"So Ophelia stepped out into the Great Divide
And decided she'd try to walk on water
She said, 'kings will kill kings
And they marry their queens.
But love always seems
To be lost on me.'
Oh, you're lost on me
You're lost on me."
Inserted into my song, I get goosebumps now everytime I hear this part. So compelling when its being analyzed; does this mean Ophelia drowned herself?
Or rather, did she really get to walk on water? Was it a desperate attempt to have some magic in her life, now that she sees things are they truly are?
Or, is she making fun at Hamlet for saying that to her? Is she more angry and hurt than irrational?
What do you think?
In "Hamlet", Ophelia kills herself out of grief. I think the verse I put into the end of this song will both hint at that, and shed different light on her and her perspective on love. I think she is as doomed as Hamlet knew he was, and the last line is the affirmation of her fate. It will always be lost on her. And Hamlet.
So why not try to walk on the water? If she could walk on water, there might still be hope for love to be magical, too, and things may be different than she now sees. And maybe she wasn't trying to kill herself after all. Hopeless romantics are always hopeful on love, and maybe she thought if she believed hard enough, she'd float along the river like a waterbug. Hmm...
