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Mr. Probz: Waves Meaning

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Album cover for Waves album cover

Song Released: 2014


Waves Lyrics

My face above the water
My feet can't touch the ground,
Touch the ground, and it feels like
I can see the sands on the horizon
Everytime you are not around

I'm slowly drifting away
Wave after wave, wave after wave
I'm slowly drifting...

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  1. 1TOP RATED

    #1 top rated interpretation:
    michael.esteves.98
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     Nov 30th 2014 !⃝

    His relationship is over and hes hurt. He's thinking about her, the whole relationship and possibly even blaming himself for the out come of the relationship.He's stuck in between trying to make it work out and letting her go. He's starting to realize it's better with her not around. His feelings are Slowly drifting away.

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    anonymous
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     Dec 3rd 2016 !⃝

    I feel like Mr.Probz Waves isn't anything about a relationship between him and some person...I feel like it's about him struggling to find and keep himself.He's having a hard time loving himself for who he is "I wish I could make it easy,easy to love me But still i reach to find a way."and so he keeps letting himself go and getting lost.And when he states hes pulling against the stream,hes attempting to find himself after he loses himself.

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    #3 top rated interpretation:
    anonymous
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     Dec 23rd 2017 !⃝

    I feel like the song is about this guy in a relationship with this women that he loves more than anything in this world but there's always trouble in the relationship, she keeps being annoyed and angered with him and he realises what he's done but I feel like he's a stubborn person who won't admit he's wrong until it's too late, it's like a story and the constant line of drifting away is saying that they're drifting away from eachother even though that's something he doesn't want to happen, he's selfish but he knows that and again he only realised when it's too late this is explained in the line "I wish I could make it easy, easy to love me" he knows what he's done wrong and he begins to feel sorry for her and any women that loves him because he's the one to always mess it up but does nothing to fix it

    I think the song ends with the women eventually giving up and ending the relationship not indefinitely just saying that she doesn't want to be with him but possibly not meaning it, she probably thinks that he will come back to her and apologise but he doesn't and he has and incredible over reaction after losing his love.

    My only problem is the ending I want to believe that he somehow got lost at sea probably from getting drunk as in the music video and then somehow got to an island and has stayed there to think about her, for some reason I feel like he likes being in this state of mind of losing someone he loves and wanting her so much but can't have her I don't know why but I feel like he wants these emotions to happen to him and live in the regret of losing his one true love and to just be isolated from everyone which is why he's staying on the island, of course he can't get off the island anyway but I feel like he wants to stay there and for her to worry about him and for him to be alone with his own thoughts.

  4. anonymous
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     May 2nd 2023 !⃝

    I feel like its not about a relationship or its just a side factor. For me its manly about him loosing control and focus. The relationship issue being one of his problems, maby it fell apart after he had so less selfcontrol. Maby things got him down easily and the relationship helped him distract him from his problems with him self.
    I think about it as a description of the feeling when you laied in bed for several days and the feelings get number and you feel empty and like you float away from everyone else and your own live. He's swimming against a stream but he himself wont let him get back up.

  5. anonymous
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     Nov 14th 2019 !⃝

    everyone’s talking about how it’s about a relationship or whatever while i’m over here imagining him actually stuck in the middle of the ocean and he’s like hallucinating the shore and then it goes away again.

  6. anonymous
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     Oct 21st 2018 !⃝

    For me when I listen to this song, he's singing about a broken relationship with someone. When I listen to it, I think of my parents when they disowned me, and me trying to reach them and be the daughter they wanted me to be but I can't.

  7. anonymous
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     Sep 9th 2018 !⃝

    He probably has ADHD and other mental health issues and he’s struggling to keep his anxiety and emotions at bay... it’s difficult... He has a lot of love for a lot of people, more than what he can handle... his anxiety higher than ever, he is trying to show his love, but the anxiety makes him lash out at people, for which he feels bad... and now he’s contemplating leaving all this behind by committing suicide... even the thought of leaving his family behind doesn’t stop him from wanting to drift away...
    More than anything, this is a cry for help...

  8. anonymous
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     Jul 5th 2018 !⃝

    This guy is in love with two people he's losing his love for his main love his wife.He decided to chose the second love of his life.knowing that his wife is hurting but like a wave he's drifting to his second love.It's difficult to love two.

  9. anonymous
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     Mar 6th 2018 !⃝

    My son and addict kept singing this song. Two days after rehab and spending time with him those 2days ended up back on streets.

  10. Mk
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     Dec 30th 2017 !⃝

    I want to think that the song means.... in every relationship there would always be hurdles and will never be smooth sailing. There will always be waves. That two people should not be afraid to face them (problems or for most people we call it opportunities) and that dreaming together can we a good thing.

  11. anonymous
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     Jan 13th 2017 !⃝

    I feel like Mr. Probz is gradually drifting away from where he wants to be in life, and he feels like he can only take control of his life/ mental state and get on the right track if he ends the bad relationship that he is in.

  12. anonymous
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     Feb 17th 2016 !⃝

    This song creates a image as hes stuck in a situation and doesn't know how to resolve this. It feels like hes in love and cant declare this. hes trying to find a solution to make it easy

  13. ThinkingForever
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     May 27th 2015 !⃝

    This express the feeling of losing your hold on to a relationship were you are very dependant of the other.
    You hold on to him/her so much, that everytime, you turn apart very slowly, and can sense the distancejust like the movement of the waves.

    And it's so overwhelming that this feeling makes you feel like you're drownning.

  14. anonymous
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     Jan 29th 2015 !⃝

    I disagree with the interpretation. I do think it clearly indicates something tumultuous - i agree that much.

    I think its mixed and somewhere in between. The following line defeats the whole purpose of himdrowning and evidences clarity when she's not around.

    Touch the ground, and it feels like
    I can see the sands on the horizon everytime (everytime)
    You are not around

    Almost sounds as if he is saying that.... wish i could make it easy to love me, as in, if you are with a volatile person they hurl everything on you and if you are a pacifist like the guy sounds in the song, wish i could make it easier lets let this roll like the waves. when you arent around i see things clearly and im on my feet and i see the shore. the shore is life. survival hope on the horizon and something to reach for. Someone saying they wish they could make it easier to love them is basically talking to someone on a rant and they are retreating to it even though that person is wrong.

    Then again it could be that he's admitting that he's losing the woman and somewhat blaming himself although that is not really congruent with his saying he sees the sands. It sounds like he is saying he sees clarity and hope when shes not around, although thats not what he really wants as he wants those shores to be with her.

    Furthermore the slowly drifting clearly indicates a slow, progressing drift. one could interpret this as slowly pushing the women/man/his love away, with his actions that he wishes he could change(wishes he could make it easier to love him) however noone really is talking like this until things are gone already.

    Eg the drifting away here sounds more like someone traumatized that keeps on putting down their guard, almost in a patronizing way saying that they wish they could make it easier to love them, as, each and every time you cave in and look the other way when the person is wrong you drift further away.

    Bottom line this song could be interpreted in multiple directions although there are some core features that make me question how people commonly interpret it.

  15. anonymous
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     Oct 17th 2014 !⃝

    His relationship is drifting away from him like waves in ghe ocean. He admits it's his fault as he's not easy to love.

  16. anonymous
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     Oct 8th 2014 !⃝

    Representative of a rocky relationship...the 1st person narrative: he/she is taking ownership of his/her part in the partnership slipping away from them. IMHO (respectfully)

  17. anonymous
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     Jun 1st 2014 !⃝

    Its the feeling you get when you are on top of peak a mdma trip it comes in waves and goes like good e.


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