"Blue Water" lyric mystery...
 

I've been listening to this demo for years...one of my favorites...but I've always had a problem trying to understand one particular line...

Blue water...i sit and i wait for the morning to come...blue water...
and i wait for the sound of my gypsy...blue water
(here's where it gets confusing)
...I blah blah blah blah...hidden out of sight...blue water...

Now all the lyrics posted on various websites list it as being, "I sit out each night, hidden out of sight..." but that is obviously NOT what she is saying. If you listen carefully, you'll notice that the syllables are all wrong for it to be "I sit out each night".

The only thing that I can seem to make out is, "I sih nahnay flah" LOL!

Can someone please help me with this? It's been driving me crazy for YEARS! So much that I've even busted out the headphones, cranked the volume (even on the crisp, clear master demo) and rewound the one line over and over again to try to make sense of what it is. HELP!

It sounds like (somethingsomething) and flight, tho that doesn't make much sense.

:nod: I hear flight too. I can't figure it out. I think it's something like "I see nights flight".

"I see knights fight"? Naaaaaaa

Now, I can't get Knights in White Satin out of my head.

Michele

I always sang, "I'm hidden on inside, sittin' out of sight, blue water"

I always think it says "I sit out of sight" even though it doesn't make sense to say "hidden out of sight" in the next line because they are both the same thing. I sit out in flight could be another option, but that doesn't make much sense.

"I sit and I fly"
"Oh **** my wi-fi"
"I sit and I'm fly"
"I sit nine fly"

It is definitenly I sit and I something

We've found the perpetrator of this madness: http://gizmo.do/ctER4t

It sounds like she says sittin' on a slide.

"I Sit And I Cry" ?

"I sit on a flight"??

(we get back on the plane...)

That gets my vote. For a moment, I thought it was literally a song about nautical themes... But the whole thing just reeks of drugs to me. So the variations of "I sit on a flight," "I'm sitting on a flight," "I sit and a fly," etc. are just iterations of "I'm about to get high, dude, and I'm keepin' it on da DL." Oh, and there's "I'm in high tide," "I wanna take you on a slow ride," "I won't give up the night" (as in nightshade 'shrooms, perhaps?), etc.

Blue Water? It's more like Bong Water!

or.... high tide, a flood of emotions, aka "Drowning in a sea of love". I wanna take you on a slow ride. Sex. or making love. I wont give up the night. The only time we have to spend together.

I choose to find it romantic and poetic and beautiful.

I haven't played BW in a while but I always thought it was about Robin. Isn't there a line that goes "I wait for the sound of my gypsy". (she was left the lone gypsy when Robin passed). There also mention of the slow ride and wanting to sail the sea (Stevie, Robin and I think Sharon went to Hawaii as a "farewell" trip and I believe there were some shots of them on a boat). And finally the line about wanting to be your friend...and love you until the end. Just my speculation, of course. As is the case with most of Stevie's songs, it's probably about many things.

After going through it over and over and over again yesterday afternoon, I also could only come up with "I sit nine fly" because that's the closest thing that it sounds like, which of course isn't it because that makes no sense...then I saw your post just now. "I sit and I fly" sounds like that could actually be it! When you sing those words quickly, it sounds like I sit n' I fly. Mystery solved? Maybe. Who knows. It's definitely not "flight" because there's no T sound at the end.

BTW - As Stevie and Sharon have both stated in various interviews, this song was written in Hawaii (1977) right after they met. Sharon was performing at a club in Lahaina with her band at the Blue Max. Stevie was in the audience and jumped on stage to sing with Sharon after they'd started singing one of Stevie's songs. After the show, Stevie introduced herself, they started talking about music and hitting it off. Sharon said that Stevie was staying at a beach house and really wished she had a piano because the ocean was inspiring her to want to write. Sharon called up a friend that night and managed to get a piano over to the beach house. In the Wild Heart interview with Jim Ladd, Stevie says they stayed up that night and wrote "Blue Water". They even sing a little bit of it for Jim. Stevie also says that's when she asked Sharon to join her band whenever her solo career got off the ground. I remember in a different interview with Sharon, she said that when Stevie asked her to join her band, Sharon laughed and said, "No problem!"

I sit not in flight

is what I've always heard.

That doesn't not not make sense.

But that shouldn't be a reason for it to be discounted. Many of her lyrics don't make sense!

