Seesaw Sway by Peter Murphy

Album: Ninth (2011)

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Peter Murphy does not write straightforward lyrics, and rarely explains them, leaving their interpretations up to the listener. This song finds a girl "luning at the moon," and he's been looking her way for "23 summers." The girl in question could be his daughter, Hurihan, who was born in 1988.

In a 2017 Songfacts interview, Murphy offered: "That song is an unusual, for me, account of a relationship. A friend at the time."
Murphy wrote this song with David Baron, who produced the album.
The video was directed by Justin Coloma and shows Murphy performing the song at the Paramour Mansion in Silverlake, California.
This isn't the first time Murphy has used "seesaw" in a lyric: In his 1988 song "All Night Long," he sings about "your seesaw smile."

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