Lately
David Gray Lyrics
That the sky would lift
That I'd find my place
That I'd see your face in the door
And the sun would glint
An a time well spent
An a time that ain't no more
Taste the broken hearts
In the vacant lots
See the fruit that rots on the trees
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my mind always
Honey lately I've been way down
A load on my mind
Honey lately I've been way down
Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go
Darling I'm damned if I know
I seen that look in your eye
No-one ever gave it a chance
I could have said in advance
You saw it all at a glance
And goodbye
Drag a salted kiss
From this cup of bliss
Watch a new lie twist on the breeze
You can paint it red
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my head always
Honey lately I've been way down
A load on my mind
Honey lately I've been way down
Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go
Darling I'm damned if I know
I seen that look in your eye
No-one ever gave it a chance
I could have said in advance
You saw it all at a glance
And goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Honey lately I've been way down
Honey lately I've been way down
Honey lately I've been way down
Honey lately I've been way down
Lately
Lately
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: RISE BROTHERS, LAZONATE FRANKLIN, MACY GRAY, KAZ JAMES, HONEY LAROCHELL
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There are multiple artists by the name of David Gray, including:
1) a British singer-songwriter
2) an Italian disco musician
3) an American singer-songwriter
4) drummer for the British blackened death metal band Akercocke
5) a musician from South Africa
1) David Gray is a British singer-songwriter born on June 13, 1968 in Sale, United Kingdom. He released his first studio album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later in 1999. Read Full BioThere are multiple artists by the name of David Gray, including:
1) a British singer-songwriter
2) an Italian disco musician
3) an American singer-songwriter
4) drummer for the British blackened death metal band Akercocke
5) a musician from South Africa
1) David Gray is a British singer-songwriter born on June 13, 1968 in Sale, United Kingdom. He released his first studio album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later in 1999.
Gray moved to Wales at age 9 and later returned to the north-west of England to attend the University of Liverpool. His musical career got early support from a dedicated Irish fan base. After a few marginally-successful releases through the 1990s, Gray's breakthrough came with the worldwide release in 1999 of his fourth album, White Ladder; this was a critical and commercial success and included his best-known songs, "This Years Love" and "Babylon". In the United States, the album received a boost from jam-band leader Dave Matthews, who made it the first release by the record company he co-founded, ATO Records.
On August 11, 2001 White Ladder at last reached the top of the UK charts, having been selling steadily since its reissue the previous May, thereby setting a new record for the longest uninterrupted climb to No. 1. The follow-up, A New Day At Midnight, also hit No. 1, and Gray's seventh album, Life in Slow Motion was released on September 12, 2005.
Gray's early music was in a contemporary folk-rock, singer-songwriter mode; his primary instrument was acoustic guitar, with occasional piano. 1996's Sell Sell Sell featured some rock arrangements and electric instrumentation. Starting with the release of White Ladder in 1999, Gray began to make significant use of computer-generated music to accompany his voice and acoustic instrumentation, a technique which differentiates him from many of his peers. Despite the move to more complex music, Gray has used small-scale, often home-based, recording methods and equipment and espoused a "do it yourself" approach to music production. However, Life in Slow Motion is a collaboration with noted producer Marius De Vries.
David Gray's brothers-in-law are Paul and Phillip Hartnoll, formerly of the Techno/Rave band Orbital. Because of this relationship, Gray performed guest vocals on the Orbital single Illuminate, while Paul Hartnoll produced a breakbeat remix of Gray's song "Please Forgive Me".
His successful single "January Rain" was included in the original soundtrack of the movie Serendipity, starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale.
Pictures and additional information can be found on his website, www.DavidGray.com.
2) David Gray was an Italian disco musician who had a hit with "Dead in the Water"
3) David Gray is an American singer-songwriter
4) David Gray is drummer for the British blackened death metal band Akercocke
5) David Gray is a musician from South Africa
1) a British singer-songwriter
2) an Italian disco musician
3) an American singer-songwriter
4) drummer for the British blackened death metal band Akercocke
5) a musician from South Africa
1) David Gray is a British singer-songwriter born on June 13, 1968 in Sale, United Kingdom. He released his first studio album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later in 1999. Read Full BioThere are multiple artists by the name of David Gray, including:
1) a British singer-songwriter
2) an Italian disco musician
3) an American singer-songwriter
4) drummer for the British blackened death metal band Akercocke
5) a musician from South Africa
1) David Gray is a British singer-songwriter born on June 13, 1968 in Sale, United Kingdom. He released his first studio album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later in 1999.
