Cast Your Wish (Oh What The Sea Means To Me)

(by GloriaBD, inspired by beachside childhood summers)

*(Verse 1)*
Good mornin’ sea of fog and gold,
Stories drifted, young and old.
Dads and brothers, friends in line,
Rods like branches, calm, divine.

We’d run the shore with barefoot glee,
Grown-ups watched the waking sea.
Their eyes so still, their hearts so wide—
Each cast a wish, the tide replied…

*(PRE CHORUS)

As tide keeps turning, soft and slow,
Traces of memories still softly show...

*(CHORUS 1)*
One wish,
Two wish,
Love wish,
Blue wish.
Laughter carried on the breeze—
Wishes floating with such ease...
Ooohhh… what the sea means to me...

*(Verse 2)*
On the jetty, bold and high,
Jetty rock ‘neath open sky.
Like kings in ocean’s court,
Silhouettes guard seaside’s fort.

Waves crash but never sway
Silent strength in the day.
Watchers ashore would see—
This happy dance of line and sea.

*(PRE CHORUS)*

As tide keeps turning, soft and slow,
Traces of memories still softly show...

*(CHORUS 2)*
One wish,
Two wish,
Strong wish,
True wish.
Each cast born of dreams unspun—
Beneath clouds, beneath sun.
Ooohhh… what the sea means to me...

*(Bridge)*
Now years roll in like gentle tide,
I still see them, side by side.
And when I dream, I cast anew—
For those warm days and skies so blue…

*(VERY SHORT INSTRUMENTAL)*

*(Verse 3)*
Now one man where many stood,
On jetties carved by time and wood.
The World may have changed face,
But sea still holds that sacred place.

So I return in thought and song,
To where my summer heart belongs.
A single line, a whispered name—
And childhood answers just the same.

*(PRE CHORUS)
As tide keeps turning, soft and slow,
Traces of memories still softly show...

*(Final CHORUS)*
One wish,
Blue wish,
Love wish,
True wish.
Every cast still brings me near—
To those I hold forever dear…
Ooohhh… what the sea means to me...

*(FADE OUT - very short Instrumental)*

Ooohhh… what the sea means to me...

*(END OF SONG )*