My head is battling with my heart/
My logic has been torn apart.
“Sway” is a beautiful song by Bic Runga about the difficulties of communicating with the opposite sex-specifically with a crush. In Runga’s heart she wants to tell him to “come stay with me all the time” but she needs to practice saying his name out loud because she loses the nerve to say these things when she is around him.
Instead she’ll say less direct things like “sway my way”. That is, if you feel like it, come hang out with me. Her mind is hedging and protecting her from getting hurt but by doing so she is not expressing what she feels. It may work, it may not. We don’t find out.
The song has an easy 90s sound that is not over-produced. The mix brings Runga’s raw voice to the forefront and we hear the indecision in her voice. Should I tell him my feelings or should I hide them? We can hear that struggle.
Sway Lyrics
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 its all because of you.
And here I go
Losing my control,
I’m practicing 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 its time.
Tell you why I say its 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 everything’s 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.
Songwriters: Bic Runga
Good call. Love this song. But there’s one more Bic Runga song that should have been on your list.
The song is about a girl who is confused with the feelings of a man towards her..because it seems that the guy made this habit of appearing and then suddenly disappearing in her life…making him inconsistent in showing his true feelings for her. The guy seems to move one step forward and then later on moves more even steps backward. Making the girl even more confused because the guy seems to disaappear everytime the girl is already starting to believe him that he really likes her…So the girl is like begging the guy he likes to stay, as the lyrics said “don’t stray and don’t ever go away ” ,so that she wouldn’t be confused anymore because she wants to know more about him…