"Trying to Find Atlantis" is the title of a song written by Chris Waters

Chris Waters

Christopher Waters Dunn is an American country music singer and songwriter, known professionally as Chris Waters. The brother of singer Holly Dunn, Waters has co-written singles for other artists, including Number Ones for Tim McGraw and Cyndi Thomson.-Biography:Christopher Waters Dunn was born in...

 and Zack Turner, and recorded by Australian country

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Jamie O'Neal

Jamie O'Neal

Jamie O'Neal is a contemporary country singer and songwriter who has had success in the United States. She was born Jamie Murphy in Sydney, Australia, to parents Jimmy and Julie Murphy, who were also professional musicians...

. It was released in 2004 and served as the lead single off of her second album, Brave

Brave (Jamie O'Neal album)

Brave is the second official studio album from Australian country singer Jamie O'Neal. It was her first release on the Capitol Records label, being issued on 1 March 2005 . It followed an unreleased second album for Mercury Records entitled On My Way to You, the title track of which carried over to...

 and her first single for Capitol Nashville Records.

Song information

"Trying to Find Atlantis" is an up-tempo country song. The song was one of two songs on her second album that were not written or co-written by O'Neal herself.
The song is an anology to the ancient mythical city of Atlantis

Atlantis

Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....

 that explains how a woman trying to find a perfect man is like "trying to find Atlantis." The song's chorus explains the message of the song:

It's a mystery like the deep blue sea

You can take it you can leave it but I still believe

So I won't give up and I won't give in

I know I'm gonna find him I just don't know when

A girl trying to find herself the perfect man is like trying to find Atlantis

Music video

A music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 for "Trying to Find Atlantis" was filmed after its release, directed by Randee St Nicholas. The video showed O'Neal coming out of the beach, wearing a gold-colored wedding dress. She searches around the area looking for the perfect man for her, but originally has no luck. At the very end of the video, she is seen back at the beach and finds a man on a surfboard, realizing is the perfect man for her.

Chart performance

The song was the first single release for O'Neal on Capitol Records

Capitol Records

Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...

.
The single was released in late September 2004, and officially peaked in early 2005. The song reached a peak of number 18 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart and number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

, becoming O'Neal's third Top 20 single on the country chart.
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Chart (2004-2005)	Peak position