Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) Lyrics Meaning

In life a person will experience a lot of things , even love and friendship . However , every person has a higher purpose , a meaning in life , that he must fulfill and sometimes this purpose recquires that we sacrifice some things in order to fulfill it . The sailor's life purpose was being a sailor and living in the sea . This was the meaning of his whole life . However , he once fell in love with a barmaid in a port on a western bay .But He had to abandon her because he could not live with her . If he lived with her he would never fulfill his purpose which was living in the sea . His purpose was more important than his love for her and so he made a choice to abandon her and continue his journey and his purpose .