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THE OCEAN BLUE        Kings and Queens / Knaves and Thieves         Korda 020

 

1

Kings and Queens

It Takes So Long

Love Doesn’t Make It Easy on Us

All The Way Blue

Paraguay, My Love

 

2

F Major 7

The Limit

Therein Lies The Problem With My Life

9pm Direction 

Step Into the Night

Frozen

 

© and ℗ 2019 The Ocean Blue.  All Rights Reserved.

A Korda Records Release  |  kordarecords.com

 

The Ocean Blue is David Schelzel, Oed Ronne, Bobby Mittan and Peter Anderson

 

David: lead vocals, guitars, and keyboards

Oed: guitars, vocals, keyboards, and electric sitar

Bobby: bass guitar

Peter: drums and vocals

 

Produced by The Ocean Blue

Recorded in Minneapolis, Portland, Northfield, and Argentina

Mastered by Greg Reierson at Rare Form Mastering

Additional vocals on Love Doesn’t Make It Easy On Us by Allison LaBonne and Charlotte Crabtree

Additional engineering on Frozen by Michael Morris

Album design by Matthew Taylor, Taylor Design Works

Cover Painting: The Sword by Alfred-Pierre Agache (1896) Art Gallery of Ontario

 

 

 

Kings & Queens

 

So sublime

It hits you like waves

that crash on your face

It knocks you like wind

in storm on the sea

 

Suddenly

I feel like the world

Could end in a flash

Can no more depend

On the things I thought were to last

 

Kings and Queens

Knaves and Thieves

Priests and Plebs

They’re all the same beings

 

Breathe my last

And depart and go where

I know not

The black hole beyond

All of space and of time

 

Kings and Queens

Knaves and Thieves

Priests and Plebs

Sharing the same fate

 

 

It Takes So Long

 

It takes so long

It takes so long

 

Give it a little time

She said

 

It takes so much time

It takes all my will

I can't wait this long

I can't hold on

 

Give it a little time

She said

 

So so so long

I can’t give it a little time

I can’t wait

 

 

Love Doesn’t Make It Easy On Us

 

Love doesn't make it easy on us

Our river runs into its sea

Its lighting splits open our tree

Love doesn't make it easy on us

 

Love lets us wander up to the waves

Love speaks its truth right into our face

It breaks every thing in our house

It blows everything from our minds

Love doesn't make it easy on us

 

Don’t give it away, don’t tear it apart

 

Love doesn't make it easy on us

It pulls in the planets and stars

Captures both Venus and Mars

Love doesn't make it easy on us

 

Don’t give it away, don’t tear it apart

 

 

All The Way Blue

 

Show me the way to your heart

Show me the way to your heart

I can delve in your ways of magic

And learn all your ways of love

Show me the way to your heart

 

All the Way

 

Show me the colors you see

Show me the colors of romance

I can see through your rosy glasses

I can see through the rosy glass

Show me the colors you see

 

All the Way Blue

 

 

Paraguay, My Love

 

Blue boy

Thinking about the meaning of it all

And there's

No joy

In anything I'm doing with my life

Need to get away

 

Jet plane

Thinking about it, thinking about a way

on a motor bike or train

Leaving it all here, leaving it all behind

For Paraguay, my love

 

Paraguay,

My love

 

Blue Skies

Up above and smiling down on me

And her clear smile

Wonder if it ever goes away

In Paraguay, my love

 

Paraguay,

My love

 

 

F Major 7

 

 

Past The Limit

 

Had enough of philosophy

Had enough of fleeting fads

Had enough of your certainty

Had enough of your luck of the draw

 

I’m supposed to be cool

I’m supposed to be kind but

You push it to the limit

Then way past the limit

 

Had a hunch

You'd be asking me

For a favor or two or three

And I'm all for generosity

But not when it all goes down the drain

 

I’m supposed to be cool

I’m supposed to be kind but

You push it to the limit

Then way past the limit

 

Push it too far

And then you'll find out

 

 

Therein Lies The Problem With My Life

 

Therein lies

the problem with my life

 

I make all my plans

I figure it out

I set it all up

But it never works out

 

Therein lies

the problem with my heart

 

I see you again

And then we're apart

Just when I think that it might be over

Then I see you again

 

Therein lies

the problem with my life

 

 

9PM Direction

 

Minstrel singers

Unknown bloom

Lovesick lovers

Swoon

 

Sunsets

Seasides

Winter

Snow

 

And you can’t go back

 

On an island

Lost at sea

Lost, no direction

Sea, swallow me

 

And you can’t go back

 

 

Step Into The Night

 

Step into the night

Watch your body glowing

Everything’s alright

If you stay apart

 

Step into the sky

Watch your body floating

Everything’s alright if you don’t look down

 

I don’t know what you’re thinking

Or what it is you believe in

But those things just might escape you

In the night

 

Step into the storm

All around it’s raging

It’ll be alright

If you hold my hand

 

Step outside your skin

Let it move and shake you

Everything’s alright

But it will hurt

 

I don’t know what you’re thinking

Or what it is you believe in

But those things just might escape you

In the night

 

I don’t know what you’re thinking

Or what it is you believe in

What it is you believe in…

 

 

Frozen

 

Frozen

In my heart

 

Blue in my face

White in my fist

I can’t move

 

Frozen

Oh melt my heart

 

No feeling now

It’s gone

 

 

All Songs by David Schelzel © 2019 Wassermusik BMI