B i o g r a p h y (by Official Website)
Lisa Hannigan started her singing career at the age of 6 as the fairy on top of the Christmas tree in the school play. Although she still remembers three quarters of the words she is no longer convincing as a fairy. On the long car journeys down to west cork for summer holidays she sang the backing vocals to her mothers' front seat Joni Mitchell and Nina Simone and to this day knows all of the words to Paul Simon's Graceland and the Queen back catalogue. The first record that Lisa ever bought was Michael Jackson's Bad. Although in those days it was called a tape. She sang and danced along until the tape wore out, not only improving her singing but also affirming her lifelong dedication to the art of uncoordinated dancing, believing strongly in the scientific correlation between the amount of fun had to the stupidity of the dance moves. Lisa then spent many years singing in choirs and musical choruses in school, all the while taping songs off the radio. After hearing a recording of Maria Callas singing "The Bell Song" from Delibe's Lakme (a cd at this point), she became fixated with the idea of learning how to sing like her. After a few years of study and development she realised that her chances of playing a consumptive operatic heroine were severely hampered by both her naturally quiet voice and her insatiable love of cake. The former could be helped by a microphone; the latter could not be helped at all. A chance meeting with singer songwriter Damien Rice led to a long period of collaboration and development. Lisa spent the next few years touring the world, meeting wonderful musicians and friends, writing songs, forgetting then remembering how to ride a bike, contributing backing vocals on many friends records, including the Frames and Mic Christopher, singing with the legendary Herbie Hancock and gradually finding her voice, needing the microphone less and less. When this collaboration came to an end after seven years, Lisa was left with a notebook of songs and the desire and confidence to put them onto a record. Gathering a talented band of friends together, including Tom Osander on drums, Shane Fitzsimons on double bass and Donagh Molloy on trumpet, they got to work. After a few months demoing and working through the arrangements, Lisa and her band, rehearsed and full of coffee and cake, went to the Cauldron studios in Dublin and spent fourteen days putting them on tape. Starting early in the morning, the band spent their days down in the basement studio, playing glockenspiels and harmoniums, violins and organs, trumpets and guitars, and sang until they were hoarse, emerging in the small hours to stagger home to sleep. Friends contributions punctuated the long days, including Gavin Glass on piano, Lucy Wilkins on violin and Vyvienne Long on cello. Together with engineer Jason Boshoff, Lisa and the band marked off their contributions on a blackboard, until they were left with a record both warm and creaky, sparse and full. Jason Boshoff then took the record home with him to London where he, Lisa and Tomo mixed it in the Strongroom in the east end. Lisa's mother Frances began knitting in preparation for the cover artwork. After spending a happy month stitching the lyrics onto rough cotton, and picking out the many references to the sea in the lyrics, Lisa decided to call the album Sea Sew. Lille is the first single to be taken from the album. It's a story set to guitar, harmonium, glockenspiel, double bass and pizzicato strings and features beautiful backing vocals from Cathy Davey. It is the last song on the record but the first to come together in the demo stages with a cohesive sound and it is full of hope and optimism. Lisa will be taking her songs on tour during August and September including a very special show at Electric Picnic before she sets off with her full band to support Jason Mraz on 42 dates of his North American Tour.
Click HERE For Lisa songs Lyrics with Damien Rice
Apparatchik At The Chime Of A City Clock Banríon Mo Chroí Beginner's Mind Black-Eyed Dog Blue Moon Blurry Braille Do You Realize Don't Explain Eyes Out For You Falling Slowly Flowers Free Until They Cut Me Down Get On The Road Get The Party Started Ghost Of Christmas Past Glory Box Hallelujah Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Helpless Here comes the sun Hutch Hushabye Mountain I Came So Far For Beauty I Don't Know What We're Fighting For If It Be Your Will I Need A Dollar I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl Josephine Last Leaf Lille (French Version) Martha Moon River
Sea Sew
Ocean And A Rock What you at my gentle spoken friend I lack a frame to put you in When you're an ocean and a rock away I feel you in the pocket of my overcoat My fingers wrap around your words And take the shape of games we play I feed your words through my buttonholes I pin them to my fingerless gloves Green and prone to fraying Thoughts of you, warm my bones I'm on the way, I'm on the phone Let's get lost, me and you An ocean and a rock is nothing to me Now I am far away from where you lay Awake the day while you fall to sleep An ocean and a rock away I keep you in the pockets of my dresses And the bristles of my brushes Spin you into my curls today I spoon you into my coffee cup Spin you through a delicate wash I wear you all day I wear you all day Thoughts of you warm my bones I'm on my way, I'm on the phone Let's get lost, me and you An ocean and a rock is nothing to me Thoughts of you, you warm my bones I'm on the way, I'm nearly home Let's get lost, me and you An ocean and a rock is nothing to me Venn Diagram I have lost you to sleep again Sleeping as we do On opposite sides of a venn diagram I read the time In shadows on your wall The shards of light Through the slats on your window I ease myself from under your languid arm I fumble on my boots And hear you breathe through your alarm And I disarm it for you You rarely heed it anyway I wouldn't want it to intrude upon your dream School bell ring messing up the play A note, penned clumsily In this century's type-ruined hand Saying gone down the shops for a walk I'll bring back some sandwiches And then I kiss your face The black and the blue I tie it into my laces I don't want the wander blocking up the view I stumble out into the afternoon I still salty from drink And the late night pool And I'll be gone an hour at most And you'll be more diagonal And I've a head on me in the post I know, a castle swallowed in the swell
Sea Song There's one man He's like the wishful thinking in my life I see so And he's like the wine on the weekend And though he is like the sea And it's right he be so If I hold tight he'll wash over me There's one girl I like She's a smile on a Monday And she'll fight to stay so And she's like the sun on the weekend And though she is like the sea And she's right to be so I like that she sails with me Didn't we all break down Didn't we all fake Isn't it alright now Didn't we all break out There's one man so bright He blocks the light And he'll always be so He's like no sleep on the weekend And though he is like the sea And he's right to be so If I hold tight I sink down deep Didn't we all break down Didn't we all fake Isn't it all right now Didn't we all break out And though we are like the sea And it's right we be so We could chase tails All the years I've been given Splishy Splashy Surface slowly At your own speed Waiting for some sky We're all laughing We're all faking Just to see you smile She waits her turn She waits her time And all her love It sings, it shines Have your coffee Splishy splashy Frozen up the stairs Hollow but so Normal when she Needs a piece of care She waits her turn She waits her time And all her love It sings, it shines She's breaking She's mending She's floating She's breaking I don't know I don't know what you smoke Or what countries you've been to If you speak any other languages Other than your own I'd like to meet you I don't know if you drive If you love the ground beneath you I don't know if you write letters Or you panic on the phone I'd like to call you all the same If you want to, I am game I don't know if you can swim If the sea has any draw for you If you're better in the morning Or when the sun goes down I'd like to call you I don't know if you can dance If the thought ever occurred to you If you eat what you've been given Or you push it round your plate I'd like to cook for you all the same I would want to, I am game If you walk my way I could keep my head We could creep away In the dark or maybe not We could shoot it down anyway I don't know if you read novels or the magazines If you love the hand that feeds you I assume that your heart's been bruised I'd like to know you You don't know if I can draw at all Or what records I am into If I sleep like a spoon Or rarely at all Or maybe you would do Or maybe you would do If you walk my way I will keep my head We will feel our way Through the dark Though I don't know you I think that I would do I don't fall easy at all If you walk my way I will keep my head We will feel our way Through the dark Though I don't know you I think that I would do I don't fall easy at all
Keep It All For you, we steer a house of smoke And brick and I keep it all For you, bedecked with bicycles To pick and I keep it all For you, it wouldn't do wandering all adrift So I keep it all For you, there's fire in the belly of our ship I keep it all, I keep it all I keep it all Call if the lights on Come in and lay low Just so that you know Go on and fall down And hold your ground A harbour that grows And how could you know That I keep it all For you we fill our sails with tales and fables I keep it all For you, to bear you through stormy seas unstable And I keep it all For you, you're welcome to all that's on my table I keep it all And you, I count you til I fall asleep I keep it all, I keep it all I, I, I keep it all I keep it all Call if the lights on Come in and lay low Just so that you know And go on and fall down And hold your ground A harbour that grows And how could you know That I keep it all I keep it all I, I keep it all I keep it all, I keep it all I keep it all I, I, I keep it all I keep it all What you say We come up with the sun The morning bell to come And be my friend Until the end I'll be your friend As well I keep it all Go on and fall Go on and fall I keep it all Courting Blues (written by Bert Jansch) Green are your eyes In the morning when you rise Don't you be afraid to lie By me, my love Your father will not know Love can be broken Though no words are spoken Don't you be afraid to lie By me, my love Your father will not know Love, don't cry I'll never try Don't you be afraid to lie By me, my love Your father will not know Green are your eyes In the morning when you rise Don't you be afraid to lie By me, my love Your father will be told someday About our wedding day
