Rest your arms, and rest your legs The Lumineers – Slow It Down
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Wesley begs his girlfriend to come back to him, to stop living life so fast and recklessly. When she could be at home with him. He hates the fact that they’ve grown apart so much.
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He just can’t see her as a girl who stays at home surrounded by cats.
(I don’t think many people do suit having lots of cats)
It shows that he truly is her “dead sea”, he accepts and appreciates her for the way she is.
To credibility
I had none, so I will die
With the secrets of the sea The Lumineers – Submarines
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Ultimately, since absolutely nobody listened to his story, he will go to the grave with this truth. Just as a captain goes down with the ship Wesley’s grandfather is going to die with this knowledge of a submarine sighting.
He highlights the value of being honest and credible. If no one believes you ever you won’t get anywhere in life. However, if you’re a good liar, then it’s a whole different story.
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Baldwin Bay is a bay in New Jersey.
Since nobody is pursuing his claim that he saw a Japanese submarine, all ships in Baldwin Bay will deteriorate as nobody is looking for this submarine – therefore using their boats.
No one knows the truth
If it was a bigger fire
I would be on the roof The Lumineers – Submarines
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Wesley’s grandfather himself thinks that he is just doing the right thing by telling everyone about the submarine, yet there’s no way he can help anyone if nobody believes him.
He secretly wishes that the submarine had actually tried to attack something so attention would be drawn to the fact that he wasn’t lying so his bad reputation could be purged.
Dead of night on the eastern coast
The police made them jokes
Told me I'd seen a ghost The Lumineers – Submarines
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Wesley’s grandfather claims he saw one of these at the dead of night at sea.
Seeing as it would be extremely hard to see this at night it seems unlikely that this story is true.
Since the police simply laugh off his claims it suggests that he has a reputation for telling tall tales.
Nobody believes the guy who constantly tells lies.
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Referral to the surfing move called the “pop-up”. To catch a wave, you must locate and “paddle” to your wave, lying flat on your board, then move to a crouching position, where your head is not higher than your heart.
Also a reference to the saying “Hold Your Head High” as in to keep your spirits up or to Keep Ya Head Up. But Jack says that it’s okay to not be optimistic sometimes, and you are allowed to be emotional
Or
Could be a reference to the conundrum on whether to make decisions according to your logical thoughts or your feelings. This means one has to make decisions just based on your emotions just from time to time.
After it takes away all that you learned to love Jack Johnson – Hope
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Even if you are one of the best surfers you arrogance will beat you eventually.
“It” refers to the sea, which throws you in all directions whilst you try to navigate it, but it will give you enough legroom so that you will eventually learn to tame it.
Once Jack had mastered the art of surfing and learned to love it, it was all taken away from him, when he was forced to stop surfing professionally when he had his accident in 1992.
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In surfing one of the cardinal sins is to go on your own, with no one to see if you have an accident. Even Jack who was a pro-surfer got caught in an accident in 1992 so if you think you are to good to get hurt, think again.
Also refers to life, on how people think it they have people to help them, when really it is a journey f self-exploration.
Jack is certainly appreciative of the fact that life is an unstoppable force
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As soon as this girl gets bored or runs into trouble she decides to run away.
It may be that this girl can’t live in one place for too long as it leads to her getting scared from people knowing her too well.
He simply can’t picture her as a house wife, she seems much more suited to a life where nobody can pin her down.
Yet she also has nothing of her own. Once when she was sleeping in a public place someone took her suitcase, so now she literally only has the clothes she’s wearing.
The lover’s girl was at an airport and had her luggage stolen. She only had the clothes she was wearing. ‘They took the rest, you took a nap’ They took all her stuff so she couldn’t do much!
In his #TogetherAtHome live stream (