Lyrics
Kid From the Sea
Oh so young
Watching the sea swallow the sun
Horizon line
Painted with gold fading to night
The day is done
The time has come
The Great South Bay
Calm as can be with hardly a wave
The black and white
Beacon of old shining a light
For me and my dreams
Just a kid from the sea
With a song in his heart
Leaving shore
Prepared to trust the stars
I know I’ll meet
The darkest of nights
The highest of seas
But I’ll stay my course
And follow the breeze
180 degrees
I’ll brave all the squalls
Oh the rise and the fall
So here I go
Sailing alone into the blue
What I’ve called home
Is fading away out of my view
Here I am this is me
Just a kid from the sea
With a song and guitar
Leaving shore
Prepared to trust the stars
When you look back
On all that you’ve done
What you’ve become
Will you be a kid from the sea
Who followed his dreams
Way of the Ocean
VERSE 1
The wild wind blows the way the way it wants to
and the light across the bay just does its thing
The storm that’s closing in upon the island
Will wreck a weaker man and drown him in his dreams
CHORUS
That’s the way of the ocean
That’s the way of the water
No matter the absence or the presence of the sun
All the rogues are gonna come
That’s the way of the ocean
VERSE 2
You can take your best laid plans and raise them up as sails
Steer your ship on course with good intentions
But a fool is all you’ll be if you keep challenging the deep
Instead of learning how to roll with all her punches
CHORUS
That’s the way of the ocean
That’s the way of the water
No matter the absence or the presence of the sun
All the rogues are gonna come
That’s the way of the ocean
Portrush (Irish Surf Song)
VERSE 1
Spring time on the Emerald Isle
Daybreak, headed for the coast
Across the pond a couple thousand miles
The North Atlantic was what I missed the most
She was everything I needed
It had been awhile since I’ve seen her face at all
But I’ve returned to heed the ocean’s call
CHORUS
I got the first train out of Belfast
With a ticket to Portrush
Whiterocks and forty shades of green
Overcast
With a castle on the bluff
Sea foam and the scent of neoprene
I wish I stayed, stayed a little longer
I wish I stayed longer in Portrush
VERSE 2
Looking back it makes me smile
A day well spent along the Irish Coast
Innocently young and wild
Nostalgia how you haunt me like a ghost
You’re in everything I see
And it’s been awhile since I’ve seen her face at all
But I’ll return to heed the ocean’s call
CHORUS
I’ll get the first train out of Belfast
With a ticket to Portrush
Whiterocks and forty shades of green
Overcast
With a castle on the bluff
Sea foam and the scent of neoprene
And I will stay, stay a little longer
Yeah I will stay longer in Portrush
BRIDGE
I had to go but I will return
To a seaside town with a beach break called Portrush
Drifting
VERSE 1
I was fighting the current
In the eye of the storm
I was chasing that horizon
For way too long
CHORUS
All my time out here
Taught me to let it go
Now I’m drifting, drifting, drifting slow
Drifting, surrendering control
And I’ve never felt better
VERSE 2
Everything I thought I wanted
All along the way
Everything I thought I needed
Ain’t it funny how it's changed
CHORUS
All my time out here
Taught me to let it go
Now I’m drifting, drifting, drifting slow
Drifting, surrendering control
And I’ve never felt better
Keeper of the Light
VERSE 1
I remember as a child
Dreaming of the sea
Spending many nights
Staring at the deep
I’d heard about the light
And all it’s history
Someone would tend the flame
To illuminate the scene
CHORUS
Brother, when it’s dark
We need someone to be
A lookout for the souls
That ride the open sea
Brother, when it’s dark
There’s a beacon in the night
But it won’t shine on its own
Without a keeper of the light
So brother won’t you be
The keeper of the light
The keeper of the light
To guide us home
VERSE 2
On the island of the fire
It would get so cold you know
A cold that cut like knives
It could turn a man to stone
Despite the frozen air
At midnight on the coast
Someone would tend the flame
To bring the boats back home
CHORUS
Sister, when it’s dark
We need someone to be
A lookout for the souls
That ride the open sea
Sister, when it’s dark
There’s a beacon in the night
But it won’t shine on its own
Without a keeper of the light
So sister won’t you be
The keeper of the light
The keeper of the light
To guide us home
Brother, when it’s dark
We need someone to be
A lookout for the souls
That ride the open sea
CHORUS
Brother, when it’s dark
There’s a beacon in the night
But it won’t shine on its own
Without a keeper of the light
So brother won’t you be
Sister won’t you be
The keeper of the light
To guide us home
Oceanheart
They may say I lost my way
That my compass broke
But I learned to read the stars
To guide me home
And I may wander far
Much farther than most
But tell me what’s a life
If you never roam
So light up the Atlantic
So I can see the cost
You know I’ll always have an oceanheart
No matter where I go
All lyrics by Rob Riccardo.
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