You feel your dreams 'hang in the air' because you don't know if you'll ever see them come to fruition. You're out in the sunshine, on a beautiful day, and you feel that even the 'sun and heat hate you'. I think this is about feeling so alone and desperately unhappy, that you literally feel you are ''alone out to sea'' with nobody steering your boat. I think this quite sums it up quite well: And this is an interpretation of the lyrics that I came across on the Internet.

So this song is about how he feels after his rupture: Alone, sad.

My ex-wife is indirectly responsible for me having a hit, it makes me smile'. Six years after releasing this hit he said: 'It's another one of life's rich ironies that because my first marriage messed up in a very big way, I ended up writing a couple of songs that were the most successful I've ever written. So here, when he says 'you' (=everybody) he is really thinking about himself, as the best example of that situation (the sun and the heat hate me for no reason, the whole universe is against me!).Ĭolin Vearncombe (stage name: Black) wrote this song after breaking up with his first wife. Considering the general meaning of the song (see under the Meaning tab) this 'you' is probably an impersonal 'you', so he is making general statements, like when we say 'if you go to the moon you need a space suit'. SUN'S IN YOUR EYES= He's talking in first person all the time (using 'I') but in this paragraph he uses the second person ('you'). NO NEED TO= (there's) no need to = It's not necessary to. up straight', so 'stand up straight' is an emphatic form for 'stand up'. The sentence here would be: 'Look at me, (I'm) standing here. UP STRAIGHT= Just an emphatic form for UP, when we are talking about the standing position. UNFAIR= /unf eə/ Unjust, without justice. GULLS= (also SEAGULLS) White sea birds ( see picture) OUT TO SEA= If you go 'out to sea', you embark on a journey by boat (a voyage).

Wonderful life black