A year 1 you made this comment to yourself and I'm barely seeing it how it is possible that I knew the future of the 100 series I know it was in 2018 but until this moment on April 6, 2020 the west series came out-cap all This season I do not understand how how do you know that you know the future that is you do not understand this you do not answer the comment but it is very difficult that you are to remove the doubt Iker write comment.
I first heard this song parked at an old cemetary on the north side of my small home town in Iowa. It was playing from an 'alternative' college radio station in 1986. I was a junior in high school, I was desperately alone, I was angry at the world , I was drunk, and this came over the waves. I'll never forget the moment. I tried to play and sing it the best I could for years when drunk and lost, then sober and lost. It still means more to me than any single song has. Moments are like that.
I graduated high school in the late '70's. I had never hear this song until the spring of 2020. And then it was a just a wee bit of what John Murphy of "The 100" displayed. What a new view revealed to me!
I raised my son on the banks of the Elster River in Thuringia. Now he lives on the Baltic Sea and works on his small sailing boat. Soon he will be setting off on a longer tour on the seas with his wife and my grandchild. It would be a lie if I didn't say I'm scared for them. But at the same time I'm incredibly proud. Because this is the sea and I taught you to steer our little red rubber boat across the rivers.
When life kicks you in the soul... multiple times, and you end up with the emptiest heart you ever had to carry around, listen to this song once a day when you wake up.
This is my recovery song,recovering from a hopeless state of mind & body.39yrs of active addiction & 9 months free. That was the river & sobriety is the sea.First heard this aged 17,still playing aged 53. Anyone in early recovery,keep on keeping on.Life IS truly & amazing experience.
Found this song watching the series "The 100" and i cant agree with you more. 7 days away from reaching 1 year of sobriety (11/3/20 sober date) and this song moved me tremendously.
Literally... How many lives has this song saved?... It sure saved mine. My story is short: in some night of january 1995... already in bed, in the dark... with the phones in my head... This starts to play and... some kind of light has opened my path... Full of strength and will to live, I moved away from the most dangerous depression of my life! Almost 30 years have gone by... and I'm still here. Life changed forever. I owe it to myself, it's true... but this song sure helped a lot! Thank you so much, Mike Scott! And thank you everybody for sharing your thoughts. Long may you run!
agreed it saved me too depression all my sad life have a 15 month old baby and a girlfriend now never been so happy long may it last thanks for ur message xx
God bless. Hope you've found new meaning in life - wishing you all the very ebst Have you seen the in-depth analysis of this beautiful song & incredible album?
I've got he album on vinyl. Took me decades to really 'get' the meaning. Have you seen the in-depth analysis of this beautiful song & incredible album? Reply
This is heartbreaking... Played at the funeral this week of a man who I loved.. I will never forget you😢.. This song will now always remind me of you.. Always..... Rest in paradise, goodnight AW.. ❤
@@colettecolette4802 I wasn't expecting a reply but I always wonder about the person. I've been getting into the Waterboys again after listening to the This is the Sea album back in the 90s. Your love had good taste in music ✌️
This song is for Maggie, my dog for fifteen years. I had to put her asleep this morning and my heart is breaking, she was my family. I pray she is in the sea now. I love you so much Mags
When I put my border collie and best friend of 17 years to sleep, I felt so alone because we were practically inseparable. Took a while for me to realize that he was finally free to roam wherever he wanted to. Now I also realize he is with me, wherever I may walk. My sincerest sympathies. It will get easier.
This magnificent song represents to me being pulled out from a gray life, a life of constant discomfort, depression, a life with no meaning. Thanks to God I've turned my back on my soulless days, and I'm free because that was the river but this is the sea! Bless.
I found this song from a comment made on a song by Airborne Toxic Event. This song is indeed as powerful as that song, as I was told it would be, but in a different way. The lyrics in the Airborne song leave you wallowing in the anguish and despair that is experienced when unrequited love is at your doorstep, and the Waterboys song provides an escape from your river, into the sea. Get it? No philosopher go I, but that’s how those 2 songs hit me. Now I’m off to DCforC’s “Where body meets soul,” another song mentioned somewhere in the comments of both of the previous tracks.
