Blue October - Into the Ocean

I present you today a very unique style of music I ran into. As you notice from other posts, I listen to about anything. As long it sounds good and has something meaningful.

Blue October's "Into the Ocean" has a very awesome beat and catchy chorus. His voice is also great to listen to. This song can have many meanings for many people because of the variety of metaphors he uses. The idea is still around the same concept.

I love how all his words just flow so smoothly together and the emotions that jump out through out the song. It's about a boy that jumps into the ocean and the thoughts that go through his mind while his treading in the water. With his last thought of his beloved, "I thought of just your face Relaxed, and floated into space". This song has a deeper meaning as it nears the end, revealing that the boy drowning was initially a dream spurred by the feelings of grief over a loss of a loved one, I suppose the woman that gave him comfort as he imagined he was drowning.

Personally, I can relate to every word this song has to say. It's very heart moving and something I can see clearly. Like he said in the song, "Into the ocean, end it all". Most likely pertaining to suicide. I was in this exact state that he illustrates. The grief, the dream, and the suicidal emotion. I feel every word he sings. The metaphors of the emotions he feels are great, such as "Let the waves up, take me down", "Let the rain of what I feel right now come down", and "I want to swim away but don't know how". These are all very well depicted. I know how it feels to lose that loved one. It's the most painful thing one can ever face in life, especially when it's your first and you undoubtedly know she is the only one for you. All this took me to a horrible state of grief and suicidal feeling. Yet I'm still recovering till this day, it's not an easy thing to get over.

Another great meaning I walked by, is the fact he didn't just jumped into the ocean but also into his relationship.

"Now waliking to the sun

I calculate what I had done

Like jumping from the bow (yeah)

Just to prove I knew how (yeah)"

Here he shows that he jumped into the relationship before he was truly ready. Probably the key to why his relationship and why he jumped overboard? Something to think carefully of. I do see how this relates to me though. When I started my relationship I can say I wasn't ready. Yet I also jumped into it thinking I know how to do this and just to prove something I didn't know. From my current point of view, I can see why many things turned out the way they did and why the relationship went overboard. Which tuned into the emotion this song describes.

In the end though, I still think of her and it still feels like everything in the world around me is not existent, calm, floating in space. Like he says,

"I thought of just your face

Relaxed, and floated into space"

It's a great feeling. I'm sure many of you experienced something like this, either if your with or without your loved one.

Enjoy it and pass it on to others that might benefit from it. Hope you like it as much as it warms my heart.

Here you go:

Leave me a comment with anything in your mind.

-One Love, One Musical paradise