1985年，两名独立音乐制作人(Andy Connell，键盘；Martin Jackson，鼓手)和一名没有任何专业音乐经验的主唱(Corrine Drewery)在曼彻斯特组就了一支纯商业乐队，唱红了诸如“La La Means”之类非常适合娱乐片配乐的歌曲。这个略显怪异的组合就是Swing Out Sister。

Swing Out Sister - Icy Cold As Winter

Holding hands with summer
Gentle as a breeze
Fragrant as your petals
Cast their spell and leave

Someone was to blame
No one knew your name

Drifting into autumn
Brush away your tears
Shadows spread their sadness
Stole away her years

Someone was to blame
No one knew your name

(Icy cold as winter)
(Icy cold as winter)
(Icy cold as winter)

Chills your empty heart
Buried with the flowers
Frozen in the dark

Empty as a garden in the summertime
Captured by the falling rain
Now the playgrounds standing still are empty
No one else comes out to play
Warm spring that never came
I never even knew your name
Fill me with completeness
Fill me with your sweetness
Now the sun has gone
Everyone’s gone home
No one else comes out to play








Swing Out Sister - Now You’re Not Here

Love was young
We saw beyond a sky that had no limits
Much higher than the highest star
Beyond the furthest planet
We thought that we could change the world
And everything in it
But time ran out of endless hours
Gave into doubt, were we just playing an endless game
That no one ever wins

If I could run away
Hide away
Forget the way feel
But your memory keeps haunting me
Convincing me it’s real
Now you’re not here
Now you’re not here

Love and hate
Left up to fate
A life we took for granted
We couldn’t stop our running from the things we always wanted
No long goodbyes
No tears to cry
And nothing to believe in
But now you’re gone
We’ll never know a love that’s grown
Time took away
All that it gave to the two of us

If I could run away
Hide away
Forget the way I feel
But your memory keeps haunting me
Convincing me it’s real
Now you’re not here
Now you’re not here

When our hearts were young and nights were long
We’d let the morning sun kiss our eyes open
Precious dreams that we had now they are dead and gone
The promises we made have all been broken

If I could run away
Hide away
Forget the way I feel
But your memory keeps haunting me
Convincing me it’s real
Now you’re not here
Now you’re not here

In my arms
In my life
Lovin’ you, is just a memory
Now you’re not here
Now you’re not here
With me now, in my arms, in my mind, in my life