{"id":25005,"date":"2015-07-28T18:25:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T17:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=25005"},"modified":"2015-07-28T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T17:32:11","slug":"water-lyrics-fascinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=25005","title":{"rendered":"WATER: Lyrics &#038; Fascinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this month\u2019s theme of WATER, we have looked at how album sleeves depict water and it\u2019s many personas and how water can producesound and become the source of a musical instrument (hydraulophone) but how is our beloved substance expressed in the form of lyrics? Categorizing songs by genre, we\u2019ve selected songs in which musicians passionately describe water.<\/p>\n<p><em>Electronic<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00c9milie Simon (France)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Swimming<\/li>\n<li>Il Pleut<\/li>\n<li>To The Lake<\/li>\n<li>To The Dancers In The Rain<\/li>\n<li>Song Of The Storm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/emiie-simon.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25079\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/emiie-simon-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"emiie simon\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/emiie-simon.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/emiie-simon.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/emiie-simon.jpg?resize=680%2C453&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/emiie-simon.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the most creative peak of this French chanteuse\u2019s career, \u00c9milie Simon performed at alternative music club The Borderline in May 2007. She possessed a piano and guitar, a unique steampunk- looking electronic arm that modifies her voice with precision and a large tray of water. If you were familiar with her compilation album <em>The Flower Book<\/em>, it could be expected. Track 11 of that 2006 album <em>Swimming<\/em> begins with the sound of water being pressed, plodded and manoeuvred. It\u2019s incredible clear and playful with it\u2019s open approach and sounds like a safety hazard underneath her glitchy electric music box. Like the album cover for Red Hot Chilli Peppers\u2019 <em>Californication <\/em>(mentioned in our water album covers article), the lyrics turn the balance of sky and ocean upside down, with Simon \u201cswimming across the sky\u201d and \u201cflying in paradise in that ocean of dead lights\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In fact a lot of the album is obsessed with H20 in it\u2019s various forms. Not only does it contain running water, Simon places a rippling effect over her voice in the French-language <em>Il Pleut<\/em> (which translates as <em>It Is Raining<\/em>) to make it sound like she\u2019s singing whilst submerging in a bath of water. Lukewarm about rain, it appears to help the protagonist\u2019s wish for clarity in her relationship. Whilst in the English-language orchestral ballad To The Dancers In The Rain, the weather condition is seen as romantic setting for a dream-like date. \u201cI\u2019m your princess for tonight, maybe forever. We were dancers in the rain and it still remains\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whistling woodwind instruments (possibly pan pipes, flute or recorder) and tribal drumming attempt to paint a picture of a place that might contain a lake, such as woodlands or a jungle on <em>In The Lake<\/em>. Despite lakes seeming like mini oceans, Simon makes it sound like a large space where two lovers can be separated, although it\u2019s likely to be metaphorical.\u201cWe are always a little bit far in the lake.\u201d \u00c9milie Simon provided the soundtrack to the original version of the nature documentary March of The Penguins and it included <em>Song Of The Storm<\/em>; an experimental alternative electro track in which Simon uses extreme weather conditions to show the intensity of her furious emotions. \u201cCan\u2019t you hear my storm coming? \/Big black clouds forming now.\u201d Water is not quite as lovey-dovey as it was before.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gothic Metal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Evanescence (USA)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Going Under<\/li>\n<li>Oceans<\/li>\n<li>Swimming Home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1237899-amy-lee-evanescence-interview-los-angeles-4-617-409.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25082\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1237899-amy-lee-evanescence-interview-los-angeles-4-617-409-300x198.jpg?resize=300%2C198\" alt=\"1237899-amy-lee-evanescence-interview-los-angeles-4-617-409\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1237899-amy-lee-evanescence-interview-los-angeles-4-617-409.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1237899-amy-lee-evanescence-interview-los-angeles-4-617-409.jpg?resize=600%2C397&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1237899-amy-lee-evanescence-interview-los-angeles-4-617-409.jpg?w=617&amp;ssl=1 617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From the late nineties to early noughties, many genres had their time in the mainstream light and one of those genres was gothic metal, spearheaded by Arkansas band Evanescence. <em>Going Under<\/em> was one of many music videos played on rotation at MTV and it was very memorable for it\u2019s depictions of fear. According to the Songfacts website \u201cthis is about a woman who is tired and tormented by her lover, who is pulling her down.\u201d The torment is shown with freakish faces that pollute the audience at an Evanescence concert and the \u201cpulling down\u201d is illustrated when lead singer Amy Lee dives underwater. The lyrics \u201cdrowning in you\u201d are love-related but associate water with death connotations and as a substance that needs escaping. <em>Oceans<\/em> is from Evanescence\u2019s latest self-title release from 2011 and also documents a bad experience in a relationship. Its properties (colour, motion, texture) of water aren\u2019t important, it\u2019s a word that\u2019s only use to signify something of a large mass. Amy Lee\u2019s character is finding it so difficult to get over an important partner that she has to \u201ccross the oceans\u201d mentally to find closure.