Pistachio Sit down, and fire away I know it's tricky when you're feeling low When you feel like your flavour has gone The way of a pre-shelled pistachio I know you're weighed down And fed up with your heavy boots Laced with melancholy Notions all your own I do, like sugar, tend toward the brittle I'm sticky when spun And I know my demeanor can go the way Of a photo left out in the sun And I try to keep myself in lilies And flax seeds Oh what a folly of fooling just yourself Sit down and smoke away I wouldn't knock it til you're in them shoes And watch as our subtlety blows away As a blush it gives way to a bruise But seemly we'd freely make a trade off A dry rot to take the weight off And swap the boots for red shoes Teeth Waking up today It was cold out There's something I should say But I can't get my head Around the bends in your brain And your elaborate pain Makes me tired As an old balloon I hold my breath Like a penance paid too soon With too much eagerness To know what is true When air is changed by you It makes it hard I don't know where it comes from Where to go When the rains come When the rain Put me back in the bottle Where the sea meets the sun When the bones and their rattle Don't mean anything to no-one I, I had a swing When my salt was my own I'd my teeth bared for battle Til love lost made me dull It made me dull It made me dull Oh put me back in the bottle Where the sea meets the sun When the bones and their rattle They don't mean anything to no-one And I had a swing When my salt was my own I'd my teeth bared for battle Til love lost made me dull It made me dull It made me dull Lille He went to sea for the day He wanted to know What to say When he's asked what he'd done In the past to someone That he loves endlessly Now she's gone So is he I went to war every morning I lost my way but now I'm following What you said in my arms What I read in the charms That I love durably Now it's dead and gone And I am free I went to sleep for the daytime I shut my eyes to the sunshine Turned my head away from the noise Bruise and drip decay of childish toys That I loved arguably All our labouring gone to seed We went out to play for the evening We wanted to hold on to the feeling And the stretch in the sun And our breathlessness as we run To the beach endlessly As the sun creeps up on the sea
Passenger
Home Home, so far from home So far to go And we've only just begun Oh, every lie we told Is written in stone Every lie we wrote on our bones Hold on, there's nothing to pack We know we're not coming back Oh, every promise that we broke Is sewn to our clothes Now we are pinned to the wind I suppose Oh, every falling flake of snow It has to give in Oh but we spin and we spin and we spin Hold on, there's nothing to pack Lay your heart out, we're not coming back A Sail It's long gone, that carry on from December It is no matter, if you remember Mulled paper bagged wine And too much bedside whiskey I will roll my heart up I will roll my heart up in my sleeve Now it is your line, I know that I wrote it If you tell a lie, no one will notice And of you and I, I was the loudest While you stayed quiet, we were surrounded It's long gone our carry on from the winter I asked you upstairs And two we tangled in my hair You were never one for chronic chattering Your heart beat pale While I flew my colours I flew my colours like a sail Now it is your line, I know that I wrote it If you tell a lie, no one will notice And of you and I, I was the loudest While you stayed quiet, we were surrounded Knots It was early in the morning We were sitting on the stoop There wheeled away a starling And I thought that I would too Oh for all I knew I was lost through and through In my high heels and my old dress With my new keys in the wrong city I tie the knots to remember in my heart So I choke and I sputter to a stop I am a borrower and lender of the lot I walk away asleep And chalk an outline round the scene This shadow play of whiskey talk A heavy denier dream Oh let it be, I was lost in him and me In my high heels and my old dress With my new keys in the wrong city I tie the knots to remember in my heart So I choke and I sputter to a stop I am a borrower and lender of the lot What'll I Do What'll I do without you around My words wont pun, my pennies won't pound Oh and my Frisbee flies to the ground What'll I do without you What'll I say without you to talk to No one to serve or volley the ball to You write the words but I miss the volume What'll I say without you Oh I don't know what to do with myself Now that I'm here and you're gone What'll I do when you've gone away My ball wont pin, my records won't play And all of my hours limp into days What'll I do without you What'll I do now that you're gone My boat won't row, my bus doesn't come I have the fingers, you've got the thumb What'll I do without you Oh I don't know what to do with myself Now that I'm here and you're gone O Sleep O Sleep, come for me, I will go quietly Where the roof doesn't leak in my heart O Sleep, come for me I'm a boat, sprung a leak I'll hide and you'll seek a new start For me, until dawn, I’ll be too gone To care how grey the day is The dreams that it chases away They stay asleep O Sleep, come for me, I will come willingly Like a leaf from a tree in October O Sleep, come for me, I wait hopefully I was drunk on a dream, now I'm sober From now until dawn It can't be too long for me I count the hours 'Til I sleep with your feet by my feet Your breath on my cheek, asleep Paper House We lended our heavy hearts Motors with broken parts We had a deck of cards it was a start We'd sit out in the sun And wait for our skin to turn You would ask for truth And I would look for something to burn Oh we walked in a hallowed place back then The edge of Dublin, the edge of May and June Oh to live in a paper house again Where we grew by the light of the moon Often we took the train The sky pacing white to grey When you or I would leave And the other would stay We were all that we had And breathed in each others words I would ask for truth and You'd look for something to burn Oh we walked in a hallowed place back then The edge of Dublin, the edge of May and June Oh to live in a paper house again Where we grew by the light of the moon You were much younger then Younger than I am now I still keep as much an eye as the wires allow I still keep as much an eye as the wires allow Oh we walked in a hallowed place back then The edge of Dublin, the edge of May and June Oh to live in a paper house again Where we grew by the light of the moon Oh you know what you are to me And you know you will always be Little Bird Your heart sings like a kettle And your words, they boil away like steam A lie burns long while the truth bites quick A heart is built for both it seems You are lonely as a church Despite the queuing out your door I am empty as a promise, no more When the time comes And rights have been read I think of you often But for once I meant what I said I was salted by your hunger Now you've gone and lost your appetite And a little bird is every bit as handy in a fight I am lonely as a memory Despite the gathering round the fire Aren't you every bird on every wire When the time comes And rights have been read I think of you often But for once I meant what I said Here I stay, I lay me down In a house by the Hill Dug from the rubble, cut from the kill
Passenger Walking round Chicago I have smuggled you as cargo Though you are far away unknowing By the time we get to Salt Lake I have packed you in my suitcase Ironed the creases from my own remembering She said Bird, why We wound our way to Texas Where I summoned remote hexes And I sent them across dust and oceans In Phoenix, Arizona I had the notion I might phone you But there it lived and died, a notion She said Bird, why I said Bird, why Oh my satellite, oh my passenger. We came up on Ohio I have you chewed on like a biro You are a sum I am no closer to deciphering We came to Minneapolis All fizzy blood and twitchy fists I buried you in a day of snowing She said Bird, why I said Bird, why Oh my satellite, oh my passenger Safe Travels (Don't Lie) Please eat your greens And don't sit close to screens Your eyes are a means to an end And I would be sorry if, due to your hurry You were hit by a lorry my friend Like you always say Safe travels, don't die, don't die Safe travels, don't die Don't walk on ice, no matter how nice How sturdy, enticing it seems Please cross at the lights And don't start fires or fights and Don't dabble in heights on caffeine Like you always say Safe travels, don't die, don't die Safe travels, don't die Don't swallow bleach Out on Sandymount beach I'm not sure I'd reach you in time my boy Please don't bungee jump Or ignore a strange lump And a gasoline pump's not a toy Like you always say Safe travels, don't die, don't die Safe travels, don't die Nowhere To Go Bird, you've so many hearts on your sleeve One for each feather Though you never see Blue eyes blink bright lights Through leaves on the trees From seeds that did grow where you sowed You'll never have nowhere to go Look at this silver and gold Shook through a tangle of thorns Bird, we've so many days spent beside This sulk of a river Now we're deep down dyed Into the marrow, out with the tide With all that you have and I hold You'll never have nowhere to go Your heart, it holds more than your hands Not bought or sold, more than mountains Look at this silver and gold You'll never have nowhere to go
At Swim
