Come è profondo il mare

The lyrics move from a voice speaking for hidden, hungry outsiders to a wider account of poverty, power, and resistance. The poor person is briefly raised up, then cast down and left alone; later, a solitary cry grows into a shared struggle. By the end, the focus shifts to thought itself: even people who seem silent may resist being controlled. The mood is angry and mournful, but it also suggests hope.

The repeated deep sea is more than a setting. It can suggest the vastness of thought, which, like the ocean, cannot be fenced in or fully controlled. Fish watch human conflict from below, and the speaker imagines that they, too, begin to think. This makes people’s ideas seem natural and hard to suppress. The image of giving the disadvantaged a piece of mirror may imply that they are allowed a glimpse of themselves, though not necessarily real power or equality.

Some scenes are deliberately strange and compressed, so their exact meaning is uncertain. The references to chains, violence, and a “story” of mistreatment suggest oppression, while the poor person’s brief rise and fall may point to promises of change that do not last. The final lines about burning and killing the sea could extend the metaphor—attacking free thought—or refer to damage to the natural world. The lyrics leave these meanings overlapping rather than settling on just one.