Our options were to take the fast boat or the slow boat. Well, I’m not going to let this Siren, who had probably led many Portuguese explorers to their deaths, think of me as an American Gilligan. I told her that that didn’t sound too smooth to me, but she assured me that it was. I was told that the seas were expected to be very calm that day, only about one and a half meters.ĭoing the figurin’ and sypherin’ in my non-metric mind, that seemed to be about five feet. The seas can get very rough, so I called ahead of time to see what we could expect on the day we were planning to go. No matter whether people come from different geographic, political, economic, spiritual or ideological backgrounds, music has the universal power to transcend and unite us as one human race.I tend to get seasick easily and I had heard stories about those who got sick on the way to Berlenga Island. The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. "Playing for Change" is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect and bring peace to the world through music.
It's easy to see if you have a close look at the lyrics, something people usually don't (so sorry to burst some people's bubble). Yea, this is not a man who went to the dock of the bay to relax and enjoy some peace and quite, this is a man who has nothing in life and nowhere to go, so he just sits there, looks at the horizon and feels like there's nothing else he can do. As he watches the tide roll away, he might be wishing he could go away with them and disappear like the waves. I think he's trying to find meaning in life or possibly the meaning of his life specifically. He is unable to meet other people's demands or the standards they created for him (I can't do what ten people tell me to do). He speaks of loneliness, having nothing to live for, and nothing changing. In my opinion, it's about someone very depressed reflecting on his life and trying to find himself. I love this song but it isn't a happy song at all. But I think Kilihila got it right when she explained what this song suggests to her: This song is usually considered to be a relaxing song about peace and leisure and living life with no worries. ROAMED= To roam is to wander, to go with no destination, with no purpose. WON’T LEAVE ME ALONE= Will not stop bothering me. The expression “my bones” in a context like this to refer to your body is more common when you are old or sick or tired, so you feel your body heavy and rigid. I CAN’T DO WHAT TEN PEOPLE TELL ME TO DO= I am not able to fit into society, I can’t do what people expect of me (so if I can't please even ten people, so how could I please the whole society?) I feel like everything is going to stay the same. LOOK LIKE NOTHING’S GONNA CHANGE= It looks like nothing is going to change. NOTHING’S GOING TO COME MY WAY= I’m not going to be lucky, everything turns out wrong for me. I HAVE NOTHING TO LIVE FOR= I have no purpose in life and/or I have nothing in life, no reason to live A very big bay is called a GULF, like the Gulf of Mexico (in the Atlantic, between Mexico and the USA), and a little bay is called a COVE. For example there is Good Hope Cape (in the south of South Africa) and the Bay of Biscay, in the Atlantic corner between Spain and France. The opposite is CAPE, a portion of land that projects into the sea. If you head for a place, you move in that direction.īAY= A piece of sea that gets into the land, usually kind of semicircular in shape.
So if the tide “rolls away”, the sea level is getting lower, it’s low tide. THE TIDE= Due to lunar attraction, the sea level rises (high tide) or lowers (low tide) depending on the time of the day making the see look like it’s going down, away, or up, closer. THE DOCK= A small quay that gets into the sea so boats can stop there and be tied to it. Then they add the particle IN because the ships are moving to the dock, so they come in. ROLL IN= The waves of the sea roll (that’s how we describe their movement, because their movement is more similar to that of a ball than to that of a car), so the ships moving on the waves are here said to roll like the waves (though actually they don’t, but it sounds more relaxing and poetical, like a gentle quiet motion). For example "roll in" here rhymes with "again" Nothing gonna come (Nothing is going to come)Īnd also some black or dialectal pronunciations. The language here is kind of black AmE so you'll find many "ungrammatical" things and colloquialisms, such as: Thank you, My name is Roger Ridly, I got all this music +++ all city and +++ CDs like 15 dollars, got 21 songs on 'em