Damien Rice

[Verse 1] If I could get out of my mind If I could forget about me If I could forget about time I might begin to see you Hear you, feel and understand you [Verse 2] If I could forget about life If I could shut up about me If I could knock it out of m...

Lisa: Leave me out with the waste This is not what I do It's the wrong kind of place To be thinking of you It's the wrong time For somebody new It's a small crime And I've got no excuse Lisa: Is that alright? Give my gun away when it's loaded Is t...

Leave me out with the waste This is not what I do It's the wrong kind of place To be thinking of you It's the wrong time For somebody new It's a small crime And I've got no excuse Is that alright?yeah. Give my gun away when it's loaded Is that alright?yeah. I...

i held you like a lover happy hands and your elbow in the appropriate place and we ignored our others' happy plans for that delicate look upon your face our bodies moved and hardened hurting parts of your garden with no room for a pardon in a place where no on...

I pack my suit in a bag I'm all dressed up for prague I'm all dressed up with you All dressed up for him too... Prepare myself for a war Before I even open up my door Before I even look out I'm pissing all of my bullets about... Wrap myself in a bag I'm all w...

Nothing unusual nothing strange Close to nothing at all The same old scenario the same old rain and there's no explosions here Then something unusual something strange comes from nothing at all I saw a spaceship fly by your window did you see it disappear?...

Woke up and for the first time the animals were gone It's left this house empty now, not sure if I belong Yesterday you asked me to write you a pleasant song I'll do my best now, but you've been gone for so long The window's open now and the winter settles in...

Don't wake up, baby sister Keep dreaming Did he fill your cup? Baby sister, keep drinking Or he'll hit you He'll bleach your eyes So be a good girl just for the night And run! Run! Don't get stuck, Baby sister, leave this land and read your books Baby sister...

(Damien Rice & Luna Seeds) hold me quietly, hold me gently hold me dearly, like I was sleeping... rising up and feel us breathing I saw we were flowing back to the beginning... grow up child, come and face me we've held on like orphans to a faded d...

The look of hunger in a woman with heat Is enough to lift an old man from his knees Like the piece of a puzzle he's been lookin' for He was leanin' to dyin' now he's comin' back for more. The look of a woman when she gets you alone You can't see what'...

be my husband, i'll be your wife be my husband, i'll be your wife be my husband, i'll be your wife outside you there is no place to go if you want me to i'll cook and sew if you want me to i'll cook and sew if you want me to i'll cook and sew outside yo...

And so it is Just like you said it would be Life goes easy on me Most of the time And so it is The shorter story No love, no glory No hero in her sky I can't take my eyes off of you I can't take my eyes off of you I can't take my eyes off of you I...

She would spend another afternoon drinking wine Sitting on your door, just wasting time Talking about the way it used to be So much better Or another night baby in your arms Still another one could do no harm Reminds me of how it used to feel So much wetter...

I take myself from the bottom shelf And I reel my troubles in And I put them up on a higher hill To a place I've never been And I'll wait for you if you want me to Am I just wasting my time? And I'll wait for you if you ask me to Am I just losing my mind? An...

You’re not on my mind You know that’s a lie Well I have been overthinking again But not ‘cause of you You know that’s not true Well nothing I’m saying makes any sense I’m not losing faith I just don’t relate Don’t do so well with waiting around So jus...

There's still a little bit of your taste - in my mouth There's still a little bit of you laced - with my doubt It's still a little hard to say what's going on There's still a little bit of your ghost - your witness There's still a little bit of your face -...

Cheers darlin' Here's to you and your lover boy Cheers darlin' I got years to wait around for you Cheers darlin' I've got your wedding bells in my ear Cheers darlin' You give me three cigarettes to smoke my tears away And I die when you mention his name And I...

I've been a child, a man and a silly dog, I've been a bull, a boy and a beast... I've been a child, a man and a silly dog, a bone on which I feast... and what I give to you is what I'm going through, it's a picture of the holes in my hand... and what i have t...

I'm so childish, a little bit wildish With my rumdiddlyumdiddlyumdiddly, I'm so deep Well I'm so garish, a little unfairish The way I pick you up, and drop you in a heap I'm so unfaithful, in fact I'm a plateful I won't kiss her, but I'll stare her up all ni...

