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"If You Were a Sailboat" is a song by British singer Katie Melua. Written and produced by Mike Batt, it is Melua's ninth single and the first from her third album, Pictures (2007). Melua said of the song:
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What I liked about the song is the fact that a lot of love songs tend to deal with the fluffy nice side of love, but this one deals with how you get very selfish when you fall in love with someone, and you don't want to share them with the world, you just want them all about yourself. What's genius about Mike's lyrics is that instead of saying that directly he uses these crazy strange metaphors, "if you were a piece of wood I'd nail you to the floor" and quite bizarre stuff and I like that. Musically it sounds like a really nice smooth love song, but the message is pretty intense and quite dark.[1] |
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It was released as a single on September 24, 2007. The CD single has three extra tracks exclusive to the release, including a version of David Gray's "This Year's Love". In the week of 30 September, the song debuted at number twenty-three on the UK Singles Chart.
[edit] Parody version
Mark Radcliffe of BBC Radio 2 was amused by the lyric 'If you were a piece of wood, I'd nail you to the floor', and asked his listeners to send in equally strange lyrics and compose a parody song for her to sing, not expecting her to actually do so.
However Melua sportingly contacted the show and agreed to play the song. The lyrics included 'If you were some tiling, I would grout you.' and 'If you were ten pints of beer, I would drink you down my dear'.
[edit] Track listings
- "If You Were a Sailboat"
- "Junk Mail"
- "Straight to DVD"
- "This Year's Love"
[edit] Charts
| Chart (2007) |
Peak Position[1][2] |
| Belgium Singles Chart |
15 |
| Germany Singles Chart |
62 |
| Norway Singles Chart |
5 |
| Poland Singles Chart |
10 |
| Switzerland Singles Chart |
12 |
| UK Singles Chart |
23 |
- ^ "Interviews - Katie Melua chats to I Like Music". I Like Music. 2007.
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