Hi every one,
First, I am sorry for writing an offensive world in the question I am going to ask.
It’s from an Adele song called “rolling in the deep”. The song has 2 versions with different lyrics.
“Go ahead and sell me out and I’ll lay your ship bare”.
“Go ahead and sell me out and I’ll lay your sh*t bare”.
I googled it , the second version means “I’ll expose your/her lover lies”. Is it correct?
What’s the meaning of the clean version : “lay your ship bare”" ?
Finally, Is the phrase “rolling in the deep” a idiom? I cannot figure out the meaning of this phrase in this song. I know Pop songs do not need to have grammatical lyrics (Bee taught me that), I hope this one has.
From different sources: ‘“lay (ship) bare"—a shipbuilding term that means “To put (a ship) in dock\ remove it from service, as for repairs”’.
“Rolling in the deep is what a ship far out at sea does - in old fashioned, poetic language.” (=it isn’t an idiom). The image was used to picture “ … the man alone in a deep sea of despair like a lonely ship rolling in the waves of the deep ocean.”
“The song itself is a big boating metaphor.“
I agree it’s a thankless task to interpret someone else’s lyrics as it is more about emotions than grammatically correct sentences.
***** NOT A TEACHER *****
Hello, Mr. Cheng:
Of course, I have never heard of Adele (I like only music from the 1960s when I was young!).
But I did some googling, and I found a very serious and detailed article about music censorship.
I have NO idea if what it says is true, but here it is:
In Adele’s song “Rolling in the Deep” some lines like “I’ll lay your ship” or “reaching the fever pitch” HAVE BEEN MISTAKEN [my emphasis] as “I’ll lay your sht" and "reaching the fever btch.”
The article is full of “dirty words,” but the article is very serious and explains all about how music has been censored. I believe that it’s OK if I tell you how to access it (I do not know how to link). Go to the Google search engine and type in these words:
Censorship of music World Heritage Encyclopedia “reaching the fever pitch”
Thank you Eugene for the explanation. the interpretation of “Rolling in the deep”, the ship rolling in the waves is very imaginative and poetic. I love it.
Thanks to James M, I am reading the article now. It’s good to know they are the mishear words from the lyrics because I also hear the bad words too in the song.
I enjoy reading your replies for adverb modification in “john ran quickly to the store” / “John ran to the store quickly”. It’s a nice and throughout explanation from a humble member like you. I learnt a lot from that question.