Fall Hide your horses, hold your tongue Hang the rich and spare the young Who drain the spirits from the jars Hop the fences, steal the cars Run on fumes and from the north And burn for us right through the fall Harbour ladies call your names Brush your hair like it could be tamed Hitch their dresses past their knees Spill them to the floor like keys They swing the bridges one and all And burn for us right through the fall Copy, paste, you lose All our running All our running All our running All our running Time will seize the captain's wheel A mutiny we've come to feel When where we're aiming's gone from view With everything we thought to do Oh, the devil won't have me I wonder who will, I wonder who will All our running is a crawl And burns for us right through the fall All our running, all our running All our running, all our running All our running, all our running All our running, all our running Prayer For The Dying A prayer for the dying For the waves coming in And washing the edges The edges away from within Copy, paste, you lose Your heart My heart Your heart My heart A prayer for the dying For the sun coming up To fill all the corners So misunderstood Of your heart My heart Your heart My heart Snow Heading from city to sea Just you and me Boots creaking quietly We would never be here again Watching the snow falling down Watching the city lose colour and sound And we were looking To find in the feather sky The contour line from summer To Christmas time For the what, for the when When you were the snow falling down When I was the city losing colour and sound When we were Sunk like treasure Sunk like treasure Sunk like treasure Sunk like treasure Heading from city to sea One facing east One looking westerly We would never come back again Watching the snow falling down Watching the city lose colour and sound And we were Copy, paste, you lose Sunk like treasure Sunk like treasure Sunk like treasure Sunk like treasure Watching the snow falling down Watching the city lose colour and sound And we were Sunk like treasure Sunk like treasure Sunk like treasure Sunk like treasure Lo Every night of late I'm wide awake I'm wide awake Because I feel, feel, feel That every last mistake That I have made, that I have made Has me in piece, piece, pieces I smile to your face And it is A lie just the same As if I I washed it all away And I showed My empty plate With every hour that passes I try, I try to tell myself What I know, know, know That nights are only ashes Of days gone by burned Black and broke, broke, broken I smile to your face And it is A lie just the same As if I I washed it all away And I showed My empty plate I wear them on my skin Ahead when I begin To run I chase until it follows Copy, paste, you lose I smile to your face And it is A lie just the same As if I I washed it all away And I showed My empty plate And I smile to your face And it is A lie just the same As if I I washed it all away And I showed My empty plate Undertow I want to swim in your current Carry me out, up and away I want to float On every word you say I want to be underneath your weather Every cloud and ray of sun I want to float In between every one In between every one I want to sink down like a stone You never lost me you never broke I want to be adrift on your radio Oh take me under, take me home I want to be, all of a sudden Every wave and undertow I want to float Everywhere I go Everywhere I go Everywhere I go Everywhere I go I want to sink down like a stone You never lost me you never broke I want to be adrift on your radio Oh take me under, take me home Copy, paste, you lose I want to sink down like a stone You never lost me you never broke I want to be adrift on your radio Oh take me under, take me home I want to sink down like a stone You never lost me you never broke I want to be adrift on your radio Oh take me under, take me home I want to sink down like a stone You never lost me you never broke I want to be adrift on your radio Oh take me under, take me home Ora I was adrift and Caught in the ropes Under a pinhole sky Blowing off course I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Bleach me to silver Under the moon Pulling the water round And me to you I'm going home I'm going home Won't you come with me Won't you come with me You'll be the boat and I'll be the sea Won't you come with me Won't you come with me We, The Drowned We, the drowned Hold our hollow hearted ground Til we swallow ourselves down Again I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake We, the ashes We spend our days like matches And we burned ourselves as black as The end, the end The end, the end We know not the fire in which we burn But we sing and we sing And the flames grow higher We read not the pages which we turn But we sing and we sing and we sing and we sing We, the wrong We the sewn up and long gone Were before and all along Like this, like this Like this, like this We, the drowned The lost and found out We are all finished Again, again, again Anahorish My "Place Of Clear Water" The first hill in the world Where springs washed into The shiny grass I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake And darkened cobbles In the bed of the lane Anahorish, soft gradient Of consonant, vowel-meadow After-image of lamps Swung through the yards On winter evenings With pails and barrows Those mound-dwellers Go waist-deep in mist To break the light ice At wells and dunghills Tender Tender as a loose tooth Askew at the root My love You came up swinging Every morning Through it all Tender is a kiss While the dancers dip and twist Under lights in the darkness We take the long way round again I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Tender, as a shadow So fast to follow A swallow to the summer Tethered, like a mirror image A cup and string message One to the other Tender is a kiss While the dancers dip and twist Under lights in the darkness We take the long way round again You came up swinging Every morning Through it all Tender is a kiss While the dancers dip and twist Under lights in the darkness We take the long way round again Funeral Suit He came by in his funeral suit In an open hearted shade of blue Asked me what I like to do On a July evening I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake To bermondsey or to shoreditch I said I don't know which is which The night a thread for him to stitch For me, the unbelieving In the end we just stay in And gesture with our mugs of gin Dance around this borrowed kitchen A stop and start dumb snow I am a cold filament We advance in tender increments Between the past and future tense Test the weight of both Barton Same as always it begins Heard a knock and let it in This is just the medicine To swallow I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake I'll be on my own awhile Smiling like a crocodile You can see for miles and miles It follows Broken as it Broken as it is This is a love Broken as it Broken as it is This is a love I don't remember where I was Heavy is as heavy does Weighed me down because, because It's hollow Broken as it Broken as it is This is a love Broken as it Broken as it is This is a love
Non Albums Tracks
Apparatchik (Printer Clips with Lisa Hannigan / Printer Clips LP) House always wins So don't cry, cry Down like water Down like sand Got to try 'Cause I, I am an old dog This is a new trick I won't look down, down Apparatchik Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better These are the punches that we roll with This is the shit When it's so much easier to stomach it I'm downwind of you Black berets and blue jeans A wry smile, a smile From the glue For your tip tape I get high, high All these cars Have lost their soul In the race for the prize, compromise Apparatchik These are the punches that we roll with This is the shit When it's so much easier to stomach it And I'm downwind of you 'Cause you give good odour And you raise my game From this high rise hoping You steal my gains Stuck together with traffic jams Sweaty palms Apparatchik These are the punches that we roll with This is the shit When it's so much easier to stomach it I'm downwind of you Laugh now but one day we'll be in charge Laugh now but one day we'll be in charge Laugh now but one day we'll be in charge Laugh now but one day we'll be in charge Laugh now but one day we'll be in charge Laugh now but one day we'll be in charge Laugh now but one day we'll be in charge Laugh now but one day we'll be in charge
At The Chime Of A City Clock (Nick Drake cover / Live at "The Songs Of Nick Drake: Way To Blue") A city freeze Get on your knees Pray for warmth and green paper A city drought You're down and out See your trousers don't taper Saddle up Kick your feet Ride the range of a London street Travel to a local plane Turn around and come back again And at the chime of the city clock Put up your road block And hang on to your crown For a stone in a tin can Is wealth to the city man Who leaves his armour down Stay indoors Beneath the floors Talk with neighbours only The games you play Make people say You're either weird or lonely A city star Won't shine too far On account of the way you are And the beads Around your face Make you sure to fit back in place And at the beat of the city drum See how your friends come in twos Or threes or more For the sound of a busy place Is fine for a pretty face Who knows what a face is for The city clown Will soon fall down Without a face to hide in And he will lose If he won't choose The one he may confide in Sonny boy With smokes for sale Went to ground with a face so pale And never heard About the change Showed his hand and fell out of range In the light of a city square Find out the face that's fair Keep it by your side When the light of the city falls You fly to the city walls Take off with your bride But at the chime of a city clock Put up your road block Hang on to your crown For a stone in a tin can Is wealth to the city man Who leaves his armour down Who leaves his armour down
Banríon Mo Chroí ( Mary Janes/Mic Christopher Cover of "Queen of Hearts" - Ceol 06 LP ) Uisce a’ teacht a’ breathnú orm Ag fanacht siar Ag fanacht siar ar dhuine Uisce a’ teacht a’ breathnú orm Ag feitheamh, ag feitheamh ar dhuine éigin. Ós do chomhair an saol ‘tá thart Is mise tréigthe san am fadó Ag caitheamh ama go mall réidh Ag fiafraí díom “Cén fáth, cén fáth?” Ar chuaigh siad thart i ngan fhios dom Nó an dall atáim? De bharr an t-uisce ... Ní fhacamar an téacs bhí romhainn Níor thomhaiseamar céard bhí le teacht Ag sciobadh linn aislingí ár dtodhchaí Is chuireamar amach faoin ngrian iad Nocht, mar rabhchán do ‘chuile dhuine A rinne faillí Tar a mhic, is mar seo atá sé Mar chailín cúthail faiteach Nó athrú aimsire geimhridh Mar chúis le briseadh chroí Is a bhanríon mo chroí Le mo smaointe aoibhne áille Imithe i bhfad uaim Is mé buartha le h-Uisce a‘ teacht... Is mé ag feithimh Ag feitheamh Le banríon mo chroí
Beginner's Mind (Unreleased / Live) This is my beginner's mind Asking to be still And this is where the body finds And lets go all its will Don't ever change Did I just say The light upon your face Drawing colour through the day Leaving me in place Leaving me in place And this has all been made by hand I'd given it my name And sent it to discover land To raise both roof and Cain Oh love return Did I command To your closing door As its long shadow hand Sweeps my empty floor Sweeps my empty floor My yesterday Rushing by and free Disguise its face Lays down next to me The wind it speaks into the bell Rattling its tongue And calling thundercloud as will And you and I to run Oh shelter here Did you just say Disappearing through The trees that groan and sway When now I follow you When now I follow you My yesterday Rushing by and free Disguised its face And lays down next to me And lays down next to me And lays down next to me