"This Is The Sea" These things you keep You'd better throw them away You wanna turn your back On your soulless days Once you were tethered And now you are free Once you were tethered Well now you are free That was the river This is the sea! Now if you're feelin' weary If you've been alone too long Maybe you've been suffering from A few too many Plans that have gone wrong And you're trying to remember How fine your life used to be Running around banging your drum Like it's 1973 Well that was the river This is the sea! Wooo! Now you say you've got trouble You say you've got pain You say've got nothing left to believe in Nothing to hold on to Nothing to trust Nothing but chains You've been scouring your conscience Raking through your memories Scouring your conscience Raking through your memories But that was the river This is the sea yeah! Now I can see you wavering As you try to decide You've got a war in your head And it's tearing you up inside You're trying to make sense Of something that you just don't see Trying to make sense now And you know you once held the key But that was the river And this is the sea! Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah! Now I hear there's a train It's coming on down the line It's yours if you hurry You've got still enough time And you don't need no ticket And you don't pay no fee No you don't need no ticket You don't pay no fee Because that was the river And this is the sea! Behold the sea!
I heard the whole of the moon on the radio when it was first released and thought it was great…I then got lost in the fog of living and bringing up a family found it again this week and all the other water boys music what the hell did I miss a fantastic band
I always associated this song with my uncle. I never told him this though. Last year as l was watching his casket come into the funeral home, this song played over the speaker. This song will forever connect us. I miss him so.
Yeah - this is up there with Lennon, and Dylan - perhaps better. It amazes me how it never became a classic. But all the more precious for that reason I suppose.
The music industry godfathers would discourage Celtic spirituality stirring up human consciousness, but this is an enduring wake-up call. Surely their greatest song.
We were the opening act for this great band, several times in the 1980s. Great fun, great memories for a guy almost 60years old. My daughter loves the stories! She is my new headliner!!
No, this is not a song of despair, it is a song of So much Hope, like the Sea. As long as the sea moves, nothing will die for it is the heart of the world & the wind, it's breath, that keeps it Alive. As long as there is Hope there is Life. ❤
Extraordinary, a feeling almost like vertigo. Like having the contents of your mind read back to you. The first time I heard this I sat bolt upright in the dark and stared at my CD player like it had just BIT me.
I don't know the meaning of this song, but I've always looked at it like this: I'm 20 years old. I've been going downstream in the river of my teenage life, but I'm heading into the sea of adulthood. The river is safe, but confining. The sea is freedom, but dangerous. That was the river. And this is the sea.
Seems like a perfect interpretation to me and largely in line with my thinking. I don't know if it is about the transition to adulthood specifically or not, but it fits well. It could be about any change where you go from something confined and safe to something bigger and with more promise but also more danger.
I think the 100 should have ended in season 5. However, if it hadn't been for season 6 I'd probably never discover this masterpiece. Thank you John Murphy
TO MY BEST FRIEND FOREVER THAT INTRUESTED ME TO THIS BAND IN PLETTENBERG BAY IN 1991 I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU MARK YOUR FRIEND FOR LIFE RGDS JEAN-PIERRE AMEN 🙏
Grew up in Ireland with the Waterboys as my soundtrack!They lived and recorded a lot of their art in County Galway in the west of the country!Great Times❤️
Got turned on to this song by a wonderful man I know. This song feels like an opening up and has a lot of meaning. No more is there music that holds so much spirit and soul within it as back in the days.
I've just heard " THE WHOLE OF THE MOON " ...now it's time to smell that special salty scent of " THIS IS THE SEA " ...whats next ? a Pagans Place ,December, Somebody might wave back , or any of the other FANTASTIC songs the WATERBOYS have shared with us ...& there have been many ? .
SystemCo People have been saying the same thing forever. Our glimpse of time really isn't indicative of any real change in culture. The future yields more than the past. "God, how I miss the 1880's, I assumed that such beautiful music, art, literature and humanity would last forever. Now in 1915, how wrong I was."
Thanks for your thoughts. Greatly appreciate what you say but I disagree. Over the long stretch of many wonderful and creative decades something terribly wrong has happened to our music in these recent years. A certain profound rot has taken hold. I pray that true creativity does return in future generations and that real soulful beauty is reignited. But today there is a void of beauty, originality, creativity, and that powerful spark that urges everyone "Come! Let's dance and sing!!"
The lyrics describe a transformative journey from confinement to liberation, using the river and sea as metaphors for the past and future. The "soulless days" and being "tethered" symbolize a constrained and unfulfilled existence, which the singer encourages leaving behind. The river represents the past's smaller, more contained struggles, while the sea symbolizes vast, open possibilities and freedom. The song addresses feelings of weariness, failed plans, and inner turmoil, suggesting that past troubles ("the river") should be abandoned to embrace a new, expansive phase of life ("the sea"), urging a decisive break from past limitations to achieve true liberation.
