David Gray - Greatest Hits lyrics
- You're The World To Me
- Babylon
- The One I Love
- Please Forgive Me
- Be Mine
- Hospital Food
- This Year's Love
- Alibi
- Sail Away
- Shine (Live)
- Caroline
- The Other Side
- Flame Turns Blue
- Destroyer
You're The World To Me
Started talking and the line went dead
Never heard a single word you said
You don’t have to turn the sound up
Babe I want you from the ground up
Baby baby you’re the world to me
I woke up, the room was cold
Looking tired, feeling old
Cursin’ all the changes I’ve to say
The more I cursed into the flood
The less it seemed do me good
Clearer became my mind than I could say
Baby baby you’re the world to me
My head is roaring like a waterfall
Give me everything or not at all
You don’t have to turn the sound up
Babe I want you from the ground up
Baby baby you’re the world to me
Baby baby you’re the world to me
Baby baby you’re the world to me
Baby baby you’re the world to me
You don’t have to turn the sound up
Babe I want you from the ground up
Baby baby you’re the world to me
Iridescent like a starling
Won’t you be my little darling
Baby baby you’re the world to me
Baby baby you’re the world to me
Baby baby you’re the world to me
Babylon
Friday night, I'm going nowhere
All the lights are changing, green to red
Turning over TV stations
Situations running through my head
Looking back through time, you know
It's clear that I've been blind, I've been a fool
To open up my heart to all that jealousy
That bitterness, that ridicule
Saturday I'm running wild and
All the lights are changing red to green
Moving through the crowds, I'm pushing
Chemicals are rushing in my bloodstream
Only wish that you were here
You know I'm seeing it so clear, I've been afraid
To show you how I really feel
Admit to some of those bad mistakes I've made
And if you want it, come and get it
Crying out loud
The love that I was, giving you was
Never in doubt
Let go your heart, let go your head
And feel it now
Let go your heart, let go your head
And feel it now
Babylon
Babylon
Babylon
Sunday all the lights in London shining
Sky is fading, red to blue
Kicking through the Autumn leaves
And wondering where it is you might be going to
Turning back for home
You know I'm feeling so alone, I can't believe
Climbing on the stair
I turn around to see you smiling there in front of me
And if you want it, come and get it
Crying out loud
The love that I was, giving you was
Never in doubt
Let go your heart, let go your head
And feel it now
Let go your heart, let go your head
And feel it now
Let go your heart, let go your head
And feel it now
Let go your heart, let go your head
And feel it now
Babylon
Babylon
Babylon
Babylon
Babylon...
The One I Love
Gonna close my eyes
Gonna watch you go
Runnin’ through this life, darling, like a field of snow
As the tracer glides
in its graceful arc
Send a little prayer out to you, cross the falling dock
Tell the repo man
And the stars above
That you’re the one I love
(Yeah)
Perfect summer’s night
You’re the wind and breeze
Just the bullets whispering, gentle amongst the new green leaves
There's things I might have said
Only wish I could
Now I’m leaking life faster than I’m leaking blood
Tell the repo man
And the stars above
That you’re the one I love
You’re the one I love
The one I love
(Yee-Hee, Yee-Hee)
Don’t see elizium
Don’t see no fiery hell
Just the lights so bright, baby
In the big hotel
Next, we comin’ in
Like an ocean rock
Won’t you take my hand, darling
On that old dance floor
We can twist and shout
Through the turtle doves
And you’re the one I love
You’re the one I love
The one I love
Please Forgive Me
Please forgive me
If I act a little strange
For I know not what I do.