Black-Eyed Dog (Nick Drake cover / Way To Blue: The Songs Of Nick Drake LP) Black-eyed dog, he called at my door Black-eyed dog, he called for more Black-eyed dog, he knew my name A black-eyed dog, he knew my name Black-eyed dog A black-eyed dog I'm growing old and I wanna go home I'm growing old and I don't wanna know I'm growing old and I wanna go home Black-eyed dog A black-eyed dog Black-eyed dog A black-eyed dog I'm growing old and I wanna go home And I'm growing old and I don't wanna know I'm growing old, I wanna go home I'm growing old and I don't wanna know Black-eyed dog, he called at my door Black-eyed dog, he called for more I'm growing old and I wanna go home I'm growing old and I don't wanna know I'm growing old and I wanna go home I'm growing old and I don't want to know
Blue Moon ( Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart / Live KCRW ) Blue moon You saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love on my own Blue moon You knew just what I was there for You heard me saying a prayer for Someone I really could care for And then there suddenly appeared before me The only one my arms could ever hold I heard somebody whisper, "Please adore me" When I looked the moon had turned to gold Blue moon You saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love on my own Blue moon You knew just what I was there for You heard me saying a prayer for Someone I really could care for And then there suddenly appeared before me The only one my arms could ever hold I heard somebody whisper, "Please adore me" When I looked the moon had turned to gold Blue moon, Now I'm no longer alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love on my own Love on my own Love on my own Love on my own
Blurry ( Live / Other voices ) Blurry like a railroad journey You get down, so You need the music that enrings You got someone in your hand Another in your mistiness And several in your open arms Sometime, sometime Maybe you’ll pin nothing else on me I get down sometimes And I am perforated plenty It’s you on the train You don’t know where you’re heading to Or even where you started out from No-one ever talks to me like you do I don’t like what you say, but at least it’s true No, yeah…
Braille (b-side) For you, I leave my light on To do it's best against the storm And you came in like the tide and I knew that we could keep each other warm. You bring crocosmia and fuschias And I, I sing your name into the night A king of salt and stones, your compass It swings from you to me tonight We’ll swim without a word between us Our breath held in We reel in love in the ocean Braille on our skin, on our skin I fill a glass with what you’ve gathered They wilt against the window pane In the morning sees you off with nets to scatter You will come in with the tide again We swim without a word between us Our breath held in We read enough in the rush of Braille on our skin, on our skin We swim without a word between us Our breath held in We read enough in the rush of Braille on our skin, on our skin
Do You Realize (The Flaming Lips cover / Lisa Hannigan feat. Gavin Glass / Live on Today FM) Do you realize That you have the most beautiful face Do you realize We're floating in space Do you realize That happiness makes you cry Do you realize That everyone you know someday will die And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know You realize that life goes fast It's hard to make the good things last You realize the sun don't go down It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round Do you realize Do you realize That everyone you know someday will die And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know You realize that life goes fast It's hard to make the good things last You realize the sun don't go down It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round Do you realize You have the most beautiful face
Don't Explain ( Billie Holiday Cover - Performed with Herbie Hancock ) Hush now, don't explain There ain't nothing to gain Well I'm glad that you're back But don't explain Quiet baby, don't explain You know there ain't nothing to gain Skip that lipstick Don't explain You know that I love you And what love endures All my thoughts are of you I am so completely yours Don't wanna hear nobody chatter 'Cause I know you cheat Right or wrong, it don't matter When you're with me sweet Hush now, don't explain You are my joy And you're my pain My life is your love So don't explain You know that I love you And what love endures All my thoughts are of you I am so completely yours Don't wanna hear folks chatter 'Cause I know you cheat Right or wrong, don't matter When I'm with you sweet Hush now, don't explain No, you're my joy and you're my pain My life is yours love Don't explain
Eyes Out For You (Joe Henry cover / Live at the Highline Ballroom, NYC, 2012-06-15) A fence is stretched across my brow A divided country, then and now And you the border guard My caravan waved off the track With dusty miners hid in back Their faces glowing hard Bruised and black and hunkered down From sparkling fuses underground And digging the way through To surface on some other side With time to burn, a past to hide And one eye out for you One eye out for you With letters cut from magazines I hide my hand and I speak between The truth and what I need I lift the face of someone strong To mask the shadows growing long And blur what it concedes I've found myself out on a range Found the mirror staring strange Demanding what I knew Of tell-tale stripes across my back The eyes I keep, each blue and black And both of them out for you Out for you Now I've crossed into some northern town Where winds rise up and the stars come down And no one knows my name I stitch a coat from what I find And weave a story in my mind With nothing such as blame I scrawl out pages, watch them burn The jumpy horses all nod in turn The way I need them to Before I run them to the fields As buildings blaze and dot the hills Like all eyes out for you All eyes out for you All eyes out for you All eyes out for you
Falling Slowly (Glen Hansard & Lisa Hannigan / Live at Koninklijk Circus, Brussels, 2012-10-24) I don't know you But I want you All the more for that Words fall through me And always fool me And I can't react And games that never amount To more than they're meant Will play themselves out Take this sinking boat And point it home We've still got time Raise your hopeful voice You have a choice You've made it now Falling slowly Eyes that know me And I can't go back Moods that take me And erase me And I'm painted black Well, you have suffered enough And warred with yourself It's time that you won Take this sinking boat And point it home We've still got time Raise your hopeful voice You had a choice You've made it now Falling slowly Sing your melody I'll sing along
Flowers (The Virtues OST) Hey, I heard what you said In sun and in showers We all must be fed All must be fed You wear yourself so steadily You're ready for a fight But in hell and high water It helps to be right Helps to be right I don't know the rules of this game And I don't think I want to play I've seen your cards and mine are the same And if I come back I won't stay I burned all your letters I buried all your stones The curses and the raptures I kept them for my own Oh say, how 'bout this instead Come by with some flowers And stay 'til they're dead Stay 'til they're dead I don't know the rules of this game And I don't think I want to play I've seen your cards and mine are the same And if I come back I won't stay Come by with some flowers And stay til they're dead Come by with some flowers And stay 'til they're dead Stay 'til they're dead Stay 'til they're dead Stay 'til they're dead
Free Until They Cut Me Down ( Iron & Wine Cover / Live ) When the men take me to the devil tree I will be free and shining like before Papa don't tell me what I should've done She's the one who begged me "Take me, take me home" When the wind wraps me like the reaper's hand I will swing free until they cut me down Papa don't tell me what I could've done She's the one who begged me "Take me, take me home" When the sea takes me like my mother's arms I will breathe free as any word of God Papa don't tell me what you would've done She's the one who begged me "Take me, take me home"
Get On The Road (Tired Pony & Lisa Hannigan / Acoustic) The fire, the wine, the bed and you In this crimson light I find the truth And truth is like a punch or two It hits you hard, it knocks you through So I get on the road and ride to you I get on the road and ride to you Kiss like a fight that neither wins One tender payment for our sins You are the drug that I can't quit Your perfect chaos is a perfect fit So I get on the road and ride to you I get on the road and ride to you From broken farm to broken farm The engine noise like an alarm It breathes a thunder in my soul It starts this race through the dustbowl So I get on the road and ride to you I get on the road and ride to you The wheel it settles in my hands This is the measure of this man I point the car at north at you My route has scarred this country through So I get on the road and ride to you I get on the road and ride to you I get on the road and ride to you I get on the road and ride to you Get The Party Started ( Pink Cover / Even Better Than The Real Thing Vol. 1 ) I'm comin' up so you better get this party started I'm comin' up so you better get this party started Get this party started on a Saturday night Everybody's waitin' for me to arrive Sendin' out the message to all of my friends We'll be lookin' flashy in my Mercedes Benz I got lotsa style, got my gold diamond rings I can go for miles if you know what I mean I'm comin' up so you better get this party started I'm comin' up so you better get this party started I'm... Makin' my connection as I enter the room Everybody's chillin' as I set up the groove Pumpin' up the volume with this brand new beat Everybody's dancin' and their dancin' for me I'm your operator, you can call anytime I'll be your connection to the party line I'm comin' up so you better get this party started I'm comin' up so you better get this party started, started, started I'm comin' up so you better.. you better...
