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Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: desperado on September 14, 2004, 09:33:36 pm
I have been listening to She Floats. I really like it. I have interpretted it in my mind, but I was curious to what anyone else got from that song. What does it mean, do you think? Or is there a general idea of what the song is about? Just curious. Thanks
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: Vultch on September 14, 2004, 09:35:16 pm
drugs and whales and death.
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: jjthefourth on September 14, 2004, 09:40:34 pm
Quote from: "blackvulture"
drugs and whales and death.


LMAO
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: kev222 on September 15, 2004, 12:26:01 am
Quote from: "VC"
[it's] about a girl who's living in utopia or a girl who's dead in a puddle. I can't decide.

Hah.
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: B on September 15, 2004, 12:48:21 am
Quote from: "blackvulture"
drugs and whales and death.


The first two more than the latter, IMO  :razz:
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: amberbeads on September 15, 2004, 07:46:57 am
Quote from: "kev222"
Quote from: "VC"
[it's] about a girl who's living in utopia or a girl who's dead in a puddle. I can't decide.

Hah.

LOL
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: Alecs on September 15, 2004, 01:23:54 pm
Quote from: "blackvulture"
drugs and whales and death.


LMFAO!!!! :lol: You're too Funny Kev! 8)
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: Vultch on September 15, 2004, 02:21:22 pm
Shes as fine as dandelions blowing in the wind
Shes not thinkin' about anything...
She tokes (http://www.blackvulture.com/vanessa/ly-floats.shtml)
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: B on September 15, 2004, 02:29:47 pm
Quote from: "blackvulture"
Shes as fine as dandelions blowing in the wind
Shes not thinkin' about anything...
She tokes (http://www.blackvulture.com/vanessa/ly-floats.shtml)


Yes, tokes! LMAO.  :twisted:
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: KULPDOGG on September 15, 2004, 04:14:07 pm
the lyrics might change a little for Harmonium, but so far im guessing its about--

escaping your body / reality  to go to a more peaceful 'imaginative' place
and/or
a woman with drug problems who finds it difficult to quit

...romours about someone still hooked on drugs although she says she's quit.

that is, if it goes "God knows she quits, though i'm told she floats"(meaning...noone knows if she quit, but romour has it she still "floats" a.k.a. gets HiiigHh)


meh, maybe maybe not, i'll have to see the lyrics in the booklet to be sure.
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: VaderDawsn on September 15, 2004, 05:15:09 pm
I thought it was about death and/or being suicidal..

Edit: upon listening again, I can see how it can be about someone on drugs..
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: pianoplayer88 on September 15, 2004, 05:18:18 pm
Quote from: "blackvulture"
drugs and whales and death.


So basically, just happy stuff!
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: Chloe on September 15, 2004, 05:28:52 pm
Quote from: "pianoplayer88"
Quote from: "blackvulture"
drugs and whales and death.


So basically, just happy stuff!


yay WHALES!!! weeeeeeee! ROFL :razz:
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: Chloe on September 15, 2004, 05:29:06 pm
Quote from: "pianoplayer88"
Quote from: "blackvulture"
drugs and whales and death.


So basically, just happy stuff!


yay WHALES!!! weeeeeeee! ROFL :razz:
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: Vultch on September 15, 2004, 05:31:52 pm
A summer day in 2002, she sat in a Seattle hotel room, looked out over the puget sound, saw the whales... it basically wrote itself :)
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: LimeTwister on September 15, 2004, 06:18:30 pm
Quote from: "blackvulture"
A summer day in 2002, she sat in a Seattle hotel room, looked out over the puget sound, saw the whales... it basically wrote itself :)


you skipped the GOOD part!

she thought to herself: "I wonder what it'd be like to be a whale" (not her exact words to herself.)
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: Alecs on September 16, 2004, 08:11:46 am
I always thought it was a song about being high on something. It has that slow, yet comfortable, but know too happy sound to it. I love it. I can only imagine how it will sound live on this tour. 8O  8)  :wink:
Title: She Floats - meaning
Post by: Xenophanes on September 18, 2004, 07:18:04 am
Hmmm...I believe she mentioned at some point that She Floats is about "the euphoria of being dead"? I also remember seeing an interpretation of it as a song about suicide...both interpretations work for me, all though the quote from V comes from a sort of unreliable Rolling Stone interview (that Rolling Stone interview :roll: ), and the suicide one sounds a bit more poetic...