We spotted the oceanAt the head of the trailWhere are we goin?So far away
And somebody told meThis is the placeWhere every thing's betterAnd every thing's safe
Walk on the oceanStep on the stonesFlesh becomes waterWood becomes bone
Half an hour laterWe packed up our thingsWe said we'd send lettersAnd all of those little things
They knew we were lyingThey smiled just the sameAnd it seemed they'd alreadyForgotten we'd came
Walk on the oceanStep on the stonesFlesh becomes waterWood becomes bone
Walk on the oceanStep on the stonesFlesh becomes waterWood becomes bone
Back at the homesteadWhere the air makes you chokePeople don't know youAnd trust is a joke
Don't even have picturesJust memories to holdGrow sweeter each season
As we slowly grow old
2 comments:
When this song was popular, someone I worked with told me the song was religious and they were a religious band
I thought to myself, well that makes sense with the lyrics given, I guess, and never gave it another thought
It has a catchy chorus and it is an ear worm
Well I decided to do some research today to reaffirm what I'd been told
Turns out the lead singer Phillips wrote the song in five minutes when his guitarist played him some new music
He has no idea what the lyrics mean and even tried to rewrite them so the chorus would make sense
but he couldn't make anything work, so just left them as is
Some people think's it's about vagabonding and searching for something better
or think it's describing the arc of an introvert who had and lost a group of friends
or it's the act of just feeling alive in nature
While one person thinks it's a brief retelling of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Well now it's two people - this is now a Tolkien song to me
i could see this song being written and performed by the fresnels. i love that eric idol lost his shit when he heard the band for the first time. a great example of life imitating art. the drummer kinda looks like he has some kind of physical or mental handicap. this song and video should be in a museum as a great example of 90's music. songs that have no meaning sometimes are the best. i heard that the talking heads song "and she was" was written the same way. David Byrne just started making shit up on the spot when he heard the music and boom, they had a song. it apparently really made him mad when that song became a huge hit. but david byrne is grumpy, autistic dude. i would not like to be his friend.
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