From the recording Backroads and Backstories
I Gotta Find a Different Beach is an unabashed breakup song about heartbreak that won’t loosen its grip. What was once an escape becomes a reminder—every wave, every shoreline moment calling up her name and pulling the past back into focus. The ocean doesn’t heal this time; it haunts.
Set against empty beaches and restless nights, the song captures that raw in-between space where you know it’s over, but your heart hasn’t caught up yet. The salt air, the rhythm of the tide, the familiar places—they all keep her closer than distance ever could.
Honest, aching, and emotionally direct, I Gotta Find a Different Beach is about realizing that some memories are too tied to a place to survive there—and the only way forward is to walk away and find somewhere new.
Lyrics
This ones got the clearest sea
I love the bonfires burning in the sand
The salty air and the darkest tans
But this shoreline holds a past
And ours came in a tidal crash
Now every wave pulls up your name
The sunset doesn’t feel the same
I gotta find a different beach
One that doesn’t remind me of you
You’ve been haunting me in my dreams
Ever since we’ve been through
I’ve been driving down Highway 95
Got my truck stuck in overdrive
Gotta find a place to feel alive
I gotta find a different beach
Yeah a different beach
’Cause here your memory’s still in reach
Where you swore the sun hit your body right
Now it’s burnin’ through my bloodshot eyes
Those pier lights faded like us
Slowly died when the night blew dust
I tried to stay and rewrite this place
But you’re in every breeze I chase
I gotta find a different beach
One that doesn’t remind me of you
You’ve been haunting me in my dreams
Ever since we’ve been through
I’ve been driving down Highway 95
Got my truck stuck in overdrive
Gotta find a place to feel alive
I gotta find a different beach
Maybe somewhere down the coast
There’s a tide that won’t pull you back
I ain’t running from the ocean
Just the memories I still can’t shake
I gotta find a different beach
One that doesn’t remind me of you
You’ve been haunting me in my dreams
Ever since we’ve been through
I’ve been driving down Highway 95
Got my truck stuck in overdrive
Gotta find a place to feel alive
I gotta find a different beach