Manic Street Preachers Songs - Ocean Spray Lyrics

Manic Street Preachers - Ocean Spray

Manic Street Preachers - Ocean Spray Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Know Your Enemy
Released: 2001

Ocean Spray Lyrics

"Me totemo utsukushii desu ne
Totemo utsukushii me wa shitemasu"

It's easy to see, it's easy to see
To see only white where colour should be
It's easy to feel, it's easy to feel
But it's not good enough, even though it's real

Oh please stay away
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray
Oh please stay away
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray

It's easy to breathe, it's easy to grieve
To breathe only air where life should be
It's easy to laugh, it's easy to cry
To cry so so hard that it can't be denied

Oh please stay awake
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray
Oh please stay awake
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray

Oh please stay awake
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray
Oh please stay awake
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray

Writer/s: BRADFIELD, JAMES DEAN / JONES, NICHOLAS ALLEN / MOORE, SEAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Ocean Spray

Ocean Spray is a cranberry drink given to patients in hospitals in the UK and Ireland.

This is about Manic's guitarist James Dean Bradfield's mother and her battle with cancer. "Oh, please stay awake and then we can drink some Ocean Spray" refers to James in the hospital with his mother, begging her not to die.

"Me-totemo-utsukushi-i-desu-ne totemo-utsukushi-i-me-wo-shitemasu" is what's said at the start of the song. It's a quote by photographer Mitch Ikeda, and is Japanese for "Oh, you've got beautiful eyes." (thanks, Gilliann - Dublin, Ireland, for all above)

Bradfield told NME October 8, 2011 that the song was "Inspired by my mum's passing. You have doubts over whether you should convert those emotions."