Gray moved to Wales at age 9 and later returned to the north-west of England to attend the University of Liverpool. His musical career got early support from a dedicated Irish fan base. After a few marginally-successful releases through the 1990s, Gray's breakthrough came with the worldwide release in 1999 of his fourth album, White Ladder; this was a critical and commercial success and included his best-known songs, "This Years Love" and "Babylon". In the United States, the album received a boost from jam-band leader Dave Matthews, who made it the first release by the record company he co-founded, ATO Records.
On August 11, 2001 White Ladder at last reached the top of the UK charts, having been selling steadily since its reissue the previous May, thereby setting a new record for the longest uninterrupted climb to No. 1. The follow-up, A New Day At Midnight, also hit No. 1, and Gray's seventh album, Life in Slow Motion was released on September 12, 2005.
Gray's early music was in a contemporary folk-rock, singer-songwriter mode; his primary instrument was acoustic guitar, with occasional piano. 1996's Sell Sell Sell featured some rock arrangements and electric instrumentation. Starting with the release of White Ladder in 1999, Gray began to make significant use of computer-generated music to accompany his voice and acoustic instrumentation, a technique which differentiates him from many of his peers. Despite the move to more complex music, Gray has used small-scale, often home-based, recording methods and equipment and espoused a "do it yourself" approach to music production. However, Life in Slow Motion is a collaboration with noted producer Marius De Vries.
David Gray's brothers-in-law are Paul and Phillip Hartnoll, formerly of the Techno/Rave band Orbital. Because of this relationship, Gray performed guest vocals on the Orbital single Illuminate, while Paul Hartnoll produced a breakbeat remix of Gray's song "Please Forgive Me".
His successful single "January Rain" was included in the original soundtrack of the movie Serendipity, starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale.
Pictures and additional information can be found on his website, www.DavidGray.com.
2) David Gray was an Italian disco musician who had a hit with "Dead in the Water"
3) David Gray is an American singer-songwriter
4) David Gray is drummer for the British blackened death metal band Akercocke
5) David Gray is a musician from South Africa
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Zane S
"Lately"
That the sky would lift
That I'd find my place
That I'd see your face in the door
And the sun would glint
On a time well spent
On a time that ain't no more
Taste the broken hearts
In the vacant lots
See the fruit that rots on the trees
Try to turn my head
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my mind always
Honey lately I've been way down
A load on my mind
Honey lately I've been way down
Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go
Darling I'm damned if i know
I seen that look in your eye
No-one ever gave it a chance
I could have said in advance
You saw it all at a glance
And goodbye
Drag a salted kiss
From this cup of bliss
Watch a new lie twist on the breeze
You can paint it red
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my head always
Honey lately I've been way down
A load on my mind
Honey lately I've been way down
Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go
Darling I'm damned if i know
Iseen that look in your eye
No-one ever gave it a chance
I could have said in advance
You saw it all at a glance
And goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Honey lately I've been way down (x4)
That the sky would lift
That I'd find my place
Dream another face
That I'd find my place
That my mind would shift
Like a new snow drift
Then I'd find my place
Gotta find my place
Honey lately I've been way down (x4)
Lately
Lately
Lately
Lately
Been walkin' down dead ends
Disappearing down dead ends
Stranger to my friends
Been lost inside dead ends
Through the smoke rings of my mind
Through the rocky ruins of time
Down past the haunted trees
Out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Seen it through a painted glass
Watchin' the whole stinkin' thing slide past
Lately
Honey lately I've been way down (x4
Lately (repeat)
-David Gray
OMG my beating heart and this song! It's EXACTLY what I'm going thru. To the smallest letter. Thank god for artist's like David Gray. A songwriter with a poets heart and a fearless tongue.