Listening to this song for the first time here in Nova Scotia, where we are literally surrounded by the "sea. Know it's beauty, it's force and it's terrors. It's in your blood, it's just there, omnipresent and for centuries here in Nova Scotia the sea gives and takes. The rhythm of life, the ebb and flow of the sea that never leaves and is always there. Obviously I LOVE this song!!
@@hiyourerickrightimnegan.3788 Bar a handful of episodes I really did like, I can’t help but agree with you. I’m glad they ended it before Rothenberg could do any more damage.
I guess "Fisherman's Blues" was suggested to me based on my video history. How in the good fuck have I never heard of this group?!?!?! This song along with several others have hit me right in the spot. Seriously, its an injustice this group isn't more well known.
Oh lad with yer good proud name there and all tis an injustice and a mystery ye havnae heard of these bassads. A Scotsman he is who now lives in Ireland with only one other consistent band member who is a very talented Irishman? Half of it's magic the other half nonsense 😁
I'm from when this was fresh and new, and when I heard the song on The 100, it gave me goosebumps. Good to know that this song will last two ends of the world and a space colony 300 hundred years after it was made.
Oh my dear god... I love this music.... But, what a pity,I forgot about that most of my lkifetime. Now I am nearly 50 years old, sitting in my living room and be sad about my life full of missed possibilities... That was the river-this is the sea....
A fantastic tune of transformation, win and loss at the same time. A rite des passages song. Mike Scott and the Waterboys.Wonderful lyrics and a wide bandwidth of musical expressions and energy.
this song shows me we can leave the still slow flowing life behind us and if we r brave enough we can aim for higher expectations and we too can feel the freedom of the sea. the sea being contentment
This song hooked me last night, it punched me in the gut and took my breath away. I cried without making a noise so as not to wake my daughter. A beautiful man is untethered and free. He's banging his drum, absolutely free, and I miss him dearly. I thank the Universe for this song.
This song is absolutely beautiful and there will never be another band like the Waterboys. I’m in love with this band, along with Toad The Wet Sprocket 🌹
Saw the Waterboys in the 80s on numerous occasions...supporting U2 at Wembley Arena, Glastonbury, Cardiff Uni. So many of those songs are etched in my heart. I think that this is probably my favourite. Magnificent.
Occasionally a soul will realize their non-separation from everything. This new reality that opens up (which is just seeing things as they really are - naturally), is usually accompanied by a strong sense of good-will to humanity and to life in general. l think Mr Scott had a spiritual awakening around this time in his life and wrote an album with the inspiration. lmagine knowing a love and a joy, a deep abiding peace that you know will never leave you, no matter what life throws at you. The reality of this incredible life we all share is that there is only one of us here - pure, whole and complete, limitless, actionless, non-dual - awareness-existence.
Good Will Hunting soundtrack got me here with Fisherman's Blues. 25 years later and I found this one. With Fisherman's Blues. Loved it at first but I think Elliot Smith really owned that soundtrack. But years later coming back to it, The Waterboys were where it was really at. I was just too young to see it at the time.
I got this on cassette after it's release. Fell in love with everything about it. And I was very much a hardcore metal/ hard rock fan, and later entertainer, but this album and Splent Enz with songs like, Bon Voyage, Straight ole line, so on so forth.... Fanfuckingtastic!
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John Murphy sent me
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same, makes me feel so apocalyptic. What's your favourite end of the world song ?
Me too :)
Me too😂
I never thought I'd love a character as much as I do, when I hated him so much in Season 1
John Murphy and his good taste in music...
From being locked up in the lighthouse for 86 days. But yeah, good taste.
Os good
благодаря Мёрфи слушаю эту песню)))
I got here for the Music...banging drums like its 1979
A year 1 you made this comment to yourself and I'm barely seeing it how it is possible that I knew the future of the 100 series I know it was in 2018 but until this moment on April 6, 2020 the west series came out-cap all This season I do not understand how how do you know that you know the future that is you do not understand this you do not answer the comment but it is very difficult that you are to remove the doubt Iker write comment.
RIP Karl Wallinger. Waterboys are part of my musical DNA.
@@wvgrrrrl Who is Karl Wallinger?
