11.7.18 Interpretation of "Sail" by Awolnation

Song: Sail
Artist: Awolnation
Year: 2010
Source: 2012 film Disconnect
Trivia: It has spent the second longest time inside the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with 79 weeks, only surpassed by Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive".

Summary:
Song is about a person who is unable to express his heart out, it can also be taken in the context of a child not being able to fit into his environment such as school \ friends.

Lyrics:

This is how I show my love
I made it in my mind because
I blame it on my ADD baby

This is how an angel cries
Blame it on my own sick pride
Blame it on my ADD baby
Blame it on my AD

Sail!

Maybe I should cry for help
Maybe I should kill myself (myself)
Blame it on my ADD baby
Maybe I'm a different breed
Maybe I'm not listening
So blame it on my ADD baby

Sail!
Sail!
Sail!
Sail!
Sail
Sail!
Sail!
Sail!
Sail!

Sail with me into the dark (sail)
Sail with me into the dark (sail)
Sail with me into the

Blame it on my ADD baby
Blame it on my ADD
Blame it

La la la la la, la la la la la ooh
La la la la la, la la la la la ooh

Sail!
Sail!
Sail!

Sail with me into the dark
Sail with me into the dark (sail)
Sail with me (sail)
Sail with me into the dark (sail)
Sail with me into the dark (sail)
Sail with me into the dark (sail)
Sail with me sail with me (sail)
Sail with me into the dark (sail)
Sail with me into the dark (sail)
Sail with me into the dark (sail)
Sail with me sail with me (sail)
Sail with me into the dark (sail)
Sail with me into the dark (sail)
Sail with me into the dark (sail)
Sail with me sail with me (sail)

Interpretation:
This is how I show my love
I made it in my mind because
I blame it on my ADD baby

Apparently there has been some disturbance in the relationship(rel).
Where he is unable to express his love in a way she understands.
Expressing his love for her in his way, which is not the usual way is
proving difficult for the rel. He is aware of this and he is tempted
to blame it on his ADD and sail through.
This is how an angel cries
Blame it on my own sick pride
Blame it on my ADD baby
Blame it on my AD

Sail!


Maybe I should cry for help
Maybe I should kill myself (myself)
Blame it on my ADD baby
Maybe I'm a different breed
Maybe I'm not listening
So blame it on my ADD baby
He is having difficulty in communicating with the other person.
Though he is doing everything right by himself, he is ending up
hurting the other person. (The kind of thing that happens when
you are in rel with the wrong person.) In the end as she is hurt
even he is hurt deeply, the feeling of loneliness is being seen
making a move on him. He does not have pride but that is the way
the world sees him.

Being unable to express his thoughts and love like others is
tearing him up from the inside. He wants to see an easy way out
(suicide) He ponders what he is missing out or what he is not
doing right. Feeling left out, being the outcast or a foreigner
not knowing his origin and feeling left out from the herd,
he doesnt mind getting called out that he has ADD (which may
be an misunderstanding of him by the world)
by others

Sail!
Sail!
Sail with me into the dark
Sail with me into the dark (sail)
Sail with me (sail)

He has no intentions of leaving her, he wants her
to stay with him. Just like a sail that moves based on
external force. He wants her to control the sail
and guide him in the right path.
 
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