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Old Ocean, like many songs on this album, was made almost entirely using solar power. I spent much of 2020 and some of 2021 living in a small off-grid cottage powered by an unpredictable generator, so I made a temporary solar powered studio. Around this time there was a lot of discussion of so-called 'alternative facts', and the idea of truth was becoming ever more slippery in public discourse. In this song I try to make sense of these developments against the ever present back drop of acidification, dead zones, deep sea mining, coral reef bleaching, over fishing, noise pollution, and many other threats that the ocean faces.
Lyrics:
Old ocean,
Thank you for holding me,
Won’t be the same without you,
Facts on the move again,
Truths on the hoof they say,
Oh, can’t you see,
It’s lost in the everyday,
It slid so far away,
From you and me.
Old ocean,
Thank you for holding me,
Rocked by an endless motion,
Afloat in a ceaseless sea,
Won’t be the same without you.
Loves on the loose again,
Long in the tooth they say,
Or lost at sea,
Good has gone away,
It seems it’s there to stay,
What will be will be.
Old ocean,
Thank you for holding me,
Rocked by an endless motion,
Afloat in a ceaseless sea,
Won’t be the same without you.
Whether calm or weather stormy,
Whether green or blue,
Whether vain or whether haughty,
Whether win or lose.
Whether truth or just a story,
You can’t pick and choose,
Whether blunt or whether thorny
It’s not up to you.
Old ocean,
Thank you for holding me,
Rocked by an endless motion,
Afloat in a ceaseless sea,
Won’t be the same without you.
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