[98] 31. Tommy Shaw - Ocean

[1998] 31. Tommy Shaw - Ocean

Tommy Shaw - 7 Deadly Zens ('98, 4th solo)

1. Ocean [3:33]

2. Stop Knockin' [5:18]

3. All In How You Say It [4:47]

4. What Do You Want From Life [4:38]

5. In This Night [3:56]

6. Half A Mind [3:57]

7. Straight Down The Line [5:01]

8. Diamond [4:24]

9. Inspiration [5:56]

10. Who I Am [7:09]

11. Down On The Ground [5:54]

12. A Place To Call My Own [5:40]

13. Peace, Love (Weird) [2:17]

Tommy Shaw - all guitars, mandolins, baritone guitars

Ted Nugent - lead guitar (1, 12)

Jeffery "C.J." Vanston - Hammond B-3, Wurlitzer & Fender-Rhodes electric pianos (2, 3, 8, 10)

Kirk Helle - extremely noisy guitars & things (1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11), string arrangements

Jack Blades, John Pierce, Marco Mendoza - bass guitar

Todd Sucherman - drums

Michael Cartellone - additional drums

Umfante' - all percussion; all background vocals except on track 10

Maxine, Julia & Oren Waters - background vocals (10)

Jerry Goodman - terrifying violin solo (2)

Murmuring Tommyncale Choir: choral group

Alison Krauss - duet vocal (6)

Kevin Cronin - duet vocal (7)

Ed Roland - middle eight vocal (1)

Asfoon Kia - castanets (11)

Keith Marks - additional engineering (guitar solos & keyboards)

Ted Nugent, Marina Sirtis, Angie Dickinson, Umfante' - spoken words

The 7 Deadly Zens Quartet (David Lowe, Jerry Goodman, Vivian, Oscar) - strings

1. Ocean

I'm running from the future

And I'm looking at the past

I keep coming on to detours

And I'm overheated, out of gas

There's nothing left to keep me here

I've tossed it to the wind

And I'm too jacked up for sleeping now

Where the hell would I begin

Take me back to your ocean

Let the waves of mercy wash right over me

All my dreams and emotions

Go flooding like a river to your sea

My head is full of eloquence

And reasons not to be

The weight of this intelligence is like a stone

That's crushing me

I let it roll right over me

I'm down here in the dirt

I knew it was not meant to be

And now I'm back here from the hurt

Take me down to your ocean

Let the waves of mercy wash right over me

All my love and devotion

Go roaring like a river to your sea

I'm washing the blues away tonight

Wearing them down

And nothing that you can say about the world

Can change my mind

Floating in your sea

Floating in your sea