252	Hey, you can get most of the novel online starting here... http://www.volweb.cz/tkudrna/soop1.htm Have to say, its not really my cup of tea __________________ <font color="blue">[i]"its all a lot of oysters but no pearls"</font>

08-18-2003, 10:03 AM	#23
Sionna Eskimo Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,131	<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by LisaOBrien on 18August2003 <HR> so you're a laser beam sionna???? <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>A laser beam?Never heard that one before! __________________ Emmett Tinley World Domination Commission (ETWDC)

08-18-2003, 12:08 PM	#24
daol20 Eskimo irRegular Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southern Yemen Posts: 2,091	Thought iwas the only one! Explain. __________________ You leave me here bereaving from the words so hard and plain Saying the love that we had was just selfish and sad To see you now with him is just making me mad Oh so kiss him again just to prove to me that you can an I will stand here and burn in my skin

08-18-2003, 12:16 PM	#25
julia Eskimo Yogi.. Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Portland Girl! Posts: 1,078	I was just curious does any boday know what Damien means when he say's Eskimo Friend? Do you think he is talking about drugs somehow? Just wondering, would appreciate any input thanks __________________ "There's something magical about music and the simple fact that it's a vibration of air. It's sort of magical if you vibrate the air in a certain way, people are pleased by it." Damien Rice

08-18-2003, 05:53 PM	#26
Sionna Eskimo Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,131	Hey me and my friends thought that!!check out the thread 'A theory or 2...' Cause I look to my eskimofriend when I'm down....... __________________ Emmett Tinley World Domination Commission (ETWDC)

08-18-2003, 09:08 PM	#27
LisaOBrien Eskimo Regular Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 411	lesbian.....laser beam.....geddit....jaysus....<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif"> __________________ and everytime she sneezes i think it's love...

08-19-2003, 12:27 AM	#28
Sionna Eskimo Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,131	Ye Limerick people tut tut!<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif"> __________________ Emmett Tinley World Domination Commission (ETWDC)

08-19-2003, 01:57 AM	#29
Nocturne Eskimo Baby Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: United States Posts: 1	I've heard someone mention that "Volcano" seems to them to be that of a guy (or maybe Damien, from a past experience) who had slept with a girl and it was just a one night stand with no strings attached. However, she thought it was more than that and looked at it as love, and he implies she's tooyoung to understand it was just sex. That's what someone I know of came up with and to me it makes sense. Just thought I'd mention it...

08-19-2003, 04:02 AM	#30
Wheels Eskimo Enigma Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Peoples Republic of Cork Posts: 7,900	jbalogh, his Eskimo Friend is a friend of his from Finland, who looks a bit like an Eskimo. He was writing the song while depressed that he couldn't write a good song (!) and she had just left and he saw her picture... somethinglike that.