Sail Away (The Rasmus song)

"Sail Away"
Single by The Rasmus from the album Hide from the Sun
Released	October 25, 2005
Format	CD single Digital download [1]
Recorded	2005 at Nord Studios in Stockholm, Sweden
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	3:48
Label	Playground Music
Writer	Lauri Ylönen
Producer	Mikael Nord Martin Hansen
The Rasmus singles chronology
"No Fear" (2005) "Sail Away" (2005) "Shot" (2006)
Hide from the Sun track listing
"Immortal" (7) "Sail Away" (8) "Keep Your Heart Broken" (9)

"Sail Away" is a song by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus, originally released on the band's sixth studio album Hide from the Sun on September 2 2005. The song was written by the lead singer Lauri Ylönen. Sail away has been second in United States single list in 2005. The music video went #1 at MTV Latino in March 2006. It has also been a popular video on many other music channels in Europe. The single was released on October 25, 2005 by Playground Music Scandinavia. The cover of the maxi single is different from the original version. The maxi single contains the PC-program "The Rasmus Player". The image in the box to the right is the original cover version. It is the second single from the album Hide from the Sun. "Sail Away" is a slow and melodic song with violin featured. The strings were arranged by Jesper Nordenström and performed by Jakob Ruthberg, Anna S Wallgren, Roland Kress and Christian Bergqvist.

Lyrical meaning

Singer-songwriter Lauri Ylönen explains that the song is a different kind of track from Hide from the Sun. ^[2] He remember when he played the song to the other band members in the rehearsal room and they really loved it. They kept the song very simple.

Single track listing

CD-single

1. "Sail Away" – 3:48
2. "Sail Away" (Benztown Mixdown) – 5:34

Maxi single

1. "Sail Away" – 3:48
2. "Sail Away" [acoustic]
3. "Sail Away" (Benztown Chillout Remix)
4. "Lucifer's Angel" – 4:01

Music video

The music video to "Sail Away" was shot on a beach in Riga, Latvia on 19th & 20th September 2005. It was directed by the young Berlin team Mathias Vielsäcker and Christoph Mangler. ^[2] In the video, some black butterflies fly away to the sea after singer Lauri Ylönen is shown walking slowly down a cold-looking beach, singing. He sees a man coming up onto the shore carrying an empty bird-cage and he carries on walking. He sees that man again, digging a grave and a woman standing near him. The woman jerks her head in Ylönen's direction to him. Ylönen also sees more odd happenings, such as two children dancing around a wood sculpture (possibly a pyre) in gas masks. The pyre has dolls in coffins hung on it. Ylönen enters a shack, lucky enough to walk in just in time as a sand-storm occurs and seeps into the shack. Aki Hakala (drummer) and Eero Heinonen (bassist) both turn into sand-figures. At the end of the video, Hakala's head and Heinonen's arms both fall off.

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