Blue water...
Sit and I wait
For the morning to come,
Blue water...
And I wait for the sound
Of my gypsy...
Blue water
I sit out each night,
Hidden out of sight
Blue water...
Blue water
And I stare at the sea...
And the sea smiles for me
And the sea is as blue, baby...
As your lover

I can't give up a night
I'm in high tide...
I'd like to sail the sea
I'd like to take you on a slow ride...
I won't give up a night
High tide...
I like to stare at the sea...
I'd like to take you on a...
Slow ride...
Slow ride...
Slow ride

Blue water
I sit and I wait...
For the morning to come,
Blue water...
And I wait for the sound...
Blue water
I sit out each night,
Hidden out of sight...
Blue water
And I wait for the sound
Wait for the sound...
And I smile at the sea
And the sea smiles for me
And the sea is as blue, baby...
As your lover

I can't give up a night
I'm in high tide
Well, I like to stare at the sea
I'd like to take you on a...
Slow ride...
Slow ride

I won't give up a night
I'm in high tide
I'd like to be your friend
I'd like to love you till the end
Till the end...

Blue water
I sit and I wait
For the morning to come,
Blue water
And I wait for the sound
Of my gypsy...
Blue water
I sit out each night,
Hidden out of sight
Blue water...
Blue water

And I smile at the sea...
And the sea smiles for me
And the sea is as blue, baby...
As your lover
Love...

I can't give up a night
I'm in high tide
I'd love to sail the sea...
I'd love to take you on a slow ride

I can't give up a night...
I'm in high tide
I'd like to stay your friend
I'd like to love you till the end

Blue water...
I sit and I wait
For the morning to come

~ Sandy

Bellaillume, not to be rude or anything (cause I appreciate you posting the lyrics), but you obviously didn't read my initial post.

The lyric is not "I sit out each night" - most websites that have the lyrics posted for this song have made this mistake.

I think it is "I sit, not in flight/hidden out of sight" which does make grammatical sense - as long as it has a comma in there.
I mean, it wouldn't be the best sentence she's ever written, but... :p

Ooops...
 

My appologies...I just quick posted the lyrics...then went back this morning and listened to a 'clean copy' of Blue Water...Maxd9 got it right...sounds like she's saying "I sit not in flight, hidden out of sight..."

Whatever that means...we love you Stevie

~ Sandy

Putting this thread to rest...FINALLY!!!

According to the "24KG" liner notes, the lyric is...

"I sit not in flight...hidden, not in sight...blue water..."

Mystery solved!!! :lol:

Do u happen to have a link to all the liner notes from all the 24k final songs? Thx tons!

Sorcerer999, you've said that you've been most excited about this song - what are your thoughts now after several listens?

I've likewise been psyched about this song, but wondered how hard it would be to beat the demo. Does the released version still have layered vocals, even with our friend from LA? :shocked:

Ironically, it's one of my least favorite tracks on the record. Not to say that it's bad or anything. They just went off in a direction with it that was very unexpected. It's very "road weary, country dirge" esque. Reminds me A LOT of that Huey Lewis/Gwenyth Paltrow song "Crusin' Together" from Duets.

Not really a favorite of mine...but there are many other AMAZING songs off this record that make up for it!

Thanks for your thoughts! So strange (although, embarrassingly, I DO kind of like Cruisin' Together).

Regardless, I have a feeling this record is going to blow IYD out of the water (as much as I loved that album)! Can't wait for Monday (and my record) to arrive! :thumbsup:

:lol: Now you've forever ruined the song for me because I'll never get Bong Water out of my mind.

This sparks my interest in starting a thread where Stevie's song titles or lyric lines are converted to drug references. What fun!

It may be WAY early for me to judge. I've listened to the whole thing all the way through about five times so far (I was awake til almost 3am last night) but I DEFINITELY think it blows IYD away!!! It's not better than the "holy trilogy" of the 80's (BD, WH & RAL) but it comes in 4th place for me...way above TOSOTM, SA & TISL as well! :)

It really is a fantastic album and I'm extremely looking forward to Monday and Tuesday to read all your reviews. It was nice to get the album early but it's kind of no fun right now because I don't have anyone to talk to about it.

oh god really?????
this was the song i was most excited to hear
i hate Cruisin' Together uggggggggggggh

:lol: this is funny ... coz my holy trinity (which I have even called that) is RAL/TOSOTM/SA :lol:
so maybe i will actually like Blue Water ... but low expectations are now held :(

This song is very good. Better than the demo. The guy from LA only sings on a very tiny part. It's not a duet or anything like that. I think most people will definitely like this.

I'm so relieved. Although I do wish he wasn't on it at all lol