Name: Emotional Ocean
Duration: 4 min 44 s
Channel: Al Stravinsky
Description: "Emotional Ocean" is a song by Al Stravinsky. A song about temptation. Solo piano and voice are all that are on this track, though a more lush arrangement beckons. I wrote it in late June 05, and recorded it early July.

Emotional Ocean

Al Stravinsky

Playlist

Comment Share

Album $6

Free download

A song about temptation. Solo piano and voice are all that are on this track, though a more lush arrangement beckons. I wrote it in late June 05, and recorded it early July.

singer songwriter musician uk acoustic guitar cubase reason sheffield bass guitar doncaster al stravinsky voxengo brian delaney

Al Stravinsky

Touching, funny, serious, award-winning songs about life and love; all penned, played, arranged, sung, recorded and mixed by Al.

So he never existed... not really, as a real person. He made himself up one day in 1969 and lived a dual existence: half of him surviving on dead-end jobs, the other half believing that one day he would write at least one song that the world would remember. Now half of him is dead, and, as with all conjoined twins (without major surgery) that sentences both of them. It would be sad if it wasn't so pathetic. Fairy-tales always end this way... well not always, rarely... and this was rarely a fairy-tale; so there the similarities end: the ending was neither sad nor happy - it just... was. The enigmatic and tragic Jackson C Frank was a hero of his... now he emulates that frail and failed soul. Maybe in 40 years people will still say 'Al who?', much as they do today. That would be both a great epitaph, and a fitting legacy. Below is the page as he inexplicably and hurriedly left it: hot meal still on the table; knife and fork still in place and at the ready; the drink untouched in the bone china cup... ************************************************************* I now have an album: 'The sentence that I serve' available from CD baby. Click on this mini album cover to take you there: INVALID -- CDBABY INVALID INVALID INVALID INVALID for AL STRAVINSKY: The sentence that I serve -- It's on iTunes too, where the whole album or individual tracks can be downloaded in mp3 format: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=216015067 Thanks. I've been a professional musician for 24 years, and over 3000 gigs (I've stopped counting); always working, travelling, trying to make ends meet...nearly...if you could just hold these a minute please...er...thanks: my hands are now free so I can get on with actually (ironically) playing some music at last. I sing and play bass guitar and I play some acoustic/electric guitars also.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Piano

Charts

#1,330 in subgenre Peak #32

Charts

Peak #250

Author

Al Stravinsky

Uploaded

December 05, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.3 MB • 128 kbps • 4:44

Story behind the song

From the album 'The sentence that I serve'. Click here for link: 


In this song I have likened temptation to the sea; and the song says how we must resist the power and attraction of it, for fear of drowning in it. Solo piano and voice are all that are on this track, though a more lush arrangement beckons. I wrote it in late June 05, and recorded it early July.

Lyrics

Chorus	
I will stand on the shore of Commitment,
Facing the pounding waves and the fizzing foam
Of this emotional ocean, this raging sea;
'Til the morning comes, and the tide retreats,
And drains every drop from me.

Verse 1
I can't remember,
I can't find the state of mind,
I can't be the man you left behind.
But I will love you
All the time that we're apart,
And I'll always keep you in my heart.

I'll remember the pledge that I made,
So I'll stand at the world's edge being flayed;
When will you come, to salve and remind me?

Chorus	
I will stand on the shore of Commitment,
Facing the pounding waves and the fizzing foam
Of this emotional ocean, this raging sea;
'Til the morning comes, and the tide retreats,
And drains every drop from me.

Verse 2	
The earth moves,
The sand seeps through my toes:
Undermines me, redefines me as it flows.
'But I still love you'
I cry into the whistling wind,
Who twists and mocks my words as they begin.

I cling to the promise we made,
And I know that our love will be saved,
Or I am nothing; come home and remind me.
			
Chorus	
I will stand on the shore of Commitment,
Facing the pounding waves and the fizzing foam
Of this emotional ocean, this raging sea,
'Til the morning comes, and the tide retreats,
And drains every drop from me.

Middle 8	
The storm rages on, though the night is cool and calm,
From here to eternity is where my body wants to be.
If I'm steadfast we'll come to no harm,
And turn this quicksand to land we can build on.

Chorus	
I will stand on the shore of Commitment,
Facing the pounding waves and the fizzing foam
Of this emotional ocean, this raging sea,
'Til the night is gone, and a new day breaks -
Quells the tempest that temptation makes - 
When will morning come, and the tide retreat,
And drain every drop from me?

Comments

Please sign up or log in to post a comment.