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Originally posted by EuphorianSea
The riverbed line signifies how change is something tangible but not always easy to accept. Hence why the river part represents water which could suggest drowning and the bed part represents the attachment to something you've known for your whole life i.e. struggling with anxiety in my case. You seek shelter FROM your riverbed and not IN your riverbed because the riverbed isn't something literal and is instead an external part of your internal being. Therefore, it makes more sense to seek shelter FROM your riverbed rather than IN your riverbed due to your riverbed not actually existing in the first place and so there is legitimately no possible way you could ever seek shelter INSIDE your riverbed when everything's just a placebo effect. It doesn't make sense literally because there's nothing literal about it since it's a metaphor darling. If someone were to seek shelter IN their riverbed, then that would be classed as attempted suicide. Want me to explain what the placebo effect is boo boo?  |
Did I ever say that you should say
in 
You seem confused. Read my comment again. This explanation still doesn't make sense.
Let's Google seek shelter: "to seek shelter from gunfire or other projectiles" "to seek shelter from the rain" "Idiom: a roof over one's head."
So from Google (and from common sense), to
seek shelter means to find a place that provides shelter so that whatever harmful thing is falling on you, be it rain or bullets, can not hit you. A riverbed is a flat, static thing. It doesn't move, it can't be coming at you, and to say you "seek shelter" from it is simply awkward. No way around it. It's an idiom that you don't really use correctly. You can say that you need to break out of your comfort zone (symbolically represented by the riverbed), but to
seek shelter from it implies that it is attacking you in some way and you need defense.
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Originally posted by GotSkill
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"and the melting
wax" so not the "melting wings"
I can find a million random Google results that explain how the wooden frame didn't work without the feathers and they all talk about the feathers falling off the frame and preventing his flight. The point is that I find the word choice awkward. It has nothing to do with the story. If I see a line in which WINGS are MELTING, I find the image awkward, no matter what the context is. The wings themselves aren't melting and I think it's awk. It's simply my opinion. It's not like I gave the song a bad rating for it or something, but obviously in my judging I'm sharing my opinion, and I think it's an awkward line for a song.
You know what? Take your monetary ass and go suck my riverbed somewhere else, why don't you. I've had enough of conversing with somebody who believes everything's so black and white. Well, guess what? I'm grey and proud bitch! Ugh and you wonder why I said Jackson is my favourite judge. 
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