Obligatory mid-winter Ptown flashback

Whenever I hear these 3 songs, my mind reverts to walking the path toward Herring Cove Beach this summer, while listening to them on my iPod. I miss that walk and that beach.

It's not that the lyrics represent anything literal but more that the wistful mood and sound of the songs strikes a nostalgic nerve. The piano notes instantly transport me to the moments I traversed wet sand in my orange Crocs heading to the Atlantic.

Remarkably, these 3 songs feature the phrase "into the/an ocean". Nice coinkidink. I've served up a couple of short vids I took so you can join me on the journey, but maybe you just had to be there. I was. I shall return.












Artist: Ryan Adams
Lyrics for Song: Nightbirds
Lyrics for Album: 29

Out under the stars
Dodging them night cars baby
Cause when you gotta move, you gotta move
Whatever that it was
You were thinking of baby
You're certainly not thinking
Of that now,

And nightbirds sing you
An empty tune
In an empty house
In an empty room
In an empty moment
All the nightbirds sing
We were suppose to rise above
But we sink
Into the ocean

I feel like a body stuffed into a trunk
From a million years
Of lying and getting drunk

The people here inside me
They are loud and in the night
They scream and smash the windows
When they fight

And nightbirds sing you
An empty tune
In an empty house
In an empty room
With empty feelings
When it comes too soon
We were supposed to rise above
We were supposed to rise above
But we sink
Into the ocean
Into the ocean
Into the ocean

Artist: Ryan Adams
Lyrics for Song: Blue Sky Blues
Lyrics for Album: 29

Blue sky when you gonna learn to rain?
And let yourself go blue for once
And let go of the weight you've been carrying
In this house, no one goes to sleep for days,
Its like we're working on a mountainside
Trying not to slide,
Into the ocean

I can take care of you
But only if you want
I'm strong enough to carry you
Across the icy lake, across the icy lake
But I can't fight your blues,
Cause I know I'll lose
What's left of my mind
I can't win,
But for you I will try
My baby blue

My mountain is hidden in a pile of trees
And she's the one I'll have to climb,
If I ever wanna see
Blue sky
When you gonna learn to rain?
And let yourself go blue for once
And let go of that pain?

I can take care of you
The way you'd like to feel
Underneath the riverbed
Across the icy lake, across the icy lake
But I can't fight your blues
'Cause I know I'll lose
What's left of my mind
I cant win,
But for you I will try
For you
For you
My baby blue

Artist: Ryan Adams
Lyrics for Song: Starlite Diner
Lyrics for Album: 29


It's midnight, at the Starlite Diner

You said meet me at a quarter to twelve
Now I'm standing in the corner
Wishing you was here in my arms,
Fare thee well my old friends
Fare thee well

Is it possible to love someone too much?
You bet
The drugs are in the safe
And the clothes are on the couch, intertwined
But none of them are yours
And all of them are mine

So cry
Cry like a baby into an ocean of wishes
But it don't ever rain
On a street drenched with painted ladies
Fare thee well my old friends
Fare thee well

Have you ever slept it off to the bones
Having woken up at night my love
Having dreamt you called them all
Every person you could never love

It's a blow out
On a birthday cake
And I'm a birthday candle
Floating on the lake

Where are you it's getting late

Its midnight at the Starlite Diner
You said meet me at a quarter to twelve
And I'm standing in the corner
Oh there you are
There you are
There you are
There you are