Something In The Water

The song presents love as a joyful, almost surprising change in the speaker’s everyday life. She enjoys quiet evenings and sunny, lazy days, but her thoughts keep returning to someone she loves. The feeling grows from private excitement—her heart skipping when she imagines the person thinking of her—to playful confidence and a wish to share ordinary life together.

Several images make her happiness feel vivid and light. “Birds singing on my shoulder” suggests that the world around her seems unusually cheerful, while “halos made of summer” and “ribbons made of spring” connect her mood with warm, lively seasons. The repeated phrase “something in the water” is an idiom-like way to suggest that some mysterious influence has caused her intense affection; it need not mean that anything is literally in the water. “Crowns of words a-woven” presents her words as carefully made songs or expressions of love.

The speaker jokes that she will pretend her excitement is “no thing,” even though her heart gives her away. This creates a gentle contrast between trying to seem composed and feeling “crazy” about the person. The song treats love as both mysterious and simple: she cannot explain why she feels this way, but she welcomes the feeling and imagines a happy, shared routine.