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Jan 21st 2021!⃝My ex went through this. That relationship ended 22 years ago, but when I discovered this song, I wept for him and his girlfriend , who really did seem like his brick, always somewhere on his mind, wedged between us.
Over the years of our relationship, the bits he shared about the abortion led me to this conclusion: he had mixed emotions about being a 16-year-old father, as anyone would. He’d probably encouraged her to get the abortion, at least indirectly...invalidating her claims that she felt it move because it was at that point “just some cells.”
But as he got some age on him, the “drowning slowly” kicked in. His girlfriend maybe sank instantly into depression like the brick, but the reality of his child being killed in the womb took a long time to dawn, to torment, and to drown. “Off the coast and I’m going nowhere” probably refers to that state of being absolutely stuck in one spot emotionally with no way to move on from the grief. Four years later, he tended to regret, to wish that child were alive.
His baggage from that experience drowned our relationship. He was never really free from it.
