With an icy wind slicing up my cheeks, I thought about living by the ocean. The ocean is always warm in my mind, even though I have experience with being at the ocean and running from arctic blasts. I guess it’s my reality that it’s not cold when you’re living by the ocean. Naw, just looking for a change from the mountains around me where icy wintry fingers are slowly clenching around it, and thought, beach! Sun! Warmth!
Which prompted the stream to deliver Everclear. You know, “We can live beside the ocean.” Except then, it being Everclear, “Santa Monica” (1995) becomes a bit dark with sparks of hope and longing for havens where we live unencumbered by all the shit wrapping its tentacles around us.
Michael Seidel, writer 
I will take virtually ANY song about the beach, warm weather, or the ocean right now–the weather is so crappy!
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You call it crappy but I was chatting to a woman here who is looking forward to the snow storms. She reminds me of my mother, who has a fondness being inside a warm and cozy house when it’s nasty outside. I can’t help but think, yeah, but what’s that storm doing to everything?
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I hear that. I love being inside by the fire on a snowy day, but right now I have to choose between walking in the freezing cold and taking the subway–neither choice is a good one!
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No, those are daunting choices. My hands got cold just thinking about it. You have my sympathy, for what it’s worth.
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Thanks. Ultimately, I had to do both to get where I was going. It turned out all right in the end 😊
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I like this song. I too am one of those that likes winter, snow and the cold. Because in Hell Paso we have 79 degree weather in DECEMBER! There are no ugly sweaters because it’s to freaking hot to wear one. 🙄
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