ashleychambliss~in this OCEAN lyrics

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words and music copyrighted Ashley Chambliss 2003.


seasons
I'm in this rose garden waiting for my lover, my hair is caught in the thorns. I'm in this church running down the aisle, I am in
pieces, I am coming undone.The seasons' changing on me now, wait for flowers to grow. The seasons' changing on me
now, watch for the roses in the snow. I'm in this ocean, yeah, I'm really out there, can someone please throw me a line. Caught in
this moment, I need you to reach out, it feels like I'm just out of time. The seasons' changing on me now, wait for the flowers to grow. The seasons' changing on me now, watch for the roses in the snow. I  must be speaking in a foreign tongue, cause nobody here understands. It's not so tragic that I cannot give you both hands. The seasons' changing on me now, wait for flowers to grow.The seasons' changing on me now,watch for the roses in the snow. I'm in this ocean, yeah, I'm really out there, can someone please throw me a line. Caught in this moment, I need you to reach out, feels like I'm just out of time.The seasons' changing on me now, wait for flowers to grow. The seasons' changing on me now, watch for the roses in the snow... 

 

i could take you home
consider the source, of radiance consider the bliss, a child's hands remember the dream, you had last night, remember the scene
and who was there.. you're holdin your tongue back and your hands are under mine my breath, you got me good, oh, you.. stop
wasting time. if all of these days, do count for something then what do you say, we meet somewhere? i saw in your eyes, 

a glimpse of magic, a thousand blue skies, they don't compare. you're holdin your tongue back and your hands are under mine, my breath, you got me good, oh, you.. stop wasting time i would meet you there, i would and I could take you home yeah. i would meet you there, i would.. i could take you home yeah.. what do you think i'm doing here? standin on the sidelines, where do i tell my heart to go from here? what do you think i'm sayin here, am i readin all the wrong signs, where do i tell my heart to go from here? you're holdin your tongue back and your hands are under mine my breath, you got me good, oh, you.. stop wasting time i would meet you there, i would and i could take you home yeah..i would meet you there, i would.. i could take you home yeah..


rose colored glasses
there's a crowd gathered round at the station, the beggars are workin for their change the million dollar hands
rest in their pockets and the girl in the corner, thinks she's strange..so what.. so so what..so
there's a man outside sweepin the sidewalks & a little girl's pickin up nickles and dimes she's
runnin round like an angel in her white dress & her mamma keeps a cautious eye..so what.so so what.. 

so somebody hand me their rose colored glasses cause i, i can't see the world his way oh no somebody hand
me, their rose colored glasses cause i, i can't see the world this way, oh no.. i can't see the world
this way, oh no the girl in the corner, she's raisin a storm she asks, 'does anybody else here think too much?' 

cause i swam to the bottom of my mind's sea & i'm still searchin for some tranquility, yeah..somebody
hand me their rose colored glasses cause i, i can't see the world this way, oh no somebody hand me their rose colored
glasses cause i, i can't see the world this way, oh no i can't see the world this way..somebody turn the light on,
cause it's dark in here somebody say, hello hello hello hello. yeah somebody turn the light on, cause it's dark in here yeah,
somebody say, hello hello, hello, hello, hello..yeah, somebody say hello..


invisible
under the blackened sky, you thought you knew her well. she dove beneath your steps, and broke apart your
world. things got so quiet, you're deafened now. so heavy you could not move, stop the wind somehow.
she's so fragile she's invisible she's so angry she's gone mad she's so fragile she's invisible she's so angry
she's gone mad.under the pink chiffon, dressed to kill only a nervous smile on, you move against your will.
she's so fragile she's invisible she's so angry she's gone mad she's so fragile she's invisible
she's so angry she's gone mad. hiding from the crowded room she's leaving this world soon holiday, it's her heart
that leaves her body stays, it's her heart that leaves, her body stays. she's so fragile she's invisible she's so angry
she's gone mad she's so fragile she's invisible she's so angry she's gone mad..

 


world on a string
you break my heart like a cannon ball, you tempt my senses like a world on a string, you calm my nerves, like the rock of
an ocean.. you capture me like, an iceburg floating & i give where your footsteps fall, all of this tension, rises
like mercury, i faint from your whisper, i give it all..go ahead, i surrender, the sun gives light to the moon but don't forget, 

she can pull the tide in, can you stand in her wake? say my name again, yeah yeah like there never was another. tell me
i'm the only one, just lie, just lie.. go ahead, i surrender, the sun gives light to the moon but dont forget, she can pull the tide in, 

can you stand in her wake? can you stand in her wake? Can you stand in her wake? say my name again, yeah yeah. like
there never was another. tell me i'm the only one, just lie, just lie.. you break my heart like a cannon ball, you tempt my senses like a
world on a string, you calm my nerves like, the rock of an ocean..
 

