Ocean's love of all styles of music lead her to write lyrics ranging
from streetwise cheekiness and satire to haunting passion, and from surly
depths to storylines about fantasy worlds of mythical splendor. Here are the lyrics to three of Ocean's songs. If you are particularly interested in the lyrics of any other songs, they are all included in the liner notes of her debut CD, Mermaid Music and will also be included in her upcoming CD, Ocean.
7. SNAKE-HIPS ©2003, words and music by Ocean
COOL
THE WAY HE MOVES
THE WAY HE GROOVES
THE WAY HE
IT'S SO
SMOOTHE
THE WAY HE COILS
HIS ARMS AROUND
ME, BABY
HE'S SO
SLOW
SO SERPENTINE
A WINDING DREAM
WHEN HE GETS NEAR ME
I
SWOON
SO HYPNOTIZED
INSIDE HIS EYES
MY BRIDGE OF SIGHS
SO
SO SLOW AND COOL
HE BREAKS ALL THE RULES
SO SUBTLE AND SMOOTHE
PRIMITIVE AND CRUDE
IN-
CLINE
ALL SWAY AND LEAN
SO SLITHERY
IN SEQUENCE
HARMO-
NY
STRANGE AND INTENSE
PATTERNS AND SHAPES
LINES OF DESIGNS
SINEW-
Y
CURVES OF DESIRE
SO SYRUPY
SCALES REGISTER
SO HEA-
VY
GLIDE OVER ME
SO VIPERY
SHIMMER AND SHEEN
SO
SO SLOW AND COOL
YOU BREAK ALL THE RULES
SO SUBTLE AND SMOOTHE
PRIMITIVE AND CRUDE
AHHH
ONE
KISS
DANGEROUSNESS
OFFERS AN END
AS SWEET AS THIS
HIS
SLINK
SEDUCING ME
MAGNETIZE
GREAT LETHARGY
TO
SLIDE
TO TAKE A RIDE
ON MYSTERY
METALLIC GLIDE
HE
HAS
SENSUOUSNESS
BARE ELEGANCE
SNAKE-HIPS
CURVI-
SO SLOW AND COOL
HE BREAKS ALL THE RULES
SO SUBTLE AND SMOOTHE
PRIMITIVE AND CRUDE
AHHH
8. SIREN SONG © 2003, words and music by Ocean
THERE ARE LEGENDS FROM DAYS OF OLD
TALES THAT SALTY MARINERS TOLD
OF HOW SEAFARERS WHO LOST THEIR WAY
WERE ENTRANCED AND LURED ASTRAY
ENTICED BY THE SPARKLING LIGHT
OF MOONBEAMS DANCING ON THE WAVES
OF EMERALD SEAS AND INDIGO SKIES
BY BEAUTY WERE ENSLAVED
LULLED BY THE RHYTHM OF THE SEA
APPARITION, ILLUSIONS, REVERIE
THEY HEARD A HAUNTING MELODY
FANTASY, IMAGE, DREAM, ECSTASY
I'LL GIVE YOU ALL THAT LOVING CAN BRING
PLEASURE FOR PLEASURE IS ALL I SING
LOVING, SO WILLING, BECKON TO ME
GOLDEN HORIZONS WILL SET YOU FREE
CRAVING FOR PARADISE SHINES IN YOUR EYES
STARDUST AND MOONBEAMS FLOAT IN THE SKIES
GARDEN OF BEAUTY, EVERY DELIGHT
RADIANT SPLENDOUR LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT
TROPICAL ISLAND, VISIONS TO SEE
LONGING FOR PASSION, OUR FANTASY
COME DREAM WITH ME, YOUR WHOLE LIFE LONG
GIVE YOUR SOUL TO THE SIREN'S SONG
YEARNING FOR PASSION, DEEP IN YOUR SOUL
