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Ocean of Dreams

by Kerry Logan

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Ocean of Dreams 01:29
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Like a turning of the sun; The ocean of dreams rises and falls Sending those upon it over the crest, yet again From trough to peak, the hypnotic resonance Is warm to the mind, despite the cold Like a turning of the sun; The two ships lean in the firm breeze, Sails full and course uncertain The dying light burning the sky to Remind all of the violence about Like a turning of the sun; We are drawn once more to the same place Where the tomorrow’s become yesterday’s and The fading light is restored yet again Here we are, yet again Here we are, yet again Like a turning of the sun; Like the vast mass of luminous gas revolving on its axis The surface swirling with beauty and fury In that it will return in a tomorrow Like a turning of the sun
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The Fourth Regression 05:48
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Forcing words that should not come Broke the line again have I Musing once more will take its place As I wait… I allow my heart to break, to weigh injury against the sand Conjuring to bring a new regression – another type I stir the broth; produce the words that paint me in a separate light All the while ignoring the person I was meant to be! Forced an outcome again Pushed a line up to its end I have learnt to cloud my virtue Too much I’m using my own strength… I’ve just seen a circle that would crush me if I dwell in there The fact that I must live this life again, again, again, again… It’s only now that I see it – the repetition’s crystal clear A disconnect that heralds: this is not the plan that God created!
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Overland 04:38
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I’m done! I’m over it! This new frustration! If you think you could get me to walk by Without noticing the scene I’m now intolerant in a new location That’s five hours of my life I wish that I was walking in a dream Call time on this Overland If you think you could get me to walk by? It shows how little you know me! My son is an older man with a cool new station I can’t sit back and watch while all I care about is torn away from me! The cream doesn’t bother me until it draws a nation To think that I had wondered what the taste of failing hearts could ever mean? Collapsing the Overland If I think I could get me to walk by? It shows how little I know me! It’s better to stream again To know you’re here – isn’t it the best?! To watch as time, it makes us older Home is where the wife is I know this! I can’t wait to cast it! Thank you for partnering this Overland…
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Take a Look 03:15
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One year to the day! I don’t listen enough to you I just stay in silence And suffer through the violence We travel away But I alone make it different ways There’s much to align us But what I own is mindless Take a look At myself Watch me want What I can have… I enjoy the way I cycle through every song A hundred to divide us And then one to define us I rule these mistakes Yet from the depths I am holding on Is it our human shyness? You did naught to malign us Take a look At myself Watch me want What I can have… I seem to need another head What’s in my heart? What happens here? What is wrong with me? I’m so unclear I’m thinking it out through another soul that I can’t share I bring doubt Into my hand I look at what’s left and I see that I harbour it I’ll be what I can ‘Cause to speak could be criminal Live in this frustration How can I earn my station? I wanted to say That you are so beautiful! You lay the path before me How will you tell my story?
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Eliza McCartney 02:16
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What were my dreams? Buried in things Would the child that I was Be upheld in all these? I will wake up The childish dreams within me And leap Look to the skies What a surprise! The child of the long white cloud Bronzed on the rise Your makeup Has much to speak to me You fly Oh! Eliza! How you hold the dreams of us all in your hands
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Magnificat 03:21
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Horizons 07:40
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I needed a place to come to I had not expected to find anything But then I am met by this beautiful place Here is my song I sing to You Cause here my scars begin to heal I am met by this beautiful grace If I was as tall as You, I could see over the horizon If I could afford Your view, the whole would be mine If I was as old as You, I could feel the temperature rising But You are You I cannot know what is over the sea for me So I must trust in one who does I began this bestest year by coming to this beautiful face How can I thank You? I guess I can never repay You I mean… what do you get for someone who has everything? Just my love
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Nightmare Sea 09:34
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I do not love you I do not want your life entangled with mine I’m speaking the truth Or so, at least, I tell myself this time If this is what it comes down to Who’s to say if I’ll make it out alive? My moments are moot I move my life to fit into the sublime I’m searching for proof I desire the wrong to be as right If that is what it comes down to I’ll know the score as I chase the line I do not love you… This habit is new Or an old one that’s wearing a clever disguise How would say you? Your mute shows you a fabric of my mind And if that’s what it comes down to We will meet myself right down the line I’m searching for feeling and finding I’m leaving the feeling of needing from where I’m receiving The cause of this leaving I’m seeing is being in love with a feeling I’m desperately keeping But, I won’t react ‘cos I’m loving this feeling! Seeing the wasting that’s crippling this being and watch it extend to the life that I’m leading Suggesting an action that I must be heeding – to end this whole being I’m actively feeding I guess what I’m needing is ultimate healing! My God! I cannot do this! I just cannot do this alone! I do not love you… I now say it with conviction this time Go on, Good Form, go on Made to grow some older A vessel for it all Go on, Good Head, go on The centre of the senses The windows to the soul Go on, Good Light, go on Learning to get deeper A portal to the Whole Go on, Good Life, go on The Rise and Fall of Darkness The victor walking tall
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(Definitely) The Cancer 07:54
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Struggling to end it all To say stop instead of go The way that I end it all To call it right I’ve changed inside by giving up this perpetuation Through it I wonder: what’s worse? The cancer or the cure? I’m scared of letting go… Existing through the clinical Waiting for the miracle The way I suspend it all To end its fight I can’t go back – my minds made up – in for the duration But, I still wonder: what’s worse? The cancer or the cure? Oh, that I could never know! Now I know that I’ll never be completely free It’s the nature of this chemical I bear But, resolute I stand up against what pulls me down I end the wondering How I wish I’d walked How I wish I’d woken How I wish I’d given it all away “Now make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong Always try seek goodness in every way For yourselves and for all that you meet along the way” I mean all that I say! What I’d give to know If I could write a new page Or should that moment pass? I turn and then I walk away!
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The Final Chapter 05:08
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Injured I wish I could say it Was the thing that held me Over a way of swaying? Making my life a big fake? Holding me to a nightmare? Now I pull out of tailspin Striding past distraction Here I turn over a new leaf No more liking intake Its how I become about You Holding the dream – secure it Forgive, not forget Ignoring My offer of friendship A friend to all the mistakes? An introspective leaning? How is this all about You? I crush the head completely Close the door on the sun No more turning of this sun