You can hold her hand And show her how you cry Explain to her your weakness So she understands: And then roll over and die! You can brave decisions Before you crumble up inside Spend your time asking Everyone else's permission: And then run away and hide! Yo...

Cold, cold water surrounds me now And all I've got is your hand Lord, can you hear me now? Lord, can you hear me now? Lord, can you hear me now? Or am I lost? Love one's daughter Allow me that And I can't let go of your hand Lord, can you hear me now...

i tried to repress it then i carried its crown i reached out to undress it but love let me down love let me down… so i tried to erase it but the ink bled right through almost drove myself crazy when these words led to you and all these useless dreams...

Come all ye lost Dive into moss I hope that my sanity covers the cost To remove the stain of my love Paper maché Come all ye reborn Blow off my horn I'm driving real hard This is love, this is porn God will forgive me But I, I whip myself with scorn, scorn I...

When you're here before, couldn't look you in the eye. You're just like an angel, your skin makes me cry. You float like a feather, in a beautiful world I wish I was special, so fuckin special. But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing...

I broke your doll It was cross eyed, that's all I only wanted to help it see straight A half broken moon Sooner than soon I was up on your wall Smaller than small In a half-painted frame The wood wouldn't stain I hope that reminds you Of the part you couldn't...

We might kiss When we are alone, When nobody's watchin' We might take it home. We might make out When nobody's there. It's not that we're scared It's just that it's delicate. So why d'ya fill my sorrow With the words you've borrowed From the only place that...

She lives with an orange tree The girl that does yoga She picks the dead ones from the ground When we come over And she gives I get Without giving Anything to me Like a morning sun Like a morning Like a morning sun Good good morning sun Girl tha...

Hush now, don't explain; There ain't nothing to gain. Well, I'm glad you're back, But don't explain. Quiet, baby, don't explain; You know there ain't nothing to gain. Skip that lipstick, And don't explain. You know that I love you, And what love endures. All...

Break it all apart You're naked: frozen Did you ever want to work with me Did you ever let your baby down, my back You're shaking though relaxed Did you feel the drops of rain? Tell me cause I need to play you Down, I'm sure there's something here May...

This has got to die This has got to stop This has got to lie down Someone else on top You can keep me pinned It's easier to tease But you can't paint an elephant Quite as good as she And she may cry like a baby And she may drive me Crazy 'Cause I am lately l...

Tiredness fuels empty thoughts I find myself disposed Brightness fills empty space In search of inspiration Harder now with higher speed Washing in on top of me So I look to my eskimo friend I look to my eskimo friend I look to my eskimo friend When I'm down,...

How I know Go bow end send mend bend pretend Shut your face again Bleed seed need read breath on my knees How I choose to breath Lie cry learn grow slow fall stall How I build my wall Hate wait bait now kiss or taste the place And make weather in my face The...

t's four in the morning, the end of December I'm writing you now just to see if you're better New York is cold but I like where I'm living There's music on Clinton street all through the evening I hear that you're building your little house Deep in the desert...

If you leave me now It's not that I can't take it It's just that somehow I think you'd break it So much beyond repair Like pulling out my hair And poisoning the roots A gun that never shoots again And if you leave me now And take him deep within your throne Li...

She opens her eyes And it is cold And she tries to cry But she feels too old And I have been over this before And I walk between your hands Through the loneliest embrace Til the dregs are like an ether can I push in aside just for... For the mate of...

What is it that happens to me when you're around? I try to bring some love I'm just bringing it down What is it that happens to me when you're around? What is it that happens to me when you're around? I try to say something And nothing comes out What is it th...

I made you laugh, I made you cry I made you open up your eyes, didn't I? I helped you open up your wings, Your legs, and many other things, didn't I? Am I the greatest bastard that you know? The only one who let you go? Or the one you hurt so much you c...

Honey you are a rock Upon which I stand. And I come here to talk. I hope you understand. That green eyes Yeah the spotlight Shines upon you. And how could anybody deny you? I came here with a load And it feels so much lighter now I met you. And honey you shou...

well i've been here before sat on the floor in a grey grey room where i stay in all day i don't eat, but i play with this grey grey food desole, if someone is prayin' then i might break out, desole, even if i scream i can't scream that loud i'm all alone again...

what am i gonna do about you girl? you don't seem to believe me when i say that you are the one that's got me feeling this way you've got me groovin', yeah you've got me groovin' groovin' groovin' but please don't believe that we ain't got it real i should kn...

