Since I can remember, I've had a really deep connection to the ocean.

And this may come as no surprise to anybody that has listened to my music for any amount of time,

because threaded throughout many of the songs, you'll hear a lot of analogy and imagery that is inspired by the ocean.

There's even an EP that I wrote of instrumental music inspired by the five oceans, appropriately titled Oceans.

So I just actually got home from a wonderful, wonderful trip with my family to Maui,

and so having been surrounded by the Pacific Ocean for a little while, I thought it'd be really fun to talk to you guys about a song of mine called Pacific.

So it occurred to me that I don't really introduce myself at the tops of each of these episodes.

And the main reason for that is because I figure if you found this podcast, you're probably somewhat familiar,

at least with the name sleeping last, but for anybody that's kind of jumping in the middle, my name is Ryan O'Neal,

and I make music under the monocursely being at last.

And this podcast is where I have the incredible privilege of getting to talk to you about how each of these songs got made.

I get to pull each of the elements apart, I get to tell you about the inspiration behind each of these songs,

why wrote what I wrote, and why recorded what I recorded, and what the lyrics mean to me, and everything else.

So thank you so much for being curious about how these songs get made.

It means the world to me to get to tell you about it, and I hope that wherever you are listening to this podcast right now,

you're having a really beautiful day.

Pacific was the 16th song in my yearbook series, and it was Track 1 of the March EP as part of that series.

If you're unfamiliar with what yearbook is back in 2011, I decided to write, record, and release three songs every month for one year.

And each of those three songs were titled by the month that they were released in.

So for this song Pacific, it belongs to the March EP of songs.

And so again, having just spent some time in Hawaii and being surrounded by the Pacific Ocean,

and also it being March, I thought it would be the perfect time to get to pull this song apart for you guys.

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