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can any1 please help me on figuring out the deeper meaning if any to Live: Dance With You

>>By fincter (Wednesday, 23 Apr 2003 06:12)

Can any1 please help me on finding the deeper meanin, if any, to Live: Dance With You?

>>By fincter (Wednesday, 23 Apr 2003 06:13)

that's a good question. Undoubtly Live riddles most people with the entire album, "Distance to Here." Songs like Run to the Water and Dolphins cry take a commanding lead early in the album making you only imagine what Ed was thinking when he wrote the songs. Finally, he closes with Dance with You. Needless to say, it's a beautiful song. Perhaps the song is a reflection on better times, or on better places. He sings it almost nostalgically. Or maybe, it has family innuendo behind it. He has been known to sing about his daughter before. An obvious guess due to the nature of Live would be that the song is religious, and yet for once I don't see an apparent religious undertone. Well, good luck with your quest.

>>By Birds of Pray (Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:40)

Live owns. I love them

"Dance With You"

sittin' on the beach
the island king of love
deep in fijian seas
deep in some blissful dream
where the goddess finally sleeps
in the lap of her lover
subdued in all her rage
and I am aglow with the taste
of the demons driven out
and happily replaced
with the presence of real love
the only one who saves

I wanna dance with you
I see a world where people live and die with grace
the karmic ocean dried up and leave no trace
I wanna dance with you
I see a sky full of the stars that change our minds
and lead us back to a world we would not face

the stillness in your eyes
convinces me that I
I don't know a thing
and I been around the world and I've
tasted all the wines
a half a billion times
came sickened to your shores
you show me what this life is for

I wanna dance with you
I see a world where people live and die with grace
the karmic ocean dried up and leave no trace
I wanna dance with you
I see a sky full of the stars that change our minds
and lead us back to a world we would not face

in this altered state
full of so much pain and rage
you know we got to find a way to let it go

sittin' on the beach
the island king of love
deep in fijian seas
deep in the heart of it all
where the goddess finally sleeps
after eons of war and lifetimes
she smilin' and free, nothin' left
but a cracking voice and a song, oh lord

I wanna dance with you
i see a world where people live and die with grace
the karmic ocean dried up and leave no trace
I wanna dance with you
i see a sky full of the stars that change our minds
and lead us back to a world we would not face
we would not face
we would not face
we would not face
we would not face
we would not face

My guess is, Ed is singing about his dream of no war, no hate, no suffering only peace. sort of like "what are we fighting for" but more indistinct. The first lines portray a dream world of utopia, perfection. an island setting where love is king. Ed is blissful in this dream where demons dont rule peoples actions and evil does not exist. even the "goddess is asleep"
He finishes with "love is the only one who saves". Love is the answer not hate.

I wanna dance with you..."you" could mean anyone. God, his daughter, a lover.....
"people live and die with grace. karmic ocean dries up leaves no trace" Peoplel iving in harmony with one another.

The next verse makes it sound more like someone who has experienced lifes evils and hatred "the wines" and "washes up" on the shore of this paradise. This could very well be talking about God. It could be either a dream state OR it may just represent the singer's DEATH. Having lived through a hellish life, he is finally "home". Also, the mention of karmic ocean drying up...that can suggest that perhaps before the singer believed in another god, another religion with Karma, and has left it behind for Christianity and God.

the bridge, "in this altered state
full of so much pain and rage
you know we got to find a way to let it go"
is talking about how humanity is so messed up and misguided to evils.

"sittin' on the beach
the island king of love
deep in fijian seas
deep in the heart of it all
where the goddess finally sleeps
after eons of war and lifetimes
she smilin' and free, nothin' left
but a cracking voice and a song, oh lord"

Well that pretty much says its about God.
the goddess may be athena, goddess of military victory. If she is sleeping, there is no more war.

"i see a sky full of the stars that change our minds
and lead us back to a world we would not face
we would not face
we would not face
we would not face
we would not face
we would not face"
stars=fate
fate creates a world of these horrors, and leads humanity to face them head on, when it is in humanity's best interest to actually avoid evil.

thats what I get out of it. I hope that helps.

>>By Innotech (Monday, 22 Dec 2003 16:21)

Goodness I am so irritated with this chatboard. I ran across a post about Lightening Crashes and was not allowed to comment without joining and I did and now I'm not allowed to access that chat, just this one.

So I will post my thoughts here about Live and Lightening Crashes and you will all just have to deal. :-)

That whole song is about the wheel of life and death and about how confusing it is to come and to go and how on one level it seems good or bad but on another it's just what it is and I know I'm making no sense but that's why Live will be around for a while cuz they make us think.

Just like Bono and U2, they are still hugely relevant and making us think and wonder what they mean.

So there.

>>By lizwill99 (Sunday, 15 Feb 2004 10:06)

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