These silent waves are my company
And I lost the land between the sky and sea
And I'm wondering, will the wind ever come for me?
I don't know where I am
Can you tell me,
Will I break or will I bend?
Will the wind ever come again?
I see the empire falling to her knees
And I lost the line between her and me
My troubles are gone if the wind ever comes for me
I don't know where I am
Can you tell me,
Will I break or will I bend?
Will the wind ever come again?
You were standing there
I dreamed I found you waiting
You were waiting for me, waiting for me
Lost the line between sky and sea
I feel the sun coming up
Coming up, coming up, coming up
I don't know where I am
I will break or I will bend
Will the wind ever come again?
This song, as stated in several interviews, is about Joe King's divorce - and in a broader sense, it is the story of someone being forced to start over. The speaker is floating in the sea, waiting for the wind to push him back in the direction he was going. It was as if he had found an island to make a life on but is now back out at sea. It's a song about finding your way when everywhere you used to go no longer exists and everything is suddenly unfarmilar.
The lyrics above are incorrect. These are right.
Oh my god I think I'm lost at sea These silent waves Are my company And I lost the line between the sky and sea And I'm wondering will the wind ever come for me? Yeah
I don't know I don't know where I am Can you tell me? Will I break or will I bend? Will the wind ever come again?
I see the sun coming up Rising from the east And I see the empire Falling to her knees And I lost the line between her and me My troubles are gone if the wind ever comes for me Yeah
I don't know I don't know where I am Can you tell me? Will I break or will I bend? Will the wind ever come?
I dreamed I found a shoreline You were standing there I dreamed I found you waiting You were waiting for me, Waiting for me
Tried to kiss the emptiness Lost the line between Sky and sea I feel the sun coming up Coming up, Coming up, Coming up
I don't know I don't know where I am I will break or I will bend Will the wind ever come again?
Is this song about being lost in life in general..? or being lost at sea?
love this song! <3
I believe this song is about those choice that may change your life. We feel lost because we have to make a choise about an opportunity, "the wind", and we really don't know if it will ever come again.
"Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." - Jesus in John 3:7-8.
He's sort of waiting for The Wind, this motion of new birth to come into his life. He feels alone, and feels like his spirit is breaking, but he's hoping it's just a bad time, and that he will bend and The Wind will come and renew him. He realizes that God was waiting for him on the shoreline where he thought he had been left alone. God never really left.
When he says, "Tried to kiss the emptiness," I think he means he was getting sucked into the world and what it does, trying to embrace the emptiness in hopes that it would bring some fulfillment, but really there is nothing in emptiness, and he finally realized that.
As stated in the previous comments, the members are Christians, originally a teen worship band at their church. I feel like Scars and Stories has much more religious themes than any of their other stuff (I think they tried to avoid it so they didn't get labeled as "Christian").
I think what the fray is trying to say in this song is that you may feel lost in life (oh my god, i think I'm lost at sea) and "the wind" is hope for an opportunity in life. "Will i bend or will i break" is talking about if when the wind comes (an opportunity) will it be too much for you to handle? Will you break? Or will you make lemonade with lemons? Will you bend? We never know when the wind will come again but once the wind comes your troubles may be gone.
I think, in general, it's just about being lost. That first line says everything, "Oh my God, I think I'm lost at sea."
It's about standing in one spot, and realizing that it's completely different than the one you were standing in before. And you don't know how you got there, or how to deal with the changes, so the result is that you're inexplicably lost. You have to start over again, in a different way, and all you really ever want is to be found and told that everything is okay, and will be okay. I suppose that's what the wind is for: it's a break from the change, a familiar air that reminds you it's okay to be lost sometimes, and that you'll find your way back.
It makes sense that this is about a divorce, then. But in a more general standpoint I think it can be related to any situation that turns your life upside down, one you have to slowly be accustomed to.