Embla wrote:
I don't know. But why would anyone be afraid to catch fish?
I'm afraid getting caught hurts the fish. Catch and release only for me, if I go fishing.
NewTime wrote:
I didn't she was referring to catching fish literally. I thought that she was saying "catch fish" as a metaphor for something, though wasn't sure what the metaphor was for.
People do say "There are plenty of fish in the sea" to mean "There are plenty of people out there" or something along those lines. Makes sense to me that it might be a metaphor related to that, maybe meaning "Don't be afraid to start a relationship." I haven't heard the song, though, that might not make sense in context.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"