I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Halle...

When you know who you are, and can see through your veils, your old fears become wind in your sails, then your heart heat unfurled, from the hypnosis of your world, When you know who you are, the darkness the light, love loves it all, cause love has no...

Wherever you are, know that I adore you No matter how far, well I can go before you If ever you need someone, well not that you need helping But if ever you want someone, you know that I am willing I don't want to change you I don't want to change your mind...

fought in a war and I left my friends behind me To go looking for the enemy, and it wasn't very long Before I would stand with another boy in front of me And a corpse that just fell into me, with the bullets flying round And I reminded myself of the words you...

I remember it well The first time that I saw Your head around the door 'Cause mine stopped working I remember it well There was wet in your hair I was stood in the stair And time stopped moving I want you here tonight I want you here 'Cause I can't...

I have climbed the highest mountains I have run through the fields Only to be with you (x2) I have run, I have crawled I have scaled these city walls, these city walls Only to be with you But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. I still haven'...

Should I speak? Should I bother shaking hands? Am I weak If I leave it as it stands? I've submerged And I've surfaced with the blame I guess I'm no good I guess I'm insane Should I go If she calls out my name? And if she bleeds Should I wipe up the...

Is that it my friend Come to the end Only two days now You've let us descend To the prince of the desert The prince in the sand Did he ask for your love Did he ask for your hand Is that it my friend The end of it all Did you wait til I break Did you wait til...

Well, it didn’t take you long. Did it, babe? To learn to sing my song and get yourself laid. No, It didn’t take you long. Did it, babe? The moment I was gone you’re the master of the slaves. And it didn’t take me long to realize. All of your songs w...

it takes a lot to know a man it takes a lot to understand the warrior, the sage the little boy in rage… it takes a lot to know a woman a lot to understand what’s humming the honey bee, the sting the little girl with wings… it takes a lot to give, to...

We kill one another for love Does it have to, does it have to be That we kill one another of love? A year after, a year after We met up by the powers above If you want to you can wear my love (??) And it's like you, and it's like me (??) We've all got eyes but...

I gave me away I could have knocked off the evening But I lonelily landed my wants in her hands In a way I felt you were leaving me I was sure I wouldn't find you at home And you let me down You could have knocked off the evening But you lonelily let him push...

Lonely Soldier go home, Lonely, but never alone.. Good eyes, see nothing to shoot Good feet, feel good, givin' up good boots Ask your father how'd you fall Ask your father how'd you fall Like a leaf, sitting on the ground Good for nothing, except kicking arou...

long long way to the top long way down if you fall it’s a long way back if you get lost long way out to the air It’s a long way to go to lose your friends It’s a long way to haul all the traps you’ve trawled when you could just stop and let go and...

Look into my eyes and you'll know that I truly love you Look into my eyes and you'll see that no one will harm you Look into my eyes and you'll feel that I will protect you Look into my eyes and you'll feel that you belong Look at me, look at me and little by...

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds' and most Any heart not tough or strong enough To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain Love is like a cloud, it holds a lot of rain Love hurts, oh, love hurts I'm young, I know, but even so I know a thing or two - I learn...

She paints my life, with colourful lies And she's in the part of my boat where my secrets hide She's rockin' and rollin' something Rocking the robin twit diddle dee dee Making noise Making noise Making noise Making noise Please don't shoot my pi...

My drum, my drum, my drum Gonna make ya My drum, my drum, my drum Gonna make ya come My book, my book, my book Gonna make ya My book, my book, my book Gonna make ya look My hand, my hand, My hand going under My hand, my hand, My hand going under s...

You could be my favourite taste to touch my tongue I know someone who could serve me love but it wouldn’t fill me up You could have my favourite face and favourite name I know someone who could play the part but it wouldn’t be the same No it wouldn't...

You left it I sent it I want it back. You left it I sent it I want it back. If I had you here I'd clip your wings, Snap you up, And leave you sprawling On my pin This plan of mine Is Oh so very lame. Can't you see- The grass is greener Where...

