David Gilmour - Luck And Strange Album Lyrics
David Gilmour - Luck And Strange Lyrics
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The Piper's Call
Take these binds everlasting
Can't undo the voodoo that you do
And the knots that we fasten
Will not work themselves loose
Whatever it takes
Steer clear of the snakes
The road to hell is paved with gold, they'll tell you
All the things that you don't need, they'll sell you
Your conscience uncontrolled
And beauty to behold
The promise of eternal youth
The spoils of fame, a carpe diem attitude
The flamеs are high, the piper's call, contagious
A fixеr who will numb your pain, and strangeness
The wheels are hot, the hangover outrageous
This dealer, he will trade your soul for favours
But you'll reap what you sow
As I found long ago
The promise of eternal youth
The spoils of fame, a carpe diem attitude
Can't undo the voodoo that you do
And the knots that we fasten
Will not work themselves loose
Whatever it takes
Steer clear of the snakes
The road to hell is paved with gold, they'll tell you
All the things that you don't need, they'll sell you
Your conscience uncontrolled
And beauty to behold
The promise of eternal youth
The spoils of fame, a carpe diem attitude
The flamеs are high, the piper's call, contagious
A fixеr who will numb your pain, and strangeness
The wheels are hot, the hangover outrageous
This dealer, he will trade your soul for favours
But you'll reap what you sow
As I found long ago
The promise of eternal youth
The spoils of fame, a carpe diem attitude
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A Single Spark
These days of wild uncertain times I ask the empty skies
Who will keep things rolling, who to sing Hosannas to
The temple calls but I can't see what use my prayers will be
And will this world keep rolling with only good intentions
Still, it fills the eye this line of stone
Incense, icons, coming on strong
Here comes splendour, hallowed air
And is it wonder or
Despair bends my knee
The day's dying flame
Motes in its beam glitter and blaze
Say isn't it true that it's all through
In a single spark between two eternities
I'll watch the moon
Kick off my shoes, reach for my old guitar
Fed on milk and honeydew
What things can we undo
Desire bends my knee
The dying embers flame
Hungry to believe, but just the same
Isn't it true that it's all through
In a single spark between two eternities
Bittersweet the night's embrace, I'm thankful and afraid
So pray to keep things rolling, I've only good intentions
Who will keep things rolling, who to sing Hosannas to
The temple calls but I can't see what use my prayers will be
And will this world keep rolling with only good intentions
Still, it fills the eye this line of stone
Incense, icons, coming on strong
Here comes splendour, hallowed air
And is it wonder or
Despair bends my knee
The day's dying flame
Motes in its beam glitter and blaze
Say isn't it true that it's all through
In a single spark between two eternities
I'll watch the moon
Kick off my shoes, reach for my old guitar
Fed on milk and honeydew
What things can we undo
Desire bends my knee
The dying embers flame
Hungry to believe, but just the same
Isn't it true that it's all through
In a single spark between two eternities
Bittersweet the night's embrace, I'm thankful and afraid
So pray to keep things rolling, I've only good intentions
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Vita Brevis
These days of wild uncertain times I ask the empty skies
Who will keep things rolling, who to sing Hosannas to
The temple calls but I can't see what use my prayers will be
And will this world keep rolling with only good intentions
Still, it fills the eye this line of stone
Incense, icons, coming on strong
Here comes splendour, hallowed air
And is it wonder or
Despair bends my knee
The day's dying flame
Motes in its beam glitter and blaze
Say isn't it true that it's all through
In a single spark between two eternities
I'll watch the moon
Kick off my shoes, reach for my old guitar
Fed on milk and honeydew
What things can we undo
Desire bends my knee
The dying embers flame
Hungry to believe, but just the same
Isn't it true that it's all through
In a single spark between two eternities
Bittersweet the night's embrace, I'm thankful and afraid
So pray to keep things rolling, I've only good intentions
Who will keep things rolling, who to sing Hosannas to
The temple calls but I can't see what use my prayers will be
And will this world keep rolling with only good intentions
Still, it fills the eye this line of stone
Incense, icons, coming on strong
Here comes splendour, hallowed air
And is it wonder or
Despair bends my knee
The day's dying flame
Motes in its beam glitter and blaze
Say isn't it true that it's all through
In a single spark between two eternities
I'll watch the moon
Kick off my shoes, reach for my old guitar
Fed on milk and honeydew
What things can we undo
Desire bends my knee
The dying embers flame
Hungry to believe, but just the same
Isn't it true that it's all through
In a single spark between two eternities
Bittersweet the night's embrace, I'm thankful and afraid
So pray to keep things rolling, I've only good intentions
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Between Two Points
Broke an early promise
Put trust in an unknown
Fell headlong into the arms
Of the first that stirred me
Unsteadied a steady heart
And took me to a place I've never been
A place I've never been since...
