David Gray Lyrics

Skellig lyrics - David Gray

Oh that the song I'm singing

Was an ocean wide

And that the word I'm bringing

Reaches over to the other side

Each heart a burning vessel

Out on a pitch black wave

Chewing the bone and gristle

When it's the flesh of love we crave

And when a lie starts dancing

Oh boy it sure can run

Be halfway around the world

Before the truth can get its trousers on

And in a nightclub mirror

I caught the merest glimpse

Of my pre-human spirit

Frozen like a deer yeah, in the headlamps

Until it just don't matter

Until we're far from care

And when illusions shatter

You see the carnage everywhere

So with a taste like metal

On through the fog of war

So many hurts like nettles

All growing up around my door

I'm gonna cut that stairway

Yeah with my own bare hands

Up to that high rock plateau

Make my home inside the winds

Inside the winds

Up to that high rocky plateau

Make my home inside the winds

Dún Laoghaire lyrics - David Gray

There are buried worlds within us

Rainy nights as black as Guinness

Apparitions lodged like splinters

So with thoughts all smudged and beery

Make my way down to Dún Laoghaire

Peek through windows fogged and teary

From the warmth inside

And if you can't learn to love it

'Fraid you're gonna have to shove it

Stacked too high to rise above it

So we're kicking o'er the traces

With two fingers to their faces

And proceeding on the basis

Of inalienable right

And ain't it obvious

By now

There ain't no me and you

Never was

Don't have to be a genius

To work it out

We're all effect without a cause

Watching Oz the great magician

Eyes shut in the brace position

Changed beyond all recognition

And the radius of our footsteps

Spans a world of shattered concepts

Abandoned buildings loom like shipwrecks

In the ebbing tide

And ain't it obvious

By now

There ain't no me and you

Never was

Don't have to be a genius

To work it out

We're all effect without a cause

Is it some ridiculous misplaced

Sense of pride

That keeps me hauling

On the line

Gonna step right out of this

I just can't abide...

