The first of four music video releases that started in 2020, marking our debut as the Modern soft rock event of the decade.
LOVE ON THE ROCKS (Shipwrecked)
[feat. Julia Courtney]
( Why must I always make the same mistakes? )
When you needed somebody, I held you.
When you needed true love, how I loved you!
My wayward love upon the rocks, too good to be true …
When it’s like a dream, with clouds that cover me like the sun —
Oh, how lovely everything seemed —
An ocean of joy taken on the run!
Love on the rocks,
Dashed up on the bitter fates,
Another Love on the rocks,
Why must I always make the same mistakes?
Leave it all behind, leave it all behind, leave it all behind.
Do you mind if I try?
Wait for me outside or I’ll cry.
My wayward love upon the rocks —
Sailing ships line the docks along the bay.
When you lost your directions, I made you look twice.
With the power of suggestion, for the cost of advice!
It’s a question of style and everything nice …
When it’s like a dream, with clouds that cover me like the sun —
Oh, how lonely everything seems —
An ocean of tears hanging on a rung!
Love on the rocks,
Washed out on a bit of fate,
Another Love on the rocks,
Why must I always make the same mistakes?
Leave it all behind, leave it all behind, leave it all behind.
Do you mind if I cry?
I can’t deny my secret thoughts.
You never stop to say good-bye —
Oh, my love, on the rocks before my eyes!
This was one of the first tracks recorded when Tim Dolbear was teaching me how to produce studio recordings. I was learning what studio recording was all about. When I discovered a great singing talent in my backyard, Julia Courtney, who had astonishingly landed the lead role in her high school musical theater production of Once Upon A Mattress, made famous by Carol Burnett, I decided “Love On The Rocks (Shipwrecked)” was a perfect fit. I was also not ready to sing such a demanding vocal recording myself, so settled for the quaint male vocal cameo you hear briefly at the start of each verse.
I had also been recruiting Eddie Cantu to record drums for me for other tracks, and I invited him to come up with his own tracks in his home studio. The original single we released on my mom’s birthday on Aug.28, 2020, was a very toned down edit of hours of drum and percussion tracks I wound up spending weeks comping into the rockier version that we released as the Pirate mix version of this track on the short EP called THE OCEAN SINGLE.