Fight The Sea

Celeste had been having a recurring dream, and this song title came up at Song Fight (www.songfight.org), and this song came out of that. I was of a mind to do something epic. I often have an existing song in mind when I'm composing; not to rip off, exactly, but to refer to in its overall tone, its mood. Usually my results diverge wildly from my original inspiration. Such is the case with this one, I think. You'd probably never guess where my musical reference comes from here.


Fight The Sea

At five in the morning she wakes from the dream
It's as if she'd stayed awake
She leaves the house yawning and crawls through the day
She's not sure how much she can take

She spends the day dreading the night
Afraid that she'll start to lose sight
Of where the dream ends and the real world begins

She tries to remember what it's like to be sane
And then tries to act that way
The people around her, they say that she's changed
She don't hear a word that they say

She fights it as long as she can
But soon it's more than she can stand
She closes her eyes and she gives in to sleep

She dreams of the sea
Alone on the ocean
And here comes the wave
A hundred feet high
There is no escape
But still she's determined to try

She swims for the shore
There's no way to make it
You can't fight the sea
You just hope to survive
And just as before
The undertow pulls her away

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She fights it as long as she can
She feels the wave coming again
And sooner or later she's going to sleep

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She tries to pretend
That she's got the energy
To get through again
To try to break free
She lays down to spend
Another night fighting the sea


This song (and all the others on Onward To Yesterday) can be heard on the music player to the right.