 Genius Lyrics
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Damien Rice (Ft. Lisa Hannigan) – The Blower's Daughter
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Perhaps best remembered for its inclusion in the 2004 motion picture Closer, “The Blower’s Daughter” is among Damien Rice’s most well-known songs.
The song is the first of two
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Damien Rice – Delicate
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Damien Rice’s intense folk ballad, “Delicate”, is a an anthem dedicated to the fragility of love. Along with the lyrics lamenting the emptiness and sadness of their shared lives
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Damien Rice – Cannonball
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The second single released from O. Damien Rice details the intoxicating feeling of falling in love with another person.
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Damien Rice – Hallelujah
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I heard there was a secret chord / That David played and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do you? / Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth / The
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Damien Rice – Volcano
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Originally written whilst Damien Rice was still in Juniper, an earlier version of this song can be found on B-Sides.
Released as the third and final single from O in 2003.
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Damien Rice – Chandelier
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[Verse 1] / Party girls don't get hurt / Can't feel anything, when will I learn? / I push it down, push it down / I'm the one "for a good time call" / Phone's blowin' up, ringin
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Damien Rice – Camarillas
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[Verse 1] / You’re not on my mind / You know that’s a lie / Well I have been overthinking again / But not ‘cause of you / You know that’s not true / Well nothing I’m saying makes
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Damien Rice (Ft. Lisa Hannigan) – I Remember
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[Lisa Hannigan] / I remember it well: / The first time that I saw / Your head 'round the door / 'Cause mine stopped working / I remember it well: / There was wet in your hair / I
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Damien Rice – Baby Sister
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Baby Sister was written by Damien Rice for the the 1999 short film Powertrip by Irish writer/director Graham Cantwell, in which Rice also had an acting part as a detective.
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Damien Rice – Cheers Darlin'
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Cheers darlin' / Here's to you and your lover boy / Cheers darlin' / I got years to wait around for you / Cheers darlin' / I've got your wedding bells in my ear / Cheers darlin
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Damien Rice – Moody Mooday
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Moody mooday / It's got me / Moody mooday / It's got me / Baby / Why'd you have to leave? / Something up your sleeve? / Baby / I find it hard / I find it hard to breath / Moody
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Damien Rice – Colour Me In
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[Verse 1] / Well, I tried to repress it and I carried its crown / I reached out to undress it and love let me down / Love let me down / [Verse 2] / So I tried to erase it, but the
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Damien Rice (Ft. Doreen Curran) – Eskimo
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I picked up the guitar and ‘Eskimo’ literally flew into my head in ten minutes. For me I was sitting there feeling sad about not being able to write so I started to write about my
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Damien Rice – Accidental Babies
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Generally held to be about Rice’s breakup with long-time partner Lisa Hannigan, whom he’d worked with extensively on albums O, B-Sides and much of 9, Accidental Babies is a pained
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Damien Rice – Older Chests
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[Verse 1] / Older chests reveal themselves / Like a crack in a wall / Starting small / And grow in time / And we all seem to need the help / Of someone else to mend that shelf / Of
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Damien Rice – Childish
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I'm so childish, a little bit wildish / With my rumdiddlyumdiddlyumdiddly, I'm so deep / Well I'm so garish, a little unfairish / The way I pick you up, and drop you in a heap / I'
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Damien Rice – Prague
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Prague is one of two hidden tracks (along with Silent Night) on O’s final track, Eskimo, starting at 7:07.
Many see this song as a continuation of or prequel to Cheers, also on O.
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Damien Rice – Amie
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Nothing unusual, nothing strange / Close to nothing at all / The same old scenario, the same old rain / And there's no explosions here / Then something unusual, something strange
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Damien Rice – Grey Room
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[Verse 1] / Well, I've been here before / Sat on a floor in a grey, grey room / Where I stay in all day / I don't eat, but I play with this grey, grey food / [Chorus 1] / Désolé
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Juniper (Damien Rice/Bell X1) – Insane
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Should I speak? / Should I bother shaking hands? / Am I weak If I leave it as it stands? / I've submerged / And I've surfaced with the blame / I guess I'm no good, I guess I'm
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Damien Rice – Rootless Tree
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Released in 2007 as the second single from 9.
