Lyrics

Kid From the Sea

Oh so young

Watching the sea swallow the sun

Horizon line

Painted with gold fading to night

The day is done

The time has come

The Great South Bay

Calm as can be with hardly a wave

The black and white

Beacon of old shining a light

For me and my dreams

Just a kid from the sea

With a song in his heart

Leaving shore

Prepared to trust the stars

I know I’ll meet

The darkest of nights

The highest of seas

But I’ll stay my course

And follow the breeze

180 degrees

I’ll brave all the squalls

Oh the rise and the fall

So here I go

Sailing alone into the blue

What I’ve called home

Is fading away out of my view

Here I am this is me

Just a kid from the sea

With a song and guitar

Leaving shore

Prepared to trust the stars

When you look back

On all that you’ve done

What you’ve become

Will you be a kid from the sea

Who followed his dreams

Way of the Ocean

VERSE 1

The wild wind blows the way the way it wants to

and the light across the bay just does its thing

The storm that’s closing in upon the island

Will wreck a weaker man and drown him in his dreams

CHORUS

That’s the way of the ocean

That’s the way of the water

No matter the absence or the presence of the sun

All the rogues are gonna come

That’s the way of the ocean

VERSE 2

You can take your best laid plans and raise them up as sails

Steer your ship on course with good intentions

But a fool is all you’ll be if you keep challenging the deep

Instead of learning how to roll with all her punches

CHORUS

That’s the way of the ocean

That’s the way of the water

No matter the absence or the presence of the sun

All the rogues are gonna come

That’s the way of the ocean

Portrush (Irish Surf Song)

VERSE 1

Spring time on the Emerald Isle

Daybreak, headed for the coast

Across the pond a couple thousand miles

The North Atlantic was what I missed the most

She was everything I needed

It had been awhile since I’ve seen her face at all

But I’ve returned to heed the ocean’s call

CHORUS

I got the first train out of Belfast

With a ticket to Portrush

Whiterocks and forty shades of green

Overcast

With a castle on the bluff

Sea foam and the scent of neoprene

I wish I stayed, stayed a little longer

I wish I stayed longer in Portrush

VERSE 2

Looking back it makes me smile

A day well spent along the Irish Coast

Innocently young and wild

Nostalgia how you haunt me like a ghost

You’re in everything I see

And it’s been awhile since I’ve seen her face at all

But I’ll return to heed the ocean’s call

CHORUS

I’ll get the first train out of Belfast

With a ticket to Portrush

Whiterocks and forty shades of green

Overcast

With a castle on the bluff

Sea foam and the scent of neoprene

And I will stay, stay a little longer

Yeah I will stay longer in Portrush

BRIDGE

I had to go but I will return

To a seaside town with a beach break called Portrush

Drifting

VERSE 1

I was fighting the current

In the eye of the storm

I was chasing that horizon

For way too long

CHORUS

All my time out here

Taught me to let it go

Now I’m drifting, drifting, drifting slow

Drifting, surrendering control

And I’ve never felt better

VERSE 2

Everything I thought I wanted

All along the way

Everything I thought I needed

Ain’t it funny how it's changed

CHORUS

All my time out here

Taught me to let it go

Now I’m drifting, drifting, drifting slow

Drifting, surrendering control

And I’ve never felt better

Keeper of the Light

VERSE 1

I remember as a child

Dreaming of the sea

Spending many nights

Staring at the deep

I’d heard about the light

And all it’s history

Someone would tend the flame

To illuminate the scene

CHORUS

Brother, when it’s dark

We need someone to be

A lookout for the souls

That ride the open sea

Brother, when it’s dark

There’s a beacon in the night

But it won’t shine on its own

Without a keeper of the light

So brother won’t you be

The keeper of the light

The keeper of the light

To guide us home

VERSE 2

On the island of the fire

It would get so cold you know

A cold that cut like knives

It could turn a man to stone

Despite the frozen air

At midnight on the coast

Someone would tend the flame

To bring the boats back home

CHORUS

Sister, when it’s dark

We need someone to be

A lookout for the souls

That ride the open sea

Sister, when it’s dark

There’s a beacon in the night

But it won’t shine on its own

Without a keeper of the light

So sister won’t you be

The keeper of the light

The keeper of the light

To guide us home

Brother, when it’s dark

We need someone to be

A lookout for the souls

That ride the open sea

CHORUS

Brother, when it’s dark

There’s a beacon in the night

But it won’t shine on its own

Without a keeper of the light

So brother won’t you be

Sister won’t you be

The keeper of the light

To guide us home

Oceanheart

They may say I lost my way

That my compass broke

But I learned to read the stars

To guide me home

And I may wander far

Much farther than most

But tell me what’s a life

If you never roam

So light up the Atlantic

So I can see the cost

You know I’ll always have an oceanheart

No matter where I go

All lyrics by Rob Riccardo.

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