The Waterboys: The Whole Of The Moon Meaning

Song Released: 1985

The Whole Of The Moon Lyrics

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I pictured a rainbow
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of...

1. anonymous

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   May 30th 2018 !⃝

   I always thought it was about drugs. The one who stays in his room and sees things (acid) in the end they have burnt out too high too far too soon hinting at death, this was happening to a lot of young people at the time it was written.
2. Mtndog28

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   Sep 10th 2017 !⃝

   It has meant Emily Dickinson to me. She created incredible poetry, yet rarely left her house. He wandered around the world, yet she just stayed in her room. She sees these incredible visions and he fills his life running around looking for them.
3. anonymous

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   Aug 29th 2017 !⃝

   Not only the self criticism but negative comparison with others. Not satisfied with praising others it balances the self perceived low achievement against the considerably greater success of another person. It is admiring of them by comparing one's own lesser achievements. So is it about self or some one else? It is self.
4. anonymous

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   Oct 17th 2016 !⃝

   My perception is that some folks journey is within. While others explore seeking to find answers, adventure and self. In the end they discover that the answers are with you all the time.
5. anonymous

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   Oct 4th 2014 !⃝

   I think these are some of the greatest song lyrics, as how they compare ordinary thought with visionary excellence. On another level it could be the ordinary with excellence in anything, sport, parenting, living life. The song is supposed to be referring to Prince.
   Malc.
6. anonymous

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   May 22nd 2014 !⃝

   The Waterboys are clearly trying to portray to their friends and family that they no longer want to be singers- they want to be astronauts and see the whole of the moon. this relates to the story "on the Jellicoe road"

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
7. anonymous

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   Oct 2nd 2012 !⃝

   Every one knows someone who is in the song whatever you see or do they have done it .you have a black dog he has a blacker one .you fart he shits himself .
8. anonymous

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   Mar 18th 2012 !⃝

   Proust and poetry..he saw it all from his bed.
9. anonymous

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   May 15th 2011 !⃝

   I think it's possibly about a man singing about his friend, both addicted to a drug, however his friend going to far and dying?
   just a thought.

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