Ocean, Quick!

from Hard Red Winter by Oliver June

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Please believe
that what I told to you is meant to sink
Dissolve every thought I let myself breathe.

I think I am afraid to look you in the face
to stay in this place
to step in the muck I have made

Ocean, quick!
Keep your grip.
Keep your waves from spilling it.

What I have told to you
is far from gone
They watch for me now
I've been away too long

This can't be happening right now
My fingers are too weak to tell you what I mean.

Put my hand in yours
Let me sink
Put my hand in yours
let me sink

Ocean, quick!
Keep your grip.
Keep your waves from spilling it.

I told you once before
and I will tell you again—
I want to be more than your friend

Right now I can't say it
and it will kill me
if I can't get to it eventually

Ocean, quick!
Keep your grip.
Keep your waves from spilling it.

To the ocean, I'd always be true
There's nothing I would not tell you
To the ocean, I love you.

To the ocean, I'd always be true
There's nothing I would not tell you
To the ocean, I would never slight you.

Ocean, quick!
Keep your grip.
Keep your waves from spilling it.

Get me out on the ocean
change hour for hour
upon my every notion

I think I am afraid to lift my face
to see this space
and the people I put in it
aren't quite... aw, forget it.

Ocean, quick!
Keep your grip.
Keep your waves from spilling it.

And she says,
"Play how you feel it."
And I say:
That's a little hard, that's a little hard.
That's a little hard in a world so deceiving.

Please believe me
Please believe me
Please believe me.

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from Hard Red Winter, released May 1, 2013

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