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

#NIKI #OceansandEngines #Nicole

49 comments
  1. udah 4 bulan semenjak kita putus, kenangan kita cuman chatan doang dan itu juga ga lama, tapi rasa cinta ku ke kamu belum habis vannn, kangen bgt, pdhl kamu ngecewain bgt responnya:( beberapa hari yg lalu kita berpapasan, rumah kita deket dan itu aja jarang berpapasan. setelah nyampe rumah kamu ngechat kalo aku udh bisa nyetir motor 😭 aku aja berusaha ga ngeliat ke kamu waktu itu van, kamunya malah ngechat katanya aku seleb alias sombong:( bgst van kangennya makin menjadi jadi pls. bahagia selalu sama yang lain van, imy 🤍

  2. musikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

  3. Hey niki did you know that? he told me he love me we was having so much fun then he need to leave back to his country and I can’t do anything distance it’s so suck now i need to let him go

  4. Saturday sunset
    We're lying on my bed with five hours to go
    Fingers entwined and so were our minds
    Cryin', "I don't want you to go"
    You wiped away your 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"
    My mother said the younger me was a pretending prodigy
    Well, nothing then, much has changed
    'Cause while you're wolfin' 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 strangеr?
    You were mine just yеsterday
    I pray the block in my airway dissipates
    And instead deters your airplane's way
    But heaven denied
    Destiny decried
    Something beautiful died
    Too soon
    But I'm letting go
    I'm givin' 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 (ooh)
    Plungin' 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 infringin' on great love affairs
    'Cause now my heart's home
    All I've known is long gone and ten thousand miles away
    And I'm not okay
    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
    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 revitalize 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
    And I'm letting go
    I'm givin' 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

  5. Saturday sunset
    We're lying on my bed with five hours to go
    Fingers entwined and so were our minds
    Cryin', "I don't want you to go"
    You wiped away your 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"
    My mother said the younger me was a pretending prodigy
    Well, nothing then, much has changed
    'Cause while you're wolfin' 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 strangеr?
    You were mine just yеsterday
    I pray the block in my airway dissipates
    And instead deters your airplane's way
    But heaven denied
    Destiny decried
    Something beautiful died
    Too soon
    But I'm letting go
    I'm givin' 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 (ooh)
    Plungin' 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 infringin' on great love affairs
    'Cause now my heart's home
    All I've known is long gone and ten thousand miles away
    And I'm not okay
    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
    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 revitalize 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
    And I'm letting go
    I'm givin' 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

  6. I dedicated this song to my ex girlfriend when I wrote her the closure message. She was the best person ever. I couldn’t imagine how I’ll be living my best life now that I don’t have her anymore. It hurts even more when I think abt how she just fell down on our relationship one day she woke up. We both planned our lives together, and it crushed me that she’ll be continuing that with another person whom she love the most in the future. I still want it to be me. To Say, you were my greatest love. Loving you wasn’t easy, it wasn’t perfect but we were reaching out for the best together already , but maybe this wasn't for ours. I love you in this world and in every universe.

    I couldn’t compose a lyric but this song was made for me, every single line hits me.

  7. [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

  8. Saturday sunset
    We're lying on my bed with five hours to go
    Fingers entwined and so were our minds
    Cryin', "I don't want you to go"
    You wiped away your 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"
    My mother said the younger me was a pretending prodigy
    Well, nothing then, much has changed
    'Cause while you're wolfin' 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 strangеr?
    You were mine just yеsterday
    I pray the block in my airway dissipates
    And instead deters your airplane's way
    But heaven denied
    Destiny decried
    Something beautiful died
    Too soon
    But I'm letting go
    I'm givin' 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 (ooh)
    Plungin' 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 infringin' on great love affairs
    'Cause now my heart's home
    All I've known is long gone and ten thousand miles away
    And I'm not okay
    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
    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 revitalize 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
    And I'm letting go
    I'm givin' 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

  9. lama bgt baru sadar ben adalah ben yang sama dr high school in Jakarta i mean like, every time i heard this song it made me sad for no reason 🙁

  10. Going to rant. But before that, this song really tore my heart out. It honestly helped me through a tough time and the only reason why I'm writing a whole essay in a youtube comment section is because I just can't seem to let go of these lingering feelings. I keep telling myself to let go but some part of me still can't. I just wanna feel okay. I mean, I am better now. I'm taking my time, but I wish my time would go a little faster, heal a bit better. Feel okay without needing to feel hurt whenever he crosses my mind. (okay you can skip everything else down there v )

    Honestly he only went overseas for a vacation. Our last night together was something that was normal, not a farewell but a goodbye. I had hope that once he came back, we'd go to that spot we both really wanted to go. I had faith in him to stay by my side.

    But he didn't. He met his old crush at a family dinner and they spent a week together. That week he had not texted me once. he had only mentioned a relative passing away. There was someone who died that week, but that wasn't the reason (which I thought it was for that whole week) why he hadn't texted me.

    He came back and told me about his parents setting him up with this girl but he was conflicted because he is in a relationship with me. I had told him to be honest. Because every time we discussed about it, it seemed as if the solution was simple, but he insisted it wasn't. So I got it out of his mouth that she was his old crush.

    And he simply told me about how perfect she was, how it was easy to love her, he told me that she was just so different, her aura was something he had never seen before. They clicked so perfectly. But he said he was confused. I knew that wasn't the case.

    He never told the girl that we were in a relationship until I made him to. I even texted her and he got mad about it.