<\/p>\n<p>On the same album is <em>Swimming Home<\/em>.A programming-meets-harp rock track that breaks away from their idiosyncratic metal leanings \u2013 although they are no strangers to heartfelt melancholy &#8211; is about the moment that one crosses into the afterlife. It\u2019s from the perspective of an individual that\u2019s dying and they are saying farewell in a modest manner by calling it \u201cswimming home\u201d. The line \u201cI hear them calling and nothing can hold me\u201d, imagines a character swimming uncontrollably into a direction that\u2019s predetermined and magnetizes at it\u2019s will, hence death. According to a comment on the SongMeanings website, Amy Lee always includes a song about her late sister on every Evanescence album and <em>Swimming Home<\/em> is one of them.<\/p>\n<p><em>NEW AGE<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ENYA (Ireland)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)<\/li>\n<li>Storms In Africa (Part I) or (Part II)<\/li>\n<li>Caribbean Blue<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s In The Rain<\/li>\n<li>Trains and Winter Rains<\/li>\n<li>The River Sings, A Day Without Rain\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/enya.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25083\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/enya-300x210.jpg?resize=300%2C210\" alt=\"enya\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/enya.jpg?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/enya.jpg?resize=600%2C420&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/enya.jpg?resize=680%2C476&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/enya.jpg?resize=770%2C539&amp;ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/enya.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Love her or loathe her, the power of Enya\u2019s music lies in the way it\u2019s symbolized an entire genre, New Age and how it\u2019s become it\u2019s most successful ambassador. The Irish musician\u2019s breakthrough second album <em>Watermark<\/em> following her split from Clannad was flooded with water references, making her an ambassador to our theme. There are two instrumental tracks on the album, one is titular and one is named <em>River<\/em>. The lack of lyrics makes it\u2019s impossible to know which meaning of \u201cwatermark\u201d she aimed for but it\u2019s could be a double meaning of a mark showing the greatest height that a water has risen and the semi-invisible design placed on works of art to show their authenticity \u2013 called the watermark because it\u2019s produced when the paper is still wet. Nevertheless, the most famous tracks from the album are <em>Orinoco Flow<\/em> and <em>Storms in Africa<\/em>. The former is an advantageous tour from the \u201cshade of Avalon\u201d to the \u201cIsles of Ebony\u201d to the \u201cpower of Babylon\u201d to beneath \u201cthe Coral Sea\u201d in a boat that\u2019s repeatedly identified in the lyric \u201csail away\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Although Orinoco is oddly named after London\u2019s Orinoco Studios and not the Orinoco River that flows through South America. <em>Storms in Africa<\/em> is an Irish-language song on <em>Watermark<\/em> but was re-written in English to give it potential as a single. Lyrically, it\u2019s simplistic without any metaphorical meanings and just documents the factual occurrences of storms in the aforementioned continent and how they gradually evolve; beginning as growing winds, then clouded dark skies before the \u201crain wash the earth away\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the reasons why Enya is constantly paired with documentaries, travel adverts and geographical guides. From the following album <em>Shepherd Moons<\/em>, <em>Caribbean Blue<\/em> obviously refers to the colour of the ocean but rather unscientifically it questions whether the sky can reflect the colour of the ocean instead of vise-versa. Rather than use words from her native gaelic, it mentions Ancient Greek wind Gods: Boreas (north wind), Zephyrus (west wind) and Eurus (east wind). Almost two decades later, Enya bought back her fascination with water in two songs noting rain. <em>It\u2019s In The Rain<\/em> focuses on the noise of the raindrops as they gravitate, the way they symbolize life\u2019s constant fluctuations and aims to give them anthropomorphic qualities. \u201cI can hear the lonesome sound of the sky as it cries. Listen to the rain. Here it comes again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although her latest album <em>And Winter Came\u2026<\/em>has a Christmas theme, she still managed to fit water on here in the form of the Christian choral song <em>Trains and Winter Rains.<\/em> Located in the city \u2013 illustrated by the keyword of\u00a0 \u201cneon signs\u201d \u2013 rain is just a mundane formality that tents over a backdrop of a journey where \u201cit\u2019s time to leave home\u201d and enter the \u201cunknown\u201d, as stated by Enya herself on the musicians\u2019 website.<\/p>\n<p><em>FOLK ROCK<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LAURA MARLING (UK)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Undine<\/li>\n<li>Alas I Cannot Swim<\/li>\n<li>Captain And Hourglass<\/li>\n<li>Devil\u2019s Spoke<\/li>\n<li>Hope In The Air<\/li>\n<li>My Friends<\/li>\n<li>Master Hunter<\/li>\n<li>Others: Devil\u2019s Resting Place, The Water feat. Johnny Flynn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laura-marling-london-palladium.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25071 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laura-marling-london-palladium-300x199.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"Laura Marling performing live at the London Palladium. 