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Katie Melua – If You Were a Sailboat (Live in Berlin) (2012) | Track profile | Dork

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Katie Melua
Secret Symphony (Special Bonus Edition)
If You Were a Sailboat (Live in Berlin)

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If You Were a Sailboat (Live in Berlin)

Release date: 1st November 2012

From Secret Symphony (Special Bonus Edition)

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About This Track

"If You Were a Sailboat (Live in Berlin)" is a track by Katie Melua, from the album Secret Symphony (Special Bonus Edition), released 1st November 2012. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Katie Melua

Katie Melua

Lyrics

If You Were a Sailboat (Live in Berlin)

If you were a cowboy I would trail you

If you were a piece of wood Id nail you to the floor

If you were a sailboat I would sail you to the shore

If you were a river I would swim you

If you were a house I would live in you all my days

If you were a preacher Id begin to change my ways

Sometimes I believe in fate

But the chances we create

Always seem to ring more true

You took a chance on loving me

I took a chance on loving you

If I was in jail I know youd spring me

If I was a telephone youd ring me all day long

If I was in pain I know youd sing me soothing songs

Sometimes I believe in fate

But the chances we create

Always seem to ring more true

You took a chance on loving me

I took a chance on loving you

If I was hungry you would feed me

If I was in darkness you would lead me to the light

If I was a book I know youd read me every night

If you were a cowboy I would trail you

If you were a piece of wood Id nail you to the floor

If you were sailboat I would sail you to the shore

If you were sailboat I would sail you to the shore

If you were sailboat I would sail you to the shore

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Track details

From Secret Symphony (Special Bonus Edition)

2012

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Album

Secret Symphony (Special Bonus Edition)

Release year

2012

—Heartstrings (Live in Berlin)
—Two Bare Feet (Live in Berlin)
—If the Lights Go Out (Live in Berlin)
—Better Than a Dream (Live in Berlin)
—I Cried for You (Live in Berlin)
—The Bit That I Don’t Get (Live in Berlin)
—Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Live in Berlin)
—If You Were a Sailboat (Live in Berlin)
—Mockingbird Song (Live in Berlin)
—My Aphrodisiac Is You (Live in Berlin)
—Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
—All Over the World (Live in Berlin)
—A Moment of Madness (Live in Berlin)
—Crawling Up a Hill (Live in Berlin)
—Feels Like Home
—Gold in Them Hills (Live in Berlin)
—Call Off the Search (Live in Berlin)
—Kozmic Blues (Live in Berlin)
—Love Me Tender
—Moonshine (Live in Berlin)
—Moonshine
—It's Over
—The Bit That I Don't Get
—Nine Million Bicycles (Live in Berlin)
—Tiger in the Night (Live in Berlin)
—The Walls of the World (Live in Berlin)
—The Flood (Live in Berlin)
—Too Long at the Fair
—The Cry of the Lone Wolf (Live in Berlin)
—The Cry of the Lone Wolf
—The Closest Thing to Crazy (Live in Berlin)
—Secret Symphony (Live in Berlin)
—Secret Symphony
—All Over the World

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Mike Batt
Producer: Mike Batt