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what you at my gentle spoken friend i lack a frame to put you in when you're an ocean and a rock away

i feel you in the pocket of my overcoat my fingers wrap around your words they take the shape of games we play

i feed your words through my buttonholes pin them to my fingerless gloves green and prone to fraying

Thoughts of you, warm my bones I'm on the way, I'm on the phone, Lets get lost, me and you, an ocean and a rock is nothing to me.

i am far away from where you lay, awake the day while you fall to sleep an ocean and a rock away

i keep you in the pockets of my dresses and the bristles of my brushes spin you into my curls today

I spoon you into my coffee cup, spin you through a delicate wash I wear you all day

Thoughts of you warm my bones I'm on my way, I'm on the phone lets get lost, me and you an ocean and a rock is nothing to me

Thoughts of you, warm my bones, I'm on the way, I'm nearly home, Lets get lost, me and you an ocean and a rock is nothing to me
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shaftell On Sep 22, 2008
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Cover art for Ocean and a Rock lyrics by Lisa Hannigan

Love this song, like it more and more every time I listen.. From looking at the lyrics I guess it has a fairly clear meaning. She sings about someone she's fallen in love with. And even when he isn't there (an ocean and a rock away) she feels him in everything she does... well that's how I'd like to think of it :) A very sweet song.

Cover art for Ocean and a Rock lyrics by Lisa Hannigan

I believe the song meaning is about Lisa falling in love with someone who lives in Ireland. However, Lisa is on the road a lot in other countries. Perhaps she is in the United States in this song. She can't stop thinking about him, even though he is literally an "ocean and a rock" away, which is a very poetic way of referring to the other side of the world. The end of the song shows the hope in her returning to Ireland.

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Cover art for Ocean and a Rock lyrics by Lisa Hannigan

i loooooove this songgg i cant believe no one has commented on it! it is so adorable and lisa hannigan has an amazing voice

Cover art for Ocean and a Rock lyrics by Lisa Hannigan

A more Irish, more artsy version of Selena's song "Dreaming About You And Me," was my first impression of this song. That was the first song I fell in love with as a kid, and this is the first song I fell in love with as an adult (since I heard it shortly after turning 18). Her voice is refreshing, it's like water. She was great with Damien Rice, but I'm glad to see that she has made music of her own, and incredibly poetic music, too. I got iPod money for Christmas and this was the #1 thing on my list to buy. Venn Diagram and Teeth are also incredible. I'd like to see more people comment on her, but she's still relatively obscure, I guess. Doesn't deserve to be, tho. She's amazing!!!

Cover art for Ocean and a Rock lyrics by Lisa Hannigan

my fingers wrap around your words they take the shape of games we play...

she sums it up so effortlessly. I just can't get enough.

Cover art for Ocean and a Rock lyrics by Lisa Hannigan

Her phone. It's about her cell phone.

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"I spoon you into my coffee cup / Spin you through a delicate wash" Those are the only lines which make me question your interpretation. It's surprisingly easy to see this song as about a phone rather than a distant lover.