cloud 9
midnight arrives and i'm just waking, this city sleeps through all my dreams & i climb on top to turn your world round, 

you meet me there and there we breathe & i'm dizzy from cryin to my pillow, your hands electric on my skin, forever 

reachin to the moment, hurry up the air is gettin thin.. i can't explain it but i'm off the ground, risin above all the sorrow 

i've found, if this is a dream, please just let it be mine cause i'm on cloud 9.. your heartbeat echos through my loneliness,

those halls were vacant far too long, & i'm checkin out of this place, i've grown out of it, so much just to declare 

the past is gone.. i fall into your arms like water, i never thought i'd find such love again..you're kissin me like i'm the 

air you're breathin, i'd give you all my oxygen.. i can't explain it but i'm off the ground, risin above all the sorrow i've 

found if this is a dream, please just let it be mine cause i'm on cloud 9. caught in a moment between high and low, 

you stole my heart and now i'm dyin slow, we crossed the line forever you and i, love is a danger that we can't deny.. 

midnight arrives and i'm just waking, this city sleeps through all my dreams & i climb on top to turn your world around,

you meet me there and there we breath. i can't explain it but i'm off the ground, risin above all the sorrow i've found, 

if this is a dream, please just let it be mine cause i'm on cloud 9 cause i'm on cloud 9 cause i'm on cloud 9 cause i'm on cloud 9.


from a broken heart
you break down all my walls, monster in your arms at least that's what they'll say, rocked the boat too far. 

i swam to your island, boat without an oar you calmed the thunderstorm, i rest on your shore.. maybe they saw me, 

in the dark, maybe i was thinkin my thoughts too loud, maybe we stood too far apart..maybe i was
runnin from a broken heart. you gambled for my love your heart on the line, but you knew i would not stay, 

i know when it's my time.. i threw in all my gold, watched the seasons change & you found a treasure there, you took 

the long road too.. maybe they saw me, in the dark, maybe i was thinkin my thoughts too loud, maybe we stood too far
apart.. maybe i was runnin from a broken heart. it's too late to worry by gones gone it's too late to look back, what went wrong? this river moves inside me and i'm movin on. maybe they saw me, in the dark, maybe i was thinkin my thoughts too loud, maybe we stood too far apart.. maybe i was runnin' from a broken h e a r t maybe they saw me, in the dark, maybe i was thinkin my 

thoughts too loud, maybe we stood too far apart.. maybe i was comin from a broken heart.


my favorite color
it used to be, green was my favorite color.but after today, it's turned the darkest blue, all the way, all the way through.
my favorite color, is definitely blue. can you understand me baby? i'm in love with a cynical point of view. can you understand me baby? i'm in love with cynical, wonderful you, all the way, all the way through. my favorite color, is definitely blue. to the deepest part,of the bluest ocean, straight to your heart, even cold...as it is.. all the way, all the way through. my favorite color, is definitely blue.

 

searching for amity
desperately searching for amity she's the one with the stars tatooed, riding her novelty green bicyclefor two. she's the road i'm trying to find in the dark of this strange little town. look for her name, on every street sign but i keep gettin all turned around desperately searching for amity she's the one with the stars tatooed riding her novelty green bicyclefor two. she's the mystery, standin in line you can't help but stare at her clothes there she stands, a woman defined with secrets nobody knows desperately searching for amity she's the one with the stars tatooed riding her novelty green bicyclefor two. oh she makes it look so easy if she isn't all that then she fooled me cause just for a day, if i had my way i would be her and she'd be me. desperately searching for amity she's the one with the stars tatooed riding her novelty green bicycle for two.


takin it in stride
i'm takin it in stride baby yeah. i'm takin it in stride baby yeah.. it's a long road but i am feelin strong. and it's a long shot baby but i will carry on. and i will take with me a piece, a piece of your heart, and when things go wrong your love, will light up the dark..
i'm takin it in stride baby yeah. i'm takin it in stride baby yeah.and if i return with my, my heart on my sleeve, in all honesty baby would you believe? that hard times fall on those on those who can stand, there is magic here, in the palm of my hand..i'm takin it in stride baby yeah. i'm takin it in stride baby yeah.

 

doin pretty good
i fall in love, like the weather changes i break my own damn heart i've given kisses like they were pennies from the start. i've trusted strangers, to help me stand given my veins to the drug, i've laid down crying beneath an angry man and i pushed it under the rug but this is who i am today i'm doin pretty good, who knows who i'll be tomorrow..i closed my eyes, after a bottle of pills i went to sleep for good, this flower girl, she brought me back to life held me til i came through the woods and  ran away, forever looking back to see who really might give a damn, everyone's too busy to try to read some troubled mind troubled by a troubled man. but this is who i am today i'm doin pretty good, who knows who i'll be tomorrow. i may be crying on your shoulder i may be holding you up, i may be hiding in a corner i may be, filling your cup. this is who i am today i'm doin pretty good, who knows who i'll be tomorrow.