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Damien Rice – One
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Is it getting better? / Or do you feel the same? / Will it make it easier on you, now / You got someone to blame / You say one love, one life / When it's one need, in the night
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Damien Rice – Trusty and True
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[Verse 1] / We've wanted to be trusty and true / But feathers fell from our wings / And we've wanted to be worthy of you / But weather rained on our dreams / [Chorus] / And we can'
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Damien Rice – It Takes a Lot to Know a Man
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[Verse 1] / It takes a lot to know a man / It takes a lot to understand / The warrior, the sage / The little boy enraged / It takes a lot to know a woman / A lot to understand what
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Damien Rice – I Don't Want to Change You
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[Verse 1] / Wherever you are / You know that I adore you / No matter how far / Well, I can go before you / And if ever you need someone / Well, not that you need helping / But if
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Damien Rice – Long Long Way
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[Verse 1] / Long, long way to the top / Long way down, if you fall / It's a long way back if you get lost / [Verse 2] / Long way out to the end / Long way to go to lose your
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Damien Rice – The Professor & La Fille Danse
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Well I don't know if I'm wrong 'cause she's only just gone / Here's to another relationship bombed / By my excellent breed of gamete disease / I'm sure when I'm older, I'll know
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Damien Rice – The Box
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In a performence @ Twist and Shout
Damien said: “this is a song a about finding these people in your life … some lift you up in a sense and drag you down and there’s some who
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Damien Rice – The Animals Were Gone
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[Verse 1] / Woke up and for the first time the animals were gone / It's left this house empty now, not sure if I belong / Yesterday you asked me to write you a pleasant song / I'll
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Damien Rice – Lonelily
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Listed as Lonelily (Original Demo) on B-Sides.
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Damien Rice – 100 Miles Across The Room
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Damien Rice recorded this song on a 10-day journey from Dublin to Barcelona, “10 Days to Barcelona”
He released two unmixed and unmastered versions; a band version and an acoustic
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Damien Rice – The Greatest Bastard
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This song can easily be said to be one that speaks of longing, love and lust – a kind that is synonymous to just one special person. Rice talks about how no relationship is perfect
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Damien Rice – Cold Water
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Cold, cold water / Surrounds me now / And all I've got / Is your hand / Lord, can you hear me now? / Lord, can you hear me now? / Lord, can you hear me now? / Or am I lost? / Love
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Damien Rice – Under the Tongue
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What are we doing here? / Why have we come? / Did we come for communion / Under the tongue? / There's a lot / There's a lot / There's a lot to unfold / In the dark / In the dark
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Damien Rice – Woman Like a Man
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In this song Damien Rice tries to underlie the fact that at some point women follow the false stereotypes that are established in our society concerning men-getting drunk,wanting
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Damien Rice (Ft. Lisa Hannigan) – Then Go
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“Then Go” describes a sorrowful relationship where one side gives and gives but it’s never enough.
Setting a poignant tone alike many other songs by Damien, the woeful message is
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Damien Rice – Cross-Eyed Bear
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[Verse 1: Damien Rice] / I broke your doll / It's cross-eyed, that's all / I wanted to help it see straight / A half broken moon / Sooner than soon / I was up on your wall
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Damien Rice – Back To Her Man
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Damien Rice made this song as a homage to Leonard Cohen, a man who he has shown much admiration for. He wanted to make a song about how you could see someone who would have a
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Damien Rice (Ft. Lisa Hannigan) – Silent Night
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Silent night, broken night / All is fallen when you take your flight / I found some hate for you / Just for show / You found some love for me / Thinking I'd go / Don't keep me from
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Damien Rice – The Rat Within the Grain
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[Verse 1] / This would not have happened / If I hadn't missed my plane / I would've been there when they told you / I'm the rat within the grain / Within this big misunderstanding
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Damien Rice – Forgotten deers
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She opens her eyes / And it is cold / She tries to cry / But she feels too old / And I have been over this before / Now walk between your hands / To the loneliest embrace / In the
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Damien Rice – Elephant
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Alludes to “The Blower’s Daughter,” a song on Damien Rice’s O. Rice wanted to actually name it “The Blower’s Daughter Part II”. Interestingly, chord progression and the crescendo
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Damien Rice – Me, My Yoke and I
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My drum, my drum, my drum / Gonna make ya / My drum, my drum, my drum / Gonna make ya come / My book, my book, my book / Gonna make ya / My book, my book, my book / Gonna make ya
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Damien Rice (Ft. Lisa Hannigan) – 9 Crimes
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“9 Crimes” is a beautiful, melancholic ballad following the guilt of infidelity and sought forgiveness. It is the debut single from Damien Rice’s second album, 9, and a duet
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