Sailing through
Your disease and you. your disease and you
Your body like a basket
Shivering in static for us in this place of angry tears
All those years you were alive inside the closet
But nobody in it there but me
But now you are coming
Life is off running
You're tearing yourself apart at the seams
And You are a liar You are a liar
You are a liar and you are a lie
You are a liar
You are a liar
Now I’m off sailing
Sickness inhaling
Every drop of blood you could bleed
The world is all coming
They're Coming of millions
The Billons of people to sick to believe
And I really wanted just to be in your body
To be in your body
To be inside you
I really wanted to be in your body
To share in your sickness
The shield around you
You are a liar You are a liar
You are a liar and you are a lie
You are a liar You are a liar
You are a liar and you are a liar
Wrapped you up in masters
They Cover you in plaster
They Spit in your mouth and then say I love you
Is this supposed to save us
Is this supposed to break us
Into the toilet without faces removed
And I really wanted just be in your body
If i could only be in your body
If i could only be inside you
I really wanted to be in your body
Into the toilet with faces removed
You are a liar You are a liar
You are a liar and you are a lie
You are a liar You are a liar
You are a liar and you are a lie
You are a liar You are a liar
You are a liar and you are a lie
You are a liar you are a liar
And you are a liar
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Review about Sailing Through yo. | Reviewer: jeez | 7/26/09
At first I got the feeling that this song is about a relationship between two gay men, but I know that it could be any sort of couple.
I think the narrator's lover becomes somewhat of a whore and contracts AIDS, and passes it to the narrator who figures if he's going to have this disease, he might as well live through it with his love.
I could be way off, but this is just a little projection of my ideas.
Jeff Said him self that the song is in his own words about (fucking, people fucking people. Jeff then went on to say that he though that fucking was ok. And i think you can see that as you read the lyrics to the song, and you can also feel Jeff's emotion as he sings the song. One of my favorites and most moving by Jeff.
Sailing Through | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/26/08
I think that this song is meant to have different meanings for different people, but I personally think that it is about the beauty of the flawed nature of relationships and how in order to have an intimate relationship, most people need to compromise aspects of themselves in order to strengthen their relationship with their lover. However, as they continue to give up parts of themselves, they become a different person than who they are naturally at heart, and a different person than the one who was fallen in love with. This "lie" is what prevents people from really getting to be with their lover in a deeper sense, and results in the disease inherent in human nature--a mess of people who aren't themselves because of their attempts to become something else for a reason that no longer exists. I think that the sexual suggestions are physically symbolic of how the narrator wishes relationships could work on a personal level--being able to be inside of another person without having to alter yourself. The final stanza before the chorus sounds like a cry of desperation—the rest of the world carries on, seemingly without caring about any deeper meaning in their relationships while the narrator feels alone in his desire to be with his lover in a fuller sense, but she has become someone else.
This interpretation probably sounds ridiculously silly, but Sailing Through is one of my favorite songs of all time, so I wanted to throw out a few thoughts on it.
i just think someone correct me please.. | Reviewer: courtney | 11/15/07
I think this song is about being a gay mans boyfriend who was trapped in the closet.. and getting aids from him...
it sucks to love so hard...
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