From the recording Rainstone

Music and Lyrics by Pat McManus

Lyrics

"Where the Ocean Breathes"

I knelt down where the ocean breathes, 

On weathered sand beneath my knees. 

The clouds brush slowly, painting the sky 

As I drifted back to you and I.
Once we sailed those clouds, 
Free and fearless, laughing aloud. 

Surfing those clouds like birds surfing the draft.



Two fair seagulls crossed my view, 

Sailed high like we used to do.
Surfed sunlight laughs and moonlight dreams
That faded far into blue

Like time erased me and you. 

Once we sailed so wild and free, 

Now it's only me and the sea.

Shorelines shape to journeys’ ends,
Each wave stroking that canvas of sand,
Shoreline, the canvas, so traces memories of each
Into threads of shared memory, the lacing of all.


So each wave’s a mortal life a story that ends

Ends its journey at shore, coda fading to gone 

These curtain calls end in nothing but none 

As I feel echoes of splashes cry "it's all but done”.

For dreams, like tides, they rise and then fade,

Can’t stretch the sea, only fade from the me to the sea

And two fair seagulls crossed my view,
Sailed high just like we used to do.
Surfed sunlight laughs and moonlight dreams
That faded far into blue,
Like time erased me and you.

Once we sailed so wild and free,
Now it’s only me and the sea.



Once I thought love never ends, 

But even oceans break and bend. 

Ships can sink when skies turn mean

Love dissolves and drowns, lost to the sea.



And two fair seagulls crossed my view, 

Sailed high just like we used to do.
Surfed sunlight laughs and moonlight dreams

That vanished far in the blue, 

Just like time erased me and you. 


Once we sailed so wild and free,
Now it's only me and the sea.



Once I thought love never ends, 

But even oceans break and bend. 

Ships can sink when skies turn mean
Love dissolving and drowning, lost to the sea. 


And two fair seagulls crossed my view, 

Sailed high just like we used to do.
Surfed sunlight laughs and moonlight dreams

That vanished far into blue, 
Just like time faded me and you. 


Once we sailed so wild and free,
Now it's only me and the sea.