@@JayG-y9y Karl Wallinger played keyboards...Mike Scott was the driving force in the band
I first heard this song parked at an old cemetary on the north side of my small home town in Iowa. It was playing from an 'alternative' college radio station in 1986. I was a junior in high school, I was desperately alone, I was angry at the world , I was drunk, and this came over the waves. I'll never forget the moment. I tried to play and sing it the best I could for years when drunk and lost, then sober and lost. It still means more to me than any single song has. Moments are like that.
I graduated high school in the late '70's. I had never hear this song until the spring of 2020. And then it was a just a wee bit of what John Murphy of "The 100" displayed. What a new view revealed to me!
Damn, your comment hit me hard. So much nostalgia.
👍👍
Hey u there?
Thanks Nik. Beautiful words. Heartfelt. Honest. Mike and Karl would approve ! ❤️
The WATERBOYS most underrated group in my lifetime. I will be 71 soon.
No question about that
So right. Where is the love?
I'm 51 and have never agreed so completely with a comment like this one. Underatedly best lyrics besides Van in my lifetime. Brilliant.
my mother dancer she 72 I'm 52 young lonely.
I wanna talk
I raised my son on the banks of the Elster River in Thuringia.
Now he lives on the Baltic Sea and works on his small sailing boat.
Soon he will be setting off on a longer tour on the seas with his wife and my grandchild.
It would be a lie if I didn't say I'm scared for them.
But at the same time I'm incredibly proud.
Because this is the sea and I taught you to steer our little red rubber boat across the rivers.
Are they doing alright? Tell us on your Channel.
Thanks for sharing.god bless und Alles Gute😅
Thanks for sharing.god bless und Alles Gute😅
I got sober in 1992. I swam the river, to embrace the limitless sea. The Waterboys and The Pogues are the soundtrack of my life. 2023.
The 100 fans will be coming
Nope.
@@thedojodjsx9605 well they are. Isn't it banging the drum for this great song to have exposure to a wider audience.
Hhhhhhhh
I’m not fan but the 100 shares this song with me! and I liked it not because the series no but this song like my other mood
And I am one lol
JOHN MURPHY.
THE MOST UNDERRATED GUY EVER
BY WHO ?
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John murphy.. hated by everyone at the start and ended being loved by all!
true that
And always alive
@@berenicefils4820 Well he is literally called the cockroach...
@@kathylopez6767 who?
When life kicks you in the soul... multiple times, and you end up with the emptiest heart you ever had to carry around, listen to this song once a day when you wake up.
Beautiful comment .. I will give it a go :)
this song got me through a very dark time in my life.It should be free on prescription
What excellent advice Miguel, thanks - hope you are having a good life now - take it easy
Miguel Baptista best therapy for the worst period of my life
That's exactly it!....thanks Miguel for expressing it so accurately and so nicely :-) :-)
The 100 brought me here but I stayed for good music...
Same
Luis Miguel Dias same
Same .')
Same
Indeed!
anyone listening to that wonderful song in 2024?
Yep
Yes, Today~ Mother's Day (May 12, 2024)
Yes, love it.
👋
Came from John murphy
This is my recovery song,recovering from a hopeless state of mind & body.39yrs of active addiction & 9 months free.
That was the river & sobriety is the sea.First heard this aged 17,still playing aged 53.
Anyone in early recovery,keep on keeping on.Life IS truly & amazing experience.
Found this song watching the series "The 100" and i cant agree with you more. 7 days away from reaching 1 year of sobriety (11/3/20 sober date) and this song moved me tremendously.
Amazing man great job
Amazing mike. Keep it up . its worth iy
Daily Bread Andrew
Thank you, Sir.
Literally... How many lives has this song saved?... It sure saved mine. My story is short: in some night of january 1995... already in bed, in the dark... with the phones in my head... This starts to play and... some kind of light has opened my path... Full of strength and will to live, I moved away from the most dangerous depression of my life! Almost 30 years have gone by... and I'm still here. Life changed forever. I owe it to myself, it's true... but this song sure helped a lot! Thank you so much, Mike Scott! And thank you everybody for sharing your thoughts. Long may you run!
agreed it saved me too depression all my sad life have a 15 month old baby and a girlfriend now never been so happy long may it last thanks for ur message xx
Amazing, truly inspirational x
Wow. Powerfull story
God bless. Hope you've found new meaning in life - wishing you all the very ebst Have you seen the in-depth analysis of this beautiful song & incredible album?
❤ I'm hoping it will reach my brother at least one moment before it's too late.
