"Oceans & Engines" lyrics

"Oceans & Engines"

Saturday sunset
We're lying on my bed with five hours to go
Fingers entwined and so were our minds
Crying, I don't want you to go
You wiped away tears
But not fears under the still and clear indigo
You said "Baby, don't cry, we'll be fine"
"You're the one thing I swear I can't outgrow"
My mother said the younger me was a pretending prodigy
Well, nothing then much has changed
'Cause while you're wolfing down liquor
My soul, it gets sicker
But I'm sticking to the screenplay
Gotta say I'm okay
But answer this, babe

How is it now that somehow you're a stranger?
You were mine just yesterday
I prayed the block in my airway dissipates
And instead deters your airplane's way
But heaven denied
Destiny decried
Something beautiful died
Too soon

But I'm letting go
I'm giving up the ghost
But don't get me wrong
I'll always love you that's why I wrote you this very last song
I guess this is where we say goodbye
I know I'll be alright
Someday I'll be fine
But just not tonight (Oh)

Plunging into all kinds of diversions
Like blush wine and sonorous soirées
But even with gin and surgin' adrenaline
I see you're all that can intoxicate

Oceans and engines
You're skilled at infringin' on great love affairs
'Cause now my heart's home
All I've known is long gone and ten thousand miles away
And I'm not okay

But I'm letting go
I'm givin' up the ghost
But don't get me wrong
I'll always love you that's why I wrote you this very last song
I guess this is where we say goodbye
I know I'll be alright
But just not

Tonight was the first time I stared into seas of beguiling sepia two years ago
And the first time I learned real world superpowers lived in three words they revitalize my fraying bones(Hm)
Now what do you do when your pillar crumbled down
You've lost all solid ground
Both dreams and demons drowned
And this void's all you've found
And doubts light it aglow
I have so many questions
But I'm pouring them into the ocean
And I'm starting up my engine

And I'm letting go
I'm givin' up your ghost
It's come to a close
I marked the end with this last song I wrote
I'm letting go
This is the last falsetto I'll ever sing to you
My great lost love


Thanks to Li for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Nicole Zefanya
NIKI teased "Oceans & Engines" on Instagram on the 2nd and 6th of July, 2022: first she shared the pre-save lin, later — a snippet of the official music video directed by Isaac Ravishankara.
Describing this song in an Instagram post on the 5th of July, 2022, NIKI revealed, "Wrote this song in 2016 when I was 17 experiencing the earth-shattering heartbreak of a first love moving away for good. It is massively dramatic & long with a naïveté & innocence I look back on fondly now at 23. Like she had no idea about what was going to happen. Like the fact that after writing it in bed at ungodly hours of an 11th grade weeknight snacking on stale cereal she would eventually revisit the song and release it years later."
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