The Waterboys - This Is The Sea

Eu adoro essa letra porque ela mantém como um segredo exatamente a chave do seu sentido. O que estaria ele querendo dizer com o contraste entre rio e mar? Uma grande mudança, uma mudança transcendental para um lugar sem margens, enorme, impossível de abarcar com um olhar. Um lugar de desprendimento, de liberdade das frustrações com planos e sonhos que não deram em anda, do fim do sofrimento e do sentimento de vazio que às vezes perseguem a gente? Que lugar/momento seria esse? Uma iluminação religiosa? A morte? 

These things you keep,
You'd better throw them away.
You wanna turn your back
On your soulless days.
Once you were tethered,
And now you are free.
Once you were tethered,
Well, now, you are free.
That was the river;
This is the sea!

Now, if you're feeling weary,
If you've been alone too long,
Maybe you've been suffering from
A few too many
Plans that have gone wrong,
And you're trying to remember
How fine your life used to be,
Running around banging your drum
Like it's 1973.
Well, that was the river;
This is the sea!

Now, you say you've got trouble.
You say you've got pain.
You say've got nothing left to believe in,
Nothing to hold on to,
Nothing to trust,
Nothing but chains.
You're scouring your conscience,
Raking through your memories.
But that was the river;
This is the sea, yeah!

Now, I can see you wavering
As you try to decide
You've got a war in your head
And it's tearing you up inside.
You're trying to make sense
Of something that you just don't see.
Trying to make sense now
And you know you once held the key.
But that was the river;
And this is the sea!

Now I hear there's a train.
It's coming on down the line.
It's yours if you hurry.
You've got still enough time.
And you don't need no ticket.
And you don't pay no fee.
No, you don't need no ticket.
You don't pay no fee.
Because that was the river;
And this is the sea!

Behold the sea!