Geez, I'm glad so many of you appreciate this song....but everyone is missing two important points in the lyrics. The first part of the song sings of hundreds of sailors coming to the bar to see Brandy. They all love her, and say she could steal them from the sea. But she doesn't love any of them. The one sailor fell in love with, is an honest man. All of the sailors sing "You're a fine girl, what a good wife you would be" but are lying when they say she could "steal a sailor from the sea." If she loved them, they'd probably marry her, but she would be their mistress. The man she loves sings that the same about her charm, but he is honest and tells her his life, lover and lady is the sea.
The dude who said it's about getting a waitress drunk and guys in a band turning down a gang....ummm, you need help. It's probably about a guy in this band who fell in love with a bartender and left her for his music career. He was probably honest with her, or at least wished he had been. And they probably fucked...
Geez, I'm glad so many of you appreciate this song....but everyone is missing two important points in the lyrics. The first part of the song sings of hundreds of sailors coming to the bar to see Brandy. They all love her, and say she could steal them from the sea. But she doesn't love any of them. The one sailor fell in love with, is an honest man. All of the sailors sing "You're a fine girl, what a good wife you would be" but are lying when they say she could "steal a sailor from the sea." If she loved them, they'd probably marry her, but she would be their mistress. The man she loves sings that the same about her charm, but he is honest and tells her his life, lover and lady is the sea.
The dude who said it's about getting a waitress drunk and guys in a band turning down a gang....ummm, you need help. It's probably about a guy in this band who fell in love with a bartender and left her for his music career. He was probably honest with her, or at least wished he had been. And they probably fucked...