Here's the 'bounce the ocean' demo that we wrote and recorded with Clif Magness at his home studio in LA.  This song along with a few others written with Clif ("Dont' Believe in Love Anymore") were meant for our second album.    We experimented with a bunch of stuff like a reversed toilet flush sample at 1:08 and John's gnarly rocking guitar solo at 2:29 and my favorite ear candy is the Tchaikovsky sample leading into each chorus from the Nutcracker "Waltz of the Flowers".  First one at 0:53.   We had a lot of fun!!!    

Contrast this with the relative seriousness of the lyrics to "Sacrificed" which were inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his book "Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers" (The Sorrows of Young Werther).  John and I wrote those lyrics in the afternoon after laying down the basic tracks with Clif.  The heartbreaking agony of unrequited love lyrics were written in beautiful Santa Monica at the "Cal-Mar Hotel" where we used to stay when we visited LA. 

Lead Vocals, Keyboards:  Hawk
Guitars & Harmony Vocals:  John
Drums & Bass:  Clif

My love sacrificed for you
My love sacrificed for you 

Iron gates - separate – I’ll never be with you
Still my heart – chained to your beauty – there’s nothing I can do

The fool I am – I still love you anyway
But it seems, in my dreams, you are here to stay

My love sacrificed for you
(And I give you all I have)
My love sacrificed for you

You grace my mind – most of the time
You’re a dancer in my dreams
I pour out my heart – in paintings of you but they’re never good enough

The fool I am – I still paint you everyday
Though I can’t capture you – you never go away

Solo

My love sacrificed for you
(And I give you all I have)
My love sacrificed for you 

And if I could be your hero
I’d save you and protect you (with my life)
Or what if I could be your mirror
I’d hold your pure reflection every day (all the time)

My love sacrificed for you
(And I give you all I have)
My love sacrificed for you

My love sacrificed for you
(All I have)
My love sacrificed for you

Sacrificed for you
(All I have)
My love sacrificed for you

My love

Sacrified

Vocal demo of "Don't Believe" recorded with Clif Magness at his home studio in LA.

Don't Believe In Love Anymore Vocal Mix

New single from legendary pop duo 'bounce the ocean'

I would write another love song 
But I’d be lying to myself                                              
Cause I don’t believe in love anymore                     
No I don’t believe at all                                                 

I’ve been a slave to your affection                                            
And let you chain me to your tears                                           
Now I don’t believe in love anymore                        
No I don’t believe at all                                                 

One heart is not enough for two                                               
One love is not enough for you                                  

I thought that if I brought you flowers                     
That it might help to make you smile                                       
But you don’t believe in love anymore                    
No you don’t believe at all                                                           

One heart is not enough for two                                               
One love is not enough for you                                  

Na na na na                                                                                       

One heart is not enough for two
One love is not enough for you
One heart – One love

But I don’t believe in love anymore
No I don’t’ believe at all
I don’t believe at all
Don’t believe in love anymore
No I don’t believe at all
Don’t believe in love anymore
No I don’t believe at all                                                                                                
Anymore

Don't Believe In Love Anymore

Throw A Kiss My Way

Stripped down, lovely emotional version of Dry Your Eyes.  Just guitars, keyboards and our vocals. Produced by Steve Berlin, Mixed by Michael Frondelli, Engineered by Frank Bry.

Dry Your Eyes Remix

The best Christmas song that 'bounce the ocean' ever recorded and never released.  Frank Bry engineered and Garry loaned us an old Mellotron which makes the strings sound like an scratchy LP record in the intro.  We thought it was pretty cool.  

Enjoy!

Please Sir,
Roll back the time
Through all the white candles
And church bells which ring in my mind

Please Sir,
Roll back the time
Back when snow fell on smiles
And the winter seemed so divine

And now Jesus is back in the corner
Collecting the dust
And the harp of the angel there waiting
Is starting to rust

Oh please give us this Christmas time
To put our fears away
May the love and care we’ve come to share
Stay with us every day - every day

When Sir
The season is done
The Christmas tree dies 
and the paper doves fade in the sun

Then Sir
I hope to recall
The gift that we shared was the love
That’s a part of us all

Oh please give us this Christmas time
To put our fears away
May the love and care we’ve come to share
Stay with us every day

Oh please give us this Christmas time
To put our fears away
To express the joy within our hearts
At least we have this day – every day

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