The Stories Behind The Songs

About The Songs In General: 

"A lot of the images and the lyrics are quite domestic. I don't really do much but hanging out at home and writing songs. I guess that's where my inspiration comes from. Words like, "kitchen sink" are in my songs a lot." 

About Writing Songs: 

"Songs just come from...when you just live, when you just go about your day to day business. You are just collecting things all the time to put in songs. They churn themselves up and you hear them come out in songs. It's just a response to your environment." 

Favourite musical signature...favourite composition trick, interval jump or something that works for Bic Runga? 

"I think 7ths and 2nds are the most divine intervals and they work so well in string arrangement, in melody lines...there's something magical about the major 7th interval. It's strange because all it is really is like lengths of waves, and for some reason it is particularly nice. 

Songs written by Bic:

A list of all the songs written / co-written by Bic and registered by her music company, Warner Chappell Music can be at at the Warner Chappell Music web site. Check out the details on the "Songs Owned by Bic" page.

About Drive songs

For Bic's description's of the lyrics around the songs from the album "Drive", go to the "About Drive" page.

About Beautiful Collision songs

For Bic's description's of the lyrics around the songs from the album "Drive", go to the "About Beautiful Collision" page.

About 'Bird's' songs

For news on the 'Birds' album, due for release 28 November, 2005, go to the 'About Bird's' page.