Waking the Witch

["Sawyer, Keith" <Keith.Sawyer@FMR.Com>]

amahdavi@husc.harvard.edu (Andisheh Mahdavi) writes:

>WAKING THE WITCH
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This song does the best job of resisting any imposition of a "plot"
>onto the Ninth Wave. Even if the witch in the song is being drowned
>(see below), we are very far away from the "real world" where the
>protagonist is drowning. <snip>

I always envisioned this as either:

1) the woman is hallucinating that she is being dunked, much like a supposed 
witch at a Salem trial -  "Confess to me girl!"

 -or my preferred explanation-

2) The woman is revisiting a <past life> where she died of drowning - in 
this case as an accused witch at a trial.  I sort of linked this song as 
being the first of a trio, with "Watching" representing her <current 
life/age> and "Jig of Life" representing her <future> pleading with her 
present.

keith