Walk on the Ocean
"Walk on the Ocean" is a song by American alternative rock group Toad the Wet Sprocket from their third studio album, Fear. Two different versions of the song were released: the album version with a cold ending and the single version with the chorus repeated until fade. Commercially, "Walk on the Ocean" peaked at number 18 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top 40 in Canada, New Zealand, and Norway.
Composition
The song was written after singer Glen Phillips and his wife were vacationing on Orcas Island in Washington's San Juan Islands after they "hung out at Doe Bay hot springs with a bunch of hippies."Phillips quickly wrote lyrics as placeholders, intending to change the words later, but he ultimately felt he could not write anything better. "I wrote down literally the first thing that came across my mind. The lyric and the chorus, I have no idea what it means, unfortunately. Then I tried rewriting it and nothing ever really worked. I tried to make the chorus mean something, and eventually said, 'Well, it sounds like I know what I'm talking about.' So we just left it as is. It was the least-conscious, least-crafted lyric," he said.
Track listings
US CD and cassette single- "Walk on the Ocean" – 3:32
- "All in All" – 4:02
- "Walk on the Ocean" – 2:59
- "Walk on the Ocean" – 3:32
- "All in All" – 4:02