Damn...36 years later and still goosebumps. What a song. I still have the album.
I've got he album on vinyl. Took me decades to really 'get' the meaning. Have you seen the in-depth analysis of this beautiful song & incredible album?
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Ageed
I love you ❤
murphy s playlist is awesome hahahaha
Technically it wasnt his
@@graybushlive3583 you just be fun at parties
watch everyone coming here just after 6x01 of the 100 airs
Yup lmao
Yep
Yep 😂
real ones seen the first 2 episodes already
@@prod.lil_beyblade3242 exactly 😂
This is heartbreaking... Played at the funeral this week of a man who I loved.. I will never forget you😢.. This song will now always remind me of you.. Always..... Rest in paradise, goodnight AW.. ❤
Hope you're doing better, stranger ✌️
@@JammyGit thank you
@@colettecolette4802 I wasn't expecting a reply but I always wonder about the person. I've been getting into the Waterboys again after listening to the This is the Sea album back in the 90s. Your love had good taste in music ✌️
I was introduced me to a whole range of music that id not heard before
John Cockroach Murphy brought me here and I'll repeat again and again... What incredible song
This song is for Maggie, my dog for fifteen years. I had to put her asleep this morning and my heart is breaking, she was my family. I pray she is in the sea now.
I love you so much Mags
Allison Fruet I'm so sorry
XOXOXOXO Peace.
💗 to you trying to make sense Maggie says that was the river.. Behold the sea 💗
o no...you made me.......much love Mag
When I put my border collie and best friend of 17 years to sleep, I felt so alone because we were practically inseparable. Took a while for me to realize that he was finally free to roam wherever he wanted to. Now I also realize he is with me, wherever I may walk. My sincerest sympathies. It will get easier.
I'm here because I like the Waterboys.
Me too
Most recently brought to light by John Murphy from the 100! Thank you!
SOULJAHZ ROCKERZ
did anybody ask you why you were here? Don't lower yourself to the "i'm here because..." brigade
Did anyone ask for your opinion?
Still listening to Waterboys from 1979 to today
Me too 💚
It s never enough
I was 14. I went out and bought this record. Where have 39 years gone? I still have and listen to this record.
So do my kids.
when I listen to this - the neighbours do as well....
This magnificent song represents to me being pulled out from a gray life, a life of constant discomfort, depression, a life with no meaning. Thanks to God I've turned my back on my soulless days, and I'm free because that was the river but this is the sea! Bless.
Same here! Exactly the same here... Thank you.
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ME TOO!!! PRAISE YAH!!
Just after The 100 season 6 premiere😍 loved it
What a stunning episode.
I found this song from a comment made on a song by Airborne Toxic Event. This song is indeed as powerful as that song, as I was told it would be, but in a different way. The lyrics in the Airborne song leave you wallowing in the anguish and despair that is experienced when unrequited love is at your doorstep, and the Waterboys song provides an escape from your river, into the sea. Get it? No philosopher go I, but that’s how those 2 songs hit me. Now I’m off to DCforC’s “Where body meets soul,” another song mentioned somewhere in the comments of both of the previous tracks.
Together with Talk Talk the most underrated band... Still feel blessed I got to see them both on the same day at a Belgian Festival in 1986
"This Is The Sea"
These things you keep
You'd better throw them away
You wanna turn your back
On your soulless days
Once you were tethered
And now you are free
Once you were tethered
Well now you are free
That was the river
This is the sea!
Now if you're feelin' weary
If you've been alone too long
Maybe you've been suffering from
A few too many
Plans that have gone wrong
And you're trying to remember
How fine your life used to be
Running around banging your drum
Like it's 1973
Well that was the river
This is the sea!
Wooo!
Now you say you've got trouble
You say you've got pain
You say've got nothing left to believe in
Nothing to hold on to
Nothing to trust
Nothing but chains
You've been scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
Scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
But that was the river
This is the sea yeah!
Now I can see you wavering
As you try to decide
You've got a war in your head
And it's tearing you up inside
You're trying to make sense
Of something that you just don't see
Trying to make sense now
And you know you once held the key
But that was the river
And this is the sea!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
Now I hear there's a train
It's coming on down the line
It's yours if you hurry
You've got still enough time
And you don't need no ticket
And you don't pay no fee
No you don't need no ticket
You don't pay no fee
Because that was the river
And this is the sea!
Behold the sea!