Feels like lightning running through my veins
Everytime I look at you
Everytime I look at you
Help me out here
All my words are falling short
And there's so much I want to say
Want to tell you just how good it feels
When you look at me that way
When you look at me that way
Throw a stone and watch the ripples flow
Moving out across the bay
Like a stone I fall into your eyes
Deep into that mystery
Deep into some mystery
I got half a mind to scream out loud
I got half a mind to die
So I won't ever have to lose you girl
Won't ever have to say goodbye
I won't ever have to lie
Won't ever have to say goodbye
Whoa whoa whoa I
Whoa whoa whoa I
Whoa whoa whoa I
Please forgive me
If I act a little strange
For I know not what I do
Feels like lightning running through my veins
Everytime I look at you
Everytime I look at you
Everytime I look at you
Everytime I look at you
Be Mine
from the very first moment i saw you
thats when i knew
all the dreams i held in my heart
had suddenly come true
knock me over stone cold sober
not a thing i could say or do
'cos baby when i'm walking with you now
my eyes are so wide
like you reached right into my head
and turned on the light inside
turning on the light
inside my mind hey
come on baby its all right
sunday monday day or night
red blue or white its plain to see
be mine be mine
that rain or shine night or day
whats the difference anyway
honey till your heart belongs to me
if i had some influence girl
with the powers that be
i'd have them fire that arrow at you
like they fired it right at me
and maybe when your heart and soul are burning
you might see
that every time i'm talking with you
it's always over too soon
that everyday feels so incomplete
till you walk into the room
say the word now girl
i'll jump that moon hey
come on baby its ok
rain or shine night or day
theres nothing in the way now
don't you see
be mine be mine
winter summer day or night
centigrade or fahrenheit
baby till your heart belongs to me
be mine be mine
thursday friday short or long
when you've got a love so strong
how can it be wrong now mercy me
be mine be mine
jumpin jesus holy cow!
whats the difference anyhow
baby till your heart belongs to me
My body's on fire, and my heart is on fire
and my body's on fire now my heart is on fire
My body's on fire and I'm losing my sanity
Be mine be mine
Hospital Food
Just a little something for the pain
Hospital food getting you down?
Honey now I'm not one to complain
But this hangin' around
Is wearing me out
So patch me up boys take me home
Are you not hearing a word I say?
She sounds so different on the phone
I just sink like a stone
Back to the day
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don't already know
Tell me something
Tell me something I don't know
Don't seem to have that much
to show
For all the hard work, the sweat
and toil
You say 'well that's right,' and you
should know
You've been there before
You've basked in the glow
You've stood in the roar
You've tasted the snow
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don't already know
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don't already
Seeing it all so beautiful
The way it oughta be
Seeing it all so beautiful
And turning away
Turning away
Turning away
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don't already know
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don't already know
This Year's Love
This year's love had better last
Heaven knows it's high tide
I've been waiting on my own too long
When ya hold me like you do
It feels so right
I start to forget
How my heart gets torn
When that hurt gets flowin
Feeling like ya can't go on
Turning circles and time again
It cut like a knife oh now
If ya love me, got to know for sure
Cause it takes something more this time
Than sweet, sweet lies
Before I open up my arms and fall
Losing all control
Every dream inside my soul
When ya kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet
This year's love had better last
This year's love had better last
Cause who's to worry
If our hearts get torn
When that hurt gets flowin
Don't ya know this life goes on
Won't ya kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet
This year's love had better last
This year's love had better last
This year's love had better last
This year's love had better last
Alibi
Stone blind alibi
I will eat the lie
Find the word
Could break any spell that binds you
Prayers like ammonites
Curl beneath the lights
How I long to
Bite any hand that feeds you more
Where d'it all go wrong
My Friday night enfant
Where d'it all go wrong
My Friday night enfant
All night buzz on a line
It's only blood on the rime
Wrecks my head every time
It leads me on
Where d'it all go wrong
My Friday night enfant
Where d'it all go wrong
My Friday night enfant
Tonight tonight
Tonight I'm running wild I'm running
Tonight I'm running wild I'm running
Tonight I'm running wild I'm running
Tonight I'm running wild I'm running
Tonight I'm running wild
Sail Away
Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hand
Sail away with me honey now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now, now, now
Crazy skies are wild above me now
Winter howling at my face
And everything I held so dear
Disappeared without a trace
Oh all the times I've tasted love
Never knew quite what I had
Little darlin' if you hear me now
Never needed you so bad
Spinning 'round inside my head
Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hand
Sail away with me honey now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now, now, now
I've been talking drunken gibberish
Falling in and out the bars
Trying to get some explanation here
For the way some people are
How did it ever come so far
Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hand
Sail away with me honey now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now, now, now
Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hand
Sail away with me honey now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now, now, now
Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hand
You break me up if you hold me down, woaaah.
