The Ocean Blue: Davy Jones' Locker

1 BREEZING UP

2 CERULEAN

3 MARIGOLD

4 A SEPARATE REALITY

5 MERCURY

6 QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL

7 WHEN LIFE WAS EASY

8 THE PLANETARIUM SCENE

9 FALLING THROUGH THE ICE

10 BALLERINA OUT OF CONTROL

11 HURRICANE AMORE

12 I'VE SUNG ONE TOO MANY SONGS

DAVID SCHELZEL vocals and guitar
STEVE LAU keyboards
ROB MINNIG drums and other voices
BOBBY MITTAN bass

Written by David Schelzel
Produced by Pat McCarthy, Rob Minnig, and David Schelzel
Mixed by Jay Healy with Rob and David
Recording Engineer: Pat McCarthy Mix Engineer: Jay Healy
Ass't Engineers: Jessie Henderson, Mark Tanzer, and Gary Tole

Recorded at Long View Farm and Blue Jay Recording Studios, Massachusetts

Mixed at The Hit Factory, New York City

Track 9 produced by Rob and David

Design: Christine Cano and David Schelzel
Outside photos: Jerry Derbyshire
Inside Photos: David Seltzer

Breezing Up

This I call my sailboat
These are all by friends,
That beyond's the shoreline
And that is where it ends.

High
And dry
Are we

Stinging sigh's the salt air
Taste it on your skin,
Stomach's sense of flying
the feeling of the wind.

High
And dry
Are we.

Cerulean

Blue skies come down on me
White clouds are now in view,
it rained forty days you know
it rained forty nights you know
Blue skies came down on me.

Be careful what you say
You said that yesterday,

Tell me something new
It's always, always you

Blue skies come down on me
Gray clouds are far away,
I sought it for days on days
I sought it six weeks or so
But blue skies came down on me.

Be careful what you say
You said that yesterday,

Tell me something new
It's always ocean blue

Blue skies come down on me
White clouds are now in view
and you should see the view
and you should see the view
Blue skies

Marigold

She makes me crazy, like flowers
Make me crazy, my marigold
Like a fist full of daisies, or a
Pocket full of posies, or marigolds
Colors all collide now in meadows
And in daydreams of golden hue,
Crying yellow
Raining green
And singing blue

Rain and sun for everyone, I finally
Know that she's the one,
As sure as gold
Floating worlds
Collapsing dreams
Of marigolds

Colors all collide now in meadows
And in daydreams of golden hue
Forget-me-nots
That horses trot
And trample down

My only love, she cried afar
Was marigolds

Rain and sun for everyone, I finally
Know that she's the one,
As sure as gold
My only love
She cried afar
Was marigolds
Was marigolds
Rhymes for poets
And melodies
For one like me

A Separate Reality

Don't cry it's over
Don't cry it's over
forevermore

You never saw it
You never did it
but here you are
and there you are

You see the one side
but refuse to face it,
You know the one side
but cannot live It.

You can't believe it
You can't believe it
but here you are
here you are
You never dreamed it
You never dreamed it
but here you are
and there you are

You see the one side
but refuse to face it,
You know the one side
but cannot live it
Now . . .

Mercury

Quietly, almost elusively
Almost invisibly,
I found that I
for a moment
Had slipped away.

Ripped in two, then pasted back again,
Then crumpled up inside,
Then tossed aside
you know that
It feels so bad.

oh Mercury
oh Mercury

Happened once, then it
happened twice,
Then it happened thrice,
And now a fourth?
You know that?

Quietly, almost elusively
Almost invisibly,
I found that I
for a moment
Had slipped away.

oh Mercury

Questions of Travel

Americans Dreaming
Americans Dreaming

Of England in the rain,
Of Swiss alps in snow,
Of tiny German towns,
Of ruins at dusk in Rome,

Americans Dreaming
Americans Dreaming

Of islands in the sun,
Of Paris after hours,
Of miles of Chinese walls,
Of ancient Grecian roads,

Americans Dreaming
Americans Dreaming

Of England in the rain,
Of Swiss alps in snow,
Of tiny German towns,
Of ruins at dusk in Rome.

The Planetarium Scene

A better place we go to
Without a trace we will leave
A new face we will see
A warm embrace we will receive

Those in front of me
Those among the world
Far away

A better world we go to
Those in time, time times two
Stars above, stars below
And what is man?

When Life Was Easy

There was a time when life
was easy
My heart did soar for what
the future stored and life,
it pleased me,
But it's all gone now,
gone away now
far away.

My life it's changed or have
I rearranged what was
my life
What once brought fright,
now seems oh so trite
and I'm scared
Catastrophe and calamity
are the norm now
And life seems like some
old forgotten dream,
far away.

But when I look into
your eyes
I forget myself and
my sighs
I'm alone with you on
the sea
on a crystal sea.

Ballerina Out of Control

Her world came crashing down
And all that it contained
A million pieces of dreams
Coming apart at the seams

But she twists and she whirls
Dismissing it all away,
Wasn't quite the same as it was
Yesterday

Her night begins the day
Why think when we can play
"I find it so hard to find,
A certain dress of that kind"

As she twists and she whirls
And she dances it all away,
The problems persist, they won't
Go away
She twists and she whirls
Dancing it all away,
Would rather see the night
Than the reason of the day

I find it so hard to find
Any reason to this kind

Hurricane Amore

So mixed up
With this masquerade
With this mask and wig
With this love parade

The ides of March
The wind of May
Away

Knife to heart
Blade to mind
Starch to soul
Oh Valentine

Amore wind
Amore rain
A Hurricane

I've Sung One Too Many Songs For a Crowd That Didn't Want Too Hear

She walks through my mind
She strolls through my moods
And we're wasting time in the coming, going
Losing time in the coming, going
I hold your hand in the air.

Tune drifts through my mind
Tune that isn't my kind
I hear a voice and it's speaking to me
I hear a voice and it's speaking to me
I have sung one too many songs
For a crowd that didn't want to hear . . .