Slothrust - Once More For The Ocean

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Slothrust - "Once More For the Ocean," a 2021 single on Dangerbird Records.

"This song felt like it was handed to me by the ocean," says Slothrust bandleader Leah Wellbaum about today's Song of the Day. The Brookline native continues:

It came to me when I was sitting on some rocks and staring at one of my favorite oceans in the world, on Star Island off the coast of Rye, New Hampshire. The bass line arrived first, and then the melody and the lyrics came at the same time. I didn’t have an instrument with me that week so I sang what I had into my phone notes and carried on with my day, almost forgetting about it entirely. I have a unique relationship with this song because it felt like it came through me more than from me, though I recognize that really there is no difference. It is not the easiest song to sing or explain. At times I even wondered if it might be suited for a different artist. However after sitting with it for a while I have come to the conclusion that this song was meant for me and it is about the search for a greater consciousness in times of chaos. For me that feeling of oneness often shows up when I am spending time in nature.

"Once More For the Ocean" can be found on the band's fifth full-length, Parallel Timeline, out September 10th via Dangerbird Records.

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0:00.0	I sat in front of the ocean, I was looking for you, this guy's collapsing, all things
0:22.2	blue, I forgot a question, oh, the night was slow, I was in a hurry, oh, I said
0:34.2	boy, everyone says that they want something, I am getting sick if people talk, getting
0:42.2	so much, hold me under what I'm not afraid of, drowning, the light is everywhere, and I'm
0:49.2	reversing the potion, the next curse is onion, consume it all, I say, what have I
1:03.2	left here, I don't like it, I just want to have it all, I say, let me go, I said,
1:08.2	I'm drowning, the light is everywhere
1:12.2	I'm reversing the potion
1:15.2	The next curse is on you
1:18.2	Consuming the castle
1:21.2	Ain't nothing new
1:24.2	How many similar problems are there?
1:27.2	The matter is like
1:30.2	The trolls are all troddened
1:33.2	I can't fly
1:37.2	Everybody says that they got some poison
1:40.2	I am getting sick of people talking so much
1:43.2	But me and you are not afraid of the ground
1:46.2	And the light is everywhere
1:48.2	And I'm saying that the sun should bring into the void
1:54.2	But I don't mind it down here
1:56.2	And I don't want to avoid it
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