This song is about the trust in desire and forgotten love. “Surely, they must be loaded than with simple matter” Expectations of people being filled with love and real meaning. It’s hard to believe that true love has been erased and have been hiding their feelings to fit in the expectations.
[Verse 1]
All the small boats on the water
Aren't going anywhere
Surely, they must be loaded with
More than simple matter
Floating on top and gracefully
Tending to the same pole
All the small boats on the water
Going nowhere
[Hook 1]
Is it true that none of them
Will ever break free and sail?
Feel the night is made of rocks
The stagnant mass
Is it true that none of them
Will ever break free and sail?
Break free from the stagnant boats
Left in obscurity, left in obscurity
[Verse 2]
All the faces with their eyes closed
Giving a smile, weightless
Like a body that would vacate
To its own light
[Hook 2]
Is it true that none of these
Contented, happy faces
Will not ever hear a cry?
Won't hear a cry?
Is it true that none of these
Contented, happy faces
Will not ever hear a cry?
Filled with love, not with desire
Love, not desire
[Verse 1]
All the small boats on the water
Aren't going anywhere
Surely, they must be loaded with
More than simple matter
Floating on top and gracefully
Tending to the same pole
All the small boats on the water
Going nowhere
[Hook 1]
Is it true that none of them
Will ever break free and sail?
Feel the night is made of rocks
The stagnant mass
Is it true that none of them
Will ever break free and sail?
Break free from the stagnant boats
Left in obscurity, left in obscurity
The Flower Called Nowhere was written by Lætitia Sadier & Tim Gane.
The Flower Called Nowhere was produced by Stereolab & Andi Toma.
Stereolab released The Flower Called Nowhere on Mon Sep 22 1997.