2025 Competition Entry:

Take Me To The Ocean by Michael Sellers

Genre

Rock

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Music & Lyrics: Michael Sellers
Vocals: Michael Sellers
Guitar & bass, keyboards, musical arrangement, & production: Sergio Aguilar
Trumpet: Franklyn Brooks
Sax: Miguel Ángel Covarrubias
Drums: Rodrigo Uribe

Description

I was inspired by a photo taken of my daughter (which I also used as the cover) swimming in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatecan coast. This coincided with the first year Covid pandemic in Mexico – 2020 – which involved, as in much of the world, mass societal quarantine. This was my attempt to convey how difficult it must have been for those who had, for any number of reasons, no family or close friends available to help them get through this profoundly difficult period.

Bio

Michael Sellers is a guitar playing singer-songwriter from England, now living and recording songs in Merida, Mexico. Prior to recording, he was an English language teacher in many Mexican universities, as well as a teacher of Latin American History. He has also worked in England, the USA, and Denmark. He also sang in many rock bands in Guadalajara and Merida, but now concentrates on composing and recording his own songs.

Lyrics

Locked down in a motel
Nothin’ much to do
Gone through all of Netflix
Yeah … YouTube too

Chorus
Take me to a canyon
Leave me on a hill
Let me plunge into the jungles
Of Thailand or Brazil
Take me to a river
Lead me to a lake
I’ll swim in gin-cold waters
Feel my spirit reawake

Talked to Mom the other night
She said Father passed away
Couldn’t make it to the funeral
No farewells to mark the day
Drinking 24 hours plus
TV, porn, junk food
Oh God! Here comes the misery
Of a howling, black-dog mood

Chorus
Take me to the mountain
Roll me down the slope
Stone me to oblivion
Or let me live in hope
Take me to the desert
Set me down and let me roam
Then take me over Jordan
So I’ll know I’m going home

Bridge
Her face shone like the sun
Her clothes were white as light
She moved about the ocean
From the dawn until midnight
You gotta, gotta, gotta …

Chorus
Take me to the ocean
Cast me in the sea
Strip me of my raiments
Let the waves roll over me
Take me to the ocean
Let me glimpse the Seven Seas
I will cleanse my tainted body
Be renewed upon the breeze
Take me to the ocean
Cast me in the sea
Leave me with my vision
Let the waves envelop me

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