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Ocean Avenue is actually Ocean Blvd (but that doesn’t rhyme) in Jacksonville, FL. There is, in fact, an entrance to Neptune Beach at the corner of Cherry Street.
[Verse 1]
There's a place off Ocean Avenue
Where I used to sit and talk with you
We were both sixteen and it felt so right
Sleepin' all day, stayin' up all night
Stayin' up all night
[Verse 2]
There's a place on the corner of Cherry Street
We would walk on the beach in our bare feet
We were both eighteen and it felt so right
Sleepin' all day, stayin' up all night
Stayin' up all night
[Chorus]
If I could find you now things would get better
We could leave this town and run forever
Let your waves crash down on me and take me away
[Verse 3]
There's a piece of you that's here with me
It's everywhere I go, it's everything I see
When I sleep, I dream, and it gets me by
I can make-believe that you're here tonight
That you're here tonight
[Chorus]
If I could find you now things would get better
We could leave this town and run forever
I know somewhere, somehow we'll be together
Let your waves crash down on me and take me away
[Bridge]
I remember the look in your eyes
When I told you that this was goodbye
You were beggin' me, not tonight
Not here, not now
We're looking up at the same night sky (Ooh)
And keep pretendin' the sun will not rise (Ooh)
We'll be together for one more night (Ooh)
Somewhere, somehow
[Chorus]
If I could find you now things would get better
We could leave this town and run forever
I know somewhere, somehow we'll be together
Let your waves crash down on me and take me away
Ocean Avenue was written by William Ryan Key & Sean Mackin & Benjamin Eric Harper & Longineu Warren Parsons III & Peter Mosely.
Ocean Avenue was produced by Neal Avron.
Yellowcard released Ocean Avenue on Tue Feb 24 2004.
“It’s [Ocean Avenue] this place where we used to hang out in Jacksonville. Instead of talking about a girl, it’s talking about a scene and a feeling that we want to get back to: hanging out and writing, before we moved to California.”
Benjamin Harper in a 2004 interview with The Boston Phoenix.