Shark's Blood
Dancing on the Line: Exploring Love, Summer, and Modernity in 'Shark's Blood'
Lyrics
Swam through the spring time
Swimming through the freshness of spring
Bleeding all my shark blood
Experiencing emotional pain and vulnerability
Swam through scary waters
Navigating through challenging and frightening situations
I’m afraid of your shark love
Fearing the intense and overpowering nature of love
Spent the summer writing
Using the summer to write, possibly about experiences
With coffee and your lightning
Creating with the inspiration of both coffee and a special person ("your lightning")
Albert wakes at sunrise
Reference to someone named Albert waking up early
And there’s drama in these summer skies
Dramatic events unfolding during summer
Sky
Repetition of "Sky," emphasizing the celestial atmosphere
Sky
-Sky
-Sky
-All my friends, they think I’m crazy all the time
Perceived as eccentric or unconventional by friends
But oh my friend, you know you’re dancing on the line
Acknowledging a friend's boundary-pushing behavior
All these days, you know they’re gonna go away
Awareness of fleeting time and impermanence of days
We’re modern kids, you know we’re near salvation’s day
Identifying as a modern generation close to salvation
That day
Anticipation of a significant day
Acting out a play at night
Engaging in a nighttime theatrical performance
With beach hair and Super 8
Describing appearance with tousled beach hair and recording with Super 8 film
My brother works a good job
Recognition of the speaker's brother's positive qualities and religious beliefs
With a big smile and a heart for God
Expressing the physical effects of sunlight on the skin
Skin gets all freckly
Suggesting divine awareness of the speaker's thoughts
And He hears our temples calling
Seeing deceit or falsehood in someone's eyes
Your eyes are full of fool’s gold
Accusing someone of telling fictional stories
From all the fiction that you told
Repetition of accusing someone of ongoing deception
You told
-You told
-You still tell
-You still tell, tell
Reiteration of friends perceiving the speaker as crazy, but with awareness of life's transience
All my friends, they think I’m crazy all the time
-But oh my friend, you know you’re dancing on the line
-All these days, you know they’re gonna go away
-We’re modern kids, you know we’re near salvation’s day
Embracing modernity and anticipating a day of salvation
That day
Repeating anticipation of a significant day
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