Toad the Wet Sprocket: Walk On The Ocean Meaning

Song Released: 1992

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Walk On The Ocean Lyrics

We spotted the ocean at the head of the trail
Where are we going, so far away
And somebody told me that this is the place
Where everything’s better, everything’s safe
Walk on the ocean
Step on the stones
Flesh becomes water
Wood becomes...
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   Weevle

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   Nov 15th 2005, 21:08 report

   
   

   It's about a vacation. They go away and meet these people from their vacation spot. They become good friends for the time they're visiting. Then when they leave their new friends and head back home, they "had already forgotten [they'd] came." And then back home where the air is dirty and the people aren't friendly, they notice that they had no rememberances of their trip except their memories of it. It's kind of a sad song.

   
   
   
   

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   buttface

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   Mar 11th 2006, 18:02 report

   
   

   It may have been written about something different, but for me it's about the transience of life. The song is just too damn good and sad to be all about just some people you met while on vacation. Like Beckett wrote, "we give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant, and it's night once more". Christ, that's sad.
   
   Sad, but sweet, too. "Where are we goin'/ is so far away", at least we're not walking alone. We're all chasing something, lookin' for that place "where everything's better...". Whether that's money, sex, material posessions, etc., we sacrifice parts of ourselves along the way. All the while cursed with the knowledge that one day we, too, will be left behind to die.

   
   
   
   

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   CHAD

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   Oct 1st 2008, 15:49 report

   
   

   I have always been a fan of the heavier side of music, but this one has a spot on my "guilty pleasures" list. Actually,the whole album is wonderful,its called Fear. As for the song, for some reason I always interpreted it as being about a "liason" between two strangers that occurred on a day trip. I guess Im wrong,as everyones vacation theme seems far more fitting. The line that fueled my theory was the one about forgetting they were there. No matter what the true inspiration for this very soothing song, I will always picture two lovers walking back from a secret encounter at the beach, and finding they were about to be left behind, because their friends had forgotten they had came with them.Seriously though, check out the whole album, it's a nice break from the ordinary. A better question is how the heck did they come up with the name Toad the Wet Sprocket? Or maybe I'm just the only one that doesn't know!

   
   
   
   

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   yensid

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   Apr 17th 2009, 21:25 report

   
   

   The name "Toad the Wet Sprocket" came from a scene from Monte Python, and the Flying Circus. Wonderful band! I am a huge fan! Listen to Windmills, Crazy Life, and Little Heaven!

   
   
   
   

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   altman89

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   Mar 14th 2010, 20:43 report

   
   

   I always took this song to be about the fleeting nature of friendships, especially those friendships which are developed due to circumstances and timeframe (vacations, for example). Maybe great people, but you know it's fleeting. In the end you go back to your ordinary life - perhaps a horrible job or school. When this song came out, I was in a horrible, snotty school and it resonated with me that the only way I was going to find friends was outside of that suffocating environment.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Jan 23rd, 14:23 report

   
   

   It's about a secret gay relationship between Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Jesse Jackson; they meet in a bath house at the end of the road, they sport a woody and take photos but never have them printed out to share with each other, I am not sure but I think they both feel shame and drown themselves in a wading pool at the end.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Mar 3rd, 12:42 report

   
   

   I think it's about our aspirations as a human race, that we can be so hopeful & willing to work towards a world full of balance, peace, and love. "Flesh becomes water, wood becomes bone," to me means that we see that we are one with universe/nature. The song makes us long for this place where "everything's better, everything's safe" then takes us back to the realities of our lives. It forces us to ask ourselves why would we continue to choose keep the ideal only as "memories to hold" - why not go back?