If I had a pound for

Every time

Accumulates lyrics - David Gray

Well, it grips and it grins

It cavorts and it gyrates

And it whispers from the wings

Knowingly insinuates

Shines a certain light on things

Emphasising your least likeable traits

Baby, it accumulates

In the depots, in the silos

On the pallets, in the crates

Down the aisles, wreathed in smiles

In great mountains, on our plates

Like the love of God, it enters you

In all kinds of amorphous states

Baby, it accumulates

Mindless need is loosed among us

In our homes and down our streets

Singing like some mythic creature

Of great Edens, through the gates

And you can have better suction

Even wanton destruction

And all of this at very competitive rates

Baby, it accumulates

Looking down from the highrise

Staring back with your own eyes

Playing games with the numbers

Messing 'round with the dates

Altering its positions

Muttering sweet propositions

Doing its damnedest to get you

Between the sheets

And you might start out

Kicking and screaming

Pretty soon you’re gonna wind up

Sucking on the teats

'Cause, baby, it accumulates

Baby, it accumulates

Heart And Soul lyrics - David Gray

For something in nothing

A voice in the air

A face in the doorway

In wordless prayer

I'm heart and soul boys

Heart and soul

Wonder shining in my eyes

Like I'm three years old

Not dead only sleeping

Adrift on the sea

The start of the river

The end of me

I'm heart and soul boys

Heart and soul

Glory shining in my eyes

Like I'm three years old

Shining in my eyes

Like I'm three years old

Where truth ain't resented

Where love ain't despised

And misrepresented

And sanitised

I'm heart and soul boys

Heart and soul

Wonder shining in my eyes

Like I'm three years old

Shining in my eyes

Like I'm three years old

Shining in my eyes

Like I'm three years old

And if I died tonight

To ask for more would be obscene

Surely we earned the right

To drink it pure

Break it clean

That curls in the bracken

That swirls in the dust

And cries to awaken

This wanderlust

I'm heart and soul boys

Heart and soul

Glory shining in my eyes

Like I'm three years old

Shining in my eyes

Like I'm three years old

Shining in my eyes

Like I'm three years old

Shining in my eyes

Like I'm three years old

Laughing Gas lyrics - David Gray

Nothing in the world was ever seen

Write it on the wind

This living dream

Nothing in the world was ever known

Throwing off the weight

Of skin and bone

Ripple on the water

Leaves of grass

Fire into the crowd

With laughing gas

No False Gods lyrics - David Gray

No false gods now

We are love's body or we are undone

No false gods now

We are love's body or we are undone

And you're damned if you do

And you're damned if you don't

No false gods now

We are love's body or we are undone

And tonight once again

For the first time

And tonight once again

For the first time

Once again

For the first time

No false gods now

We are love's body or we are undone

Deep Water Swim lyrics - David Gray

With the weight of the skies

Like a word to the wise

And the thought that preyed

With the road rising up

And the fog in my cup

As we cut to fade

Go from ten down to nought

All the things that we bought

All the plans we made

Oh man will you stop

Talking, offering it up

So sweetly

It just ain't yours to give

Less you own it completely

Feel it sharp in my breast

Coming over the crest

Like the joys of spring

Sense the one with no name

Moving just out of frame

On a gauzy wing

Like a smile as it cracked

Or a face in the act

Of remembering

Oh man will you stop

Talking, offering it up

So sweetly

It just ain't yours to give

Less you own it completely

I wouldn't know

I wouldn't

Hold the truth like a stone

Of the tree that was grown

From a tiny stem

As the note finds its mark

Swallowed up by the arc

Of a darkened limb

It ain't nobody's fault

That it's sere and it's salt

Deep water swim

Oh man will you stop

Talking, offering it up

So sweetly

It just ain't yours to give

Less you own it completely

I wouldn't know

I wouldn't

I wouldn't know

I wouldn't

Spiral Arms lyrics - David Gray

Til I'm caught in your spiral arms

And it all falls away

Lead a skittish horse

Through the fields of gorse

Till the jagged edges soften

Wrap those feet of clay

In the sweet decay

Strip the layers away

Till I'm less than nothing

And I'm caught in your spiral arms

As it all falls away

Scale the dizzy heights

Of that eastern light

Look for life beneath what's frozen

Get our just desserts

We're so close it hurts

But we get there just as the doors are closing

To be caught in your spiral arms

Let it all fall away

So it's skin on skin

Let the games begin

Find a brighter way of growing

If you'd take my hand

Baby help me stand

I'm a cup that's full to overflowing

And I'm caught in your spiral arms

Yeah I'm caught in your spiral arms

When I'm caught in your spiral arms

And I'm caught in your spiral arms

The White Owl lyrics - David Gray

For to quench my thirst

Into the breakers till my lungs burst

For to still my mind

Down through the echoing blue

In a swallow dive

So damn alive

The tightrope the green lasso

And soft hands to bear me through

I'll be the white owl

Winds cover me

I'll be the white owl

Swooping low

I'll be the white owl

No knowing me

I'll be the white owl

Blood my road

Till the first is last

All the smoke of the future

Pouring out of the past

Every vestige gone

Nothing left but the altar

We found each new day upon

All else gone

The light bends the thought gets skewed

Each sky dancing heart stripped nude

Then I'll be the white owl

Winds cover me

I'll be the white owl

Swooping low

I'll be the white owl

No knowing me

I'll be the white owl

Blood my road

I'll be the white owl

Time cover me

I'll be the white owl

Swooping low

I'll be the white owl

No knowing me

I'll be the white owl

Blood my road

Dares My Heart Be Free lyrics - David Gray

Can I hold it fast

Till the final gasp

Can the tale survive the telling

Will this feeling ever last

And it's a long old slog

With that mean black dog

That calls from the mire

And dares my heart be free

Try to keep it sweet

Baby make ends meet

Heading in the right direction

Just maybe down the wrong street

Speaking through the mesh

With her sumptuous flesh

That ghost in the wires that calls out my name

The mockingbird choir that calls it again

That old mystifier that dares my heart be free

Baby now

Couldn't you just once

Just once let the damn thing be

Going around thinking like that

Won't have nothing left to hold on to

All the subtle ways

That a face betrays

Every hurt that burns within it

In the flicker of its gaze

And as I fall beneath

Well it's a new green leaf

That tells from on high of all that is blessed

In each day that rises east into west

That springs from the bough

And dares my heart be free

Baby now

Couldn't you just once

Just once let the damn thing be

Going around talking like that

Won't have nothing left to hold on to

Feel that autumn wind

Where my hair has thinned

All the cares we never asked for

And all the loves we don't intend

And through my sleepless brains

Well it's an endless train

That pours through the darkness mile after mile

Drinking the diesel, burning the oil

That screams to the night

And dares my heart be free

Dressed from head to toe

In the afterglow

Offering prayers and supplications

To quite what I'll never know

And then it drops so strange

Behind the jagged range

That circle of fire that dares my heart be free

That ghost in the wires that dares my heart be free

That voice from the mire that dares my heart be free

House With No Walls lyrics - David Gray

With face turned away

From what you must say

So each to his reckless reward

We’ve torn up the track

There’s no turning back

Each day now a journey toward

That house with no walls

The pure mountain air

A robe we shall wear

On calling these spirits to rise

For all the high bluff

They see well enough

What’s there when they look in our eyes

That house with no walls

Mark it well

When I walk through that door

I’m a whole different person

Not me anymore

Can’t you tell

From the sound my voice makes

I’m a fish flashing silver

Jumping clear out the lake

Children of the freeze

Some quiet if you please

Your father’s got something to say

We’ve tarried too long

Been seeing it all wrong

And he bids you come home right away

To that house with no walls

That house with no walls

Can't Hurt More Than This lyrics - David Gray

Have you noticed

How it grows

From a point that barely shows

In the harness

For the harvest

Of the love that does enclose

Baby all eyes on the road

Where the future's ghosts explode

Maiming millions

But it can't hurt more than this

Changing focus

Changing shape

Get the dirt down on the tape

In the harness

For the harvest

Of its breath upon the nape

Baby all eyes on the band

Marching into No Man's Land

It's a minefield

But it can't hurt more than this

Baby all eyes on the screen

Where the markets crash and wane

Wiping billions

But it can't hurt more than this

Throw my body

In the hole

With the garbage of my soul

In the harness

I relinquish

Every notion of control

Baby all eyes on the door

Watching for that fiery roar

It's a furnace

But it can't hurt more than this

Baby all eyes on the road

Where the future's ghosts explode

Strafing millions

But it can't hurt more than this

All That We Asked For lyrics - David Gray

We're setting our clocks for the summer

We're spilled out like foam on the sand

And it's all that we asked for and more

Well it's all that we asked for and more

The first light it came like a warning

This moment is all that you own

It's all that we asked for and more

Well it's all that we asked for and more

A lump in my throat to remember

The day I was just seventeen

She peeled back her chest like a curtain

And her heart was translucent and green

And it's all that we asked for and more

Well it's all that we asked for and more

Yeah it's all that we asked for

And if these walls could talk

Think they might have a thing or two to tell

About all the rain drenched

Songs that rang

And tears that fell

The thoughts in my head are like tinder

And your eyes are like flint on a stone

And it's all that we asked for and more

Well it's all that we asked for and more

Yeah it's all that we asked for and more

Well It's all that we asked for and more

The Sapling lyrics - David Gray

Gonna lay down in the grass

And watch that acorn

Split in two

Slowly take root

While the clock upon the wall

Makes idle boasts

And my mind's out cruising

Silent coasts

Though the ghosts of better days

Might twist my eyes

Gonna stand my ground

Watch that sapling rise

Just as long as I've the strength

Well I'll raise that flag

Like a wisp of cloud

From a mountain crag

Now this is awkward

I kept it bottled up too long

Years like tiny drops of rain

On a glassy lake

Leaving nought but circles

In their wake

Though we barely comprehend

What the question is

Only know for certain

The answer's YES

Now this is awkward

I really don't know where to begin

I kept it bottled up too long

I know that feeling too yeah

Don't ask me where the time has gone

I know that feeling too yeah

Days I can't tell no right from wrong

I know that feeling too yeah

I kept it bottled up too long

Know that feeling

Tell me about it tell me about it tell me about it

Like sunlight breaking through yeah

Tell me about it tell me about it tell me about it

I know that feeling too

Gonna lay down in the grass

And watch that acorn

Split in two

Slowly take root

Gold In A Brass Age lyrics - David Gray

In search of sleep, I close my eyes

My head is filled with buzzing flies

I don't know if you realize

How much it means

Pray tell me where that feeling went

I gave my best by accident

In vain I strive to represent

How much it means

Now I'm lost for words

My mind fast forwards

It's gone the moment I reach towards

Gets crowded up on top

I'm still trying to hold it up

These people who have lost their faith

Who speak of love but play it safe

Arise you fools

The day is brief

Don't you see how much it means

How much it means

Every moment I got (yeah)

Every moment I got (yeah) yeah

Every moment I got (yeah)

How much it means, yeah

Every minute I got (yeah)

Every beat of my heart (yeah)

How much it means (yeah)

Yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah)

It's gone the moment I reach towards

Furthering lyrics - David Gray

Just keep pouring I'll say when

Walk me further in

Lose the weight that's in these bones

Fly like skipping stones

Cross the surface of the water

Till its arms enfold

These drifts of blue

My gift to you

These drifts of blue

These wild drifts of blue

Now the nest has taken wing

And the tree might sing

I'm the ghost of Christmas past

Peeking through the glass

Like an arrow finds its target

It comes back to me

These thoughts all skewed

My gift to you

What we don't know

What we don't know it can't hurt us baby

What we don't know sure can't hurt us baby

What we don't know it can't hurt us baby

What we don't know sure can't hurt us baby

Ridiculous Heart lyrics - David Gray

What was there in the first place

Like a sun rising

Lifting out of the haze

Coming home by the long road

I could tell from a mile out

Yeah could tell from a mile out

Just the look on your face

All the keys to the kingdom yeah

And the moon in its phases

Yeah the moon in its phases

May we dance and erase

Ahh ahh ahh

Whatever else

Whatever else now

With an eye to the keyhole

While a shout in the distance

Yeah a shout in the distance

Takes me back to the start

That was deaf to the warnings

Won't take no for an answer

This ridiculous heart

Won't take no for an answer

Wants you all to its own self

Needs you all to its own self

This unquenchable heart

What was there in the first place

Like a sun rising

Lifting out of the haze

Yeah yeah

Yeah yeah yeah

Ahh ahh ahh

Whatever else

Whatever else now

What was there in the first place

Like a sun rising

What was there in the first place

Like a sun rising

What was there in the first place

Like a sun rising

Like a sun

It's Late lyrics - David Gray

It's late, wake up

Baby wake up it's late

It's late wake up

Baby wake up it's late

Diving into that sea of images

Thundering white horses

Ever frozen in stasis

No turning back baby

From where we're going

No turning back baby

From where we're going

Like a feeling that's more

Than a heart can hold

Somehow controlled

Multiplied a billionfold

A billionfold

You know how it is

It's late wake up

Honey wake up it's late

It's late wake up

Baby wake up, it's late

It's yours alone honey

It's yours alone

So please wake up

Baby wake up, it's late

A Tight Ship lyrics - David Gray

The better then

To know myself

That fear be damned

And love be wealth

To sing it like

A mountain stream

To dance like no-one sees

That blinked an eye

That flashed a smile

But missed it by

A country mile

Now sleek to dive

In mirrored pools

And dance like no-one sees

So seize the day

Yeah aim it true

We'll live the way

That lovers do

We'll go defenceless

Open wide

We'll let the senses

Be our guide

We'll break the surface

Snip these strings

Relearn the grace

Of selfless things

We'll dance like no-one sees

Dance like no-one sees

We'll dance like no-one sees

Now sleek to dive in mirrored pools

So sleek to dive in mirrored pools

In mirrored pools so sleek to dive

To kiss the face

To snip the strings

Relearn the grace

Of selfless things

Then sleek to dive

(Tonight we dance like no-one sees us)