Leave me out with the waste This is not what i do It's the wrong kind of place To be thinking of you It's the wrong time For somebody new It's a small crime And i've got no exuse Is that alright? Give my gun away when it's loaded Is that alright? I...

Well, surely there's time to deal another hand You can turn off the lights if you need. I'm curious to know if we could still dance With that elaborate pain in our knees. And surely there's a will to cut off these ropes That bound us like prisoners betwe...

Older chests reveal themselves Like a crack in a wall Starting small, and grow in time And we all seem to need the help Of someone else To mend that shelf of too many books Read me your favourite line Papa went to other lands And he found someone who understa...

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself, They come through you, but not from you, And though they're with you, they belong to themselves, You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For...

Once I loved And I gave so much love to this love It was the world to me Once I cried At the thought I was foolish and proud And let you say goodbye Then one day From my infinite sadness you came And brought me love again Now, now I know That no matter whate...

Is it getting better Or do I feel the same Will it make it easier on me now I've got someone to blame You say One love One life When it's one need In the night One love We get to share it It leaves me baby If I don't care for it Did I disappoin...

I met my fate in the orchard She made me part of her nature I plucked the branch, spoiled the fruit I taste the pain when I look at you I was once was drowned in a river She made me swim even deeper She filled my soul with heavy breath She held me down with l...

I pack my suit in a bag I'm all dressed up for prague I'm all dressed up with you All dressed up for him too... Prepare myself for a war BeforeI even open up my door BeforeI even look out I'm pissing all of my bullets about... Wrap myself in a bag I'...

What I want from you Is empty your head They say be true Don't stain your bed We do what we need to be free And it leans on me Like a rootless tree What I want from us Is empty our minds We fake a fuss And fracture the times We go blind When we've...

this is what is what if you don't get it like i want you to? so roll the dice, there goes my rule number 2... so roll the dice and don't ask why, just keep following me cause I'm following you... if she stays with you then you were right, if it's still here w...

You keep me in a glass jar sealed with a label You think you know my world Wake up young girl, you’ve got a lot to learn My love, my life, my work, my time I give them all to you Your hand in mine We walk, we talk in ryhme We go the whole night through...

sleep don't weep my sweet love your face it's all wet and your day was rough so do what you must do to find yourself wear another's shoe or paint my shelves there's times that i was broke and you stood strong i think i found a place where i .. sleep don't weep...

she, she comes out so slow, but i lie, so i wait like a dog by her side... she drops down so low, and i try, but i fail, and she cries like a little child... and she fucks off to France, with a boy... our dance is almost over... 

(Piosenka ze ścieżki dźwiękowej do filmu "Mickybo and Me") Well there’s a moon shining bright Little partner, let's light a fire tonight Rob a bank, steal a mule Little partner, we’ll be nobody’s fool And we’ll run like heroes run Yeah we’ll run when the morn...

she has a heart as clear as diamonds she has eyes as old as rome she can swim between my islands where my water's made of stone she can hold me like a baby and hush my demons to sleep and i know it drives her crazy she's no longer theirs to keep and she know...

Don't you know They're talkin' bout a revolution It sounds like a whisper Don't you know They're talkin' about a revolution It sounds like a whisper While they're standing in the welfare lines Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation Wasting time...

Woke up and for the first time the animals were gone It's left this house empty now, not sure if I belong Yesterday you asked me to write you a pleasant song I'll do my best now but you've been gone now for so long The window's open now and the winter settles...

And so it is Just like you said it would be Life goes easy on me Most of the time And so it is The shorter story No love, no glory No hero in her sky I can't take my eyes off of you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off of you I c...

This has got to die This has got to stop This has got to lie down Someone else on top You can keep me pinned It's easier to tease But you can't paint an elephant Quite as good as she And she may cry like a baby And she may drive me Crazy 'Cause I am lately l...

don’t give me something to hold in my hand something else to believe in cause i’m over it and your reasons for wanting to stay your reasons for wanting to change my reasons for everything are dull to you… i have tried but i don’t fit into this box i’m...

Of all the foolish things to do I became a connoisseur of great excuse And my pessimistic past the blame Will never make this go away Of all the foolish things I've said That keep me sleepy almost dead I'm sorry if I've let you down My eyes were closed, they'r...

