Cerulean Fog
Single by Digital Riptide
SIDE A
1. Cerulean Fog
In the dark before dawn
I sing my nightingale song
as I search for your touch
and in the amethyst wind
I feel it starting again
like a hunger inside
Floating on a pink cloud
like a tv on with no sound
channel fuzz surrounding us
the windows fill with blue light
we slip into an endless night
and tumble into paradise
and no one would believe it
we're in another world right now
they'll say that we're deceivers
we're lost in a dream right now
Beneath vermillion skies
I see that look in your eyes
an ocean of desire
and as the tide rolls in
we find our island of sin
in the cerulean fog
we can make it last forever
in the cerulean fog
making love forever
in the cerulean fog
SIDE B
2. Heaven (or Something Like It)
Never gonna let them come between us
never running like the rest
never gonna let this neon town beat us down
Heaven is a place I go
when I'm with you baby
each morning is a maudlin show
when I'm on my own
heaven is a place I know
Never gonna let them tell us different
cause we're the Generation X
never gonna waste our time belonging
ennui is the enemy of sex
Who knows if we're coming or going
trapped inside this garden of stone
who knows if we're living or dying, but
Heaven is a place
Heaven is a place I go
when I'm with you baby
each morning is a maudlin show
when I'm on my own
heaven is a place I know
Two-sided single released by the NYC-based no wave group Digital Riptide in 1982. Cerulean Fog was self-distributed and sold mostly at local downtown New York record shops and as merchandise at shows. The single featured vocals by newly anointed lead singer Gordon Voidwell. The lyrics, cited by critics as juvenile and melodramatic, were written by the band prior to Voidwell's addition. The success of Cerulean Fog in clubs and radio stations throughout the city led to a bidding war for the band's subsequent self-titled debut LP. The band's manager, REDACTED, secured the group a large advanced sum which the band immediately used to purchase a $20,000 CMI Fairlight digital sampler, a $5,000 Roland Jupiter-8 synthesizer, a $3,000 LinnDrum LM-2, and, according to band lore, a substantive amount of narcotics.