OCEANS IN BETWEEN
album artwork and lyrics
Photo By Judy Chicago
Purple Atmosphere, 1969
Fireworks performance
Performed at Santa Barbara Beach, Santa Barbara, CA
© Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Photo courtesy of Through the Flower Archives
Courtesy of the artist; Salon 94, New York; and Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
Speculator
Washing the glasses 9 til 5am
friday nights pass me by don’t mind me here
can’t believe the bliss I feel
Picking some apples
sun’s out feeling fine
but in that tree or city bar I’m more or less
the same body and mind
yeah it matters where you’re going
take a moment to be out of ticking time
they are quarters not seasons
when he’s clocking time
every day in his car the blankest stare
getting older if nothing else
what’s the real difference
between him and me?
he might claim im adrift I’d say he’s right
but I’m here he’s anywhere else
Yeah it matters where you’re going
take a moment to be out of ticking time
lay your life on my
I’ll give mine to you
don’t mind if I stare
I know you’re staring into
I know you’re staring Into
Three weeks:
couldn’t hold the truth to my face
your cold embrace
the avoidance of my eyes
whichever words i get out of you
don’t do me any good
it’s just a matter of time
I finished off the wine we opened that night
three weeks later and it felt alright
I constructed lists in my head
of all I couldn’t change
fixation on little things
never been the type to calculate
to measure love and hate
now they’re feeling the same
Finished off the wine we opened that night
three weeks later and it felt alright
Figure 8
When day is fading
when day is fading again
I feel you waiting for me
as the light grows thin
Some days my eyes might open
take one look around and know it’s passed by
Season’s always changing
Love is like a figure 8 and I’m waiting for the light to return
It’s hiding outside my sight but it’s there on and on
I wait for day break
I know that day breaks again
another rhythm I know another shifitng phase
As I stand here watching moon, sun and stars around me fly
balancing my mind
Love is like a figure 8 and I’m waiting for the light to return
It’s hiding outside my sight but it’s there on and on
Love is like a figure 8 and I’m waiting for the light to return
A circle or a bended line rolling back all the time
All my relations:
In my mind I’m holding it in
til I can write it out and sharpen it
but life is not some homemade play
it goes with or without you now
come and stay
I got nowhere to go got nowhere to be
so I just go where I want and coast
All my life I’m breathing it in
to keep my head on right
stay in the clear
as the days keep slipping by
all my relationships are running dry
I got nowhere to go got nowhere to be
so I just go where I want and coast
I got nowhere to go I got no where to be
this is the life I chose a thousand ways to get free
some days don’t follow your heartbeat
when there’s no where to go and there’s nowhere to be
Then and thereafter:
All day life you up
going from bad to worse
an unquiet mind might creep up from below
you think they’re intruding but it’s all ego
Do better the next time baby you’re struggling but fine
you’ll see it before it hits ya you say there’s more where that came from
taking a backseat
is the thing that I do best
no visions of grandeur no curandero
just placing my body and staying close
No judging the next time baby you take what you get
I’ll love you before it hits ya I’ll love you then and thereafter
Do better the next time baby you’re struggling but fine
you’ll see it before it hits ya you say there’s more where that came from
No judging the next time baby you take what you get
I’ll love you before it hits ya I’ll love you then and thereafter
see it before it hits ya
love you then and thereafter
Up in smoke
Feels like I'm going insane
All the voices in my brain
Don't you tell me bout ambition
Cuz I'm already on a mission
Maybe nobody's heard just yet
But I hear too many tales of regret
this may take some time
But at least I know the hours are mine
Not pretending that I don't care
That we're still not really there
But at least I'm here everyday
I won't let friends fade away
There's no dreaming too much
Just life and death and us
Maybe this seems like a joke
But at least I'm going up in smoke
Lives for rent
In the blink of an eye
Just as the engine starts
you make up your mind
What is yours?
what is mine?
I played your guitar about a thousand times
and when I’m gone someone’s at my heels
he looks a lot like me but he’s behind in years
I walk down the boulevard
no gardens grow in the yard
just flags waving in the wind
what stays with you what gets left?
Lives for rent
Sipping alcohol less to pass the time than to lower my defenses
radio sounds best in the dead of night while leaving friends behind me
Inner Sea
Set me free when you thought you broke me down
Actions done, pain it fades, left to my own devices
what do you know there’s some vices left
Desolation in my eyes for all to see
Lets the longing out
pull me aside tell me breath
and yeah it’s the wave that don’t change my inner sea
Each drop from the cloud my then becoming my now
Are there doors I’ve yet to open
As I try to unify inner voices with the asking in my eye?
Speak it to me it will pass by
and yeah it’s the wave that don’t change my inner sea
Each drop from the cloud my then becoming my now
And it happens every day day by day it’s looking the same
I’ll change my name moving off of the frame
Nothing
like to know you
I’d like to know you the way that I know myself
to know you flat out
hard to get through
harder to get through and stay
you’re pushing me back
keep yourself intact
I heard we’re heading down
down to the fishes
i got my hand in yours that don’t make this forever
pull your hand from mine place it on my forehead
it’s something that I’ve needed
Your way’s tested
your way’s been tested and here I am by your side
along for the ride
but did you decide?
or was it a vestige from another time?
and still we’re heading down
down to the fishes
it’s weighing on me more as my dreams get more distant
i’d like to grab a hold go down more slowly
add more resistance to it
I heard we’re heading down
down to the fishes
everyone needs time to let these things sink in
and when you’re ready to lighten the burden
I’d help the hurting
Over My shoulder
Silent over nothing
let it out it will be better than before
How far do you travel
In your mind when you’re right there sleeping by my side?
Over my shoulder
Was it always this way
Did it always feel like oceans in between?
My old man called me up
told me we’re out of touch
My whole life passes me by
Over my shoulder