"Sail Away" is a song by the

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band

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, originally released on the band's sixth

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'' Hide from the Sun'' on September 2, 2005. The song was written by the lead singer

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. Sail away was 2nd on the United States singles list in 2005. The music video went #1 at

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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

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. 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 adjacent box is the original cover. 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.

Single track listing

CD-single #"Sail Away" – 3:48 #"Sail Away" (Benztown Mixdown) – 5:34 Maxi single #"Sail Away" – 3:48 #"Sail Away" coustic#"Sail Away" (Benztown Chillout Remix) #" Lucifer's Angel" – 4:01 #"The Rasmus Software Player: #*Sail away - music video #*Photo Gallery From the making of the video in Latvia. #*Extra video material

Music video

The music video to "Sail Away" was shot on a beach in

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on 19th & 20 September 2005. It was directed by the young

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team Mathias Vielsäcker and Christoph Mangler."Sail Away" information on The Rasmus.com
In the video, some black butterflies fly away to the sea after singer

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 another man, digging a grave, and a woman (supposedly his wife) standing near him. The woman takes some pills, probably to commit suicide and jerks her head in Ylönen's direction. Ylönen keeps walking, finds a crow's feather on the sand in front of him, and picks it up. As he is walking, he sees some more odd happenings, such as two children dancing around a wooden sculpture (possibly a pyre) in gas masks. The pyre has dolls in coffins hung on it. Ylönen enters a shack as a sand-storm approaches the shore. There, he finds the rest of the band playing the song. He waits a few seconds and after the storm reaches the shack, he resumes playing.

Aki Hakala The Rasmus is a Finnish rock band that formed in 1994 in Helsinki while the band members were in upper comprehensive school.Main source of the band's history: The original band members were Lauri Ylönen (lead singer-songwriter), Eero Heinonen ...

(drummer) and

Eero Heinonen The Rasmus is a Finnish rock band that formed in 1994 in Helsinki while the band members were in upper comprehensive school.Main source of the band's history: The original band members were Lauri Ylönen (lead singer-songwriter), Eero Heinonen ...

(bassist) both turn into sand-figures. At the end of the video, Hakala's head and Heinonen's arms both fall off.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{Authority control 2005 singles The Rasmus songs Songs written by Lauri Ylönen Rock ballads 2005 songs Playground Music Scandinavia singles