OCEAN ROAR
P.W. Elverum & Sun
Pale Lights
Ocean Roar
Ancient Times
Instrumental
Waves
Engel Der Luft (Popol Vuh Cover)
I Walked Home Beholding
Instrumental
Pale Lights
Pale lights from other islands
Slow flashing through blue dusk across the water
Seeing island shapes
“Who is there?” I call
A small yelp on the wind
And then more roaring
Ocean Roar
One voice heard low across the water through ocean roar
(One chance out between two worlds, walk with me)
Lost in thought
The mind wandering again
Drifting west over the hills
(Pulled out to sea)
Sitting in the car after the music stopped abrupt
We arrived in the dark, lost and disoriented
(Through a dark stretch of trees, the roar of the beach calling)
As the car cooled down, the sound of the waves rose and blanketed
Our minds grew into a vast night air
We made beds in the ditch
The loud breath of surf
Exhaling and constant
Sleeping on the wet ground
In a dream I swim
(I thought I heard some voice returning)
Out past waves rolling
Broad deep sky
Ancient Times
Deep in a dream on the ground
Ancient times
Deep grass
Instrumental
(Instrumental)
Waves
Sleeping on the sand, mid winter, Neah Bay
Woken up by a strange lull in the roaring
Imagine a log in the waves further west, out to sea
Ocean roar dream returns
Engel Der Luft (Popol Vuh Cover)
(Instrumental)
I Walked Home Beholding
The world was frozen
I left the studio
The whole town had been abandoned except for me
I walked home beholding
The lights in the park
The moving trees
The silent corners
The world’s new cloak
A final breath of storm blows snowdrifts in the street,
Then blows away over the water
On an island
Across from town
Isolated
Close and alone
Looking across the water
Seeing people slowly living all their lives
This is the feeling from inside an island body
(Looking out from inside a sea of thoughts, distant and quiet)
Tossed on the waves
Blown onto land
Grasping meaning
In churning mess
A moment of clear air breathing, seeing the expanse
Totally at peace with the meaningless of living
Drifting in a changing world
Alone
Reaching for a solid thing
In vain
The stone dissolves in the same wind I swim through
Where I live there is a constant roaring
Bottomless absence
Through a cloud hole
The sky was moving
I saw it drift
Seeing breathing waves of water roll in the sky
The wind has increased
Instrumental
(Instrumental)
Pale Lights
Ocean Roar
Ancient Times
Instrumental
Waves
Engel Der Luft (Popol Vuh Cover)
I Walked Home Beholding
Instrumental
Pale Lights
Pale lights from other islands
Slow flashing through blue dusk across the water
Seeing island shapes
“Who is there?” I call
A small yelp on the wind
And then more roaring
Ocean Roar
One voice heard low across the water through ocean roar
(One chance out between two worlds, walk with me)
Lost in thought
The mind wandering again
Drifting west over the hills
(Pulled out to sea)
Sitting in the car after the music stopped abrupt
We arrived in the dark, lost and disoriented
(Through a dark stretch of trees, the roar of the beach calling)
As the car cooled down, the sound of the waves rose and blanketed
Our minds grew into a vast night air
We made beds in the ditch
The loud breath of surf
Exhaling and constant
Sleeping on the wet ground
In a dream I swim
(I thought I heard some voice returning)
Out past waves rolling
Broad deep sky
Ancient Times
Deep in a dream on the ground
Ancient times
Deep grass
Instrumental
(Instrumental)
Waves
Sleeping on the sand, mid winter, Neah Bay
Woken up by a strange lull in the roaring
Imagine a log in the waves further west, out to sea
Ocean roar dream returns
Engel Der Luft (Popol Vuh Cover)
(Instrumental)
I Walked Home Beholding
The world was frozen
I left the studio
The whole town had been abandoned except for me
I walked home beholding
The lights in the park
The moving trees
The silent corners
The world’s new cloak
A final breath of storm blows snowdrifts in the street,
Then blows away over the water
On an island
Across from town
Isolated
Close and alone
Looking across the water
Seeing people slowly living all their lives
This is the feeling from inside an island body
(Looking out from inside a sea of thoughts, distant and quiet)
Tossed on the waves
Blown onto land
Grasping meaning
In churning mess
A moment of clear air breathing, seeing the expanse
Totally at peace with the meaningless of living
Drifting in a changing world
Alone
Reaching for a solid thing
In vain
The stone dissolves in the same wind I swim through
Where I live there is a constant roaring
Bottomless absence
Through a cloud hole
The sky was moving
I saw it drift
Seeing breathing waves of water roll in the sky
The wind has increased
Instrumental
(Instrumental)