I heard the whole of the moon on the radio when it was first released and thought it was great…I then got lost in the fog of living and bringing up a family found it again this week and all the other water boys music what the hell did I miss a fantastic band
It's never too late...
One of the few songs that makes one cry with utter joy.
... it's about suicide mate. One in the river and together in the sea
I always associated this song with my uncle. I never told him this though.
Last year as l was watching his casket come into the funeral home, this song played over the speaker. This song will forever connect us. I miss him so.
Most underated band of the last 40 years. Just fkn genius.
How this song had eluded me my entire life I have no idea. Amazing piece.
The entire album is this good. One of the best albums of all time across all genres in my opinion
Yeah - this is up there with Lennon, and Dylan - perhaps better. It amazes me how it never became a classic. But all the more precious for that reason I suppose.
you're all there!
The music industry godfathers would discourage Celtic spirituality stirring up human consciousness, but this is an enduring wake-up call. Surely their greatest song.
Right? I'm stealing that quote thanks for finding the words I could not
One of the best soundtracks of my life.
"That was the river
This is the sea... "
Much love & peace to all 🌊❤
35 years later? and here we are? well that was the river! THIS IS THE SEA!
This is poetry in motion, by way of vibration and emotional bliss. Kudos to The Waterboys.
Never heard a more powerful song than this breathtaking
We were the opening act for this great band, several times in the 1980s. Great fun, great memories for a guy almost 60years old. My daughter loves the stories! She is my new headliner!!
Top man,class brother
What was the name of your band?
@Robert Micklewright Ah that's so lovely. What is (or was?) the name of your band, because I saw The Waterboys many times, so maybe I saw you too.
Very cool what was the name of your band?
No, this is not a song of despair, it is a song of So much Hope, like the Sea. As long as the sea moves, nothing will die for it is the heart of the world & the wind, it's breath, that keeps it Alive. As long as there is Hope there is Life. ❤
Been in love with them since I as Fifteen, I’m 49 now. It still gets me.
Just saw my post 4 years later. Still love it. ❤
This song has saved my life and is saving my life once again.
Love and peace sent from a stranger - hope you are doing well 💛🧚🌻
Mike puts it all out there lyrically. What a poet.... What a band!
goose bumps all over....it doesn't matter it just happens every time.
...
Every time 💥
Yes
I’m sorry, but in my humble opinion, this is the greatest song of all time. (Second is under pressure)
Agreed
me three Isabel ;-)
and then Spirit, got me thru the loss of my 30 y.o. son to opiates
almost. red army blues
I went to see the Waterboys. In Ireland back in the 90's
The climax of this song is just incredible.
Fantastic song. Like I always say bout the 80's - a low point for fashion, but a high point for music.
This song was a comfort when I was younger. It still is.
I've heard some great music in time, but this group is one of the finest.
Extraordinary, a feeling almost like vertigo. Like having the contents of your mind read back to you. The first time I heard this I sat bolt upright in the dark and stared at my CD player like it had just BIT me.
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Glass of single malt roaring fire and no lights enjoy
And a big fat sticky joint!
I listen to this song several times a week. For me, it's synagogue and church and mosque and temple. It's all that is good from the human soul.
As a Muslim I could not say Mosque but this is a brilliant song crafted both lyrically, musically and soul nourishing.
One of the most underrated band's still going strong..!!!
Going to see them tonight in my home town of Glasgow..
James Gunns favourite song right here
Went out fishing last weekend, over a wreck , where we scattered a true friends ashes a few years ago. Played this in memory and had a beer for him.
Favourite Murphy's song
Emori be like: 🤯🤬🔪
I don't know the meaning of this song, but I've always looked at it like this:
I'm 20 years old. I've been going downstream in the river of my teenage life, but I'm heading into the sea of adulthood.
The river is safe, but confining.
The sea is freedom, but dangerous.
That was the river. And this is the sea.
Seems like a perfect interpretation to me and largely in line with my thinking. I don't know if it is about the transition to adulthood specifically or not, but it fits well. It could be about any change where you go from something confined and safe to something bigger and with more promise but also more danger.
I think the 100 should have ended in season 5. However, if it hadn't been for season 6 I'd probably never discover this masterpiece. Thank you John Murphy
Listened to this last week while coming back from an amazing week of freediving in Cornwall. The perfect anthem!
