Ocean Waves

About

Jake showed me this demo, which was originally an instrumental he created after watching the studio Ghibli film of the same name. We took out the anime samples and spent an entire afternoon doing songwriting excercises to try to tell our story of our friendship more or less. We spent about 3 years trying to get the vocals right and honestly we probably should have just gone with v1...

Lyrics

Nuna
In this place where he lays, he feels a dread every day
Or is it all made in his mind
In need of time to repress this irrevocable stress
Is there a place that exists to unwind?

Cynabel
He was dreaming of the sunshine, but couldn't find it anywhere
Followed his heart, then turned back the dial on clarity
Sundays turn to a nightmare. If only he could fall asleep!
Fall, fall, fall, back into the rhythm of his heart machine.

Cynabel
Dancing into the flow to help his confidence grow
Exhausted from the comfort of words
Building strength as he dressed, he bought a ticket express
The light flooded into his eyes

Nuna
Getting tired of is own mind – knowing in his heart he's got a gold mine
The time has come to break this spell for good.
Dust himself off for another round
Giving his best – there's no going down
Step out and show the world what he can do

Cynabel
Metropolistic noise did it stop?
He recognized a voice from afar

Nuna
Is this the place that they've been dreaming of?

Both
Finally here to get away from the fear of
All the burdens we can't seem to let go

Credits

Performance: Nuna, Cynabel
Songwriting: Jacob Nunes, Ben Schenerman
Production: Jacob Nunes, Ben Schenerman