According to the Echoes Songfacts, the lyric, "Numberless names within the force of the ninth wave" is a reference to The Ninth Wave, an 1850 painting by Russian marine artist Ivan Aivazovsky depicting sailors clinging to the mast of a submerged ship after a violent sea storm.

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