David Gray - Mutineers Album Lyrics

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Back In The World

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

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As The Crow Flies

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

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Mutineers

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

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Beautiful Agony

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

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Last Summer

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

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Snow In Vegas

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

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Cake And Eat It

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

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Birds Of The High Arctic

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

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The Incredible

(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)

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Girl Like You

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

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Gulls

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