What do you think Brielle means?

Sky Sailing: Brielle Meaning

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Brielle Lyrics

There's a handwritten note pressed in the door of her screened in porch
And I am sailing away recalling that day miles from shore
She was still wearing white and robins egg blue, Her grandmother's dress
When I left early this year, how I wound...

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    anonymous
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     Jan 11th 2011 !⃝

    The song is about a sailor who ships off, leaving his loved one, Brielle. In the song he recalls her, thinks about when he'll be back, and sends loving thoughts to her.

    He is clearly thinking about her very lovingly and caring. For example he compares her to a butterfly, and the chorus is written like he was speaking to her, or maybe more like a whisper he hopes the wind will carry to her. The last part of the song is (doesn't say in this text, but the album version is like this):
    ”I love you my darling, farewell
    My dear Brielle”

    The song has a melancholic tone, not pure sadness, just missing, but at the same time he's happy about the thought of her and their love.

    A song that describes very well how it is to be without your love, after my opinion.


    Adam Young said to JSYK:
    "I wrote the song after reading 'Shadow Divers' by Robert Kurson in which he recounts the discovery of a World War II German U-boat sixty miles off the U.S. coast in 1991. The song describes a sailor who is about to leave on a long trip and wonders whether he will ever see the girl he loves again."
    The interview's here: http://www.jsyk.com/2010/08/12/owl-citys-adam-young-talks-sky-sailing-and-his-new-video-briel/

  2. anonymous
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     Jun 16th 2018 !⃝

    I believe it is about a young sailor who had just barely gotten married to his love, Brielle, yet the ocean calls him, and he leaves with only his note as a goodbye. It is set back in an earlier time period, as he promises that he will come back, yet knows he might not.

  3. anonymous
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     Apr 8th 2017 !⃝

    I heard it's the story of Adam young. Before he pursued music he wrote poems and this was one of them, he left his love Brielle in New Jersey where he had lived and had fell in love with her, but there was another side to him that loved music so deeply that he needed to sacrifice a lot so he had left a note and left without telling her and leaving only a note behind, he took a plane to warmer climates down south in Florida where he pursued music. And from time to time he would fly back to New Jersey to visit with family, in the small town where he lived sometimes he had noticed his ex-girlfriend and they would look at one another but never speak to each other because of Adam Young leaving, it left a big distance between them both and she had never gotten over it.

  4. anonymous
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     Nov 11th 2011 !⃝

    I'm going through something similar at the moment, but with my friends
    i have been falsy accused of something yet no body believes me
    so i see it like, it can be interpreted anyway-
    it could be a sailor leaving his love behind, it could be someone missing their past life or a friendship, it could be someone leaving their past home and something they dearly love/ed, or someone wishing something goodbye
    so lots of people can relate to it, which is part of its magic....

  5. anonymous
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     Sep 21st 2010 !⃝

    I believe this is a song about breaking up with someone, but still loving them and still viewing them as a friend. There seems to be a sense that the two characters live in a small coastal town, and perhaps the writer does not live there permanently, but often returns home for long periods of time!


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