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now, now , now
(Whistling out to end)
Shine (Live)
I can see it in your eyes
What I know in my heart is true
That our love it has faded
Like the summer run through
And we'll walk down the shoreline
One last time together
Feel the wind blow our wanderin' hearts
Like a feather
But who nows what's waiting
In the wings of time
Dry your eyes
We gotta go where we can shine
Don't be hiding in sorrow
Or clinging to the past
With your beauty so precious
And the season so fast
No matter how cold the horizon appear
Or how far the first night
When I held you near
You gotta rise from these ashes
Like a bird of flame
Take my hand
We've gotta go where we can shine
For all that we struggle
For all we pretend
It don't come down to nothing
Except love in the end
And ours is a road
That is strewn with goodbyes
But as it unfolds
As is all unwinds
Remember your soul is the one thing
You just can't compromise
Step out of the shadow
We're gonna go where we can shine
We're gonna go where we can shine
We're gonna go where we can shine
(and look, and look)
Through the windows of midnight
Moonfoam and silver
Caroline
Caroline
Those crazy eyes that shine
The days blowing through my mind
Like falling leaves
It ain't no good
I tried hard as I could
But you just won't let
My poor heart be
The final war
A steel eyed dinosaur
Girl I want you more
Than I can say
But Caroline
It seems like everytime
Honey all I get is further away
The state I'm in
Got goosebumps on my skin
See the water I'll jump right in
Your heart so free
I'll face the facts
It's paper on the cracks
Girl till I got you right
Back here with me
The final war
A steel eyed dinosaur
Girl I need you more
Than I can say
But Caroline
It seems like everytime
Honey all I get is further away
Honey all I get is further away
Woooooo!
The final war
A steel eyed dinosaur
Girl I want you more
Than I can say
Ah but Caroline
It seems like everytime
Honey all I get is further away
Honey all I get is further
and further
and further away
The Other Side
Meet me on the other side
Meet me on the other side
I'll see you on the other side
See you on the other side
Honey now if I'm honest
I still don't know what love is
Another mirage folds into the haze of time recalled
And now the floodgates cannot hold
All my sorrow all my rage
A teardrop falls on every page
Meet me on the other side
Meet me on the other side
Maybe I oughta mention
It was never my intention
To harm you or your kin
Are you so scared to look within
The ghosts are crawling on our skin
We may race and we may run
We'll not undo what has been done
Or change the moment when it's gone
Meet me on the other side
Meet me on the other side
I'll see you on the other side
I'll see you on the other side
I know it would be outrageous
To come on all courageous
And offer you my hand
To pull you up on to dry land
When all I got is sinking sand
The trick ain't worth the time it buys
I'm sick of hearing my own lies
And love's a raven when it flies
Meet me on the other side
Meet me on the other side
I'll see you on the other side
I'll see you on the other side
Honey now if I'm honest
I still don't know what love is
Flame Turns Blue
I went looking for someone I left behind
Yeah but no-one just a stranger did I find
I never noticed hadn't seen it as it grew
The void between us where the flame turns blue
Different places yeah but they all look the same
Dreams of faces in the streets devoured by names
I'm in collision with every stone I ever threw
And blind ambition where the flame turns blue
Words dismantled hey and all the books unbound
Conversations though we utter not a sound
I heard a rumour don't know if it's true
That you'd meet me where the flame turns blue
So I venture underneath the leaden sky
See the freight train with its one fierce eye
And then I listen as it tears the night in two
And a whistle and the flame turns blue
In the morning I will sing
In the morning I will sing
Through the lemon trees the diamonds of light
Break in splinters on the pages where I write
That if I lost you I don't know what I'd do
Burn forever where the flame turns blue
Yeah if I lost you I don't know what I'd do
Burn forever where the flame turns blue
In the morning I will sing In the morning I will sing
In the morning I will sing
In the morning I will sing
Destroyer
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 vision of Goya
The silent destroyer
They're raising your body 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 to feed it
They're raising your body from the ground