"Looking back at the beginning of this
And how life was
Just you and me and love and all of our friends
Living life like an ocean"

Great start to a song and the song's interpretation. The subject is reminiscing on when things were new, fresh, simple. The song goes on to say that the current is pulling him down, Life is getting harder and he feels like giving up. Can you help? The thing is, I don't see "You" as a being, and individual or loved one, but more like can "You" meaning "Can the memory" save me? Because I'm not ready to go down. He's looking for something to hold onto to help him pull through.

"I look ahead to all the plans that we made
And the dreams that we had
I'm in a world that tries to take 'em away
Oh, but I'm taking them back"

So here is the subject drowning in life, thinking about what was to be, what he had planned on, and the power of what he had hoped and dreamed for brings up a strength to fight through.

"'Cause all this time I've just been to blind to understand
What should matter to me
My friend, this life we live
Is not what we have, it's what we believe"

The strength is welling-up because instead of worrying about what is past (or lost) like he was when the currents started pulling him down, he's looking forward to what could be, fighting for what he believes will be.

The chorus is determination. No matter what he wants to keep his head above water, but the versus are him searching within for what will give him the strength to rise above. That's what the refrain adds the lines "There's a will in me, now it's gonna show" because after the second verse he found what will help.

This could be the end, Of himself and all he's known. But why let it end there when there could have been more than he had ever dreamed?

Overall I think it's about growth and change. Life has a way of getting cloudy and then the bottom falls out and flash floods, washing us and all we know away. Its hard to fight for whats gone, because your sad it's gone and want to give way to the sadness and drown with it. But with the cleansing of the old comes the new, and maybe it's greener than what was. Letting go and moving forward is all you can do to stay alive.

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