Ocean Song

Walk me to the ocean
Blues inside the words I swallow
Hours of time lost in the morning
Drinking coffee by the sunrise
Weeping willow singing sideways
There are hills outside the city
Leave the lights on glowing silent
Oh, the sadness of the dimming

Keep it cool beside a river
Getting down and getting thinner
Sun is open, gentle skylight
Climbing higher in the twilight
Than the rocks of Malibu
And the trees of Echo Park
I see them fondly in the evening
And the space inside my dreaming

Of a girl and of a feeling
So entwined inside the ceiling
Of a gesture, of a whisper
Of a failure, oh a sister
Keep me locked inside the eyelids
Of the hilltops in the country
Crying sunny, walking easy
Living far from the city

Is it me or is it you
Or does it fade beyond the blue
We carry sadness like the summer
Years of past and getting younger
See our friends out on the beach
I've gone too long to see the feet
Of people wishing, waves caressing
People laughing, people dancing

Oh the stones within our hearts
The blood below our skin
Is streaming upwards to the skyward
Planes above and every star is something
Broken by the fears
And all the hope behind the years
I'm growing older, maybe wiser
See the blues inside the fire

Take me to the country
I have flown above the rivers
In the nighttime
Where the daylit moon is shining
Where the darkness falls I walk below a song
Sung inside the melody
Of floors falling, glasses clinking
Lovers lost and mama winking

At the folly of the outcome
And the beauty of the waters
Washing straight towards our dying hands
I wish for us to be well
Oh, it makes me feel alone
To see my old home
There's nothing pretty in the sadness
Memories and past gladness

For the spoons inside the cupboard
And the starlight in the summer air
I've spent it, I have lost it
Far away now I have left it
In the darkest part of me
It's too far for us to see
We've only felt it in a moment
Where we blinked our eyes and suddenly were free