” … I love you just because …”
What if I’ve always known? If at the tender age of 10, I had already felt you in the ebb and flow of the ocean and knew, unequivocally, that I’d love you despite the many suns that would abandon themselves into the ocean with tired hope. I have always loved you, from afar, from within, from the apogee of all the things I’ve ever wished for. And so I’ll set afloat this pale confession in hopes that I’ll arrive at your feet, “somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere waiting for me.”
—You lead me down, to the ocean
So lead me down, by the oceanYou know it’s been a long time,
You always leave me tongue tied
And all this time’s for us
I love you just becauseYou lead me down, to the ocean
The world is fine, by the oceanYou know this time’s for real
It helps the heart to heal
You know it breaks the seal of the talisman that harms
And so you look at me and need
The space that means as much to meSo lead me down, to the ocean
Our world is fine, by the oceanYou know the way it is in life, it’s so hard to live up to
So why are you still dressed in your mourning suit
I assume, I assume…You’ll lead me down, to the ocean
Don’t leave me down, by the ocean
The ocean.Here comes the wave, here comes the wave
Here comes the wave, down by the ocean
Richard Hawley, The Ocean, from the album Coles Corner
I think it’s about the ocean. Not sure.
And, well, sometimes it’s the vastness of the ocean that is the only obstacle, the thing that destroys. If life’s a beach, the ocean is the Grim Fucking Reaper.
