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About Nick Drake
Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 β 25 November 1974) was an English folk singer-songwriter and musician.
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βAnd now we rise
And we are everywhere.β
And we are everywhere.β
βWhen the day is done,
Down to earth then sinks the sun,
Along with everything that was lost and won,
When the day is done.β
Down to earth then sinks the sun,
Along with everything that was lost and won,
When the day is done.β
βPlease tell me your second name.
Please play me your second game.
I've fallen so far
For the people you are.
I just need your star for a day.β
Please play me your second game.
I've fallen so far
For the people you are.
I just need your star for a day.β
βThe world hums on at its breakneck pace;
People fly in their lifelong race.
For them there's a future to find,
But I think they're leaving me behind.β
People fly in their lifelong race.
For them there's a future to find,
But I think they're leaving me behind.β
βPlease give me a second grace.
Please give me a second face.
I've fallen far down
The first time around.
Now I just sit on the ground in your way.β
Please give me a second face.
I've fallen far down
The first time around.
Now I just sit on the ground in your way.β
βSafe in the womb of an everlasting night,
You find the darkness can give the brightest light.
Safe in your place deep in the earth,
That's when they'll know what you were really worth.β
You find the darkness can give the brightest light.
Safe in your place deep in the earth,
That's when they'll know what you were really worth.β
βGoing to see the river man.
Going to tell him all I can
About the ban
On feeling free.
Going to tell him all I can
About the ban
On feeling free.
If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows,
I don't suppose
It's meant for me.β
βGoing to see the river man,
Going to tell him all I can
About the plan
For lilac time.
If he tells me all he knows
'Bout the way his river flows,
And all night shows
In summertime.β
Going to tell him all I can
About the plan
For lilac time.
If he tells me all he knows
'Bout the way his river flows,
And all night shows
In summertime.β
βLife is but a memory,
Happened long ago.
Theatre full of sadness
For a long forgotten show.
Seems so easy
Just to let it go on by
Till you stop and wonder
Why you never wondered why.β
Happened long ago.
Theatre full of sadness
For a long forgotten show.
Seems so easy
Just to let it go on by
Till you stop and wonder
Why you never wondered why.β
βWould you love me for my money?
Would you love me for my head?
Would you love me through the winter?
Would you love me 'til I'm dead?
Oh, if you would and you could,
Come blow your horn on high.β
Would you love me for my head?
Would you love me through the winter?
Would you love me 'til I'm dead?
Oh, if you would and you could,
Come blow your horn on high.β
βHave you seen the land living by the breeze?
Can you understand the lights upon the trees?
Tell me all that you may know
Show me what you have to show
Tell us all today if you know the way to blue...β
Can you understand the lights upon the trees?
Tell me all that you may know
Show me what you have to show
Tell us all today if you know the way to blue...β
βI never felt magic crazy as this,
Never saw moons, knew the meaning of the sea,
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand,
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree,
But now you're here.
Brighten my northern sky.β
Never saw moons, knew the meaning of the sea,
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand,
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree,
But now you're here.
Brighten my northern sky.β
βI could have been a sailor, could have been a cook,
A real live lover, could have been a book,
I could have been a signpost, could have been a clock,
As simple as a kettle, steady as a rock.
I could be here and now,
I would be, I should be, but how?
I could have been one of these things first.β
A real live lover, could have been a book,
I could have been a signpost, could have been a clock,
As simple as a kettle, steady as a rock.
I could be here and now,
I would be, I should be, but how?
I could have been one of these things first.β
βFame is but a fruit tree:
So very unsound.
It can never flourish
Till its stalk is in the ground.
So men of fame
Can never find a way
Till time has flown
Far from their dying day.
Forgotten while you're here,
Remembered for a while.
A much updated ruin
From a much outdated style.β
So very unsound.
It can never flourish
Till its stalk is in the ground.
So men of fame
Can never find a way
Till time has flown
Far from their dying day.
Forgotten while you're here,
Remembered for a while.
A much updated ruin
From a much outdated style.β
βDo you curse where you come from?
Do you swear in the night?
Will it mean much to you
If I treat you right?
Do you like what you're doing?
Would you do it some more?
Or will you stop once and wonder
What you're doing it for?
Hey slow Jane, make sense.
Slow, slow, Jane, cross the fence.β
Do you swear in the night?
Will it mean much to you
If I treat you right?
Do you like what you're doing?
Would you do it some more?
Or will you stop once and wonder
What you're doing it for?
Hey slow Jane, make sense.
Slow, slow, Jane, cross the fence.β
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The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock on Nick Drake
βSince Nick Drake's death, his eerie, jazz-tinged folk music has had an ever-growing cult following.β
Rob Power of on Nick Drake
βEven if youβd never heard of Nick Drake, his music would tell you everything you needed to know. The tragic singer-songwriter was in possession of a singular vision and dedication to his art that produced some of the most affecting acoustic music ever recorded. Drakeβs melancholy moods and labyrinthine tunings twisted longstanding English folk traditions into mesmerising new shapes. Never a note out of place, and never a song that didnβt need to be sung.β
About Nick Drake
Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 β 25 November 1974) was an English folk singer-songwriter and musician.