NIKI - Oceans

                [Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Saturday sunset- we’re lying on my bed with five hours to go
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Fingers entwined and so were our minds crying ‘I don’t want you to go’
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You wiped away tears but not fears under the still and clear indigo
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You said, ‘Baby don’t cry, we’ll be fine, you’re the one thing I swear I can’t outgrow’

[Verse 2]
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My mother said the younger me was a ‘Pretending’ prodigy well nothing, then, much has changed
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Coz while you’re wolfing down liquor, my soul it gets sicker, but I’m stickin’ to the screenplay, gotta say I’m okay,

but answer this babe:
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How is it now that somehow you’re a stranger; you were mine just yesterday—
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I prayed the block in my airway dissipates and instead deters your airplane’s way

[Pre-Chorus 1]
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But heaven denied
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Destiny decried
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Something beautiful died
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too soon

[Chorus]
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But I’m letting gooooooooo
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I’m givin’ up the ghost
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But don’t get me wrong
                         
I’ll always love you that’s why
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I wrote you this very last song
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I guess this is where we say goodbye
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I know I’ll be alright
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Someday I’ll be fine
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but just not tonight

[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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Plunging into all kinds of diversions like blush wine and sonorous soirees
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But even with gin and surgin’ adrenaline I see you’re all that can intoxicate
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Oceans and Engines, you’re skilled at infringin’ on great love affairs
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’cause now my heart’s home — all I’ve known — is long gone and 10 thousand miles away

[Pre-Chorus 2]
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And I’m not okay…. 

[Chorus]
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But I’m letting gooooooooo
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I’m givin’ up the ghost
                   F  
But don’t get me wrong
                         
I’ll always love you that’s why
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I wrote you this very last song
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I guess this is where we say goodbye
                  F    G
I know I’ll be alright….

but just not-

[Bridge]
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Tonight was the first time I stared into seas of beguiling sepia two years ago….

and the first time
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I learned real world superpowers lived in three words and could revitalize my frayin’ bones
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..Now what Do you Do when
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Your pillar crumbled down, you’ve lost all solid ground, both dreams and demons drowned, and this void is all
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you’ve found and doubts light it aglow?
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I have so many questions
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But I’m pourin them into the ocean and I’m starting up my engine

[Chorus]
                C  
and I’m letting go
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I’m givin’ up your ghost
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It’s come to a close
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I marked the end with this last song I wrote

[Outro]
            C  
I’m letting go
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This is the last falsetto
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I’ll ever sing to you my great, lost love.