He approached his music with a new found freshness and decided to put some songs down on record. His grandmother told him he had a distant cousin in London in the music business. Borrowing money from those that would lend it, he recorded his demo and sent it off to his cousin, renowned producer and film composer, David Arnold (Bjork, James Bond). Arnold liked what he heard and provided enough money for Damien to buy his own mobile studio.
Damien Rice formerly sang with Lisa Hannigan and released his debut solo album, O, in Ireland in early 2002. In July 2002 O was released in the UK and it received widespread critical acclaim. In June 2003 O was released in the USA and Europe, with Rice appearing on The Letterman Show and receiving more acclaim from publications such as Rolling Stone, Newsweek and The Boston Globe. Arnold joined him on stage in New York to perform a version of the Bjรถrk/Arnold track Play Dead.
He gained further popularity after some of his most famous songs were included in the media. An example of this is 9 Crimes used in the soundtrack of the summer blockbuster Shrek Three and The Blower's Daughter was featured in the movie Closer. Delicate was also featured in the hit T.V. show Lost.
Damien Rice is an intense live act - with emphasis laid on emotional intensity and experiments, rather than technical perfection. At a 2005 concert, for instance, he threw out big cheeses to the audience. This can sometimes be more demanding for the listener than the radio hit edit of the song Cannonball suggests. 'Cannonball' was re-mixed in 2004, for UK radio, to make it more radio-friendly. Rice later was reported to be very unhappy with it, saying to Tom Dunne on PetSounds (Today FM) that he did not "...really like it". He stated that he had allowed the remix to go through only if he signed a contract that would forbid anyone from ever remixing one of his songs ever again.
Damien spent 2004 and 2005 recording the follow-up to O. The album, 9, was released in Ireland on November 3, 2006, on November 6 in the rest of Europe, and in North America on November 14, 2006. Even though the new album maintained Rice's sense of "emotionality," some argued that it did so through volume and intensity rather than with the reflection and lyrical commentary that characterized his first release, O.
Rice has also developed a reputation as a live performer, selling out at venues across Europe and the United States. He is a performer who gives a lot of himself to the audience.
As of March 25th, 2007, this was posted on the Damien Rice official website: After much thought and discussion Damien has decided that his professional relationship with Lisa Hannigan has run its creative course. As a result Lisa will not be appearing at any of the upcoming live shows. Lisa is embarking on her own artistic endeavours and there are no plans for them to work together in the foreseeable future. The current band on tour at the moment are - Damien Rice, Joel Shearer, Shane Fitzsimons, Tom Osander, and Vyvienne Long.
Rumors that Damien Rice is currently dating Mรฉlanie Laurent, a French actress, has not been verified. However, there have been reports that he is working with the actress to record her debut album.
Fuck You
Damien Rice Lyrics
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They say be true, don't stain your bed
We do what we need to be free
And it leans on me like a rootless tree
What I want from us is empty our minds
We fake the thoughts, and fracture the times
We go blind when we've needed to see
And this leans on me, like a rootless...
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
There's nothing in you
And did you hate me, hate me, hate me, hate me so good
That you just let me out, let me out, let me out
Of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
What I want from this
Is learn to let go
No not of you
Of all that's been told
Killers re-invent and believe
And this leans on me, like a rootless...
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
There's nothing in you
And did you hate me, hate me, hate me, hate me so good
That you just let me out, let me out, let me out
Of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out
Let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Fuck you, fuck you, love you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
It's nothing in you
And did you hate me, hate me, hate me, hate me so good
That you just let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out
Let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out
Let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
The lyrics to Damien Rice's song "Fuck You" are about letting go of past hurts and moving on. The opening lines, "What I want from you is empty your head, they say be true, don't stain your bed," suggest that the singer is looking for honesty and vulnerability, but at the same time wants the other person to let go of their negative thoughts and emotions. The second verse continues this theme with "What I want from us is empty our minds, we fake the thoughts, and fracture the times, we go blind when we've needed to see," indicating that both parties need to let go of their past experiences and start anew. However, the singer acknowledges that this is not an easy feat and that we can't always control how we feel. The line "And this leans on me like a rootless tree" is an emotive metaphor indicating that the consequences of our actions will always weigh on us, even if they happen without intention.
The chorus of the song repeats the line "fuck you," suggesting that the singer is trying to release their anger and frustration at the other person. However, as the song progresses, the lyrics take on a more reflective tone, with lines like "What I want from this is learn to let go, no not of you, of all that's been told." This suggests that the singer wants to move beyond their pain and let go of the past, rather than just lashing out in anger. The song ends on a combination of "fuck you" and "love you," indicating that the singer still cares for the other person, but needs to let go of their negative emotions in order to move on.
Line by Line Meaning
What I want from you is empty your head
I want you to let go of your thoughts and clear your mind
They say be true, don't stain your bed
One should be honest and not regret their actions
We do what we need to be free
We make the choices that will make us feel liberated
And it leans on me like a rootless tree
The consequences of our actions weigh on me heavily and it feels like I have no support
What I want from us is empty our minds
I want us to release our thoughts and be present in the moment
We fake the thoughts, and fracture the times
We pretend to have certain thoughts or emotions and it ruins the moment
We go blind when we've needed to see
We often fail to recognize the issues that needed our attention
And this leans on me, like a rootless...
The consequences of our actions and choices weigh heavily on me and it feels like I have no support
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
Expressing anger or frustration towards someone
And all we've been through
Despite everything we have been through together
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
Let go of the past and move forward without dwelling on it
There's nothing in you
You are not worth my time or energy anymore
And did you hate me, hate me, hate me, hate me so good
Did you hate me so much that you treated me well just to hurt me?