So sleek to dive

And sleek to dive

(Tonight we dance like no-one sees us)

So sleek to dive

Then sleek to dive

(Tonight we dance like no-one sees)

Watching The Waves lyrics - David Gray

I'm here watching the waves

Just how long can it be

Till that melody strays

Through my mind and I'm cancelled

Can't see no wood for the trees

Can't tell the land from the sky

When you're in up to your knees

Soon find out who your friends are

Ah for the taste of it sweet

One more time from the top

Thoughts like crumbs in the sheets

Words thrown like coins in a cup

Just one more house in the rain

Just one more spoonful of salt

And now I'm at it again

Banging on like it's my fault

Everything you are

Everything you are I long to be

Everything you are

Everything you are I long to be

I gave it all I could give

I took that ghost for my bride

Went day by day trying to live

With my heart on the outside

I watched the shape of it rise

To dance like wind through the wheat

And steal the light from your eyes

In the space of a heartbeat

And everything fills with distance

Yeah everything

Everything you are

Everything you are I long to be

Everything you are

Everything you are I long to be

Everything you are

Everything you are I long to be

Everything you are

Everything you are I long to be

Songs that push through the dirt

Ploughing these roads into fields

Sounding the notes of the words

Till everything fills with distance

Hall Of Mirrors lyrics - David Gray

Life in these mirrored halls

Rings hollow bright

Hearts grown like icicles

In dead of night

The weight of longing falls

And spirit crush

Then as my engine stalls

That oh too solid ground

Comes rising up

Faith versus charity

Fake versus real

Salt versus vanity

Click versus feel

Gap between what we say

And what we mean

Still love you anyway

Not ours to reason why

We can but dream

Baby let's dream ooo ooo ooh

Let's go Let's go Let's go

Let's go go Let's go Let's go

Not ours to reason why

Not ours to reason

Not ours to reason why

Not ours to reason

Baby when that oh too solid ground

Comes a rising up

Hey now don't look down now

Baby when that oh too solid ground

Comes a rising up

Hey now don't look down now

Baby when that oh too solid ground

Comes a rising up

Hey now don't look down now

Baby when that oh too solid ground

Comes a rising up

Hey now don't look down now

Hurricane Season lyrics - David Gray

This is hurricane season

Hurricane season

Just how did I get

So tired and mean

With eyes that flicker

Like a movie screen

A brand new ceiling

Same old deluge

Put finer feelings

In the centrifuge

It gets as if the merest breath

Of wind could knock me down

Gets as if the merest breath of wind

Could knock me down

And this is hurricane season

Straight from the ocean

All shiny white

Can't get that image

Out of my head tonight

It gets as if the merest breath

Of wind could knock me down

It gets as if the merest breath

Of wind could knock me down

Gets as if the merest breath of wind

Could knock me down

And this is hurricane season

Hurricane season

This is hurricane season

Hurricane season

So what do we do but make-believe

What do we do yeah

So what do we do but make-believe

What do we do yeah

So what do we do but make-believe

What do we do yeah

So what do we do but make-believe

What do we do yeah

Mallory lyrics - David Gray

Ah to be lost

However briefly

Lost in a place

Yeah such as this

Was to be free

Of the shackles of the known roads

Yeah to be free

Of all that is

I cleaved to the wind

And I saw it far beneath me

The whale of a lie

Something blue among the trees

The face of the wave

That stole my breath as it engulfed me

The print of my eye

On all it sees

Deaf to reason calling out to me

Deaf to reason crying out

Deaf to reason calling out to me

She spoke and my head

Was full of murmurs like a green field

That last that we saw

He disappeared into clouds

Should that moment arise

Well I'll be running I'll be spring heeled

The taste of your words inside my mouth

Deaf to reason calling out to me

Deaf to reason crying out

Deaf to reason calling out to me

Our shadows at dawn

Oh my god

Our shadows at dawn

Well they were rising up to meet us

Our shadows at dawn

Oh my god

Our shadows at dawn

Yeah they were rising up to meet us

Our shadows at dawn

Oh my god

If 8 Were 9 lyrics - David Gray

If skin should touch

And words evaporate

Trouble clear outta sight

With my whole body listenin'

My heart leans out

Like these old river trees

Closer to be where you glide

Movin' under me, glistenin'

If 8 were 9

I would hold you

Yeah I would rock you

I would shelter you darlin'

If 8 were 9

I would lift you

Lift you clear off the ground

Through the gates into morning

That time would stretch

Stretch out these magic hours

Into days into years

Tomorrow lost in the distance

A voice speaks out

Says "Hey man, let it go"

But when a heart has been true

Well it don't make any difference

If 8 were 9

Yeah I would hold you

Yeah I would rock you

I would shelter you darlin'

If 8 were 9

I would lift you

Lift you clear off the ground

Through the gates into morning

If 8 were 9

Through the gates into morning, yeah

Yeah

Through the gates into morning

Destroyer lyrics - David Gray

More panic than intent

More luck than good judgment

They're raising your body from the ground

The dreamer has woken

The spirit has spoken

They're raising your body from the ground

What you gonna do when the rain comes through

On your pretty head

Is it so easy to pretend?

Like visions of Goya

The silent destroyer

They're raising your body from the ground

From the ground

What you gonna do when it all comes through

On your weary head

Is it so easy to pretend?

You want it

You need it

Break your back, now feed it

They're raising your body from the ground

Oh yeah

They're raising your body from the ground

From the ground

They're raising your body from the ground

Yeah

From the ground

Hole In The Weather lyrics - David Gray

Crawling out through a hole in the weather

That I might go and see

We came out from it light as a feather

Not in my wildest dreams

Possibility loomed like a city

Repeated every phrase

Found it in every cell of my body

The senses [?] in me

Ride the punches, a slave to the rhythm

Brace for the full impact

Someone else starin' back from the mirror

Checks that it's still intact

It's always been there

I forgot to notice it, is all

Forgot to notice

How much I love this place

I really love this place

How much I love this place

Yeah, I really love this place

Dear God, I love this place

I forgot to notice it, is all

I really love this place

I forgot to notice it, is all

How much I love this place

I forgot to notice it, is all

I really love this place

Forgot to notice

Such a cynic, and loathe to admit it

[?] to your shell

See the hawk in the teeth of the gale

Mark out his eye-hole still

See how he's had his [?]

[?] higher still

Place To Be lyrics - David Gray

When I was young, younger than before

I never saw the truth hanging from the door

Now I'm older, see it face to face

Yeah, now I'm older, gotta get up, clean the place

And I was green, greener than the hill

Where flowers grew and the sun shone still

(Now I'm darker) Now I'm darker than the deepest sea

(Just hand me down) Just hand me down, give me a place to be

And I was strong, strong in the sun

I thought I'd see when day was done

(Now I'm weaker) Now I'm weaker than the palest blue

(Oh, so weak) Oh, so weak in this need for you

(Now I'm weaker) Now I'm weaker than the palest blue

(Oh, so weak) Oh, so weak in this need for you

Seems So Long Ago, Nancy lyrics - David Gray

(originally by Leonard Cohen)

It seems so long ago

Nancy was alone

Looking ate the Late Late show

Through a semi-precious stone

In the House of Honesty

Her father was on trial

In the House of Mystery

There was no one at all

It seems so long ago

None of us were strong

Nancy wore green stockings

And she slept with everyone

She never said she'd wait for us

Although she was alone

I think she fell in love for us

In nineteen sixty one

It seems so long ago

Nancy was alone

A forty five beside her head

An open telephone

We told her she was beautiful

We told her she was free

But none of us would meet her in

The House of Mystery

And now you look around you

See her everywhere

Many use her body

Many comb her hair

In the hollow of the night

When you are cold and numb

You hear her talking freely then

She's happy that you've come

So happy that you've come

Smoke Without Fire lyrics - David Gray

Perfect pictures tore in two

Pick your moments, surely do

And what the hell got into you

Anyway

Road like silver, sky like silk

Drink it down like mother's milk

You drink that cup until it melts

Away

(Step to the mark)