Ghost Of Christmas Past (Mick Flannery feat. Lisa Hannigan / Other Voices: Series 7, Vol. 2 Live LP) Snowmen in the field I see Ride the coal-bags down the hill with me Hey, look you've got Rudolf's nose Put my hat on, you'll get cold Now let's have a snowball fight I always want you on my side Sit down by the fire with me Let's try and climb the Christmas tree You and I alone will go I will walk you all the way back home We will talk about our school and things I will see you tomorrow, please Oh I forgot this part This is where you break my heart You told me that you loved me then Did you really mean it, friend And don't go telling me lies, love Tell me the truth, love Tell me the truth, love 'Cause that way I won't have to know, love Won't have to see Won't have to ask The Ghost of Christmas Past
Glory Box (Portishead cover / Live at Dublin, Ireland, 2015-12-31) I'm so tired of playing Playing with this bow and arrow Gonna give my heart away Leave it to the other girls to play I've been a temptress too long Just Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be A woman I just want to be a woman From this time, unchained We're all looking at a different picture Through this new frame of mind A thousand flowers could bloom Move over and give us some room Yeah Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be A woman I just want to be a woman So don't you stop being a man Take a little look from our side when you can Sow a little tenderness No matter if you cry Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be A woman I just want to be a woman It's all I want to be is all woman This is the beginning of forever and ever It's time to move over It's all I want to be I'm so tired of playing Playing with this bow and arrow Gonna give my heart away Leave it to the other girls to play I've been a temptress too long Just Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be A woman I just want to be a woman I just want to be a woman I just want to be a woman
Hallelujah
(Leonard Cohen Cover)
Now 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 Hallelujah, Hallelujah Your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew her And she tied you to a kitchen chair She broke your throne, and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah You say I took the name in vain I don't even know the name But if I did, well really, what's it to you? There's a blaze of light In every word It doesn't matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Christmas carol / Live on Today FM) Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be light From now on our troubles will be out of sight And have yourself a merry little Christmas Make the Yuletide gay From now on our troubles will be miles away Here we are as in olden days Happy golden days of yore Faithful friends who are dear to us Gather near to us once more Through the years we all will be together If the fates allow Hang a shining star upon the highest bough And have yourself a merry little Christmas now Here we are as in olden days Happy golden days of yore Faithful friends who are dear to us Gather near to us once more Through the years we all will be together If the fates allow Hang a shining star upon the highest bough And have yourself a merry little Christmas now And have yourself a merry little Christmas now, now
Helpless (Neil Young cover / Lisa Hannigan, Joe Henry, Ross Turner & John Smith / Recorded at the Delta-Chelsea Inn, Toronto) There is a town in north Ontario With dream comfort memory to spare And in my mind I still need a place to go All my changes were there Blue, blue windows behind the stars Yellow moon on the rise Big birds flying across the sky Throwing shadows on our eyes Leave us Helpless, helpless, helpless Baby, can you hear me now The chains are locked And tied across my door Baby, sing with me somehow Blue, blue windows behind the stars Yellow moon on the rise Big birds flying across the sky Throwing shadows on our eyes Leave us Helpless, helpless, helpless Helpless, helpless, helpless Helpless, helpless, helpless Helpless, helpless, helpless Helpless, helpless, helpless
Here comes the sun (The Beatles Cover)
Here comes the sun Here comes the sun And I say it's all right Little darling It's been a long cold lonely winter Little darling It feels like years since it's been here Here comes the sun Here comes the sun I say It's all right It's all right Little darling The smile's returning to their faces Little darling It seems like years since it's been here Here comes the sun Here comes the sun I say It's all right It's all right Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Little darling I feel that ice is slowly melting Little darling It seems like years since it's been clear Here comes the sun Here comes the sun I say It's all right It's all right It's all right It's all right
Hutch (Big Red Machine feat. Sharon Van Etten, Lisa Hannigan & Shara Nova / How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? LP) You were alive Then you were unafraid Of how much the world could take from you So how did you lose your way And what can you tell me now How are you these days I want to know everything How hard are times out there These are the things That I wish I could've said To you So I can relate With the notion of need to erase me I know you weren't faking or making it up How did it get that bad Did you even hesitate You go out so far to escape To try and replace your fate So you say There's no need to contemplate Like we all end up dead anyway And there are no remedies ready But I swear there are many But I swear there are many And if I could I would pick you back up To the top
Hushabye Mountain (Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman cover / Richard Hawley & Lisa Hannigan / Live at Church of Saint James) A gentle breeze from Hushabye Mountain Softly blows o'er Lullaby Bay It fills the sails of boats that are waiting Waiting to sail your worries away It isn't far to Hushabye Mountain And your boat waits down by the quay The winds of night so softly are sighing Soon they will fly your troubles to the sea So close your eyes on Hushabye Mountain Wave goodbye to cares of the day Watch your boat from Hushabye Mountain Sail far away from Lullaby Bay It isn't far to Hushabye Mountain And your boat waits down by the quay The winds of night so softly are sighing Soon they will fly your troubles away So close your eyes on Hushabye Mountain Wave goodbye to cares of the day Watch your boat from Hushabye Mountain Sail far away from Lullaby Bay Sail far away from Lullaby Bay
I Came So Far For Beauty (Leonard Cohen cover / Live) I came so far for beauty I left so much behind My patience and my family My masterpiece unsigned I thought I'd be rewarded For such a lonely choice And surely she would answer To such a hopeless voice I practiced all my sainthood I gave to one and all But rumours of my virtue They moved her not at all I changed my style to silver I changed my clothes to black Where first I would surrender Now I would attack I stormed the old casino For the money and for the flesh And I myself decided What was rotten and what was fresh And men to do my bidding And broken bones to teach The value of my pardon The shadow of my reach And no, I could not touch her With such a heavy hand Her star beyond my order Her nakedness unmanned I came so far for beauty I left so much behind My patience and my family My masterpiece unsigned
I Don't Know What We're Fighting For (Oscar The Hypno-Dog And Other Tails LP) What was it this time Was it the nappy I pulled from the bin Or this delicious stuff I brought in On my chin Also from the bin My nose is still hurting From where you spanked it before I can't remember What we're fighting for I wasn't barking at nothing There was something there Didn't you see Didn't you care Don't talk to me Like I'm some pup How was I to know It was just your coat hanging up Well, it's true I can't see My paw in front of my face But I don't need good sight to see The disappointment on your face My nose is still hurting From where you spanked it before I can't remember What we're fighting for Can we start again We've done so before If you hold out your hand I'll give you my paw
If It Be Your Will (Leonard Cohen cover / Live) If it be your will If it be your will That I speak no more And my voice be still As it was before I will speak no more I shall abide until I am spoken for If it be your will If it be your will That a voice be true From this broken hill I will sing to you From this broken hill All your praises they shall ring If it be your will To let me sing From this broken hill All your praises they shall ring If it be your will To let me sing If it be your will If there is a choice Let the rivers fill Let the hills rejoice Let your mercy spill On all these burning hearts in hell If it be your will To make us well And draw us near And bind us tight All your children here In their rags of light In our rags of light All dressed to kill And end this night If it be your will And end this night If it be your will And end this night If it be your will And end this night If it be your will
I Need A Dollar (Aloe Blacc cover / Live on FM104's Strawberry Alarm Clock) I need a dollar, dollar, a dollar is what I need, hey, hey I need a dollar, dollar, a dollar is what I need, hey, hey I need dollar, dollar, a dollar is what I need If I share with you my story, would you share your dollar with me Bad times are coming and I reap what I don't sow Well, let me tell you something all that glitters ain't gold It's been a long old trouble, long old troublesome road And I'm looking for somebody come and help me carry this load I need a dollar, dollar, a dollar is what I need, hey, hey I need a dollar, dollar, a dollar is what I need Well, I don't know if I'm walking on solid ground 'Cause everything around me is falling down All I want is for someone to help me I had a job but the boss man let me go He said, "I'm sorry, but I won't be needing your help no more" I said, "Please, mister boss man, I need this job more than you know" But he gave me my last paycheck and he sent me on out the door Well, I don't know if I'm walking on solid ground 'Cause everything around me is crumbling down And all I want is for someone to help me I need a dollar, dollar, a dollar is what I need, hey, hey I need a dollar, dollar, a dollar is what I need, hey, hey I need dollar, dollar, a dollar is what I need If I share with you my story, would you share your dollar with me
I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl (Nina Simone cover / Live) I want a little sugar in my bowl I want a little sweetness down in my soul I could stand some loving oh so bad I feel so funny and I feel so sad I want some steam on my clothes Maybe I can fix things up so they'll go What's the matter, daddy Come on, save my soul Drop a little sugar in my bowl, I ain't fooling Drop some sugar in my bowl You've been acting strangely, I've been told Soothe me, I want some sugar in my bowl I want some steam on my clothes Maybe I can fix things up so they'll go What's the matter, daddy Come on, save my soul Drop a little sugar in my bowl, I ain't fooling Drop some sugar in my bowl I want steam on my clothes Maybe I can fix things up so they'll go What's the matter, daddy Come on, save my soul Drop a little sugar in my bowl, I ain't fooling Drop some sugar in my bowl
Josephine (RITUAL feat. Lisa Hannigan / From The City To The Wilderness EP) I knew I had tasted love The first sip always makes you choke Sweetest sound I ever spoke So bitter and so beautiful Josephine I'll never be good enough I want to be Let me try it once more Then, Josephine Let me get close enough to hold you, babe And we can dance a little more Yeah, we can dance a little more Every thread of ours connect From the city to the wilderness And you're on repeat inside my head And you're indelible I can't forget Josephine I'll never be good enough I want to be Let me try it once more Then, Josephine Let me get close enough to hold you, babe And we can dance a little more Yeah, we can dance a little more
Last Leaf ( The Cake Sale LP ) I know what it would take for me to be free To always be silenced everytime she spills tears I can't ever leave you baby I believe Just want to be the one who shakes down the last leaf Feel I'm hanging around only to test thread If it's strong enough to hold me then I'm weak enough to live But I can't ever leave you baby I believe Just want to be the one who shakes down the last leaf Long time running From the strong lines that holds It's all I've known Don't adjust your set There are cracks on the pavement So watch where you walk I'm up in my room Can you be here soon You've put it across forbidden lines If you never brought it back I'd never know how where to find it Long time running from the strong lines that holds It's all I've known Don't adjust your set The storm will pass Been up on the roof til now Changing the tune There are cracks on the pavement So watch where you walk Are you in the room Can you be here soon