Julian Vickery
"Lately" by English singer, songwriter David Gray from "Live in Slow Motion", 2006 - with a nice nod to Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" to boot. https://youtu.be/RHNC_9jNnG0
These are the lyrics as they originally appeared on the album version of the song:
That the sky would lift
That I'd find my place
That I'd see your face in the door
And the sun would glint
And a time well spent
And a time that ain't no more
Taste the broken hearts
In the vacant lots
See the fruit that rots on the trees
Try to turn my head
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my mind always
Honey lately I've been way down
A load on my mind
Honey lately I've been way down
Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go
Darling I'm damned if I know
I seen that look in your eye
No-one ever gave it a chance
I could have said in advance
You saw it all at a glance
And goodbye
Drag a salted kiss
From this cup of bliss
Watch a new lie twist on the breeze
You can paint it red
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my head always
Honey lately I've been way down
A load on my mind
Honey lately I've been way down
Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go
Darling I'm damned if I know
I seen that look in your eye
No-one ever gave it a chance
I could have said in advance
You saw it all at a glance
And goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Honey lately I've been way down
Honey lately I've been way down
Honey lately I've been way down
Honey lately I've been way down
Lately
Lately
Stacy Steele
Do you ever get so caught up in wanting and needing something so bad, you have this fire that feels like it's eating a hole deep inside of you?
Morning or night, it doesn't leave you be, ever. Somedays are clearly better than others, but there are those days when you can't think of nothing else. And even sometimes, the fire burns so damn hot, it's hard to breathe...yeah.
The uphill climb to chasing a dream, and I know at some point soon, I'm going to have to let it all go and trust it in the hands of fate.
And that, my friends, is where the fear lies.
In the unknowing. In the place where control isn't allowed.
But for now, I will try to just catch my breath. And Breathe.
t witherspoon
This is just amazing. It's hard to listen and not be moved, no matter how many times I put it on repeat. It freezes me, simply brilliant.
Not Telling
Agree, too. Angels are onstage in this version.
Corey Campbell Contractors ltd
You and me both....
Amazing
Cliff Schooling
I so much agree
Jonathan Holleb
I love how he just adds additional lyrics, seemingly off the top of the head, in this version... "That my mind would shift, like a new snow drift." "Been walking down dead ends. A stranger to my friends." "Seen it through a pane of glass. Watching the whole stinking thing slide past."
Jonathan Holleb
@Greg Howard You aren't wrong. A few of the lines are from Dylan. But, he also adds more of his own.
Jonathan Holleb
@Greg Howard Yeah, but those added lyrics here aren't in Mr. Tambourine Man. Sometimes he adds the whole "Smoke rings of my mind. Foggy ruins of time" part to this song though.
Greg Howard
So something crazy about that...the lyrics Gray rattles off is actually from Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man! Let me know if I just blew your mind...because it did me when I realized it:)
Zane S
"Lately"
That the sky would lift
That I'd find my place
That I'd see your face in the door
And the sun would glint
On a time well spent
On a time that ain't no more
Taste the broken hearts
In the vacant lots
See the fruit that rots on the trees
Try to turn my head
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my mind always
Honey lately I've been way down
A load on my mind
Honey lately I've been way down
Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go
Darling I'm damned if i know
I seen that look in your eye
No-one ever gave it a chance
I could have said in advance
You saw it all at a glance
And goodbye
Drag a salted kiss
From this cup of bliss
Watch a new lie twist on the breeze
You can paint it red
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my head always
Honey lately I've been way down
A load on my mind
Honey lately I've been way down
Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go
Darling I'm damned if i know
Iseen that look in your eye
No-one ever gave it a chance
I could have said in advance
You saw it all at a glance
And goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Honey lately I've been way down (x4)
That the sky would lift
That I'd find my place
Dream another face
That I'd find my place
That my mind would shift
Like a new snow drift
Then I'd find my place
Gotta find my place
Honey lately I've been way down (x4)
Lately
Lately
Lately
Lately
Been walkin' down dead ends
Disappearing down dead ends
Stranger to my friends
Been lost inside dead ends
Through the smoke rings of my mind
Through the rocky ruins of time
Down past the haunted trees
Out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Seen it through a painted glass
Watchin' the whole stinkin' thing slide past
Lately
Honey lately I've been way down (x4
Lately (repeat)
-David Gray
OMG my beating heart and this song! It's EXACTLY what I'm going thru. To the smallest letter. Thank god for artist's like David Gray. A songwriter with a poets heart and a fearless tongue.
77juliebug
No one touches my soul like this musical genius.