Story Behind The Song
This song is about a person who is on a beach, in the middle of nowhere, enjoying life as a recluse.
We all may reach points of frustration where we want to just "walk away from it all", and dwell on memories, believing that the past was better than this.
Song Description
Based on male vocals/harmonies, this story is emotional with changes in a grooving sort of medium tempo, which is pushed by bass and drums.
The song changes between mellow and loud, helping to express the anxiety in the lyrical content.
| Song Length |
2:46 |
Genre |
Pop - Rock, Pop - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Anxious, Restless |
Subject |
Change, Age, Aging |
| Similar Artists |
The Beatles, Blind Melon |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
There's a rainbow over the ocean, with all of the colors of the day.
Red is all the wine I'm drinking. Green is in the fire, smoking.
Yellow is the sun that's sinking, down behind the big blue ocean.
Forever and a day, and a long night. I just walked away and said goodbye.
Fire brightens as day segues to dark, an smoke just integrates in to the gray.
Smoke, it makes me close my eyes, and, while they're closed, I make a wish... therefore to reminisce, as if the past was more than what it is.
Forever and a day, and a long night, memory fades in a silver twilight.
I will stay a million miles away, on this deserted land where life is grand.. somewhere, nowhere, free to go there, no weight upon my shoulder.
Every day I bid a greeting, like a dream that keeps repeating.
Forever and a day, and a long night, a consolation's made to take the long ride.