Story Behind The Song
Using the metaphor of a small craft on the open seas, a cool, sophisticated couple's volatile relationship, which risks everything, is examined and found wanting.
Song Description
A man and a woman take their relationship for graanted, assuming they could fight and make up at will, an assumption that has gone too far and gets them trouble.
Song Length |
3:00 |
Genre |
Jazz - Standards, Pop - Easy Listening |
Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
Mood |
Cool, Relaxed |
Subject |
Breaking Up, Ocean, Sea |
Similar Artists |
Natalie Cole, Alicia Keys |
Language |
English |
Era |
1990 - 1999 |
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Lyrics
SAIL AWAY!
JAZZ THEME #1
Words: Powers McElhone
Music: Robert W. Miles
SAIL AWAY!
Just making love and making waves all day
The little fights that add the spice, we'd say
Until the Big One came along
How careless could we be...
To dare that deep, dark sea?
MOONLIGHT LIES
The sweet hellos that turn to mean goodbyes
Are clearly warning us that's how love dies
We have to turn this ship around
The calm before the storm...
Is too thin to keep us warm
[BREAK: 8-16 bars INSTRUMENTAL WITH SCAT]
NO MORE BREEZE
No navigating easy as you please
I'm getting queasy in these choppy seas
I'm so afraid we'll run aground
We lost our guiding star...
And drifted much too far
SAIL AWAY!
We try to buck the tide and flail away
The ship's in trouble and we bail away
But it's too late to save her now
And I, for one, won't hang around...
And watch the ship go down!
SAIL AWAY!
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