I made you laugh, I made you cry I made you open up your eyes Didn't I? I helped you open out your wings, your legs, and many other things Didn't I? Am I the greatest bastard that you know? The only one who let you go? The one you hurt so much you ca...

The power of orange knickers The power of orange knickers Under my pretty coat The power of listening to what You don't want me to know Can somebody tell me now who is this terrorist Those girls that smile kindly then rip your life to pieces? Can somebody tel...

Well I don't know if I'm wrong Cause she's only just gone Here's to another relationship Bombed by excellent breed of gamete disease I'm sure when I'm older I'll know what that means Cried when she should and she laughed when she could Here's to the man with h...

This would not have happened If I hadn’t missed my plane I would've been there when they told you I’m the Rat within the grain Within this big misunderstanding now and I’m being misunderstood I'm thinking someone's trying to fuck with me And set fire to my wo...

Among the afflictions, With which I've been marked, None so pretentious, no, And none quite so dark. I get the feeling you're bored with me, Not through habit or frequency, Did you mother have you easily? And if there's some place else that you would...

There's a light A certain kind of light That never shone on me I want my life to be Lived with you Lived with you There's a way Everybody say To do each an every little thing But what does it bring If i ain't got you, ain't got you Chorus You d...

Huge eyes Know I'm missing So I close mine When I'm kissing Lollipop, licking With Lola Sticking like toffee to my teeth Wait, watch, gravitate Grab hold of, insulate Wait, watch, it's too late It's over now (All the way) I've got so much beauty around me I c...

We’ve wanted to be trusty and true But feathers fell from our wings And we’ve wanted to be worthy of you But weather rained on our dreams And we can’t take back What is done, what is past So, fellas, lay down your fears ‘Cause we can’t take back What...

What are we doing here? Why have we come? Did we come for communion, Under the tongue? There's a lot There's a lot There's a lot to unfold In the dark In the dark There's a lot we don't show Your love leaves me cold Your love leaves me cold What...

Come and see me Sing me to sleep Come and free me Hold me if i need to weep Maybe it's not the season Maybe it's not the year Maybe there's no good reason Why i'm locked up inside Just cause they wanna hide me The moon goes bright The darker they make my night...

Don't hold yourself like that You'll hurt your knees I kissed your mouth and back But that's all I need Don't build your world around Volcanoes melt you down What I am to you is not real What I am to you you do not need What I am to you is not what y...

It's a beautiful night for me to be here With my empty head I should have stayed at home And watched the weather It's a wonderful night buts it's a shame Because there is an empty bed I should have stayed at home 'Til I got better And nothing's changing The re...

What Do You Know About Love? Starts with a smile Moves oceans Lasts for awhile She turns a corner And you lose your mind And you think how unkind, how unkind What Do You Know About Love? What's written in your book The smallest distraction And you ha...

I could wrestle with tomorrow 'til tomorrow's in the past 'Cause I have torn apart what's beautiful To prove that nothing lasts I have stayed locked behind these doors To show there's no way out I got lost within the space between the question and the...

She’s got a place within the woods Where she swings near the house in the trees And she’s got a way with animals And invites me along to get free There's an army of men who’d shoot for her Even goddesses watch when she moves Her friends get us high And somet...

But don't give me something to hold in my hand Something else to believe in Cause I'm over it And your reason for wanting to stay Your reason for wanting to change My reasons for everything I've done to you... And I have tried but I don't fit Into this box I'...

I need a piss, I wanna hate, Fuck it up, come. My love, Eat your meat, Keep your teeth, run. You lost me, You cost me, You taught me of me in the end. We're bad, What we do. Stupid fools. You wanna get boned, You wanna get stoned, You wanna get...

Don't ask me what I think of you I spill my mind Don't try and ask me what I am I am mine So don't ask me what I think of you 'Til I change my mind You don't understand a thing I do That brings stain to my eye I keep sticking my finger in I keep stamping it do...

you shouldn't be here... i feel awkward, and good to be near you, watch you rip through paper wall... time may stall, and i may be late... i want it now, but i guess i can wait... you buy a bicycle, i hear you coming over for food... feed my appeti...

If I walk down this hallway, tonight, It's too quiet, So I Pad through the dark and call you on the phone Push your old numbers and let your house ring til I wake you ghost. Let him walk down your hallway it's not this quiet slide down your receiver sprint acr...