about

In 2009 I made the decision to stop writing music. I had been writing voraciously since I began in 1990 and had accumulated about 180 songs, yet I had only recorded about 40 of them. Coupled with that was the awful fact that I had began to live my life according to my lyrics, rather than write the lyrics according to my life. I had to make a clean break and give myself the time to catch up with both life and recording. I vowed not to write anymore until I had recorded everything I had written.

Fast forward to now, some nine years later, and I'm nearly there. Just two more albums to go (one half done already) and I'll be able to start again, but this time on my own terms.

This album then, the Ocean of Dreams, was the last stuff I wrote in that 2008-2009 era, written purposely to be a sort-of concept album. Shortly after writing the album, I realised the subject matter was partly to blame with my skewed view of life - so this album is partly responsible for my problems! - and when it came time to look at it again, I bent the lyrics slightly to 1) focus it back on where my head should be, and 2) tell the tale of my fault.

The album is about my decent into myself and the journey back out. The notes I wrote when I set about the rewrite are as follows:
OCEAN OF DREAMS; The poem, the dream sequence,
THE FOURTH REGRESSION; Allowing my dreams to slip away as I regress, this is not the plan!,
OVERLAND; I surround myself with my own lack, and when I spy it, I am amazed. But I have hope,
TAKE A LOOK; My dreams are held back by my introspection, I must break free,
ELIZA McCARTNEY; What were the dreams of my youth? How do I tap into that again?,
MAGNIFICAT; My soul doth magnify the Lord,
HORIZONS; My dream of God, of our place, of our way,
NIGHTMARE SEA; Letting go and realising the dream is there, behind the funk,
(DEFINITELY) THE CANCER; The battle to cast aside the funk and realise the dream-state,
THE FINAL CHAPTER; The resolution to dream unhindered, to capture the hope of youth, full circle.

Musically, this is without any doubt, the best album I have ever made. Arguably the best I've ever been involved in. Its been nine years since its been written so the songs have been allowed to ferment a little, and its taken me A YEAR to record (I never take that long!) and has been totally worth it.

I've also had some AMAZING contributions: the incomparable Bobby giving me again the best drums ever, my cousin Shay and friend Neil proving that having real bass players always works, the piano maaster Mark giving me such a good track that it rewrote the song, the golden voice of Cecil Marshall, my friend Kristian showing me up considerably on guitar (and I love it!), and my students at SBC - Paddy and Sean. This album could have happened without you, but it would not have been this good.

I hope you enjoy this as it is freakin' amazing. Next is Achilles and then the final album The Regression Suite. The countdown continues!

credits

released September 28, 2018

Kerry Logan: guitars, acoustic guitars, bass, and vocals. Bobby Logan: drums. Cecil Marshall: vocals on Ocean of Dreams. Kristian Bennett: lead guitar on Overland. Neil Hearn: bass on Overland. Shay Markby: bass on Eliza. Paddy Shanahan: piano on Horizons. Mark Weir: piano on Nightmare Sea. Danny V Chanapoo: guest vocal on Nightmare Sea.

All songs written, produced, engineered, and mixed by Kerry Logan, except From Eliza McCartney written by Kerry Logan and Shay Markby, and Nightmare Sea written by Kerry Logan and Mark Weir.

Recorded at SBC and Poto Road December 2017-September 2018.

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