Lyrics
There's a place off Ocean Avenue
Introduction to a nostalgic location referred to as Ocean Avenue.
Where I used to sit and talk with you
Recalling moments of sitting and conversing at Ocean Avenue.
We were both sixteen and it felt so right
Reminiscing being sixteen and the feeling of rightness in the relationship.
Sleeping all day, staying up all night
Describing a carefree lifestyle of sleeping during the day and staying up all night.
Staying up all night
Reiteration of the nocturnal lifestyle, emphasizing staying up all night.
There's a place on the corner of Cherry Street
Introducing another location, Cherry Street, where beach walks occurred.
We would walk on the beach in our bare feet
Describing walking on the beach with bare feet at eighteen.
We were both eighteen and it felt so right
Reflecting on the feeling of rightness at eighteen.
Sleeping all day, staying up all night
Reiterating the carefree lifestyle of sleeping during the day and staying up all night.
Staying up all night
Reiteration of staying up all night, emphasizing the continued lifestyle.
If I could find you now things would get better
Expressing a desire to find the person now for a better future.
We could leave this town and run forever
Imagining leaving the current town and running away together.
Let your waves crash down on me and take me away
Symbolic imagery of waves crashing down, representing a desire to be taken away.
(If I could find you now things would get better)
Repetition of the desire to find the person, leave town, and be taken away by metaphorical waves.
(We could leave this town and run forever)
-(Let your waves crash down on me and take me away)
-There's a piece of you that's here with me
Acknowledging a part of the person being present in the speaker's life.
It's everywhere I go, it's everything I see
Highlighting the pervasive influence of the person in various aspects of life.
When I sleep, I dream and it gets me by
Describing the comforting effect of dreaming about the person.
I can make believe that you're here tonight
Imagining the person's presence through make-believe during sleep.
That you're here tonight
Reiteration of the imaginative presence of the person while sleeping.
If I could find you now things would get better
Repeating the desire to find the person for a better future.
We could leave this town and run forever
Reiterating the idea of leaving the current town and running away together.
Let your waves crash down on me and take me away
Repetition of the symbolic desire for waves to take the speaker away.
I remember the look in your eyes
Recalling the moment when the person conveyed goodbye with a specific look in their eyes.
When you told me that this was goodbye
Reflecting on the emotional impact of the farewell.
You were begging me not tonight
Remembering the person's plea not to part on that night.
Not here, not now
Rejecting the idea of parting at that moment and place.
We're looking up at the same night sky
Shared experience of looking at the same night sky despite physical separation.
And keep pretending the sun will not rise
Engaging in wishful thinking, pretending that the sun won't rise to prolong togetherness.
Be together for one more night
Expressing the desire to be together for one more night, somewhere, somehow.
Somewhere, somehow
Further emphasizing the wish for a reunion, albeit uncertain of the circumstances.
If I could find you now things would get better
Reiteration of the desire to find the person for a better future.
We could leave this town and run forever
Repeating the idea of leaving the current town and running away together for a fresh start.
Let your waves crash down on me and take me away
Repetition of the symbolic desire for waves to take the speaker away to a new beginning.
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