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Ocean Song
03:26
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Ocean Song
A ship inside a bottle
An orchestrated dream
A feeling of desperate longing
For places never seen
A blind bewildered sailor
Empty stares at the sea
Each wave imprinted in his mind
Like a liquid memory
This song flows like the ocean
The ocean flows like a song
A deep blue rolling motion
Something that keeps you hanging on
This broken stranded vessel
I’m leaving it behind
Like a wreck on the beach
Like a ghost inside my mind
This song flows like the ocean
The ocean flows like a song
A deep blue rolling motion
Something that keeps you hanging on
This song flows like the ocean
The ocean flows like a song
A deep blue rolling motion
Something that keeps you hanging on
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2. |
Dark Water
05:17
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Dark Water
You’re already waist deep in it
You just don’t know
It’s not the kind of water
That follows ebb and flow
No, this is dark water
Dark water
You know that gloomy stuff
They always try to sell
You know those people trying to poison
Your wishing well
That’s dark water
The label reads: Dark Water
It echoes and echoes endlessly
that empty talk they speak
Somebody better turn it off
Flows on like an endless leak
Remember those words I said to you
All twisted, but meant to be true
Still ringing in my ears
They call them dark water too
Their name is dark water
The darkest water
A tidal wave is building up
A thousand feet to the top
Any day now it’s gonna drop
And all that dark water will come down
That dark, dark water
The dark, dark water
Better hold your breath
Here comes the dark water
Dark water
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Never Asked To Go Swimming
Six feet below the surface
You meet up with me
Sure nice to see you down here
Keeping me company
Like a tree trunk floats in the ocean
A wooden octopus
I stretch my arms in all directions
Looking for a drink
And I am drowning
I never asked to go swimming
I am drowning
Never asked to go there
My home is a long lost empire
deep beneath the waves
Cold salty water slowly rising
Reaching the top of my head
‘Cause I’m drowning
I never asked to go swimming
I’m drowning
And I never asked to go there
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Will
Will sees the ocean
For the very first time
Fear mixed with excitement
Without him knowing why
Will feels the ocean
Water licking at his feet
Diving in head-first
The seabed glistening like gold
A Light in the dark
A flying spark
The heart takes control
Over your little soul
Will finds the treasure
Hidden in the deep
Didn’t even think
He was out there looking for it
A Light in the dark
A flying spark
The heart takes control
Over your little soul
Will to speak
Will to see
Will to live
Will to be
Will swims the ocean
A golden scepter in his hand
He stares back at his family
Smiling in the sand
A Light in the dark
A flying spark
The heart takes control
Over your little soul
Will to speak
Will to see
Will to live
Will to be
Will and the ocean
The land a distant shore
Its form is ever changing
He knows he’s been there before
A Light in the dark
A flying spark
The heart takes control
Over your little soul
Will to speak
Will to see
Will to live
Will to be
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5. |
Paper Ships
03:47
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Paper Ships
I fold it with my fingers
Seal it up with wax
I send this little vessel
Downstream to the past
This tiny ship is every memory
Every moment, every scene
Like someone is getting lost
In a half forgotten dream
A drop of rain that hits the ocean
A distant echo in the sky
I hear you crying with devotion
It sounds a lot like a goodbye
A paper ship is floating
On an oh so distant shore
The present here is fading
Now it’s labeled as before
The sun that sets below the ocean
Like an echo in the sky
I hear you crying with devotion
It looks a lot like a goodbye
The sun that sets below the ocean
Like an echo in the sky
I hear you crying with devotion
It looks a lot like a goodbye
It looks a lot like a goodbye
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6. |
Rowing Alone
04:18
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Rowing Alone
Hear the waves rolling in
Now I’m back here again
Didn’t think I’d make it home
When I was rowing on my own
You’re the one I met on the beach
Couple of light years outta reach
Found me wasted in the sand
Nothing left to understand
Nothing left to understand
Now there’s an ocean between us
But that don’t really mean a lot
When you’re out here fishing
For the keys to your soul
For the keys to your soul
Hear the waves rolling in
Now I’m back here again
Didn’t think I’d make it home
When I was rowing on my own
When I was rowing on my own
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The Raft
03:29
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The Raft
One day on the raft
I pray they spot us soon
Two days on the raft
The horizon shines with gloom
All hands are feeling feeble
All knees are weak as water
We’re clinging on to salvation
Tell me; should we even bother?!
Three days on the raft
I think of Jonas and his fight
Four days on the raft
I taste the salt both day and night
All hands are feeling feeble
All knees are weak as water
We’re clinging on to salvation
Tell me; should we even bother?!
Five days on the raft
Someone’s waving at the sun
Six days on the raft
I know the journey’s just begun
Seven days on the raft
I know the journey’s just begun
I know the journey’s just begun
All hands are feeling feeble
All knees are weak as water
We’re clinging on to salvation
Tell me; should we even bother?!
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8. |
Silent Crusade
04:52
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Silent Crusade
I am told that my life is a clipper
The sea of time has tossed about
And I know that there's only one skipper
Who can guide that ship about
Do the wakening eyes of the wondering soul
See within and then without?
Silently the truth speaks more loudly
Than what falls from my mouth
Seems my dreams are the wings of a spirit
This vessel sails can't fill without
From its wind comes the light of inspiration
And the darkness of doubt
Gales of anger that wane into the calm
Please take me drifting far away
From the wordy and worldly explanation
Of the space we call today
Sail away
Sail away from the shore
Situations, weigh the anchor once more
Sail away
Sail away from the shore
Situations, weigh the anchor once more
Lyrics: Gene Clark
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Sweet Pete and the Land Band Aarhus, Denmark
Danish Americana, that sounds weird, but hopefully in just the right way.
Sweet Pete & The
Land Band create songs and artwork inspired by desolate places, lost souls and the American landscape.
They play country rock.
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