Lille (French Version) Sur la mer, il est parti À la recherche de son chemin Que faut-il dire, et pourquoi Ce qu'il a dit, ce qu'il a fait À son amour de toujours Elle est partie, il aussi Les matins, je pars son guerre Je me souviens, je me perds Ce que tu m'as dit dans metrage Paraboles de l'amour Je les ai lus Dans les yeux Alors c'est fini Je suis libre Il fait joue la tête lourde Je ferme les yeux aux soleil Aveugle et sourde à la vie Couleurs passées des jeunes enfants Délaissé, notre jardin Le chemin ne mène à rien Hier du soir, nous jouons On prend de la chaleur, du plaisir Nos ombres s'agrandissant Sur le sable froid À bout de souffle, nous courrons Tandis que le soleil se noie dans l'eau
Martha (Tom Waits cover / Lisa Hannigan & Cormac Curran / Live at Turning Pirate New Year's Eve 2012) Operator, number, please It's been so many years Will she remember my old voice While I fight the tears Hello, hello there, is this Martha This is old Tom Frost I am calling you long distance Don't worry 'bout the cost 'Cause it's been forty years or more Now, Martha, please recall Meet me out for coffee Where we'll talk about it all And those were the days of roses Poetry and prose and Martha All I had was you and all you had was me There was no tomorrows We'd packed away our sorrows And we saved them for a rainy day I feel so much older now You're much older too How's your husband, how's the kids You know that I got married too Lucky that you found someone To make you feel secure We were all so young and foolish Now we are mature Those were the days of roses Poetry and prose and Martha All I had was you and all you had was me There was no tomorrows We'd packed away our sorrows And we saved them for a rainy day I was always so impulsive I guess that I still am And all that really mattered then Was that I was a man I guess that our being together Was never meant to be But Martha, Martha I love you, can't you see Those were the days of roses Poetry and prose and Martha All I had was you and all you had was me There was no tomorrows We'd packed away our sorrows And we saved them for a rainy day I remember quiet evenings Trembling close to you
Moon River (Mancini & Mercer / Live at Church of Saint James) Moon river, wider than a mile I'm crossing you in style someday You dream maker You heartbreaker Wherever you're going I'm going your way Two drifters off to see the world There's such a lot of world to see We're after the same rainbow's end Waiting round the bend My huckleberry friend Moon river and me
My Lagan Love (The Chieftains feat. Lisa Hannigan) Where Lagan stream sings lullaby There blows a lily fair The twilight gleam is in her eye The night is on her hair And like a love-sick lennan-shee She has my heart in thrall Nor life I owe nor liberty For love is lord of all And often when the beetle's horn Hath lulled the eve to sleep I steal unto her shieling lorn And thru the dooring peep There on the cricket's singing stone She spares the bogwood fire And hums in sad sweet undertone The songs of heart's desire Nor life I owe nor liberty For love is lord of all For love is lord of all
Needles ( The Cake Sale LP ) Under my cloud Out of my hands Lost in a feeling That I can't get out of Wondering why Wasting our time Wasting all I love In the shiny side of my life I don't need you near me So chemical, oh I don't need you near me Under my hand Out of my head Lost in confusion I can't say we're out yet Under the light What if I died? What if halfway though I turn around and change my mind I don't need you near me So chemical, oh I don't need you near me
Nothing compares 2 U (Prince Cover)
It's been seven hours and fifteen days Since u took your love away I go out every night and sleep all day Since u took your love away Since u been gone I can do whatever I want I can see whomever I choose I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant But nothing I said nothing can take away these blues 'Cause nothing compares Nothing compares to you It's been, been so lonely without you here Like a bird without a song Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling Tell me baby where did I go wrong I could put my arms around every boy I see But they'd only remind me of you I went to the doctor n'guess what he told me Guess what he told me He said girl you better have fun No matter what you do But he's a fool 'Cause nothing compares Nothing compares to you All the flowers that u planted, mama In the back yard All died when u went away I know that living with u baby was sometimes hard But I'm willing to give it another try Nothing compares Nothing compares to you Nothing compares Nothing compares to you
Nothing Compares 2 U (Prince cover / Live at Dermot O'Leary's show, 2016-08-20) It's been seven hours and fifteen days Since you took your love away I go out every night and sleep all day Since you took your love away Since you've been gone, I can do whatever I want I can see whomever I choose I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant But nothing, nothing can take away these blues 'Cause nothing compares Nothing compares to you It's been, been so lonely without you here Like a bird without a song Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling Tell me, baby, where did I go wrong I could put my arms around every boy I see But they only remind me of you I went to the doctor and guess what he told me Guess what he told me He said, "Girl, you better try and have fun no matter what you do" But he's a fool 'Cause nothing compares Nothing compares to you All the flowers that you planted, mama, in the back yard All died when you went away I know that living with you, baby, was sometimes hard But I'm willing to give it another try Nothing compares Nothing compares to you Nothing compares Nothing compares to you
O Holy Night (Christmas carol / Lisa Hannigan feat. Fyfe Dangerfield & Nerina Pallot / Live at Dermot O'Leary's Show, BBC Radio 2, 2011-12-17) O holy night, the stars are brightly shining It is the night of our dear Savior's birth Long lay the world in sin and error pining 'Til He appears and the soul felt its worth A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn Fall on your knees, O hear the angel voices O night divine, O night when Christ was born O night divine, holy night, O night divine Led by the light of faith serenely beaming With glowing hearts by His cradle we stand So led by light of a star sweetly gleaming Here come the Wise Men from the Orient land The King of kings lay thus in lowly manger In all our trials born to be our friend Fall on your knees, O hear the angel voices O night divine, O night when Christ was born O night divine, holy night, O night divine
Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode cover / Live at Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2009-10-30) Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who's there Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who cares Feeling unknown And you're all alone Flesh and bone By the telephone Lift up the receiver I'll make you a believer Take second best Put me to the test Things on your chest You need to confess I will deliver You know I'm a forgiver Reach out and touch faith Reach out and touch faith Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who's there Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who cares Feeling unknown And you're all alone Flesh and bone By the telephone Lift up the receiver I'll make you a believer Take second best Put me to the test Things on your chest You need to confess I will deliver You know I'm a forgiver Reach out and touch faith Reach out and touch faith Reach out and touch faith Reach out and touch faith
Piano Furnace (Joe Henry feat. Lisa Hannigan / Live) Let's pull this piano Out from the wall Clear the young children From out of the hall Stuff it with tender Put paid to it all Let it stoke the fires of the world Let's beat this guitar It was meant to be heard The way a confession Is dragged word by word From out of the mouths Of the sick and the cured Let it stoke the fires of the world A clanging black train Runs through the door Connecting the fears We hadn't before Leaves them in ribbons and Strewn out on the floor Tangled as ever we sing Let's string up that harp From the limb of a tree Let it swing out above us And buckle our knees A hymn to the hopeless here Thicker than thieves Let it stoke the fires of the world A clanging black train Cuts through the song Connecting the fears Along for so long Leaves them in ribbons and Strewn out on the lawn Tangled as ever we sing Let your iron lungs My dark hidden heart Crack open with diamonds When the real rumble starts Stand naked in smoke Sending up sparks Let us stoke the fires of the world Let us stoke the fires of the world
Playground love ( Air Cover / The Saturday Sessions CD )
I'm a high school lover And you're my favourite flavour Love is all, all my soul You're my playground Love Yet my hands are shaking I feel my body remains Time's no matter, I'm on fire On the playground love You're the piece of gold The flushes all my soul Extra time, on the ground On the playground love Anytime, anyway On your playground Love
Queen Of Hearts (The Mary Janes cover / Live at the Highline Ballroom, NYC, 2009-03-07) Water came and saw me Holding back Holding back for someone Water came and saw me Holding on Holding on for someone What you see is the life I had Now I'm left here with my past Watching time as it passes slow Just to see the reasons why They must have come and passed me by Or maybe I'm just blind Because the Water came and saw me Holding back Holding back for someone Water came and saw me Holding on Holding on for someone Like we couldn't see it in text Like we couldn't guess what was next Like we'd taken all of our hopes and our dreams And we'd put them out in the sun Naked as a beacon for everyone Who couldn't achieve So come on, my son, it's like this It's like faint little miss It's like a sudden change in winter Caused the breaking of a heart And the queen of hearts And all my wonderous thoughts They're no longer with me And I'm sick because the Water came and saw me Holding back Holding back for someone Water came and saw me Holding on Holding on for someone Holding on for the queen of hearts For the queen of hearts For the queen of hearts For the queen of hearts For the queen of hearts
Red River Valley (Joe Henry & Lisa Hannigan / The 78 Project) From this valley they say you are going I will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile For they say you are taking the sunshine That has brightened our paths awhile Come and sit by my side if you love me Do not hasten to bid me adieu Just remember the Red River Valley And the one who has loved you so true I've been thinking a long time, oh my darling Of the sweet words you never would say Now, alas, must my fond hopes all vanish For they say you are going away They will bury me where you have wandered Near the hills where the daffodils grow When you're gone from the Red River Valley For I can't live without you, I know Come and sit by my side if you love me Do not hasten to bid me adieu Just remember the Red River Valley And the one who has loved you so true
Rocky Took A Lover (Bell X1 cover / Lisa Hannigan & Paul Noonan) I wanna shine in the eye of Orion But I drove my soul through the Black Hole That's a wonderful way to wake me But you weren't so nice last night You're such an asshole when you're drunk At least I'm okay in the mornings The three wise men came a long way Following that pin hole in the sky Yeah that one right there I don't believe in any old Jesus As if there was a God Then why is my arse the perfect height for kicking I'll shine for you I'll burn for you I'll shine for you That's what I'll do They're like headlights in the rear view mirror They're closer that they seem And from this gutter, we're still staring at the stars Would you go away and shite Last night all you did was curse those stars You said they sang to you of hope The sun gives life And it takes it away But like all the greats It'll burn out someday She said, I don't mind I don't want to get bored I don't want to end up beached on this shore I want to be that star I want to be that star I want to be that star I want to be that star I'll shine for you I'll burn for you I can shine for you That's what I'll do That's what I'll do That's what I'll do That's what I'll do That's what I'll do
