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
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
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
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
Baby, it accumulates
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
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
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
Til I'm caught in your spiral arms
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
And I'm caught in your spiral arms
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
To be caught in your spiral arms
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
And I'm caught in your spiral arms
And I'm caught in your spiral arms
And I'm caught in your spiral arms
And I'm caught in your spiral arms
Yeah 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
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
That house with no walls
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
That house with no walls
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
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
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