TO MY BEST FRIEND FOREVER THAT INTRUESTED ME TO THIS BAND IN PLETTENBERG BAY IN 1991 I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU MARK YOUR FRIEND FOR LIFE RGDS JEAN-PIERRE AMEN 🙏
Grew up in Ireland with the Waterboys as my soundtrack!They lived and recorded a lot of their art in County Galway in the west of the country!Great Times❤️
Got turned on to this song by a wonderful man I know. This song feels like an opening up and has a lot of meaning. No more is there music that holds so much spirit and soul within it as back in the days.
Just discovered this song recently. An epic song
If you liked that listen to Church not made with hands from A Pagan Place by the same group.
This is the sea.... One of the best albums ever made
I've just heard " THE WHOLE OF THE MOON " ...now it's time to smell that special salty scent of " THIS IS THE SEA " ...whats next ? a Pagans Place ,December, Somebody might wave back , or any of the other FANTASTIC songs the WATERBOYS have shared with us ...& there have been many ? .
God, how I miss the 1980's. I assumed that such beautiful music, art, literature and humanity would last forever. How wrong I was.
These thing wrde keep
SystemCo People have been saying the same thing forever. Our glimpse of time really isn't indicative of any real change in culture. The future yields more than the past.
"God, how I miss the 1880's, I assumed that such beautiful music, art, literature and humanity would last forever. Now in 1915, how wrong I was."
Na music is not nearly as good today as the 80s or 90s and the kids are lame as fuck
Thanks for your thoughts. Greatly appreciate what you say but I disagree. Over the long stretch of many wonderful and creative decades something terribly wrong has happened to our music in these recent years. A certain profound rot has taken hold. I pray that true creativity does return in future generations and that real soulful beauty is reignited. But today there is a void of beauty, originality, creativity, and that powerful spark that urges everyone "Come! Let's dance and sing!!"
+SystemCo I blame the Simon/Louis of hijacking the airwaves..there's some quality shit out there thought
The lyrics describe a transformative journey from confinement to liberation, using the river and sea as metaphors for the past and future. The "soulless days" and being "tethered" symbolize a constrained and unfulfilled existence, which the singer encourages leaving behind. The river represents the past's smaller, more contained struggles, while the sea symbolizes vast, open possibilities and freedom. The song addresses feelings of weariness, failed plans, and inner turmoil, suggesting that past troubles ("the river") should be abandoned to embrace a new, expansive phase of life ("the sea"), urging a decisive break from past limitations to achieve true liberation.
Listening to this song for the first time here in Nova Scotia, where we are literally surrounded by the "sea. Know it's beauty, it's force and it's terrors. It's in your blood, it's just there, omnipresent and for centuries here in Nova Scotia the sea gives and takes. The rhythm of life, the ebb and flow of the sea that never leaves and is always there. Obviously I LOVE this song!!
Spent a lotof time along the South Shore as a kid. Still have family there.
@@aidenfermanagh6207 It really is a small world, a guy I work with is from the "South Shore"!!
What fabulous images to complement this wonderful song! Beautiful! Those powerful, crashing waves announcing The Sea! Thank you very much!
Yes, awesome video. Stunning.
This brings tears to my eyes
To mine too.....every time :-)
Me too
I can’t believe the 100 ends tonight. 5 years of my life. I’m gonna miss it so much.
May we meet again
I believe there are rumors of a prequel coming out!!
One of the strongest casts I’ve ever seen.
ha ha s7 was TRASH im glad it ended fuck that garbage season
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Bar a handful of episodes I really did like, I can’t help but agree with you. I’m glad they ended it before Rothenberg could do any more damage.
45years old. Been blown away by soooo much. But this is on another level.👊
Yeah....such a higher level....tks! to TheCrashf100 and tks! to The Waterboys
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same here, thx!
I am a fan of the Waterboys since 80's
One of the best songs I’ve ever heard in my life.
Riding Giants brought me here.
I guess "Fisherman's Blues" was suggested to me based on my video history. How in the good fuck have I never heard of this group?!?!?! This song along with several others have hit me right in the spot. Seriously, its an injustice this group isn't more well known.
hey Sean, the good things in life cannot be revealled all at once ... we are all on the same voyage my friend
Oh lad with yer good proud name there and all tis an injustice and a mystery ye havnae heard of these bassads. A Scotsman he is who now lives in Ireland with only one other consistent band member who is a very talented Irishman?
Half of it's magic the other half nonsense 😁
Anyone from the 100?
all of us in 2019
I'm from when this was fresh and new, and when I heard the song on The 100, it gave me goosebumps. Good to know that this song will last two ends of the world and a space colony 300 hundred years after it was made.
