[Part I]
[Intro: Future]
Drop your location, she think she me or sum’ (Hendrix)
Put on my chains, now she think she me or sum’
She keep a Glock in her bag, she think …
[Verse 1]
You said, “Speak from your mind
The words that it finds
Come out of your soul, a part of the whole”
You said, “What does it change?
Both of us know
After tonight, there …
[TONY]
Maria…
The most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard:
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria…
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word:
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria…
Maria, Maria…
Maria!
I’ve just met a girl named Maria
And …
[Verse 1]
What happens in dreams where we fly?
Never been as high as tonight
Staring through a window in time
For someone to show me what I’m like
He said, “Hello”, it’s like a …
[Verse 1]
Oh-oh-oh, every little smile hides a little lie
Could cut the silence with a knife
Subatomic bliss is nothing left to miss
It’s just empty Russian roulette
[Pre-Chorus]
Try to brush it off my …
My face above the water
My feet can’t touch the ground1
Touch the ground, and it feels like
I can see the sands on the horizon2 every time (every time)
You are not around
I’m slowly drifting away (drifting away)
Wave after wave
Wave after wave3
I’m slowly drifting (drifting away)
And it feels like I’m drowning
Pulling against the stream4
Pulling against the stream
I wish I could make it easy
Easy to love me
Love me
But still I reach, to find a way5
I’m stuck here in between
I’m looking for the right words to say (to say)6
I’m slowly drifting, drifting away
Wave after wave
Wave after wave
I’m slowly drifting (drifting away)
And it feels like I’m drowning
Pulling against the stream
Pulling against the stream7
When Mr. Probz conveys “My face above the water / My feet can’t touch the ground,” the idea is the he is treading water some good distance from the shore.
The sands on the horizon are a glimmer of hope, a metaphor for his relationship that is hanging on by a thread.
Waves are a suitable metaphor, because they leave those treading water in a constant upward and downward motion, much like the emotional experience of love.
Struggling to hold on to a relationship is no easy battle. That’s what Mr. Probz is trying to comunicate with the reference to “pulling against the stream.”
The singer cites himself as the troublesome cause of problems in his own romantic life.
Anybody who has been in love understands finding the right words to say becomes an act of desperation when love is not reciprocated.
This song “Waves,” overall, is a song about trying to stabilize a shaky, though still meaningful, romantic relationship.
1 user explanation and meaning
Brandy Jennings
He is using the waves as a metaphor to how he is feeling. Like a relationship where he is slow drifting away from the other person.