Salty And Sweet (John Smith feat. Lisa Hannigan / Live) I'm a fishing girl Just a lonely girl The town in which I live Is breaking water I told my mother My violent brother All they give to me Is reason to leave Imagine my surprise A pair of ancient eyes Set into a face As old as land He stands in front of me He came out of the sea He says it hurts his skin To touch the sand He crawls back into the sea The air is salty and sweet A backward glance by way Of invitation I'm in now up to my knees The air is salty and sweet I'll leave my dress by way Of explanation My man don't care for clothes The things he does not own They never trouble him Never give him grief 'Cause he's as soft as silk As pure as baby milk Harder than the earth That he so scorns He crawls back into the sea The air is salty and sweet A backward glance by way Of invitation I'm in now up to my knees The air is salty and sweet I'll leave my dress by way Of explanation
Saturday Sun (Nick Drake cover / Lisa Hannigan & Luluc / Way To Blue: The Songs Of Nick Drake LP) Saturday sun came early one morning In a sky so clear and so blue Saturday sun came without warning So noone knew what to do Saturday sun brought people and faces That didn't seem much in their day But when I remembered those people and places They were really too good in their way In their way In their way Saturday sun won't come and see me today Think about stories with reason and rhyme Circling through your brain And think about people in their season and time Returning again and again And again And again Saturday sun has turned to Sunday's rain So Sunday sat in the Saturday sun And wept for a day gone by
Secrets In Stones (Unreleased / Live) The sky was pacing white to grey today Make no mistake, you always have to pay to play She was tired and bleached as the dark broke the beach and the birds took off As they wheeled away she laughed out at the bay though her heart was rough Her heart was rough The fire is one man lost as they taste youth You made a mistake and now it aches for what it had to lose So he took himself west and the seabirds confessed Till his hands were clean By the water alone he set his secrets in stones Sent them skimming down deep Between her palm and his, misunderstood to be a home Within the newest reasons to just leave it well alone Her eyes are green in the sun but dun in cloud But he couldn't recall their salty particulars now By a slice of the gate, the ashes cold in the grate she knew that he'd been In the kitchen she stopped, saw the cup and the pot and the envelope between Between her palm and his, misunderstood to be a home Within the newest reasons to just leave it well alone She had him sewed to her seam still always tangled up and worn He had her wanting, always burning, embers barely warm
Send In The Clowns (Stephen Sondheim cover) Isn't it rich Are we a pair Me here at last on the ground You in mid-air Send in the clowns Isn't it bliss Don't you approve One who keeps tearing around One who can't move Where are the clowns Send in the clowns Just when I'd stopped opening doors Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours Making my entrance again with my usual flair Sure of my lines No one is there Don't you love farce My fault, I fear I thought that you'd want what I want Sorry, my dear But where are the clowns There ought to be clowns Quick, send in the clowns What a surprise Who could foresee I'd come to feel about you What you felt about me Why only now when I see That you've drifted away What a surprise What a cliche Isn't it rich Isn't it queer Losing my timing this late in my career And where are the clowns Quick, send in the clowns Don't bother, they're here
Set The Fire To The Third Bar (Snow Patrol feat. Lisa Hannigan / Live at Ward Park, Bangor, 2010-06-05) I find the map and draw a straight line Over rivers, farms and state lines The distance from here to where you'd be It's only finger-lengths that I see I touch the place where I'd find your face My fingers in creases of distant dark places I hang my coat up in the first bar There is no peace that I've found so far The laughter penetrates my silence As drunken men find flaws in science Their words mostly noises Ghosts with just voices Your words in my memory Are like music to me I'm miles from where you are I lay down on the cold ground And I, I pray that something picks me up And sets me down in your warm arms And after I have travelled so far We'd set the fire to the third bar We'd share each other like an island Until exhausted close our eyelids And dreaming, pick up from The last place we left off Your soft skin is weeping A joy you can't keep in I'm miles from where you are I lay down on the cold ground And I, I pray that something picks me up And sets me down in your warm arms I'm miles from where you are I lay down on the cold ground And I, I pray that something picks me up And sets me down in your warm arms
Silent Night (Christmas carol / Lisa Hannigan, Richard Hawley & Jarvis Cocker / Live at Church of Saint James) Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is bright Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child Holy Infant so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is bright Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child Holy Infant so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace
Skinny Love (Bon Iver cover / Lisa Hannigan, Rhob Cunningham & Gavin Glass / Live on the Tony Fenton Show TodayFM) Come on, skinny love, just last the year Pour a little salt, we were never here My my my, my my my, my my Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer And I tell my love to wreck it all And cut out all the ropes and let me fall My my my, my my my, my my Right in this moment, this order's tall And I told you to be patient And I told you to be fine And I told you to be balanced And I told you to be kind And in the morning I'll be with you But it will be a different kind And I'll be holding all the tickets And you'll be owning all the fines Come on, skinny love, what happened here Suckle on the hope in light brassieres My my my, my my my, my my Sullen load is full, so slow on the split And I told you to be patient And I told you to be fine And I told you to be balanced And I told you to be kind And now all your love is wasted And then who the hell was I And I'm breaking at the britches And at the end of all your lines Who will love you Who will fight Who will fall far behind
Somebody That I Used To Know (Gotye cover / Live on 3FM) Now and then I think of when we were together Like when you said you felt so happy you could die Told myself that you were right for me Felt so lonely in your company But that was love and it's an ache I still remember You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness Like resignation to the end, always the end So when we found that we could not make sense Well, you said that we would still be friends I'll admit that I was glad that it was over But you didn't have to cut me off Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing I don't even need your love But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough No, you didn't have to stoop so low Have your friends collect your records and then change your number Guess that I don't need that though Now you're just somebody that I used to know Now you're just somebody that I used to know Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over But had me believing it was always something that I'd done But I don't want to live that way Reading into every word you say You said that you could let it go And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know You didn't have to cut me off Making like it never happened and that we were nothing I don't even need your love But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough No, you didn't have to stoop so low Have your friends collect your records and then change your number I don't need that though Now you're just somebody that I used to know Now you're just somebody that I used to know Somebody that I used to know Somebody that I used to know Somebody that I used to know Somebody that I used to know Some Surprise ( With Gary Lightbody / The Cake Sale LP ) Your lips come as some surprise That they would want to come and meet mine They never taste like the last time Your lips come as some surprise I was always a special child Circuit boards for my insides All I dreamed of was flying high So your lips came as some surprise Your lips come as some surprise That they would want to come and meet mine They never taste like the last time Your lips come as some surprise I was never one of the boys Throwing shapes and power ploys In your arms warmth I did find In your seat I did decline Your lips come as some surprise That they would want to come and meet mine They never taste like the last time Your lips come as some surprise Now that we've sat for a while You've shown me yours and I've shown you mine Even after all this time Your lips come as some surprise Your lips come as some surprise That they would want to come and meet mine They never taste like the last time Your lips come as some surprise Your lips come as some surprise Your lips come as some surprise
Sticks & Stones (Joe Henry feat. Lisa Hannigan / Live) Gather wood against the weather Pile up stones against the sky String of bombs like pearls between us And the heavens' blackest eye Tell the hour, go take another Or go down, Moses, without a fuss Give in to the lawless water And send a later boat for us Sticks and stones, blood, ash and bone I shake the tree, swim out alone Turning over the dark Missouri Now that every new leaf I had is gone The moon's near empty, a swinging saber Keeping every prayer at the bay At the throat of love for ransom From the dull approaching day There's no lord that rides this border No fences stretch this far to show How times will side against another As one arrives and others go Sticks and stones, blood, ash and bone I shake the tree, swim out alone Turning over the dark Missouri Now that every new leaf I had is gone Whores are dressed in fire and feathers On the beach, sit in a row Climb the banks through scrub and tender Disappear where rabbits go They had nothing that I needed But I gave them all I had Just to share the dirt between them As they waited, smoked and laughed Sticks and stones, blood, ash and bone I shake the tree, swim out alone Turning over the dark Missouri Now that every new leaf I had is gone Now that every new leaf I had is gone Now that every new leaf I had is gone
Suzanne (Leonard Cohen cover / Mick Flannery & Lisa Hannigan / Live) Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half crazy But that's why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges That come all the way from China And just when you mean to tell her That you have no love to give her Then she gets you on her wavelength And she lets the river answer That you've always been her lover And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that she will trust you For you've touched her perfect body with your mind And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said, "All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them" But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to travel with him And you want to travel blind And you think maybe you'll trust him For he's touched your perfect body with his mind Suzanne takes your hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From Salvation Army counters And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbour And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever While Suzanne holds the mirror And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that you can trust her For she's touched your perfect body with her mind
Swan (Lisa Hannigan, Aaron Dessner & Enda Walsh) And what he wanted was a house To fill that house with things he loved To walk a garden that he owned And lie and sleep upon its grass Upon its grass And what he wanted was a wife To be loved returned as he loved her To fold around their easy talk To wake and stay there in her arms In her arms In her arms In her arms And what he wanted was a child To fill that house with her own voice To carry her up into her room And there she walks within her dreams Within her dreams Dark greys churn that sky Rain down on him that little man Rain down on him that little man Rain down on him Pull tight your coat against the cold Step by step that dream will come Pull tight your coat against the cold Step by step that dream will come Pull tight your coat against the cold Step by step that dream will come
