Sway

Bic Runga - Sway

[You can find the Sway media file from Bic Runga Official Homepage. Sway of 1998 is part of her first Album and her first claim to fame. Her second album "Beautiful Collision" of 2002 became the best selling album ever in New Zealand. The country is Affectionately known as Aotearoa - "Land of the Long White Cloud" and is where Bic Runga calls home. You can see great white clouds from the sea surrounding the shore like a kingdom rising out of heaven.

Despite its beauty, New Zealand strikes me as a country that is quietly thoughtful. You don't hear about this country on the news often. The name is usually mentioned once every 2 years from the olympics. New Zeal has a very high Olympic medal winner per capita. I know New Zealand for its rugby, its yachts, and Bic Runga. She just released her third album, "Birds" two days ago (11/28/2005) you can listen to one of the single "Winning Arrow" on her website. Check it out, You might like it.]

Don't stray
Don't ever go away
I should be much too smart for this
You know it gets the better
Of me

Sometimes
When you and I collide
I fall into an ocean of you
Pull me out in time
Don't let me drown
Let me down
I say it's all because of you

And here I
Go
Losing my
Control
I'm practising your name
So I can say it
To your face it doesn't
Seem right
To look you in the eye
And let all the things
You mean to me
Come tumbling out my mouth

Indeed it's time
Tell you why
I say it's
Infinitely true
Say you'll stay
Don't come and go
Like you do

Sway my way
Yeah I need to know
All about you
And there's no cure
And no way to be sure
Why everythings turned inside out
Instilling so much doubt

It makes me so tired
I feel so uninspired
My head is battling with my heart
My logic has been torn apart
And now
It all turns sour
Come sweeten
Every afternoon

Say you'll stay
Don't come and go
Like you do

Sway my way
Yeah I need to know
All about you

Say you'll Stay
Don't come and go
Like you do

Sway my way
Yeah I need to know
All about you
Its all because of you
Its all because of you
Now it all turns sour
Come sweeten
Every afternoon

It's time
Tell you why
I say it's
Infinitely true
Say you'll stay

I wrote it while I was in Ireland.
Before I went, while on my way to the airport,
I noticed a bridge that had the word 'sway' written on it.
I didn't understand how the person got up there
to write the graffiti and why they wrote the word,
but I just decided 'I like that word -
that's the title of my next song.'

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