jouissance 1:09
whenever you're around 3:22
out here 3:55
ways & means 4:34
my scream 3:00
past future perfect 3:27
bitter 2:34
slide 3:26
10 10 cloud deck 5:36
behind 3:56
bite your lip 2:44
cloudy days 4:07
bye 4:10
All Songs © 1996 EMI Blackwood Music Inc. WasserMusik (BMI)
except "Behind" and "Jouissance" © 1996 EMI Blackwood
Music Inc. Stockade Silence (BMI). All Rights Reserved.
Used by Permission.
International Copyright Secured.
The Ocean Blue:
David Schelzel, Oed Ronne, Bobby Mittan, Rob Minnig
Produced by Dennis Herring
Mixed by Alan Winstanely
except "Whenever You're Around" by Chris Fuhrman
Engineered by Chris Fuhrman and Csaba Petocz
Assistant recording engineer: Matt
Guilintine
Assistant mixing engineer: Sam Gibson
Songs written by David Schelzel
except "Behind" by Oed Ronne and
"Jouissance" written and produced by Oed Ronne
Management: Peter Freedman
with Steve Smith
for Peter Freedman Entertainment
A&R: Peter Lubin
Cover: Liv Ullmann
from Persona by Ingmar Bergman
(1966 Svenska Filmindustri)
Design: David Schelzel and R. Patrick
Band photo by Ray Lego
JOUISSANCE (Ronne)
WHENEVER YOU'RE AROUND (Schelzel)
Slow down you'll never catch me
Look hard you'll never find me
Dreams fall apart but that's OK
Plans will unwind but that's alright
Give up your search is futile
Truth lies within the middle way
Dreams fall apart but that's OK
But I change whenever you're around
I break whenever you're around
It seems like such a fatal view
It seems like such a desperate view
to cling to but another you
to flee to such a desperate view of mine
Let go those bright tomorrows
What's there is filled with sorrow
Dreams fall apart but that's OK
But I change whenever you're around
I break whenever you're around
OUT HERE (Schelzel)
Hey
I'm calling
Hey
I'm out here
You're so wrapped up you can't tear your eyes away
Hey
I'm slipping
Hey
I'm falling
Its just a matter of time til I fade away
Such a beast of a day below
So pretty and stale
Such a radical view you're searching for
Hey
I'm watching
Hey
I'm listening
If you speak up you might blow my heart away
Hey
I'm drifting
Hey
I'm drowning
Its just a matter of time til I drop away
So collected and calm in your cocoon
So pretty and high
don't flatter yourself
your just a pawn
WAYS AND MEANS (Schelzel)
Setting out from the shore
setting out for the thing that haunts you
Leaving daily behind
leaving all that corrupts the sublime
Waves a beating the bow
testing out all the ways, the know how
Checking out the degrees
mapping out all we know we will seize
The things that haunt you now
you'd better
beware
The ways and means collect
and leave you
dry
Setting out for the stars
and my ship is a dying Pequod
Prisoner of the mind
Oh, Mr. Melville, Mr. Mellville
The things that haunt you now
you'd better
beware
The ways and means collect
and leave you
dry
MY SCREAM (Schelzel)
I bought all the lines you sold me dear,
and you know I spoke them well
I wore all the clothes you brought me dear,
and you know I wore them well
I don't want to scream
but it's the saddest scene I've ever seen before
today
I walked through the sets you placed on stage,
and you know I strode through tall
I watched as you ripped them all to shreds,
and you know I miss them all
I don't want to scream
but it's the saddest scene I've ever seen before
today
locked up in my soul
locked up in my heart
I don't want to scream
but its the saddest scene I've ever seen before
and if you stop and really think what I mean
you'd see that I was better than before
My Scream
PAST FUTURE PERFECT (Schelzel)
In the corner
stands a strawman
with a cocktail
in his right hand
firm handshakes
all around
as he slowly sips away
In the twilight
sits a reader
and the words they
grab and lead her
to another
world apart
as she slowly
slips away
You can drown me
in my sorrows
that can leave me
on the morrow
but the best part
is the last
let them slowly
drift away
Does it strike you
as an odd thing?
how a man keeps remembering
where the future
meets the past
and then slowly
fades
away
BITTER (Schelzel)
Bitter
Bitter what's your name?
