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Released 9/9/2019.
Duration: 5:01.

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General contributors:

• Blue Lennox bluespacequeen SoundCloud bluespacequeen Twitter bluespacequeen Tumblr → Oceanic Flight Orchestral Next general contribution by this artist (vocals)

Tracks that reference Oceanic Flight:

From Beyond:

• Oceanic Flight Orchestral by Circlejourney
• Oceanic Flight (Instrumental) by Circlejourney
• Oceanic Flight by Circlejourney

Lyrics:

For years and years I yearned for the sea
I felt the world was turning around me
Through cracks and tears I peered at its glory
And dreamed, and cried, free me, free me, free me!

For years and years I yearned to be free
I knew the world was changing beyond me
And I was disappearing, if only
Someone would just hear me, hear me, hear me!

[Distorted vocals]

For years and years I drowned in the sea
I felt the waters turning upon me
She thrashed, I steered, we tangled and slowly
Our colours ran, mixing permanently

In tears, in fears, I drowned her and she
Became my world, my life and my story
And I was disappearing, if only
Someone would just hear me, hear me, hear me!

For years and years I yearned for the sea
I felt the world was turning around me
Through cracks and tears I peered at its glory
And dreamed, and cried, free me, free me, free me!

For years and years I yearned to be free
I knew the world was changing beyond me
And I was disappearing, if only
Someone would just hear me, hear me, hear me!

For years and years I drowned in the sea
'Till you reached out and dragged me to safety
Beyond the stars, their light burning softly
When will someone hear me, hear me, hear me?

For years and years I yearned to be free
I will not let her hate take it from me
I live and I refuse to be sorry
And no one can take me, make me, break me!

Artist commentary:

Circlejourney:

I have been working on this since May last year and I'm excited to finally be able to release it! I've always loved Lapis' story (as you can tell) and I really wanted to do a rousing, high-energy musical tribute to her. Enjoy!

Q: Tell us a bit about yourself and your music!

I'm a hobbyist musician with a penchant for combining orchestral music with synths and instruments that should not be there. I enjoy spinning out nice tunes and harmonies and messing around with instruments until they sound right. I'm not a very methodical composer; I just make whatever sounds good to my ears and best evokes the feelings I'm trying for. And apparently, it works!

Q: Briefly describe the process of working on your track/illustration!

With Oceanic Flight, the whole song concept started with that big building chord right at the start. Then I wrote the lyric line, "free me, free me, free me!" I felt that the punchy melody really captured Lapis' desperation and fear of being forgotten, but it was just as easily flipped into a determined declaration ("take me, make me, break me!"). The rest of the song was structured around building up towards those lines.

Q: What's your favourite thing about the track you made?

Oceanic Flight is a big storytelling track and it goes a lot of different places, compositionally and instrumentally. I'm glad it manages to sound coherent even so.