What inspired the song “Ocean Floor?
” Tyler: I had the chorus idea and I just had lyrics to it, but it wasn’t even supposed to be on the record. I was just playing it for Mark and Mark was like “Dude, we need to do that!” So he wrote the verses and I wrote the chorus. It’s using a really powerful image of how God washes away your sins. But not only just washes away… It’s like you’re using the strength of the ocean, the mystery of the ocean, the washing away of the ocean. It’s using all these metaphorical ways of how God devores your sin. The ocean just swallows things, and just takes them and their gone, y’know? I’ve always thought the ocean was so powerful. You know how you just go somewhere and the ocean just looks like “Whoa I don’t want to get to close ’cause I’m gonna fall in and I’m never gonna come back.” When I was a little kid I saw this devotion about how this old man who’s supposed to be like God, took your sins and he covered them with chains and locks and just rowed his boat out into the middle of the ocea