25th Apri\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laura-marling-london-palladium.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laura-marling-london-palladium.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laura-marling-london-palladium.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laura-marling-london-palladium.jpg?resize=600%2C399&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laura-marling-london-palladium.jpg?resize=680%2C453&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laura-marling-london-palladium.jpg?resize=770%2C513&amp;ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laura-marling-london-palladium.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an article at Spin.com in 2012, folk rock singer-songwriter Laura Marling confessed that she has a fascination with a water goddess known as Undine, whose mythological responsibility was to persuade people to walk into water to feel a sense of security- sounds a bit similar to the movie Cocoon. She even wrote a complimentary song about her new friend on her 4<sup>th<\/sup> album Once I Was An Eagle, calling her \u201csweet\u201d and \u201cpure.\u201d Marling had already expressed a slight obsession and complex relationship with our beloved substance through the avenue of her lyrics and even once claimed that it\u2019s power \u201ctook me into the edge of insane when I only meant to swim\u201d (<em>Master Hunter<\/em>). Let\u2019s start with her debut Mercury Prize nominated album <em>Alas I Cannot Swim<\/em>, which was produced by Charlie Fink of Noah and the Whale \u2013 biblical water reference. Knowing that Marling is a bookworm, the title of the 2008 album could be rearranged extract from a poem by Thomas Hood from the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century called <em>Faithless Sally Brown<\/em>. The line reads \u201cBut O, I\u2019m not a fish-woman. And so I cannot swim. Alas! I was not beneath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something sea shanty about the lyrics on <em>Captain And Hourglass <\/em>and like the majority of Marling songs they sound like they exist in one of her former adventurous lives. \u201cIf I feel God judging me, I fell into the water and now I\u2019m free.\u201d is another case of using the sea as a symbolism for freedom. \u201cAnd the sky and I have had our fights but I\u2019m coming round to rain,\u201d suggest an ongoing battle between a captain and the storms above her ship. \u201cRain\u201d possibly being used utilized with two meanings; the secondary one being the alternative spelling \u201creign\u201d, to show strength and control. <em>Devil\u2019s Spoke<\/em> is from her second album I Speak Because I Can and on the second line she portrays the movement of water and one of its sources: \u201cRipple on water from a lonesome drip.\u201d There are a few interpretations of the lyrics as a whole by fans but the consensus is that it\u2019s about a woman trying to help a grieving man that she\u2019s infatuated with, and feelings of sadness and guilt. So the vibration of water epitomizes chain reactions or the domino effect.<\/p>\n<p>Other mentions of water include \u201cno hope in the water\u201d with water used as an example of one of Earth\u2019s elements in the song <em>Hope In The Air<\/em> (I Speak Because I Can), the song itself is a combination of the story of Shakespeare\u2019s King Lear and Marling own experiences with her father. \u201cEver considered the sea?\u201d, \u201cWhy not float around with me\u201d and \u201cA few strong branches over water\u201d are from the track <em>My Friends <\/em>(A Creature I Do Not Know). One interpretation is that Marling often uses the sea to convey the unpredictabilites of life. Marling declares that she does \u201cnot stare at water anymore\u201d because \u201cwater doesn\u2019t do what it did before\u201d in <em>Master Hunter <\/em>(Once I Was An Eagle). Maybe she\u2019s finally bored of it.<\/p>\n<p><em>NATURE MUSIC PROJECT<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SM\u00c1RI TARFUR (ICELAND)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SON OF THE WIND<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/son-of-the-wind.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25075 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/son-of-the-wind-297x300.jpg?resize=297%2C300\" alt=\"son of the wind\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/son-of-the-wind.jpg?resize=297%2C300&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/son-of-the-wind.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/son-of-the-wind.jpg?resize=300%2C302&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/son-of-the-wind.jpg?w=475&amp;ssl=1 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The most famous name-check of waterfalls to date is in the title of the 1995 R&amp;B song by TLC. It contained a powerful socially conscious message highlighting two major problems developing in that decade; drug trafficking and HIV. \u201cDon\u2019t go chasing waterfalls\u201d is a key line that expresses the body of water metaphorically, warning about the consequence of being too ambitious, ignorant and risky.<\/p>\n<p>20 years later, Icelandic guitarist Sm\u00e1ri Tarfur took a daring risk of his own. Already successful and touring the world with his various music projects (Quarashi, Hot Damn! And Yija), he decided to befriend a popular tourist-visited waterfall in Iceland called Seljalandsfoss Waterfall. Although rather than chasing the waterfall, he just sat beside it and began playing music, seeing the peaceful and tranquil backdrop as a fresh antithesis to the festival lifestyle of yesteryear. He recorded the 4-track EP Son Of The Wind inspired by this experience. Notably you can see Sm\u00e1ri Tarfur on the cover plucking his acoustic guitar in lap slide fashion.<\/p>\n<p>It was funded by the simplest form of crowd funding (none of thet PledgeMusic\/Kickstarter lark), the public who walked past the fountain during his performances. They were impressed by his dreamy, spiritual sound and how in touch with nature he was. 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