Le Temps De L'Amour (Françoise Hardy cover / Lisa Hannigan feat. Nerina Pallot & Fyfe Dangerfield) C'est le temps de l'amour Le temps des copains Et de l'aventure Quand le temps va et vient On ne pense à rien Malgré ses blessures Car le temps de l'amour C'est long et c'est court Ça dure toujours On s'en souvient On se dit qu'à vingt ans On est le roi du monde Et qu'éternellement Il y aura dans nos yeux Tout le ciel bleu C'est le temps de l'amour Le temps des copains Et de l'aventure Quand le temps va et vient On ne pense à rien Malgré ses blessures Car le temps de l'amour Ça vous met au cœur Beaucoup de chaleur Et de bonheur Un beau jour c'est l'amour Et le cœur bat plus vite Car la vie suit son cours Et l'on est tout heureux D'être amoureux C'est le temps de l'amour Le temps des copains Et de l'aventure Quand le temps va et vient On ne pense à rien Malgré ses blessures Car le temps de l'amour C'est long et c'est court Ça dure toujours On s'en souvient On s'en souvient On s'en souvient
The Guests (Leonard Cohen cover / Emmett Tinley & Lisa Hannigan / Live at Cool Like Water) One by one, the guests arrive The guests are coming through The open-hearted many The broken-hearted few And no one knows where the night is going And no one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love, I need you I need you I need you I need you I need you now Those who dance begin to dance Those who weep begin "Welcome, welcome," cries a voice "Let all my guests come in" And no one knows where the night is going And no one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love, I need you I need you I need you I need you I need you now And all go stumbling through that house Without ? urgency Saying, "Do reveal yourself" Or "Why has thou forsaken me" And no one knows where the night is going And no one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love, I need you I need you I need you I need you I need you now All at once the torches flare The inner door flies open One by one, they enter there In every style of passion And no one knows where the night is going And no one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love, I need you I need you I need you I need you I need you now Those who dance begin to dance Those who weep begin Those who earnestly are lost Are lost and lost again And no one knows where the night is going And no one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love, I need you I need you I need you I need you I need you now One by one, the guests arrive The guests are coming through The broken-hearted many The open-hearted few And no one knows where the night is going And no one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love, I need you I need you I need you I need you I need you now
The Man I Love (George Gershwin cover) Someday he'll come along, the man I love And he'll be big and strong, the man I love And when he comes my way I'll do my best to make him stay He'll look at me and smile, I'll understand Then in a little while, he'll take my hand And though it seems absurd I know we both won't say a word Maybe I will meet him Sunday Maybe Monday, maybe not Still I'm sure to meet him one day Maybe Tuesday will be my good news day He'll build a little home, that's meant for two Which I'll never roam, who would, would you And so all the above I'm dreaming of the man I love Maybe Tuesday will be my good news day He'll build a little home, that's meant for two Which I'll never roam, who would, would you And so all the above I'm dreaming of the man I love
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band cover / Lisa Hannigan, Glen Hansard & John Smith / Live at Architectural Artifacts, Chicago, IL, USA) Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train 'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive By May the tenth, Richmond had fell It's a time I remember oh so well The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing, they went La la la la la La la la la la la la Back with my wife in Tennessee When one day she says to me "Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E.Lee" Now I don't mind chopping wood And I don't care if the money's no good You take what you need and you leave the rest They should never have taken the very best The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing, they went La la la la la La la la la la la la Like my father before me, I will work the land And like my brother above me who took a rebel stand He was just nineteen, proud and brave But a Yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the mud below my feet You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing, they went La la la la la La la la la la la la The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing, they went La la la la la La la la la la la la La la la la la La la la la la la la
The Times, They Are A-Changin' (Bob Dylan cover / Herbie Hancock feat. The Chieftains, Toumani Diabete & Lisa Hannigan / The Imagine Project LP) Come gather 'round, people, wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth saving Then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone For the times, they are a-changing Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide, the chance won't come again And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin And there's no telling who that it's naming For the loser now will be later to win And the times, they are a-changing Come senators, congressmen, please, heed the call Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled There's battle outside that is raging Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls For the times, they are a-changing Come mothers and fathers throughout the land And don't criticize what you can't understand Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command Your old road is rapidly aging Please, get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand For the times, they are a-changing The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is cast The slow one now will later be fast As the present now will later be past The order is rapidly fading And the first one now will later be last For the times, they are a-changing
These Days (Nico cover / Lisa Hannigan & Joe Henry / Live) Well, I've been out walking I don't do that much talking these days These days These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do And all the times I had the chance to Well, I had a lover It's so hard to risk another these days These days And if I seem to be afraid To live the life that I have made in song Well, it's just that I've been losing so long Well, I keep on moving Things about to be improving these days These days These days I sit on cornerstones And count the time in quarter tones to ten Please, don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them
Thousand (Rosie Carney feat. Lisa Hannigan / Bare LP) She sings sweet things To the ones that take her home After the laughter She's left stuck on her own I know dust grows Even when there is a breeze Can't move, can't grow When you've fallen on your knees She talks at night When nobody is there Asking for signs To show they really care Love, please surround me I know I've got more to give There are reasons to leave But a thousand more to live Will it be this way tomorrow After all that's been today Will it be this way tomorrow I don't know, but I won't fade Love, please, surround me I know I've got more to give There are reasons to leave But a thousand more to live But a thousand more to live
Tonight You Belong To Me (Irving Kaufman cover / Lisa Hannigan & John Smith / Live at Motel Mosaique, Rotterdam, 2012-04-21) I know you belong to somebody new But tonight you belong to me Although we're apart You're part of my heart But tonight you belong to me Way down, way down beside the stream How sweet it will seem Once more just to dream In the moonlight My honey, I know I know with the dawn That you will be gone But tonight you belong to me Way down, way down beside the stream How sweet, very sweet it will seem Once more just to dream In the moonlight My honey, I know I know with the dawn That you will be gone But tonight you belong to me But tonight you belong to me Just to little old me
Upside Down (Diana Ross cover / Even Better Than The Disco Thing LP) Upside down Boy, you turn me Inside out And round and round Upside down Boy, you turn me Inside out And round and round Instinctively you give to me The love that I need I cherish the moments with you Respectfully I say to thee I'm aware that you're cheating When no one makes me feel like you do Upside down Boy, you turn me Inside out And round and round Upside down Boy, you turn me Inside out And round and round Instinctively you give to me The love that I need I cherish the moments with you Respectfully I say to thee I'm aware that you're cheating When no one makes me feel like you do Upside down Boy, you turn me Inside out And round and round Upside down Boy, you turn me Inside out And round and round Upside down, you're turning me You're giving love instinctively Round and round, you're turning me I say to thee respectfully Upside down, you're turning me You're giving love instinctively Round and round, you're turning me I say to thee respectfully Upside down, you're turning me You're giving love instinctively Round and round, you're turning me I say to thee respectfully Upside down, you're turning me You're giving love instinctively Round and round, you're turning me I say to thee respectfully
Video Games (Lana Del Ray cover / Maria Doyle Kennedy & Lisa Hannigan / Live at Turning Pirate New Year's Eve 2012) Swinging in the backyard Pull up in your fast car Whistling my name You open up a beer And you say, "Get over here And play a video game" I'm in his favorite sun dress Watching me get undressed Take my body downtown I say, "You're the bestest" Put in for a big kiss Put his favorite perfume on Go play a video game It's you, it's you, it's all for you Everything I do I tell you all the time Heaven is a place on earth with you Tell me all the things you want to do I heard that you like the bad girls Honey, is that true It's better than I ever even knew They say that the world was built for two Only worth living if somebody is loving you Baby, now you do Singing in the old bars Swinging with the old stars Living for the fame Kissing in the blue dark Playing pool and wild darts Video games He takes me in his big arms Drunk and I am seeing stars This is all I think of Watching all our friends fall In and out of Old Paul's This is my idea of fun Playing video games It's you, it's you, it's all for you Everything I do I tell you all the time Heaven is a place on earth with you Tell me all the things you want to do I heard that you like the bad girls Honey, is that true It's better than I ever even knew They say that the world was built for two Only worth living if somebody is loving you Baby, now you do Now you do Now you do Now you do Now you do Now you do Now you do It's you, it's you, it's all for you Everything I do I tell you all the time Heaven is a place on earth with you Tell me all the things you want to do I heard that you like the bad girls Honey, is that true It's better than I ever even knew They say that the world was built for two Only worth living if somebody is loving you Baby, now you do
Willy (Joni Mitchell cover) Willy is my child, he is my father I would be his lady all my life He says he'd love to live with me But for an ancient injury That has not healed He says I feel once again Like I gave my heart too soon He stood looking through the lace At the face on the conquered moon And counting all the cars up the hill And the stars on my window sill There are still more reasons why I love him Willy is my joy, he is my sorrow Now he wants to run away and hide He says our love cannot be real He cannot hear the chapel pealing silver bells But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues make you scared to feel And I feel like I'm just being born Like a shiny light breaking in a storm There are so many reasons why I love him
You Haunt Me (Richard Hawley feat. Lisa Hannigan / Leave Your Body Behind You LP) Faces In the fog Howl at the moon like a dog And you You haunt me Oh you Haunt me Cracks in the mirror On the wall Dust clings to light in the hall And you You haunt me Oh you Haunt me Silhouettes framed in smoke and blinding light My hands sweat and shake so much tonight And you You haunt me Oh you Haunt me You haunt me