Radio Ga-Ga!

Well, on my long journeys these past few mornings from NUS to Orchard Road... I tune into the radio to check out the music people are listening to these days. I feel like I've been Cast Away (a la Tom Hanks) for the past 2 years, thanks to AIM. Needless to say, all these songs are new to me and quite frankly, just a bunch of CR*P. Sorry... don't wanna go back to being a cynic but really- how is Sexyback by Justin whatever-lake a good song? Then there is this song, which is really popular, in which a guy is telling his mother (in a hip hop-rap sorta way) that he has found a new girlfriend and the background score sounds like a doorbell.

Fear not oh ye lovers of good music, for there is hope. Now this might not be exactly a new song but I heard it for the first time this morning and it elevated my mood from 'why the ___ do I have to wake up this early?' to 'wow! what a nice morning' (ok ok, clearly i'm exaggerating but it was close). Its called - Into the Ocean by Blue October (anyone heard of them - ever?) Here are the lyrics and the embedded video thanks to Youtube!

Into The Ocean lyrics

I'm just a normal boy
That sank when I fell overboard
My ship would leave the country
But I'd rather swim ashore

Without a life vest I'd be stuck again
Wish I was much more masculine
Maybe then I could learn to swim
Like 'fourteen miles away'

Now floating up and down
I spin, colliding into sound
Like whales beneath me diving down
I'm sinking to the bottom of my
Everything that freaks me out
The lighthouse beam has just run out
I'm cold as cold as cold can be be

I want to swim away but don't know how
Sometimes it feels just like I'm falling in the ocean
Let the waves up take me down
Let the hurricane set in motion... yeah
Let the rain of what I feel right now...come down
Let the rain come down

Where is the coastguard
I keep looking each direction
For a spotlight, give me something
I need something for protection
Maybe flotsam junk will do just fine
the jetsam sunk, I'm left behind
I'm treading for my life believe me
(How can I keep up this breathing)

Not knowing how to think
I scream aloud, begin to sink
My legs and arms are broken down
With envy for the solid ground
I'm reaching for the life within me
How can one man stop his ending
I thought of just your face
Relaxed, and floated into space

I want to swim away but don't know how
Sometimes it feels just like I'm falling in the ocean
Let the waves up take me down
Let the hurricane set in motion... yeah
Let the rain of what I feel right now...come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down

Now waking to the sun
I calculate what I had doneLike jumping from the bow (yeah)
Just to prove I knew how (yeah)
It's midnight's late reminder of
The loss of her, the one I love
My will to quickly end it all
Set front row in my need to fall

Into the ocean, end it all
Into the ocean, end it all
Into the ocean, end it all
into the ocean...end it all

[Zayra]
Into the ocean (goodbye) end it all (goodbye)
Into the ocean (goodbye) end it all (goodbye)
Into the ocean (goodbye) end it all (goodbye)

I want to swim away but don't know how
Sometimes it feels just like I'm falling in the ocean
Let the waves up take me down
Let the hurricane set in motion (yeah)
Let the rain of what I feel right now...come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down

Into the ocean (goodbye) end it all (goodbye)
(In to space)Into the ocean (goodbye) end it all (goodbye)
Into the ocean (goodbye) end it all (goodbye)
Into the ocean (goodbye) end it all (goodbye)
Into the ocean (goodbye) end it all (goodbye)
Into the ocean (goodbye) end it all (goodbye)
(I thought of just your face)

Now, this song in no way reflects the state of mind I'm in. I'm neither suicidal nor contemplating jumping into the ocean but you have to listen to the group, although you should probably just check out the video- very nice!

5....4....3....2....1... Here's the Video...