The Ocean
by U2

Album: Boy (1980)
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  • A picture in grey
    Dorian Gray
    Just me by the sea

    And I felt like a star
    I felt the world could go far
    If they listened
    To what I said, the sea

    Washes my feet
    Washes the feet
    Splashes the soul of my shoes Writer/s: Adam Clayton, Dave Evans, Larry Mullen, Paul Hewson
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 3

  • Steve from Harbor City, CaBono, on "The Ocean": It is just a complete teenage thought, it is the thought of every teenager, it is the thought of everybody in a band who thinks he can change the world. There is another verse which got left out, it's on the sleeve: "When I looked around/The world couldn't be found/Just me by the sea", which is the resignation that no matter what you do, people are going to go their own way. (Hot Press, December 17,1980).
  • Angela from Hagerstown, Mdthe book being The Portrait of Dorian Gray, of course. A very good book as well as Lord of the Flies, another book U2 often draws from. Oscar Wilde was Irish, BTW.
  • Ray from Portland, OrIn the 80s, there was a band called Dorian Gray, who spelled their name "Dorian Grey". They later shortened it to just "Grey", alluding to the Oscar Wilde character and also the look of the ocean (and sky) near Los Angeles where the band was based.
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