ENRAPTURED BY THE BRIGHT MOONGLOW
GLISTENING STARLIGHT RIDES ON THE WAVES
BEAUTY MAKES A WILLING SLAVE
PARADISE PROMISED IN EVERY KISS
CALLS YOU TO ETERNAL BLISS
IN YOUR HEART YOU ALWAYS KNEW
SWEET DESTINY WOULD CALL TO YOU
HIDDEN OASIS LOST IN THE SEA
OUR PRIVATE EDEN, OUR FANTASY
WONDROUS VISIONS SHINES IN YOUR EYES
BEAUTIFUL DREAMS, OUR OWN MIRAGE
CLOSE YOUR EYES
DREAM OF THE SEA
TAKE MY HAND
AND FOLLOW ME
SOME SAY THEY WERE HELD UNDER A SPELL
BUT AS FAR AS WE CAN TELL
THEY FOLLOWED THE FATES MOST WILLINGLY
AND VANISHED IN SPLENDID PURSUIT OF DREAMS
THEY LEFT ALL ELSE BEHIND A TOMB
AND GAVE THEIR SOULS TO RAPTURE, OR DOOM
AND EVEN AGAINST FRIGHTENING ODDS
THEY SOUGHT TO LIVE, OR DIE, AS GODS
ENCHANTMENT, DESIRE, REFUGE OF DREAMS
SHOWS YOU HOW THE NIGHT SEA GLEAMS
YIELD TO THE SPLENDOUR OF THE NIGHT
HYPNOTIZED BY THE SHIMMERING LIGHT
LUMINOUS STARS FLOAT ON THE WAVES
SAVE YOU FROM A WATERY GRAVE
SIREN SONG DOES MAGICAL THINGS
ALWAYS TURNS WINTER INTO SPRING
WANTON DESIRE NEVER TO TAME
BRIGHT ILLUSION CALLS YOUR NAME
ANSWERS YOUR EVERY NEED
WITH BLISSFUL FANTASY
AND SO, SEDUCED BY WHAT THEY'D SEEN
ENTRANCED, BELIEVED SHE WAS NOT A DREAM
A FAIR SEA MAIDEN WITH TANGLED HAIR
THEY WILLINGLY FOLLOWED TO HER LAIR
AND THEY WERE NEVER SEEN AGAIN
AT LEAST, NOT IN THE WORLD OF MEN
DID THEY FIND SWEET PARADISE ?
OR A WATERY DEATH, AS COLD AS ICE?
WE HOPE THEY FOUND THE BETTER HOME
THAT ONLY THEIR FONDEST DREAMS HAD KNOWN
SO, WHEN YOU WATCH HORIZONS OF SKY AND SEA
REMEMBER HEROES WHO FOLLOWED ROMANCE
AND WERE,
AT LAST,
SET FREE
10. EMPTY QUARTER, (AR-RUB AH-HALI) © 2003, words and music by Ocean
SLOW WALK AT MIDNIGHT, IN A LUNAR PHASE
UNEARTHLY STILLNESS, HALCYON GLAZE
PURE DESOLATION, MEANDERING PACE
EMPTY QUARTER'S ETERNAL EMBRACE
SINEWY WASTELAND, NOMADIC STRAYS
ROVING HORIZON, THE DESERT ENSLAVES
PONDEROUS DREAMING, OPIATIC HAZE
WINDSWEPT OASES, INCESSANT CRAVES
BLANK INTUITION, SHADOWY PLANES
CURVING CRESCENT, AND OCEANLESS WAVES
MYSTIC INCANTATION, ILLUSION LIES
UNDER THE ENDLESS, SHELTERING SKY
UNDULATION, CARAVAN SWAYS
UNDER AN EYELESS, SPHINXLIKE GAZE
EMPTY QUARTER, SEERING HEAT
ISOLATION, LONELINESS COMPLETE
FASCINATION, SERPENTINE BLADE
INFATUATION, ROAMING SHADES
LOOMING SHADOWS, MOONLIGHT FADES
TO EMPTINESS OF ETERNAL SPACE
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