Sail Away!

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

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!

© 1995-2009 RoJeanne Music & Benchmark Standards
ASCAP

Lyrics Powers McElhone Music Robert W. Miles
Publisher RoJeanne Music & Benchmark Standards, ASCAP

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