You see I see so much of you anymore
It's the same
You stuff it all in and you shout it all out
Bitter, bitter, bitter
Bitter is your game
Pity
Pity what's your game?
You know I see so much of you anymore
You're a pain
You stuff it all in and you shout it all out
Pity, pity, pity
Pity, pity is your name
Bicker
Bicker what's your name?
You see I see so much of you anymore...
You stuff it all in and you shout it all out Bicker, bicker, bicker
Bicker is your aim
SLIDE (Schelzel)
Wake up all your dreams
Show them to the door
They're not wanted any more
They're not needed any more
I don't think you know
I don't think you care
I don't think you want to
and you don't
Tear up all the lies
The oft repeated lines
That you've murmured while asleep
That you've babbled while awake
I don't think you know
I don't think you care
I don't think you want to
and you don't
you don't
10 10 CLOUD DECK (Schelzel)
She's seventeen
by only a day
Sass magazine
whatever they say
you don't believe her
you can't believe her
you won't believe her
now
Bad wasted boy
he's mad at the world
sings angry stupid songs
and rakes in the dough
You don't believe him
You can't believe him
You won't believe him now
Meet cappicheek
It's driving her wild
Sweet little buttercup
I'll eat you right up
You don't believe them
You can't believe them
You won't believe them now
All that she wants
is life on a cloud
All that she'll ever get
is life in a cloud
BEHIND (Ronne)
Sorting through this mess
I happen on your smile
gleaming through a photograph buried for some while.
I'm taken by the way
the swagger captured there
has vanished in the haze of time.
And by a foolish whim I'm stricken with desire
to phone you up and tell you of my find
But as I stretch my hand
I'm reminded of the shape I'm in
from all the things you've left
behind.
Man, I hate your friends
They really bring me down
And I can tell your not yourself whenever they're around.
So ditch this motley crew
for all the world of me
And leave these sorry few
behind
I hope that by some master plan
you're in the same boat that I am
Waiting at a crossing path to seal away your life.
To lock inside a sacred bond so tight
And like this photograph the scattered thoughts of you
are frozen in the amber of my mind.
And boxes on the shelf of documents reminding me you
left an empty shell
behind.
BITE YOUR LIP (Schelzel)
Wish alas came true, are you happy?
Everything's checked out, are you sure?
Leave the status quo, do you think so?
Progress is an end, are you sure?
Ears that do not hear
They fall for the tunes again and again and again
baby, bite your lip
baby, bite your lip
Truth's a changing fact, are you certain?
No absolute exists, are you sure?
The eyes that do not see
they fall for the tricks again and again and again
baby, bite your lip
baby, bite your lip
I would rather sleep in a minefield
I would rather breathe on Mars
Minds that do not think
they fall for the lies again and again and again
baby, bite your lip baby, bite your lip
CLOUDY DAYS (Schelzel)
You're so special
You're so fine
You're good looking
You're so divine
and it seems like a breath of a moment
and it seems like a wisp of a tow
We'd do much better
Without my mind
Does so much wandering
Kills so much time
and it seems like a breath of a moment
and it seems like a wisp of a tow
Is all I get when I'm in your gaze
Brief sunshine in my cloudy days
I like the rain, I love the snow
it's just the pain
Of those cloudy days
BYE (Schelzel)
You light a light in your lighthouse
and you shine it in my face
but I'm already gone
b b b b b bye
You scream your slippery slogans
and they echo way up high
but I'm already gone
b b b b b bye
You see a sign on a sign post
and you crack it on my head
but I'm already gone
b b b b b bye
