The album “Oceanic” reintroduces the water and female themes of past releases the “Red Sea” and “Celestial”.
All songs in the album represent a certain piece of a whole story.
Song “The Beginning and the End” serves as the premise of the story, introducing main characters: a man who suffers from em...
Long you both laid in the sun's yellow stare
On the edge with eyes rolled back
In the waves were calling him
As he teetered on the edge
The waves were calling him
He had seen it, felt its might, bent under
Washing away
He thinks of you
Everything slows
Lights flashing through
The water flies
Over his head
You are me now
As you lay on my bed
The water flies
Over his head
You are me now
As you lay on my bed
This is what he'd always known
The promise of something greater
Beyond the water's final horizon
The Beginning and the End was written by Isis.
The Beginning and the End was produced by Isis & Matt Bayles.
Isis released The Beginning and the End on Tue Sep 17 2002.