Love Is the Seventh Wave Lyrics
In the empire of the senses
You're the queen of all you survey
All the cities, all the nations
Everything that falls your way, I say (Woo)
[Chorus]
There is a deeper world than this
That you don't understand
There is a deeper world than this
Tugging at your hand
[Verse 2]
Every ripple on the ocean
Every leaf on every tree
Every sand dune in the desert
Every power we never see
[Chorus]
There is a deeper wave than this
Smiling in the world
There is a deeper wave than this
Listen to me, girl
[Verse 3]
Feel it rising in the cities
Feel it sweeping over land
Over borders, over frontiers
Nothing will its power withstand, I say
There is no deeper wave than this
Rising in the world
There is no deeper wave than this
Listen to me, girl
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 4]
All the bloodshed, all the anger
All the weapons, all the greed
All the armies, all the missiles
All the symbols of our fear
[Chorus]
There is a deeper wave than this
Rising in the world
There is a deeper wave than this
Listen to me, girl
[Verse 5]
At the still point of destruction
At the center of the fury
All the angels, all the devils
All around us, can't you see?
There is a deeper wave than this
Rising in the land
There is a deeper wave than this
Nothing will withstand
[Bridge]
I said, love is the seventh wave
I said, love is the seventh wave
I said, love is the seventh wave
I said, love is the seventh wave
I said, love is the seventh wave
I said, love is the seventh wave
I said, love is the seventh wave
I said, love is the seventh wave
I said, love is the seventh wave
I said, love is the seventh wave
[Verse 6]
Every ripple on the ocean
Every leaf on every tree
Every sand dune in the desert
Every power we never see
[Chorus]
There is a deeper wave than this
Smiling in the world
There is a deeper wave than this
Listen to me, girl
Every ripple on the ocean
Every leaf on every tree
Every sand dune in the desert
Every breath you take with me
Every breath you take, every move you make
Every cake you bake, every leg you break
About
“Love is the Seventh Wave” was the second single from Dream of the Blue Turtles. Sting wrote the song in Barbados while watching people surfing the waves, who told him every seventh wave is the strongest. At the end of the song, he references lyrics from The Police’s 1983 international smash hit “Every Breath You Take”. “Wave” reached the top 40 in the US, France, Ireland and The Netherlands (it peaked at #41 in the UK).
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In 1994, Sting told Independent On Sunday:
“‘Love is the Seventh Wave’ was written in Barbados. I was at Eddy Grant’s studio, watching the surfers, and they told me that the seventh wave was the strongest wave: they get stronger and stronger until the seventh wave, then start again. So the idea of love being the strongest wave that would encompass everything was an appealing one at the time. At the end I sing, "Every cake you bake, every leg you break”. I quite like using the songs as a modular system where you can mix and match lines from different songs. Its a tradition now. People expect it. Basically, it’s all one big song. You could say it was an aspect of postmodernism if you liked but you’d be called pretentious if you said that. It’s just something that amuses me."
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