I'm from the 4020s hello space traveller 🙏
Yes
Indeed! Hello!
"Once you were tethered,
Well now you are free,
That was the river,
This is the sea"
❤❤
Oh my dear god... I love this music.... But, what a pity,I forgot about that most of my lkifetime. Now I am nearly 50 years old, sitting in my living room and be sad about my life full of missed
possibilities... That was the river-this is the sea....
You still got time to do what you want
Thnx!
@Shannon Smith Wow, so profound words, just what I need right now. Thanks..& God Bless The Waterboys for their power to connect.
that was the river this is the sea , fucken brilliant , this song never dies in my heart
A fantastic tune of transformation, win and loss at the same time. A rite des passages song. Mike Scott and the Waterboys.Wonderful lyrics and a wide bandwidth of musical expressions and energy.
this song shows me we can leave the still slow flowing life behind us and if we r brave enough we can aim for higher expectations and we too can feel the freedom of the sea. the sea being contentment
This song hooked me last night, it punched me in the gut and took my breath away. I cried without making a noise so as not to wake my daughter. A beautiful man is untethered and free. He's banging his drum, absolutely free, and I miss him dearly. I thank the Universe for this song.
I am sure this album can physically change you through sheer emotion.
This song really makes me feel something everytime I hear it.
From the we will rise. oh Murphy I love youuuuuuu
Absolutely, fantastic band and one of their best songs.
Off the radar good. Ironically I think they would have been a bigger band today. They are not really a genuine 80s band. They are timeless.
Mike hated the 80's music scene, so you're not wrong.
Your correct sir!
production was 80s as hell but everything else - transcendent
Best song ever written. Not sure what more you could say.
This song saved my life
Indeed my friend?
me too
plans that have gone wrong? you.
Hang in there for the sea. that was the river something that don't make sense now.
And tonight, 10 past midnight, I know exactly what you meant by this.
darn right it's good....... Here I am at 46 first heard the song when I was 15- still listeningat my age and still as good as when I first heard it
Same!
61 years old and still love this song. You have good taste Lance.
Such a amazing album haven't listened for decades. Put majority of music in 2000's to shame. Oh the music back then MEMORABLE
I think this is one of the best songs I've ever heard. Seriously.
This song is absolutely beautiful and there will never be another band like the Waterboys. I’m in love with this band, along with Toad The Wet Sprocket 🌹
Saw the Waterboys in the 80s on numerous occasions...supporting U2 at Wembley Arena, Glastonbury, Cardiff Uni. So many of those songs are etched in my heart. I think that this is probably my favourite. Magnificent.
Occasionally a soul will realize their non-separation from everything. This new reality that opens up (which is just seeing things as they really are - naturally), is usually accompanied by a strong sense of good-will to humanity and to life in general. l think Mr Scott had a spiritual awakening around this time in his life and wrote an album with the inspiration. lmagine knowing a love and a joy, a deep abiding peace that you know will never leave you, no matter what life throws at you. The reality of this incredible life we all share is that there is only one of us here - pure, whole and complete, limitless, actionless, non-dual - awareness-existence.
Brilliantly stated .. The Waterboys are a gift to the world .. Namaste
i think he was at Findhorn at this time
Nathan Jones perfection.
Nathan Jones
I heard he was 23 when he wrote this. Helped heal many.
Just if one thinks one experienced difficulties in the river, imagine the sea!
I first heard this song while watching The 100. Listen to all the Waterboys music. Brilliant x
probably one the best songs i have ever heard vastly underatted band
Good Will Hunting soundtrack got me here with Fisherman's Blues. 25 years later and I found this one. With Fisherman's Blues. Loved it at first but I think Elliot Smith really owned that soundtrack. But years later coming back to it, The Waterboys were where it was really at. I was just too young to see it at the time.
Continual strumming of that acoustic mixed with the strings is powerful........Love it!!!!
Yeah, I think it's a twelve-string guitar by the sound of it, just E and A chords throughout, and beautiful lyrics.
What a fucking song! Music today doesnt come anywhere near to this pure excellence in music!
I got this on cassette after it's release. Fell in love with everything about it. And I was very much a hardcore metal/ hard rock fan, and later entertainer, but this album and Splent Enz with songs like, Bon Voyage, Straight ole line, so on so forth.... Fanfuckingtastic!
Split Enz
This song saved me! And will be the last song heard on my exit from this life!❤