Yeah, that my journey might begin

(Open the door)

Into the dark and walk right in

And he wouldn't leave

No, he wouldn't leave

Yeah

(I put on the mask)

Yeah, that my journey might begin

(Next thing I knew)

Caught in a war I couldn't win

(I reached out for you)

Open the door, then rush right in

And they wouldn't leave

No, they wouldn't leave

They wouldn't leave

Yeah, they wouldn't leave

They wouldn't leave

And what the hell got into you

Anyway

Tell Me More Lies lyrics - David Gray

I'm young but already

There's doubt in my eyes

And I never learned how to pray

So make me feel better

Tell me more lies

Carry me further away

On the blue television

And the idiots kissin'

And making excuses

For all that fails

Break it down now, break it down, break it

The wind like a dagger

It's tearing my sails

I'm young but already

There's doubt in my eyes

And I never learned how to pray

So make me feel better

Tell me more lies

Carry me further away

From my father and mother

Had a room in a tower

Breathe in the hours like chloroform

And there's something within me

I wanna express it

But how do you paint it

When it's got no form

I'm young but already

There's doubt in my eyes

And I never learned what to say

So make me feel better

Tell me more lies

Carry me further away

Now the women are speaking

Of loves that have perished

Of memories cherished

And the fools men are

How many times

How many

If only, if only

La la la

I'm young but already

There's doubt in my eyes

And I never learned how to pray

So make me feel better

And tell me more lies

Tell me more

The Arc lyrics - David Gray

The arc of sound

It's the prism of the human heart

Unspoiled, they're yearning

My feet are on that circular path

And I'm returning

Yeah, I'm returning, I'm back to the place

I've never been

Eyes like two headlights in the fog

The slate wiped clean

Like a beast, it sounds

Through the chasm of the beaten heart

And now I'm burning

Like greenwood upon the fire

In my returning

Heading out upon this coast of a road

Beyond the reach of desire

Desire, desire

Birth pains of the new moon

I hope this spell don't break too soon

Last bones are the old new

Well I hope that I don't wake too soon

Dreams scrolling back through the years

Laid out like rings on a tree

Feed a feeling for the path

The circle turning me

Returning me back to the place

I'll never be

The arc of sound

It's the prism of the human heart

Year-round, it splits

And I see you standing there inside of its

Dark, bright rainbow

Yeah, you're standing there inside of its

Dark, bright rainbow

Feed a feeling for the path

The slate wiped clean

One moment wintery and gray

Next moment bountiful and green

One moment wintery and gray

Next moment bountiful and green

One moment wintery and gray

Next moment bountiful and green

Wintery and gray

Bountiful and green

Wintery and gray

Bountiful and green

Wintery and gray

Bountiful and green

Wintery and gray

Bountiful and green

Wintery and gray

Bountiful and green

Wintery and gray

Bountiful and green

Back In The World lyrics - David Gray

Every day when I open my eyes now
It feels like a Saturday
Taking down from the shelf
All the parts of myself
That I packed away
If it's Love lifts us up from the dark
Is it God by another name
Who's to say how it goes
All I know is
I'm back in the world again

Like the lift of a curse
Got a whole different person
Inside my head
No more trudging around
Stony eyed through the town
Like the living dead
If it's Love put the joy in my heart
Is it God by another name
Who's to say how it goes
All I know is
I'm back in the world again
Back in the world again

It's the only way to be
It's the only way to be
I'm naked like a tree
It's the only way to be
I'm naked like a tree
It's the only way to be

Less than sand on the beach
Staring into the reaches of Space and Time
I'm singing out words
But the voice that I hear
It seems barely mine
If it's Love put the song in my heart
Is it God by another name
Who's to say how it goes
All I know is
I'm back in the world again
Who's to say how it goes
All I know is
I'm back in the world again
Back in the world again

It's the only way to be
It's the only way to be
I'm naked like a tree
It's the only way to be
I'm naked like a tree
It's the only way to be

Every day when I open my eyes
Yeah yeah
Every day when I open my eyes
Yeah yeah

As The Crow Flies lyrics - David Gray

A part of me pre
A part of me post
A part of me present
One part of me ghost
A part of me wants to run

One part of me flowing
One part stopping dead
One part of me knowing
It’s all in my head
Sometimes when I’m open wide
A part of me tries to hide

Take all of me once
Take all of me twice
A love with no limit
Is worth any price
Not far to the good stuff
As the crow flies

A part of me earth
A part of me sky
One part of me sober
One part of me high
One part of me quiet
One part of me bold
A part of me dying
For the truth to be told
In all of my time before
Never wanted something more

Take all of me once
Take all of me twice
Take all of me stupid
Take all of me wise
Not far to the good stuff
As the crow flies
Not far to the good stuff
As the crow flies

Baby take me wise
Like the old crow flies
Baby take me wise
Like the old crow flies
Baby take me wise
Like the old crow flies
Baby take me wise

Mutineers lyrics - David Gray

You know the way it is
These thoughts are mutineers
Trying to shake the monkey off my back
So beat the island drum
And steady as she come
And all the stores are closing for the lack
To drink the damn place dry
Only plan of attack

And Babe
Sure feels good
Sure feels good
This moving close
This moving close
Sure feels good babe

And Hey
What could they know
What could they know
Bout what we have
Yeah what we have
What could they know Babe?

The early warning signs
All lit up in my mind
It’s true you know
Some things weren’t meant to be
Until your secret’s out
It’s your worst enemy

And Babe
Sure feels good
Sure feels good
This moving close
This moving close
Sure feels good babe

And Hey
What could they know
What could they know
Bout what we have
Yeah what we have
What could they know Babe?

Time is ours to burn
Is ours to burn
We got that glide
That freewheel glide
It’s ours to burn babe

Oh Babe
Sure feels good
Sure feels good
This moving close
This moving close
Sure feels good babe

Beautiful Agony lyrics - David Gray

I felt something snap
Looked up and you were gone
Clean through the gap somewhere
That I can’t get to

Love vandalising me
With beautiful agony
Love vandalising me
With beautiful agony

Batten hatches
Full survival mode
A word that
Catches in my throat
Short Pause
And then the full force
Knocks me sideways

Love vandalising me
With beautiful agony
Love vandalising me
With beautiful agony

Once upon a time
It wasn’t like this
Love was mine
So what the hell
Is after happening here
I’m stepping out
Into the roar
Trying to hear that voice

Saying Hey
Don’t worry
It’s alright
Don’t worry
Ah now Dave
Don’t worry

Love vandalising me
With beautiful agony
Love vandalising me
With beautiful agony
Love vandalising me
With beautiful agony
Love vandalising me
With beautiful agony
Love vandalising me
With beautiful agony
Love vandalising me
With beautiful agony

Read somewhere
In Neptune’s
Methane skies
It might be
Raining diamonds

Last Summer lyrics - David Gray

Baby, make like we did last summer
Baby, make like we did last year

Dived, plunged into your eyes
Living every hour like a century
There will I always be

Want it, not till it’s good and ready
Good and ready to break like a diamond wave
Diamond wave yeah, to take me and drag me under
So far under, that I can’t hardly breathe

Dived, plunged into your eyes
Living every hour like a century
There will I always be

Snow In Vegas lyrics - David Gray

Lying here with you on top of me
There’s nowhere on this earth that I’d rather be
And just when I was thinking
We’d come about as far
As this old road could take us
Time to pull on over baby
Yeah just stop the car
And it falls like snow in Vegas
So we’ll hang that sign up
On the door
So the hotel maid don’t wake us
Now pigs can fly
And I’ll command these breakers

