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The Ocean Only Has Eyes For You

from la Jungla by Suicide Swans

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This is a song that is more like righting prose where the music almost becomes like a soundtrack to the imagery and settings of the words. I usually like to write where I mix first and third person aspects together with both direct descriptions and using words more abstractly like painting. This is one of those songs where I’m describing a setting but from the perspective of all individuals involved so you a getting multiple sides of the story fragmented together. What is the story, well you tell me.

lyrics

You are my sea, oh, you are my sea,
endless, open, a pile of broken factories
And it’s not enough, ah, its not enough,
To keep you down, dug into the ground, not enough so you’ll never see
These random acts of war, oh, between ourselves,
That tear at our heart, and, make us, make us bleed

PC:
And I, can’t remember, if I’ve ever seen you smile
There are oceans, that cover us, in their denial

C:
And Oh, me oh my, I don’t see it any other way
There’s nothing to add, nothing to be, speak or say
And if you think, you’ll be found brand new
The ocean only has eyes for you
Eyes for you

You don’t act like, you don’t like you are kind,
How were you bred so blind, being that, I just disagree
And when you were born, oh, ahhh, when I was born,
Everything felt so new, through my eyes, all the time
We are a pile of limbs, stacked up, one by one again,
Chasing those blinking lights, no we’re not born, born to hide

PC:
And I, can’t remember, if I’ve ever seen you smile
There are oceans, that cover us, in their denial

C:
And Oh, me oh my, I don’t see it any other way
There’s nothing to add, nothing to be, speak or say
And if you think, you’ll be found brand new
The ocean only has eyes for you
Eyes for you

And I’ve got a heart, oh, I’ve got a heart,
It may not be sympathetic, or creative, or kind, but it’s the only one I own
Oh the blithe, oh, its dull, and disengaged,
Blood, and arson, you’ve locked yourself inside, you’re warn out again
And I woke up alone, so alone, inside, inside this home
And your armor, is pointless, against no one, maybe just me

You cannot change the past, no, the trajectory of the blast,
If I am calico, then you are the wind
When it’s all winding down, those judgmental eyes, of the barn owl,
Your smile, is a low tide, is just not to me
And your voice, oh your voice, is stripped bare like copper wire,
Horses gallop and canter, I no longer, wish to make you cry

PC:
And I, can’t remember, if I’ve ever seen you smile
There are oceans, that cover us, in their denial

C:
And Oh, me oh my, I don’t see it any other way
There’s nothing to add, nothing to be, speak or say
And if you think, you’ll be found brand new
The ocean only has eyes for you
Eyes for you

credits

from la Jungla, track released April 12, 2018
all songs and lyrics by Kyle Jenkins / music by Suicide Swans

Recorded and mixed by Benjamin Lancaster @ By The Living Grace Studio
www.bythelivinggracestudio.com

Mastered by William Bowden @King Willy Sound
www.kingwillysound

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Suicide Swans Toowoomba, Australia

Open the gates & stand clear Suicide Swans are an Australian band through constant live shows display the ragged glory and swagger of rock, laid back country & dashes of pop, that has seen the band grow into a live force they term cosmic country. Their live sound includes waves of keys, textures & a new found penchant for experimentation, tossing in a mix of country, rock and a hint of pop. ... more

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