Get my emotion from the ocean

from Flat Out by Biff McGruff

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Get my emotion from the Ocean was conceived as I walked along the beach at Santa Monica during a brief visit to California. I was between contracts and was thinking hard about “What next” and I became aware that there was a real beat to my footsteps. I started to sing “Walking along Santa Monica beach, I feel like the future is just out of reach”. Great work on the Sax by the talented Alexis Marsh. Somehow the lyric is appropriate for a cynical LA scene: "I’ll follow your star right up to the sky, I’ll drink from your river till your river runs dry".

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Get my emotion from the ocean

©Coy/Maynard Feb 2000

Get my emotion from the ocean
Get my free from the sea
(x2)

Walking along Santa Monica beach
Feels like the future is just out of reach
I try to get closer, it just moves away
Now there’s a winter chill on sunny LA

Loving you just ain’t pastel
Its either heaven or a living hell
Thought I had an angel, got the devil instead
Woke up to find you rocking inside my head

So maybe I’ll just follow wherever you lead
I’ll follow my heart, I’ll follow my needs
I’ll follow your star right up to the sky
I’ll drink from your river till your river runs dry

Get my emotion from the ocean
Get my free from the sea

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from Flat Out, released May 22, 2009
Scott Maynard - Acoustic Guitar, Lead Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Recorder, Piano, Musical composition and arrangements, Production
Peter Coy, - Lyrics composition,.
James Van Bolhuis - Drums, Inside and Out, Flat Out, High Tide on the Causeway, Don’t just stand there and pout, Get my emotion from the Ocean
Alexis Marsh - Sax, Eight of Nine, Get my emotion from the Ocean.

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