Ah now Baby
Where you been so long
I’ve missed you like a river baby
Deep and strong
And just when I was thinking
We’d come about as far
As this old road could take us
Time to pull on over baby
Yeah just stop the car
And it falls like snow in Vegas
So we’ll leave that sign up
On the door
So the hotel maid don’t wake us
Now pigs can fly
And I’ll command these breakers

And anything you want yeah
Anything at all
Any little thing you’re needing
All you do is call
Got my money where my mouth is
The sugar’s in the cane
If I had a million dollars
I’d blow it on champagne
A million bucks champagne yeah
It wouldn’t touch the sides
No-one’s gonna put a foot wrong
It’s one of those nights

And just when I was thinking
We’d come about as far
As this old road could take us
Time to pull on over baby
Yeah just stop the car
Then it falls like snow in Vegas
We’re vain yeah and we’re greedy
We’re selfish and we’re needy
But it’s just the way God made us
Now pigs can fly
And I’ll command these breakers

Cake And Eat It lyrics - David Gray

I want all my cake and eat it
I want all my cake and eat it

I want all my cake and eat it

I want all myyyy
I want all myyyy

Work like a worm in the furrow
Dive like a bird in the wake
Live like there ain’t no tomorrow

I want all myyyy
I want all myyyy
I want all myyyy

Don’t know the meaning of
Don’t know the meaning of
Don’t know the meaning x 3

Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

I want all my cake and eat
I want all my cake and eat
I want all my cake and eat

I want all myyyy
I want all myyyy
I want all myyyy

Birds Of The High Arctic lyrics - David Gray

Baby say it isn’t true
You were never there
It wasn’t you
It’s more than I can do
To try and keep it shiny new
The gap just opens up
Between the words we like to use
And the thing that’s seen
Seen through your eyes now darling
In blue distances calling
Like the birds of the high arctic

And you don’t have to make the move
No there ain’t nothing left to prove
Accept the plain unvarnished truth
It’s a part of you you can’t remove
Like a love that’s been
There ain’t no answers darling
Just blue distances calling
Like the birds of the high arctic

They’re calling
Like the birds of the high arctic
This darling
For the light in your eyes sparked it
Two sheets to the wind

Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah

Like the birds of the high arctic
Like the birds of the high arctic
Like the birds of the high arctic
Like the birds of the high arctic

Baby say that it isn’t true
You were never there and it wasn’t you
Never there wasn’t you
Baby say that it isn’t true
You were never there
Never there wasn’t you

Like the birds of the high arctic
Like the birds of the high arctic
Like the birds of the high arctic

The Incredible lyrics - David Gray

(This time
It won’t leap past us
This time)

The incredible is approaching from over there
It won’t leap past us
We will not be left in our dark vale
To watch it go

The incredible is approaching from over there
It won’t leap past us (this time)
We will not be left in our dark vale
To watch it go

(this time)

The incredible is approaching from over there
It won’t leap past us
We will not be left noooo
It won’t leap past us

(this time)

A woman transformed into twinkling stars – headlines, headlines
A woman transformed into twinkling stars – headlines, headlines
No going home tonight, no going home tonight
The wrath of angels, the wrath of angels
No going home tonight, no going home tonight
The wrath of angels, the wrath of angels
No going home tonight, no going home tonight
The wrath of angels, the wrath of angels

(This time)

Girl Like You lyrics - David Gray

Shaking off the morning dew
No I never met a girl like you
Trying to see the land as it lies
Is like driving with the sun in my eyes
Not a thought in my head what to do
Cos I never met a girl like you

Clear in your head when you’re setting those sights
Fear in your bed when the loneliness bites
Try to get rid we’ll be hitting those heights

I’m working on it
I’m working on it
I’m working on it
I’m working on it
I’m working on it
Yeah working on it

Someone left the door ajar
Now I’ve no idea who you are
Not a thought in my head what to do
Cos I never met a girl like you

Clear in your head when you’re setting those sights
Fear in your bed when the loneliness bites
Try to get rid we’ll be hitting those heights

I’m working on it
I’m working on it
I’m working on it
I’m working on it
I’m working on it
Yeah working on it
I’m working on it
Ah working on it
Well I’m trying to fit one in the other
But 7 into 5 don’t go
I’m trying to get along with my brother
But my brother is so hard to know
I don’t want no soul to suffer
But it’s not an easy line to toe
So I’m working on it
Ah working on it

Don’t know what you are to me
Don’t know where I want to be
Don’t know what you are to me
Don’t know where I want to be

Gulls lyrics - David Gray

This land belongs to the gulls
And the gulls to their cry
And their cry to the wind

And the wind belongs to no-one
The wind belongs to no-one

I gave my breath to the song
To the song, wasn't mine
Neither of ship nor of sea
Neither of glass nor of wine

Leaving this ghost of a road
I'm climbing hand over hand
Toward that pinprick of light

Toward the seed that God sowed
Toward the seed that God sowed
Toward the seed that God sowed
Toward the seed that God sowed

Oh Baby
Try to recognise it in my mind
Try to stamp it out before it happens
Yeah I try to recognise it in my mind
Try to stamp it out

The writing's on, the writing's on
The writing's on the wall
The writing's on, the writing's on
The writing's on the wall [x4]

This land belongs to the gulls
And the gulls to their cry
And their cry to the wind
And their cry to the wind
And their cry to the wind

"Foundling" (2010)

Only The Wine lyrics - David Gray

Sprung like a wild orchid
Curled like a wave
Hanging like wood smoke yeah
In the airy glade
Only the wine talking
Only the wine
Head spinning, mouth open
Time after time

Sympathetic
Won’t forget it
Hope I never live to see the day
Gone forever
Ah whatever
Help me find the way
Home

Coiled in my synapses
Poised like a snake
There as the time lapses
And the levee breaks
Only the wine talking
Only the wine
Head spinning, mouth open
Time after time

Sympathetic
Won’t forget it
Hope I never live to see the day
Gone forever
Ah whatever
Help me find the way
The way
The way
Home

Foundling lyrics - David Gray

At - the- feet - of - love
a foundling in the reeds
at the feet of your love yeah
at - the - feet - of - love
a foundling in the reeds
at the feet of love

Take me to the limit of
every minute
Dancer in the senate
of needing and wanting
Throw me in cold yeah
All that my heart can hold
Until finally confronting
Strictly on a need to know
Gonna have to let it go
Baby, till the time is right

At -the - feet - of - love
a foundling in the reeds
At the feet of love yeah
At - the - feet - of - love
A foundling in the reeds
At the feet of love yeah
Take me home

Every apparition and
Every dream that
Threatened to but never was
Actual, solid
Every high cause yeah
Every phoney Santa Claus
Who wrote his name on it
Strictly on a need to know
Letting it go now
Baby, till the time is right

At - the - feet - of - love
a foundling in the reeds
At the feet of love
At - the - feet - of - love
A foundling in the reeds
At the feet of love yeah
Take me home

The sugar and the bile
You try your best to reconcile
Your heart with it's shadow
The she blows
All bones and stones
And blooming pale as Death
In the meadow
Gonna have to let it go now baby
Till the time is right

At the feet of love yeah
Sweet transcendent love yeah
At the feet of love sweet love
Luminiscent love yeah
Sweet resplendent love oh yeah
Exponential love yeah
yeah

Forgetting lyrics - David Gray

Crawling then walking
Then running and sweating
Forgetting

Lying and cheating
Aiding and abetting
Forgetting

Itching and scratching
Punching and hitting
Forgetting, Forgetting, Forgetting
Forgetting

Reminding rewinding
Removing regretting
Forgetting

Your smiles at the wake and
Your tears at the wedding
Forgetting, Forgetting, Forgetting
Forgetting
Forgetting, Forgetting, Forgetting
Forgetting

Spellbound and hellbound
And caught in the netting
Forgetting

A wiping it clean
A minute Armageddon
Forgetting, Forgetting, Forgetting
Forgetting
Forgetting, Forgetting, Forgetting
Forgetting
Forgetting, Forgetting, Forgetting
Forgetting

Gossamer Thread lyrics - David Gray

Talking with the old folks by the wall
Dreaming ‘bout New Orleans in the Fall
And grateful for the time that God allows
And doing my best to keep it hid
Hanging by a gossamer thread

Roll on up it’s feeding time again
A kiss to suck the lightning from the pain
I’m hatching us a plan for busting out
And free of what that bastard did
Hanging by a gossamer thread

All lit up like the National Grid
And hanging by a gossamer thread
You’re choking on your daily bread
Hanging by a gossamer thread

Dog in the doorway
Dyed in the wool
Dog in the doorway
Dyed in the wool
Dog in the doorway
Dyed in the wool
Away !

