New Music: Oceanography

I’m going to start using this platform to promote my music endeavors as well. They’re both part of me, my writing and my music, so it feel appropriate to use my personal website for both, right?

Anyways, here’s my first official release under the name Jessa Joyce, and it’s a rerelease of my very first EP, which was originally released under the Wake Up Jamie name. (Wake Up Jamie is now a band, but these rereleases will be technically a solo project. Confused yet?) This is the title track, which is in the process of being released to streaming platforms everywhere, but can be listened to right now on Bandcamp, or right here!

The song itself is about longing, about meeting someone and being so enamored with them, you want to know anything and everything about them. It was written by a very wide-eyed younger version of myself who was in love with the idea of love, and I feel like some of that giddiness is still hidden within this more updated version. At the time, I was obsessed with all things nautical, hence the title and the theme of the song. All of the songs on the EP have a slight nautical theme to them, which I still really love. I’m a Michigan girl at heart, so what can I say? I really like large bodies of water.

Here are the lyrics, so you can sing along!

Oceanography (words & music by Jessa Joyce)

You’ve got an ocean in your eyes

And I can’t spot land for miles

Throw away the compass and the maps that I’ve used

I wanna get lost in you

Fishing lines wrapped around your oar

I’m a boat tied to your shore

I won’t scream when the seaweed slips into my boot

I just wanna get tangled up in you

Cause I wanna know everything

If you’d just drag me to sea

And I, I’d give you everything

If you’d just give me the key

In my mind your body is a book

Crammed with all the notes that you took

About the destinations and the places that you’ve seen

I wanna feel your story in me

I’ll cast my dreams upon sailboats

Reading Flowers For Algernon on the east coast

I’ll feel the warm breeze upon my lonely seabed

And I’ll wish it was you instead