Bombay Sapphires
If you take yourself to a great environment, you can just about get over anything.
In Hawaii two years ago everything was green. A beautiful wild jade green, the color of passionate eyes and jealous rages, the gentle green of peace and forests in bloom..The water, the world was very green..very Zen.
And I wrote this simple little song that became more important to me than I ever imagined.
"..It is green
It is aquamarine
It is colors I have never seen
I can see past you
To the white sand…"
I was looking outside one day and it was like I was almost seeing my past as a little bit of something that I really wanted to leave behind for a while. I was looking past the past, out to the ocean and how beautiful it was and how white and inviting the sand was. I thought, I can see past you to the white sand and a message back to me that you are moving on now, you really are moving on. You are letting go of all that stuff that bothered you and you are moving forward.
When it says, 'I can see past you to the white sand,' that sentence right there is the whole reason for Bombay Sapphires. It means that I'm really trying to get over something, and I'm looking to the green ocean and can see past all of these problems to the incredibly beautiful white sand and the ocean beyond it. I'm gonna be OK because I am movin' past you.
So, for me, it became important that that song be on my most recent record. I recorded that song two other times, and I didn't like it either time. I went back in for a third time and played it myself to get it the way I had written it when I was in Hawaii that night Macy Gray came and sang it with me and our voices just blended together. It was a first for me, the reggae funkiness of it, but she understood what I needed and her wild vibe gave me the courage to do something else on this song I had never done before…play the keyboards for it.
It quickly became my favorite song on the record and when it almost got pulled off because it wasn't recorded right, I was horrified that one line "I can see past you to the white sand" was not gonna be on the record. It's really important for me to tell people that if they're in an unhappy situation they should not stay forever and be miserable.
If I had stayed where I was with Lindsey I wouldn't be where I am now. I would have eventually lost all sense of myself and become what he thought he wanted.
…The sea never changes not really, it is the constant in my life. I always return here to the flash of those colors through every window…Wind through the night ..
In Hawaii two years ago everything was green. A beautiful wild jade green, the color of passionate eyes and jealous rages, the gentle green of peace and forests in bloom..The water, the world was very green..very Zen.
And I wrote this simple little song that became more important to me than I ever imagined.
"..It is green
It is aquamarine
It is colors I have never seen
I can see past you
To the white sand…"
I was looking outside one day and it was like I was almost seeing my past as a little bit of something that I really wanted to leave behind for a while. I was looking past the past, out to the ocean and how beautiful it was and how white and inviting the sand was. I thought, I can see past you to the white sand and a message back to me that you are moving on now, you really are moving on. You are letting go of all that stuff that bothered you and you are moving forward.
When it says, 'I can see past you to the white sand,' that sentence right there is the whole reason for Bombay Sapphires. It means that I'm really trying to get over something, and I'm looking to the green ocean and can see past all of these problems to the incredibly beautiful white sand and the ocean beyond it. I'm gonna be OK because I am movin' past you.
So, for me, it became important that that song be on my most recent record. I recorded that song two other times, and I didn't like it either time. I went back in for a third time and played it myself to get it the way I had written it when I was in Hawaii that night Macy Gray came and sang it with me and our voices just blended together. It was a first for me, the reggae funkiness of it, but she understood what I needed and her wild vibe gave me the courage to do something else on this song I had never done before…play the keyboards for it.
It quickly became my favorite song on the record and when it almost got pulled off because it wasn't recorded right, I was horrified that one line "I can see past you to the white sand" was not gonna be on the record. It's really important for me to tell people that if they're in an unhappy situation they should not stay forever and be miserable.
If I had stayed where I was with Lindsey I wouldn't be where I am now. I would have eventually lost all sense of myself and become what he thought he wanted.
…The sea never changes not really, it is the constant in my life. I always return here to the flash of those colors through every window…Wind through the night ..