NIKI – Oceans & Engines (Official Music Video)

“Oceans & Engines” out now: https://niki.lnk.to/OceansEngines
New album “Nicole” out now: https://niki.lnk.to/Nicole
Nicole Tour dates & tickets: https://nikizefanya.com

Written by: Nicole Zefanya
Produced by: NIKI & Jacob Ray

[Verse 1]
Saturday sunset, we’re lying on my bed with five hours to go
Fingers entwined and so were our minds crying, “I don’t want you to go”
You wiped away tears but not fears under the still and clear indigo
You said, “Baby don’t cry, we’ll be fine, you’re the one thing I swear I can’t outgrow”

[Verse 2]
My mother said the younger me was a ‘Pretending’ prodigy well nothing, then, much has changed
Cause while you’re wolfing down liquor, my soul it gets sicker, but I’m stickin’ to the screenplay, gotta say I’m okay,
but answer this babe:
How is it now that somehow you’re a stranger?
You were mine just yesterday
I pray the block in my airway dissipates and instead deters your airplane’s way

[Pre-Chorus 1]
But heaven denied
Destiny decried
Something beautiful died too soon

[Chorus]
But I’m letting go
I’m giving up the ghost
But don’t get me wrong,
I’ll always love you, that’s why I wrote you this very last song
I guess this is where we say goodbye
I know I’ll be alright
Someday I’ll be fine,
but just not tonight

[Verse 3]
Plunging into all kinds of diversions like blush wine and sonorous soirées
But even with gin and surgin’ adrenaline, I see you’re all that can intoxicate
Oceans and engines, you’re skilled at infringing on great love affairs
Cause now my heart’s home, all I’ve known, is long gone and ten thousand miles away

[Pre-Chorus 2]
And I’m not okay

[Chorus]
But I’m letting go
I’m giving up the ghost
But don’t get me wrong
I’ll always love you, that’s why I wrote you this very last song
I guess this is where we say goodbye
I know I’ll be alright
But just not –

[Bridge]
Tonight was the first time I stared into seas of beguiling sepia two years ago
And the first time I learned real world superpowers lived in three words, they revitalized my fraying bones, oh
Now what do you do when your pillar crumbled down, you’ve lost all solid ground, both dreams and demons drowned, and this void’s all you’ve found and doubts light it aglow?
I have so many questions
But I’m pouring them into the ocean and I’m starting up my engine

[Chorus]
And I’m letting go
I’m giving up your ghost
It’s come to a close
I marked the end with this last song I wrote
I’m letting go
This is the last falsetto
I’ll ever sing to you my great, lost love

DIRECTED BY: Isaac Ravishankara
REPRESENTATIVE: Doug Klinger @ Reprobates
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Daniel Yaro
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Elizabeth Doonan
PRODUCTION COMPANIES: North of Now
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: United States
PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Division7
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: United States
NIKI: Nicole Zefanya
BEN: Peter Adrian Sudarso
RACEHL: Rachel Gunawan
NATASHA: Natasha Simadibrata
ABBY: Abby Latip
JOE: Mike Concheso
WET KID’S MOM: Jenni Kephart
WET KID: Idris Soleiman
PRODUCER: Naby Dakhli
POST PRODUCER: Dylan D. Underhill
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Damiana Acuna
1ST AD: Lexi Kirsch
2ND AD: Alex Spear
KEY SET PA: Anthony O’Brien
DP: Zoe Simone-Yi
1ST CAMERA ASSISTANT: Meghan Pham
1ST CAMERA ASSISTANT: Dave Eaves
STEADICAM: James Troost
STEADICAM: Jose Espinosa
SOUND MIXER: Ruben Brionnes
DIT / VTR: Fahad Salam
DIT / VTR: Chris Colenor
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Helen Morales
ART DIRECTOR: Nicholas Kerr
ON SET DRESSER: Alex Santo Spirito
SET DRESSER: Conrad Sundquist-Olmos
SET DRESSER: Drew Hall
CHOREOGRAPHERS: JA Collective
GAFFER: Thomas Sigurdsson
BBE: Christopher Williams
SET LIGHTING TECH: Auston Mahan
SET LIGHTING TECH: Zach Emerick
SET LIGHTING TECH: Scott Smith
KEY GRIP: Brendan Riel
BB GRIP: Logan Alesso
GRIP: Kevin Ramirez
GRIP: Alex Laudeman
GRIP: Connor Colby
GRIP: Marc Dewey
HAIR & MAKEUP ARTIST: Lili Eve Kaytmaz
HAIR & MAKEUP ARTIST: Kristin Andersson
ASSISTANT HARI & MAKEUP: Bex Cook
HAIR STYLIST: Deshauna
MAKEUP ARTIST “NIKI”: Marla Vasquez
HAIR STYLIST “NIKI”: Athena Alberto
NAILS “NIKI”: Michelle Tran
WARDROBE: Alisha Silverstein
WARDROBE ASST.: Isabel Rodriguez
WARDROBE ASST.: Molly Danielle Wilcox
WARDROBE “NIKI”: Katie Qian
WARDROBE ASST.: Athena Mesina
WARDROBE ASST.: Kiona Vickroy
WARDROBE ASST.: Francesca M
PA: Teresa Plascencia
PA: Sean Cavalerie
PA: Omri Soha
PA: Chris Ponce
PA: Carrie Carusone
CAMERA PA: Luis Barajas
TRUCK PA: Mike McCarthy
ON SET PHOTOGRAPHER: Gabriel Chiu
PHOTOGRAPHER ASST.: Liv
BTS PHOTOGRAPHER: Michael Rodgers
EDITOR: Henry Kaplan
ASST. EDITOR: Sutton York
VISUAL FX: Zak Stoltz
SOUND DESIGN / MIX: Ben Tomastik, Kris Huayta
COLOR: Ethos Studio
HEAD OF PROD: Natasha Sattler
COLOR PRODUCER: Sam Cesan
COLORIST: Dante Pasquinelli
SET MEDIC: Alex Regnaga
COVID COMPLIANCE: Marquis Willis
STUDIO TEACHER: Stella Pacific
COVID TESTING: Testing Better
CATERING: Rise & Shine

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