THE OCEAN REEF
So many ocean waves since our childhood days
It seems I’ve lost my way to get your attention these days
Get past the boats and cars and things of who you are
I can take up golf and learn to be New York tough
Don’t you want to play like back in our Lego days?
Do you Want to watch Caddyshack on your Betamax?
Hang yo-yo’s on the fan and spin them faster and faster and faster again?
Steal the Christmas lights & sling them in the midnight sky
Anything’s better than waiting for your call another Christmas night
Meet you at the Panoramic View, really any Rocky or Sandy Shore will do
Can’t you see I’m gasping the air for that depth with you
Climb your sand castle and see
What lies beyond the Ocean Reef
It’s what I learned to see from my group therapy
About what grandma and grandpa passed down to you and me
Ideals of religion ‘n cultural superstition ‘n
Beliefs from historical long divisions
That taught us how to marry and form Ocean Reefs ‘round our families
And decide who we snub at our country clubs
Joe, here we are at 50 as our kids are drifting
Still against the current that I’m not swimming
Still paying the price for not asking your advice
Still first-crushed that you never thought twice
And leave me out here below this Ocean Reef
As I dive deeper and deeper, and deeper, and deeper…
I sit here with all these regrets, waiting since ‘84
To hear we’re not finished and just one damn knock on my door
Return to my musical sea to try to get you to see
That your greatest wealth is the mark you made on me
Climb your sandcastle and see
What lies beyond the Ocean Reef
© Frank Songs, 2015
Bonus Extras
To introduce the song to Joe and better explain what’s to come in the release, Frank created a mock Rolling Stone interview
Click the image to see it