    I know you all would think that he is a bad person, but he really isn't which made it all the more worse that someone would do something like this. he was my close friend for 3 years before we even started dating. And I am being petty about it because he had never once kept contact with his old crush for more than 7+ years by now…. I thought we had something good and strong. That our foundation was sturdy. But he simply said that if we had more "time" together, he would not have thought about her. Stupid isn't it? Maybe he truly is a bad person at heart, but he kept that facade up for 3+ years.

    Sometimes I think about him, before I knew the truth, before we got into a relationship. The him that I was friends with. I want to rewind the time back with the knowledge I have now. It's stupid to still want to be friends with him. But having something is better than nothing I guess. I want to warn my past self but then again I do not regret my decision to get into a relationship with him.

    He was sweet and he brought me gifts without even telling him. He knew everything about me and I knew everything about him. I knew this would happen if we ever broke up and I even told him that. It's funny to see him deny when he is doing everything I had predicted.

    He said he stepped away from the relationship yet when I talked with the girl, she thought I broke it off because he said that. I wanna see the good in him but I simply can't anymore. And Idk… when we broke it off, I had already killed my own heart. But idk what happened after, he started coming back and saying he wanted to fix things even though it was late. I waited a month. A month for him to at least say he wanted to fix things. A month before he "stepped" away from us. Why would I go back?

  11. Sometimes it is really hard to let go when you still have so much love left in you for that particular person. And that great great love can only be given to that one person only. That’s when he left, my love was like a dying rose. It was like a full bloomed rose that’s left behind to die. The love was so full and sincere, but it was just left outside his door. And I waited enough for that door to open.

    I keep crying every time i hear this song coz it resonates what i truly feel. I hope to sing this one day without thinking about this person anymore.

  12. March 2th 2024

    Dearest Tuan Mora Ari Malim Gultom;

    Mora, mungkin ini sudah tiba saatnya untuk "selamat tinggal" bagi kita berdua, setelah kisah panjang kita, meskipun tidak pernah menatap satu sama lain, tapi kamu selalu terasa dekat disini. Tapi saat ini, kita sudah gagal memahami satu sama lain dan berakhir saling menyakiti.

    Mora, terimakasih banyak atas segala sesuatu yang pernah kamu berikan untukku. Semua kata yang kamu berikan selama ini benar-benar menjadi salah satu kaki tumpuanku berdiri. Diberbagai situasi sulit yang aku alami selama kita mengenal satu sama lain. Kamu orang pertama yang mengulurkan tangan untukku berdiri. Terimakasih atas segala kasih sayang yang sudah banyak kamu berikan. Berkat kamu, aku merasa tidak berjalan sendirian.

    Maaf Mora, maaf sekali selama ini menjadi sebuah pikiran yang membebani, memaksamu mengikuti segala keinginanku, maaf sekali banyak perkataanku yang menyakitimu. Maaf sekali egoisku melukaimu berulang kali.

    Mora, aku harap kamu ingat betul tujuanmu. Aku harap setelah ini dan seterusnya, dapat kamu jaga dengan baik dirimu. Bertemu atau tidaknya kita, aku akan tetap menjadi orang yang selalu bangga dan menyayangimu.

    [10/14/2023, 6:02 PM] mi amor(a): Mora boleh Minta tolong?
    [10/14/2023, 6:05 PM] mi amor(a): Kalau kamu dah di jepang atau Tangerang pikiran kamu lagi buntuh karna ada masalah kamu ga boleh mikir untuk akhiri hidup kalau bisa cerita ke aku contoh aku lagi ga bisa di hubungi tunggu aja sabar masalah itu pasti ada dan ada jalan keluar kalau kita bisa cari solusi Mora akhir akhir ini banyak lihat mahasiswi bunuh diri ada yang karna cowo ada karna ekonomi atau orang tua buat kamu jangan mikir aneh aneh semakin kamu tambah dewasa harus semakin berpikir matang buat adik dan orang tua mu

    Aku akan ingat dengan baik kalimat ini, aku akan terus bertumbuh menjadi pohon yang kuat sama seperti yang kamu inginkan, aku akan menjadi kaktus yang akan hidup dalam kekeringan sekalipun, begitupula kamu. Aku sudah kurangi kopi, kamu juga harus kurangi rokok ya.

    Terimakasih sudah menampung segala tangisku Mora. Terimakasih sudah mendengar segala mimpi dan harapanku. Terimakasih sudah memberikan segala validasi padaku yg selalu haus akan pengakuan. Kamu orang yang benar-benar baik, you're the greatest person I've ever met.
    Meskipun pertemuan kita tanpa sengaja, tapi kita bertemu dengan baik. Jadi, kita selesaikan hari ini dengan baik ya. Janjiku bertemu denganmu akan aku simpan, aku akan pulang 3 tahun lagi pada akhir bulan Juni. Aku akan mendatangi kota Jogja untuk menepati janjiku, bertemu atau tidaknya kita nanti, itu tidak masalah.
    Aku tidak pernah benci kamu Mora, tidak pernah sekalipun. I love you, I love you more, I love you most.

    Mora, selesaikan pendidikanmu dengan baik, temuilah banyak orang sesukamu. Terimakasih sudah mengantarku sampai pada keputusanku hari ini untuk pergi ke Jepang. Terimakasih banyak.

  13. i used to listen to this song for an hour, but now this song hurts me more because it's always remain me about my kitten who died yesterdayy..

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