I hope that I’m wrong
Hope that I’m wrong
I hope that I’m wrong
Yeah
I hope that I’m wrong
Hope that I’m wrong
I hope that I’m wrong
Yeah

The Old Chair lyrics - David Gray

The old chair
The old chair
It gets that they don’t want it anymore
The split seams
And bad dreams
I’m fluttering like a dollar to the floor
You get to wonder what you do it for

And if you’re not there to meet me
Only shadows gonna greet me
The moment I go stepping through the door

My heart pounds
I hear sounds
Like laughter coming softly through the walls
The high times
Turn sidelines
This game it makes a fool out of us all
You’re off but you ain’t hardly
Kicked the ball

And if you’re not there to meet me
Only absence gonna greet me
The moment I go stepping through the door

And if you’re not there to meet me
Just what is gonna greet me
The moment I go stepping through the door

In God's Name lyrics - David Gray

What in God’s name
Were we thinking of?
What in God’s name
Were we thinking of?

Wrapping a ghost in cellophane
You’ve got to earn the right
Shouting the odds and everybody loves a good fight

Break in and move the furniture
Work on a kiss denied
Climbing the walls and everybody loves a good fight
Loves a good fight

What in God’s name
Were we thinking of?
Of......

We Could Fall In Love Again Tonight lyrics - David Gray

Could stay here forever
Where echoes return
There’s glory to gather
There’s money to burn
But I just can’t help from thinking
If I had you by my side
That we could fall in love again tonight

What kind of existence?
To want you so much
And only feel the distance
Each time when we touch
Been a lot of water flowing
Babe we could just let it slide
Then we could fall in love again tonight

I’ll be there in a minute
Baby just you sit tight
Then we could fall in love again
We could fall in love again
We could fall in love again
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight

Holding On lyrics - David Gray

Baby now don’t look back
Don’t let those feelings start
Don’t let the line go slack, when you’re
Pulling it all apart
How to describe the sky
Or dismantle a beating heart

Baby we’re holding on
Here we are holding on
Baby we’re holding on
To the world

Seeking assurances
Some kind of guarantee
There has to be more than this, oh now
More than the eye can see
Holding the lanterns high, while we
Sink with our vanity

Here we are holding on
Guess we’re just holding on
Baby we’re holding on
To the world

Now I’m gonna love you
Like the spring bursts from the ground
Unfurling from the ground
Unfurling from the ground

Faces of buildings, trees
All that is stone, inert
Here in these empty streets, well it
Silently does assert
That we are just passing ghosts, honey
Vapours of joy and hurt

And here we are holding on
Baby we’re holding on
Yes we’re just holding on
To the world
Here we are holding on
Baby we’re holding on
Here we are holding on
Yes we’re just holding on
Here we are holding on
Baby we’re holding on
Guess we’re just holding on to the world.

When I Was In Your Heart lyrics - David Gray

Somebody should have told you
I never knew
It’s just another letter
Returning to
When I was in your heart

Now every word is falling
On stony ground
It feels as if the music
Could lay me down
When I was in your heart
When I was in your heart

Because we wanted to
Because we wanted to
Because we wanted to pretend
We wanted to pretend

Now someone else is catching
Those gravy trains
And one poor bastard’s loss is
Another’s gains
The Saviour put a bullet
Right through his brains
When I was in your heart
When I was in your heart
When I was in your heart

A New Day At Midnight lyrics - David Gray

Oh my word ain’t never seen
Day so golden, Earth so green
Put my face into the stream
That I might see
What might have been

Oh my heart how time has flown
Feet that pass along the stone
I hardly recognized my home
All the paths had overgrown
The music and the laughter gone

‘Pon my soul ain’t never felt
So free of all the chains I built
All the pain and all the guilt
Vanished now beneath the silt
I’m striding ‘cross Orion’s belt

Oh my word I...
Oh my word I...
Oh my word I...

Dave Jones' Locker lyrics - David Gray

At the edge of consciousness
Where the lines they start to fade
And the spirit goes undressed
Of all malice and brocade
At the edges, silvery edges
Where the mirror it bends and stretches
At the edges of this world
Where the waters crash and curl

Take me down, take me down
Davey Jones yeah, take me down
Take me down Davey Jones,
Davey Jones yeah, take me down

Where the sands they blow and shift
Borne away yeah on the drift
Where the sands they blow and shift
Borne away now on the drift
Maybe I can free myself
Dancing with the swaying kelp
Maybe I’ll redeem myself
Swirling with the swaying kelp

Take me down, take me down
Davey Jones yeah, take me down
Take me down Davey Jones,
Davey Jones yeah, take me down
Oh yeah

Make me dance, wanna dance
Wanna dance
Let me see the blue sky
I can dance, gotta dance
Let me see the blue sky
Gonna dance
Holding fragments
Holding fragments
Holding Chimera
Twisting fragments
Only fragments
Only figments
Only Chimera

You’re the one that got away
You’re the one that got away
You’re the one they couldn’t touch
Just the one that got away

At the edges, silvery edges
Where the mirror it bends and stretches
Oh the edges of this world
Where the waters crash and curl

Fixative lyrics - David Gray

If there's a diamond in my mind
Will it dwindle down to naught
Or will it always be defined
If I cant fix it with my heart

So I'm returning to the place
That I might look into your eyes
And look so hard that I can taste
That winter sun that never sets
The swallow caught up in the nets
The perfect chorus when it hits
Don't slam the door, boy, when you leave

Was heading northward when I saw
That empty house out in the midst
There are traces left for sure
On every mouth you ever kissed

So I'm returning to the word
That I might look between the lines
That I might dutifully recall
The blue within your seagull stare
The funny ways you had to care
For every little thing beyond compare
Don't slam the door, boy, when you leave

So now I'm calling in the gulf
When you went walking with wolf
Hey boy, you really brought it on yourself
Don't slam the door, now, when you leave

The strangest for we ever faced
The stark in every staging grace
Is crushing diamonds into paste
Don't slam the door, boy, when you leave
Don't slam the door, boy, when you leave

The Dotted Line lyrics - David Gray

Trying to square the circle of my creed,
spread a little around for chicken feed,
and every (any) little thing I need baby, oh.
Everything that rises, all that flows,
and every which way that it goes.

It's tick, tock, the raindrop, and I wait for you.
Like green eyes or cream pies. I won't yield.
I'm tick, tock, those green locks.
I can't go through.

Like green eyes or cream pies.
I won't yield.
I won't yield.

Oh, the darling light.
Oh, the darling light.
Oh, the darling light.
I won't yield.

A Million Years lyrics - David Gray

Flat out I'm running
Through walls of concrete
Far from my spirit
A lifetime of hate
It shown on our faces
A million years

Screeching and yelling
Don't hear no sound
Blue light of heaven
Rising up from the ground
It shown on our faces
A million years

The fear coming over
The death taking hold of me
Preparing my face
For the gates of eternity, yeah

Fastening my ankles
Strapping my wrists
Taking my someplace
Where pain don't exist
It shown on our faces
A million years
A million years

The fear coming over
The death taking hold of me
Preparing my face
For the gates of eternity, yeah

Like frost on the branches now
Like foam on the surf
There's nothing I [?]
There's nothing I'm worth
Shown on our faces
A million years
A million years
A million years
A million years

Who’s Singing Now lyrics - David Gray

Blindfold and walking
All over town
Hearing them talking
Up hill and down
Rest for the wicked
Flesh for the crowd
Bird in the thicket
Who’s singing now?
Who’s singing now?

