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Standing By The Sea Lyrics
There was no one all around
There was no one there but me
I was staring out a window
I was standing by the sea
The waves kept on repeating
Each one crashing to the shore
And my footprints nowhere leading
As they disappeared once more
Your senses are bombarded
By the roaring that you hear
In a shell you can hear the ocean
When you put it up to your hear
There was no one all around
There was no one there but me
I was staring out a window
I was standing by the sea
There was no one there but me
I was staring out a window
I was standing by the sea
Each one crashing to the shore
And my footprints nowhere leading
As they disappeared once more
By the roaring that you hear
In a shell you can hear the ocean
When you put it up to your hear
There was no one there but me
I was staring out a window
I was standing by the sea
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Pretty sure the lyrics printed here are incomplete (as with most of the Zen Arcade lyrics on this site), but in any case, this is a brilliant song about alienation. On the album, it's a part of a great run of great Grant Hart songs in a row..."What's Going On," this one, "Somewhere," and "Pink Turns to Blue." Some of the man's greatest songs, in an album full of some of Bob's greatest songs too.
Beyond the Huskers, there's only been a few other bands that have been blessed with more than one great songwriter (The Beatles, of course, The Go-Betweens, Fleetwood Mac...there's not many).
this song is fucking brilliant.
Clearly about a man who's alone on the world, and is looking at the see from his beach house...
Probably after a plane crash, btw