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Song · 1991 · Alternative rock

Walk on the Ocean

Toad the Wet Sprocket

1991

★ 3.6 editorial score

Phillips wrote it after a trip to Orcas Island, keeping the placeholder lyrics because nothing he tried afterward worked better.

Genre

Alternative rock Rock

Subject

Escape Nostalgia

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