Head in the ether
Feet in the clay
Hand on the lever
Changes the day
A kiss on the cheek and
A punch in the mouth
Gone for the weekend
Who’s singing now?
Who’s singing now?

Me and my baby
Out on the tiles
God awful teeth but
Beautiful smiles
Face in the window
Back of your house
Hey ho my hearties
Who’s singing now?
Who’s singing now?
Who’s singing now?

Certainly certainly
Certainly certainly
Certainly certainly
Certainly crossed my mind
Certainly certainly
Certainly certainly
Certainly certainly
Certainly crossed my mind

Drag this old body
On up to the mount
Hey ho my hearties
Who’s singing now?
Who’s singing now?
Who’s singing now?
Who’s singing now?

Old Father Time lyrics - David Gray

Here at the gates, on the day you were born,
spooling is breathened and blossomed in thought.
Mind in the head of this child of mine,
now we’re up dancing with old father time,
raising our glasses to old father time.

Here in the concords, there’s fire in the brave.
They're not (Ain’t no) protecting from me my day.
If I were strong, if the lashes should shape,
now we’re up dancing with old father time, passing the bottle around.

Out (Pound) in the moder him pour it in lime,
plant stuck in the ground.
Now we’re up dancing with old father time, old father time.

Behold the great city that went down the plague (a glint on the plain?).
Behold the great curtains that murmur in rage.
Blink your eyes once and it’s grace land again.
Now we’re up dancing with old father time, passing the bottle around.

Out (Pound) in the moder and pour in the lime,
the plant is stuck in the ground, now we’re up dancing with old father time,
old father time,
old father time,
old father time.

Indeed I Will lyrics - David Gray

Riding on the walls of your precious souls, yeah,
indeed I will, indeed I will, yeah.
Praise it to the skies, everyday I rise,
indeed I will, and indeed I will.

Starting over, born in new (anew),
finally the lone will ignite its gown (long lonely night has gone),
now I’m walking through,
(and now…) now the world gets hotter,
with your hand in mine, when you’re with me baby,
be happy to take it, just days our lives,

indeed I will, yeah, indeed I will,
you’re my [?], loves the creed,
I cant’ even bite on my nails, to the gales of (my own steed epiphany??),
watching those love like shadows,
stretching out behind, when you’re with me baby,
be happy to take it, these days are fine, days are fine,

and every little move I feel like waiting by the turn of the time (table),
now my eyes are well and up (welling up) and they’re just thinking bout the way that it felt,
every bone, every nerve, every fiber, in my body, screaming, yes,

indeed, I will.
Indeed I will.
Indeed I will.

Riding on the walls of your precious souls,
indeed I will, indeed I will, yeah.
Praise it to the skies, everyday I rise,
indeed I will, indeed I will.
Every little moment I feel like waiting there to turn [?],

Now my eyes are well and up (welling up) and they’re just thinking bout the way that it felt, yeah,
every bone, every nerve, every fiber,
in my body, screaming, yes,

indeed, I will.
Indeed I will.
Indeed I will.
Indeed I will.

Praise it to the skies, everyday I rise,
indeed I will, indeed I will.
Riding on the walls of your precious souls.
Popping like a cork down in old New York,
indeed I will. Indeed I will.

A Moment Changes Everything lyrics - David Gray

Come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on

The stolen glances, broken threads
The visions looming in our heads
The years spent running parallel
To everything that might of been
No longer possible to hide
The feeling welling up inside
Ain't never been this close before
Ain't never felt so far away

When a moment
A moment changes everything
When a moment
A moment changes everything
When a moment, it changes everything

The summer sky is blushing pink
The heart is running out of sync
Could this just be the day, I think
When anything is possible

Well, hey now you've been here before
To see your face and slam the door
And waiting for the floor to drop
Feel like time is standing still

When a moment
A moment changes everything
[x3]
When a moment, it changes everything

Come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
[x2]

A moment, a moment changes everything
[x4]
Then a moment
A moment changes everything
A moment

More To Me Now lyrics - David Gray

That amount of money
That amount of pain
Such a lot of trouble
For such a little gain
Its one foot than the other
Just like-a simon says

But it means
More to me now than it ever has

Might look a little disheveled
A little wild to face
Been on some other level
Been in some other place
Eyes as wide as saucers
Coming bold as brass

Cause it means
More to me now than it ever has
More to me now than it ever has

Saturated northward baby
Syndicated south
All you get is bad news coming out
From a pretty mouth, yeah yeah
Come and going by now just like sailing ships
Straight into the arms of some sweet
Apocalypse
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah

Everything that matter
Everything that must
Everything that scatters
Just like-a magic dust
Might look a little peculiar
Who really cares

Cause it means
More to me now than it ever has
More to me now than it ever has
More to me now than it ever has
More to me now than it ever has
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah

"Draw The Line" (2009)

Fugitive lyrics - David Gray

Yeah yeah

Is the answer none of the above
Crouched in a whole like a mud-streaked fugitive
And everyday a different version of
Pourin it away like a water through a sieve

Hey better realize my friend
Love in the end now you can't take it well
Gotta live

If only for a second
I see a twinklin in your eye
Gotta try

Well its flesh and blood and camaflouge
Paint it to the wall now somethings gotta give
Just another right to sabatoge
Seein through the eyes of a mind-rot sedative

When will you realize my friend
Love in the end now you cant take it well
Gotta live

If only for a second
I see a twinklin in your eye
Gotta try
The one that you're forsaken
Surely more than just a lie
Gotta try
Yeah

When will you realize my friend
Love in the end now you can't take it well
Gotta live

If only for a second
I see a twinklin in your eye
Gotta try
The one that you're forsaken
Surely more than just a lie
Gotta try
It's for the taken
And you know not to testify
Gotta try
Everyday is a different version of

Draw The Line lyrics - David Gray

Well we had to pull on something
so we're grabbing at the threads
and now the world's unravelin'
inside our very heads
Glasses smeared with lipstick
hungry eyes out in the street
Same old bodies moving to the same old beat
Had to draw the line
Had to draw the line
All this talk of hypnotising
we can ill afford
to give ourselves to sentiment
when our time is oh so short
Names beneath the lichen
on these, cemetery stones
There are carnivals of silver fish
waiting to dance upon our bones
Had to draw the line
help me draw the line
help me draw the line
help me draw the line
I've been doubting yours baby
I've been doubting mine
I've been out of circulation
where the sun don't shine
I've been doubting fame and wealth,
charity, even love itself
draw the line
I aint saying he's bad baby,
I aint saying he's good
Merely that he ain't so different
'neath the executioner's hood
In the name of liberty,
in the name of brotherhood
had to draw the line
had to draw the line
Need to take some pride baby
need to take some heart
need to take evasive action
when the rumpass start
Here we are buck naked yeah
but where should we begin?
when it's not the flesh we're after
but the howlin' ghost within
help me draw the line
help me draw the line
help me draw the line
need to draw the line
help me draw the line
need to draw the line
had to draw the line
pack your bags we're going home
pack you're bags we're going home

Nemesis lyrics - David Gray

'Neath an avalanche - soft as moss
I'm a creeping and intangible sense of loss
I'm the memory you can't get out your head
If I leave you now
You'll wish you were somewhere else instead

I'm the manta ray - I'm the louse
I am a photograph they found in your burned out house
I'm the sound of money washing down the drain
I am the pack of lies baby that keeps you sane

Gates of Heaven are open wide
God help me baby I'm trapped inside
Feel like I'm buried alive

I'm the bottom line - of the joke
I am ecstasy - spilling like bright egg yolk
I'm the thoughts you're too ashamed to ever share
And I am the smell of it - you're trying to wash out of you hair

Gates of Heaven are open wide
God help me baby I'm lost inside
Feel like I'm buried alive

