Listen – Nina and Frederik

Living my life to the accompaniment of
a song in my head, I mostly remember
the refrain, hubby and the kids live in
perpetual discontent as I keep singing
the refrain playing in my heart

Looking up lyrics on the Internet to learn
the words, maybe then I will be allowed
to sing my songs at home, one of the best
is ‘Listen to the Ocean’ by Nina and Frederik
it keeps turning like a broken gramophone

In my head, over and over, enchanting
rhythm, words divine, melody sublime:
‘Listen to the ocean, echoes of a million
seashells, forever it's in motion, moving
to a rhythmic and unwritten music

That's played eternally…’

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LISTEN TO THE OCEAN
Nina & Frederick – 1960
(Nina Möller / Frederik Von Pallandt)

There's a world of sun and sand
Full of sky and far from land
Where evening breezes caress the shore
Like a gentle comforting hand

Fragrant blossoms, honey bees
Careless laughter upon the breeze
And lovers fading to pools of deep
Purple shadows among the trees

Listen to the ocean, echoes of a million seashells
Forever it's in motion
Moving to a rhythmic and unwritten music
That's played eternally

The sound of a seagull's distant cry
His wings like parentheses drawn in the sky
And two white birds clinging like foam
To the crest of a wave rolling by

The silence of noon, the clamour of night
The heat of the day when the fish won't bite
These are the things that remind me of
The day you sailed out of sight

Listen to the ocean, echoes of a million seashells
Forever it's in motion
Moving to a rhythmic and unwritten music
That's played eternally