That you just let me out, let me out, let me out
You let me leave that situation because you didn't care enough to hold on
Of this hell when you're around
The pain and suffering I experienced when I was with you
What I want from this
I want to learn from this experience
Is learn to let go
I need to learn to move on from this and not hold onto it
No not of you
Not let go of you specifically, but of the negative emotions and memories associated with you
Of all that's been told
Let go of all the stories and rumors that have been spread about me
Killers re-invent and believe
Criminals often make up their own justifications for their actions and convince themselves of its validity
And this leans on me, like a rootless...
The consequences of our choices and actions weigh heavily on me and I have no support
Fuck you, fuck you, love you
Despite the anger and frustration, there is still love there
It's nothing in you
You have nothing to offer me anymore
Let me out, let me out, let me out
I want to be released from the negative emotions and memories associated with you
Hell when you're around
Being in your presence causes me emotional distress
Contributed by Mia E. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@user-ek7vg4gi3e
what i want from you is empty your head
๋์๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋๊ฒ ์๋ค๋ฉด ๋์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฉ์ถ๋ ๊ฒ
they say be true, don't stain your bed
์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์์งํด์ง๋ผ๊ณ ํ๊ณ ํํํ์ง๋ง๋ผ๊ณ ๋ ํด
we do wat we need to be free
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ทธ์ ์์ ๋กญ๊ธฐ ์ํด ํด์ผํ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ํ ๋ฟ์ด์ผ
and this leans on me, just like a rootless tree
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ๋ง ๋จ์ ๋๋ฌด์ฒ๋ผ ๋ ์ง๋๋ฌ
what i want from us is empty your minds
์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋ค๋ฉด ๋ง์์ ๋น์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ
we fake a fuss and fracture the times
ํธ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ ๋ ์ฒ์ ํ๊ณ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ท ์ด์ ๋ด
we go blind when we've needed to srr
์ ์ ๋ด์ผํ ๋์ ๋์ด ๋ฉ์ด๋ฒ๋ ค
and this leans on me , just like a rootless
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๊ฑด ๋ ์ง๋๋ฌ ๋ง์น ๋ฟ๋ฆฌ ์๋...
so fuck u
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊บผ์ ธ๋ฒ๋ ค
and all we've been through
์ง๋์จ ๋ชจ๋ ์๊ฐ๋
i said leave it
๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ด๋ฒ๋ ค ๋ฌ
it's nothing to you
์๋ฌด ๊ฒ๋ ์๋์์
and if you hate me
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ์ซ์ดํ๋ค๋ฉด
then hate me so good that you can let me out
๋ ๋ณด๋ผ ์ ์์ ๋งํผ ์ฆ์คํด์ค
let me out of this hell when you're around
๋ค๊ฐ ์๋ ์ด ์ง์ฅ์์ ๋ด๋ณด๋ด์ค
let me out
๋ ํด๋ฐฉ ํด์ค
and fuck you fuck you i love you
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊บผ์ ธ. ๊บผ์ ธ๋ฒ๋ ค .๋ ์ฌ๋ํด
and all we've been through
์ง๋์จ ๋ชจ๋ ์๊ฐ๋
i said leave it
๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ด๋ฒ๋ ค ๋ฌ
it's nothing to you
์๋ฌด ์ผ๋ ์๋์์
and if you hate me
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ์ซ์ดํ๋ค๋ฉด
then hate me so good that you can let me out
๋ ๋ณด๋ผ ์ ์์ ๋งํผ ์ฆ์คํด ์ค
let me out df this hell when you're around
๋ค๊ฐ ์๋ ์ด ์ง์ฅ์์ ๋ด๋ณด๋ด์ค
let me out
์ ๋ฐ ๋ ๋์ ์ค
it's hell when you're around
๋ค ์กด์ฌ๋ ๋ด๊ฒ ์ง์ฅ์ด์ผ
@kevinjam2360
What I want from you is empty your head
Well they say be true, don't stain your bed
Well we do what we need to be free
And it leans on me just like a rootless tree
What I want from us is empty our minds
Well we fake a fuss and fracture the times
We go blind when we've needed to see
And this leans on me just like a rootless
So fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me
Then hate me so good that you can let me out, let me out, let me out
Of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
What I want from this is learn to let go
No not of you, of all that's been told
But killers reinvent and believe
And this leans on me just like a rootless
So fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me
Then hate me so good that you can let me out, let me out, let me out
Of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out
And fuck you, fuck you, I love you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me
Then hate me so good that you can let me out, let me out, let me out
Of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out
Let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
It's hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, just let me out
Hell when you're around
@pianification
This song is so powerful
Last week I quit a shitty job and I walk out listening to it... it felt so good!!
@TheTadpoie
This song really, really speaks to me.
@tracierenshaw
Each persons YOU within song very different. Fantastic powerful "let me out". I walk taller during, after I listen
@leonardomoyotl7164
Sings and that voice voice with passion... love this song... when you remember that person...jajaja
@aimzeeee
cannot stop listening to this song.. fits soo well in my life right now
@BruceCruce
Just wanna remind you of the song incase you might have forgotten it now 11 years later
@csgoldengirl1
this is the perfect song,,,,,,,,,, wow
@jehyorke3715
E a melhor musica dele,
amo de mais
@marinanononsense
if you dont understand you havent been through this
@msjeopardy24
you should hear the version from the abbey road it is heart wrenchingly good..