Possibilities limitless
Just give me something that's more than this
One shot and I'll never miss
yes

I'm the babe that sleeps through the blitz
I am a sudden and quite unexpected twist
I am your one true love who sleeps with someone else
I am your nemesis
Baby I'm life sweet life itself
yeah [3x]

Jackdaw lyrics - David Gray

I'm like a jackdaw
Cawing at your backdoor
Scratching at your window pane
Hey throw your window wide
And taste the April night with me again
Girl we been veering
Backwards disappearing
Down in to the murky deep
Baby come on
We'll be along time gone
There's time enough for sleep
And hey now don't run and hide
Your little heart away
If it's gone
We'll sure never find it
Pining for lost innocence
Our hammers beating hard
Against that old facade
Some other air to breathe
That we might break these molds
And free our restless souls
Start to believe
That we can rise above
Our pettiness and love
Like we ain't loved before
Free on this earth
As the surf that rolls
And crashes on the shore
And hey now don't run and hide
Your little heart away
If it's gone
We'll sure never find it
Pining for lost innocence
Tantalisingly I saw
Our shadows moving through the door
Traces from a different time
When I was yours and you were truly mine
All mine
And I still want you yeah
I still want you yeah
I still want you yeah
I still want you yeah
And I still want you yeah
I still want you yeah
I still want you yeah
I still want you
And baby don't run and hide
Your little heart away
If it's gone
We'll sure never find it
Pining for lost innocence
Pining for lost innocence
Pining for lost innocence

Kathleen lyrics - David Gray (feat. Jolie Holland)

Lay down my head by the wayside
My worn out shoes
Quite why she went I can’t decide
Yeah but I sure could use
One plate of food steaming and hot
Clean linen ironed
On a fresh made bed but I ain’t got
One salty dime， one salty dime
One salty dime
Just close your eyes it won’t take long
It won’t hurt a bit
Telling myself I could be strong
Or some such brave bullshit
Trucks are roaring by I’m a red ghost
In their tail light gleam
I’m a tumbleweed， I’m a spit roast
Just turning in your flame
Oh my darlin’ Kathleen
Cars they sound like waves that are breaking
On some distant shore
I gazed so hard into the great aching sky
It seemed that I， I wasn’t here no more
That my rushing blood was a river
My eyes two stars
My blowing hair all a quiver
A whispering field of grass
That murmurs as you pass
Oh my darlin’ Kathleen
That whispers out your name
Oh my darlin’ Kathleen
Oh my darlin’ Kathleen

First Chance lyrics - David Gray

Like a bird upon release
Through the atmosphere
Like a honking flock of geese
Winter drawing near
As the fabric comes unstitched
Hearts and minds and eyes bewitched
Standing watching for the smoke to clear

First chance I get I’m gone

Moses had his tablets yeah
Noah had his ark
All I got’s a haystack needle
Stabbing in the dark
Anguished cries and old footfalls
Permeate these paper walls
Need some action all you get is talk

First chance I get
I’m gone I’m outta here
First chance I get
I’m gone I’m outta here

Here’s one for the boys back home yeah
Here’s one for your spokes
A little taste of victory
To send back to your folks
Here’s one for the fireside
The grinning groom the blushing bride
Come and feast your eyes upon the hoax

First chance I get
I’m gone I’m outta here
First chance I get
I’m gone I’m outta here

Over Lake Superior
And the Arctic Sea
Through the dark interior
The stolen territory
Want it with the cream on top
One more lifetime swallowed up
He’ll be back yeah just you wait and see

First chance I get
I’m gone I’m outta here
First chance I get
I’m gone I’m outta here
First chance
First chance
I’m outta here
First chance
First chance
I’m outta here

And it’s a long way back
From where you are
And it’s a long way back
From where you are
And it’s a long way back
From where you are
It’s a long
It’s a long
It’s a long

Harder lyrics - David Gray

Can’t recall the moment when the doubt ripped your face
or put my finger on quite when the fog took your place
We’ve been beating on it 'til we’re black and blue
Just what good exactly is it gonna do?
Always so much harder, so much harder when you have to try
Could we at least agree upon the size and the shape?
The relative dimensions that the lie ought to take
For your delectation a scenario
Taken so much further than it needs to go
Always so much harder, always so much
If we could get away just for a week or two
Baby let it burn the way it used to do
Always so much harder
So much harder when you have to try
Have to try
And if the ground should open up
And swallow me
It would not stop
That minute hand from ticking off
The minutes 'til the penny drop
Not a breath of wind and not a cloud in the sky
All the better then to watch the world passing by
Passing by
Passing by
Passing by

Transformation lyrics - David Gray

Oh my hearties bold as brass
Roll it out like summer grass
Take me back where I come from
Transformation has begun
Throwing off the clothes of day
Complications fall away
All I am is laid to waste
Transformation takes my place
And just you keep it coming
A feeling I ain’t never felt before
And the way my heart is drumming
Well caution just goes flying
right out the door
And ain’t this really something
We’re walking but our feet
don’t touch the floor
Anymore
Standing quiet as a mouse
Rodedendrons for my house
Water lapping at my feet
Transformation is complete

Stella The Artist lyrics - David Gray

Stella she gave me a state of grace
I’m armour plated 4 inches thick
Now all I got was a little taste
I’m gibbering like a lunatic
Stella the artist
Just for now at least you’re mine
All mine
No need to be modest
As the daylight creeps
Take her hand and reach through time
I felt the sting of my own rebuke
Come spinning back like a boomerang
I swam the sea of psychotic puke
Nursing my love like a guilty pang
Stella the artist
Just for now at least you’re mine
All mine
No need to be modest
As the daylight creeps
Take her hand and reach
You’re only saying what they all say
You’re only saying what they all say
It should be more like the old days
It should be more like the old days
Oh man
Stella the artist
As the daylight creeps
Take her hand and reach through time
Stella the artist
Just for now at least you’re mine
All mine
No need to be modest
As the daylight creeps
And the floorboard creaks
And your poor heart leaps
Take her hand and reach through time

Breathe lyrics - David Gray

Wake, wake and the moments gone
Wake, wake and the moments gone
Wake, wake and the moments gone
Wake, wake and the moments gone
Then the door bell rings
Somebody asks you could
You spare a little time
To feel the weight that's mine
To lower down your guard
Get out your heart get snagged
Caught in the wheels in dust tracks
Angle on the edge
Breathe….

You feel your in too deep
So offer up some chrome
And drop it in the tin
Slither back within
Your crenulated wealth
Your educated self
Your family in rude health
And all the joy it brings
Aren't we forgetting something?
Feet out on the ledge
Feet out on the ledge
Breathe, Breathe, Breathe, Breathe…

And in the heat of noon
Finds you like some dog
You're propped up in a field
Medically sealed
Scratching at the wind shield

And howling at the glass
At anyone might walk past
Were you not aware?
Were you not aware?
Were you not aware?
Breathe…

The sea of broken lives
Mechanics, doctors, house wives
Feet out on the ledge
Feet out on the ledge
Feet out on the ledge
Breathe
Breathe…

Full Steam lyrics - David Gray (feat. Annie Lennox)

All our lives we’ve dreamed about it
Just to find that it was never real
This sure ain’t no great Valhalla
Coming closer each turn of the wheel
Forlorn， adrift on seas of beige
In this our Golden Age
Even in our darkest hour
Never thought that it could get so bad
Bullied， suckered， pimped and patronised
Every day your tawdry little lives
So loose your head
And step within
The silence deafening
Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it
You saw it coming
And I saw it coming but still
Running full steam ahead
In and out of consciousness
It breaks my heart to see you like this
Crying， wringing hands and cursing fate
Always so little far too late
It’s 3am I’m wide awake
There’s still one call to make, one call
Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it
You saw it coming
And I saw it coming
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it
Running full steam ahead
Running full steam ahead
Running full steam
Gonna cover my eyes, gonna cover my eyes
Runnin' full steam, yeah
Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it
You saw it coming
And I saw it coming
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it

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