Stopped hoping at an early age
Stopped guessing at an early age
Start accepting things from day one
And then things can't go too wrong
Just let them walk all over you
Laugh through the punches and the pain
Let the life-blood drain away from you
Thеy're right, you're wrong
And you can see it in the way thеy look at you
Feel it in the way they treat you
Always the last to know
Always the first to leave
And when the sky begins to fall
The blame - all along in you - is yours
Wakes you with a fever at five
Your guardian angel gives up the ghost
Just let them walk all over you
Laugh through the punches and the pain
Let the life-blood drain away from you
They're right, you're wrong
[Instrumental Break]
[David Gilmour]
And you can see it in the way they look at you
Feel it in the way they treat you
Always the last to know
Always the first to leave
Just let them walk all over you
(They're right, you're wrong)
Laugh through the punches and the pain
(They're right, you're wrong)
Let the life-blood drain away from you
(They're right, you're wrong)
They're right, you're wrong
Put trust in an unknown
Fell headlong into the arms
Of the first that stirred me
Unsteadied a steady heart
And took me to a place I've never been
A place I've never been since...
Stopped hoping at an early age
Stopped guessing at an early age
Start accepting things from day one
And then things can't go too wrong
Just let them walk all over you
Laugh through the punches and the pain
Let the life-blood drain away from you
Thеy're right, you're wrong
And you can see it in the way thеy look at you
Feel it in the way they treat you
Always the last to know
Always the first to leave
And when the sky begins to fall
The blame - all along in you - is yours
Wakes you with a fever at five
Your guardian angel gives up the ghost
Just let them walk all over you
Laugh through the punches and the pain
Let the life-blood drain away from you
They're right, you're wrong
[Instrumental Break]
[David Gilmour]
And you can see it in the way they look at you
Feel it in the way they treat you
Always the last to know
Always the first to leave
Just let them walk all over you
(They're right, you're wrong)
Laugh through the punches and the pain
(They're right, you're wrong)
Let the life-blood drain away from you
(They're right, you're wrong)
They're right, you're wrong
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Dark and Velvet Nights
I didn't think that this could be
All that unto death do we
'Til you managed the lock and magicked the key
After a night of hard drinking and ecstasy
It's softer than words that are spoken
Blackened on paper that's shredded and torn
Or carved into stones lying shattered and broken
Branches beckoned along the wrong path
Winding up in the past
And this dark and velvet night that surrounds us
This dark and velvet night, I will wrap around us
It's softer than words that are spoken
Or painted as slogans and flung to the lions
Written on slips as the punters wait smoking
A leap of faith, the odds sky-high
Said goodbye to your place or mine
Don't like to make promises that I can't keep
Don't want to hurt this old heart or wreck my sleep
Thinking how will we part?
Will I hold your hand or you be left holding mine?
Between this breath and then
There's this airlock of time
This airlock of time
And this dark and velvet night that surrounds us
This dark and velvet night, I will wrap around us
It's softer than words that were spoken
In the towers of great cities that toppled and drowned
Engraved on gold rings or some other love token
No walls, no bells to sanctify this dark and velvet night
All that unto death do we
'Til you managed the lock and magicked the key
After a night of hard drinking and ecstasy
It's softer than words that are spoken
Blackened on paper that's shredded and torn
Or carved into stones lying shattered and broken
Branches beckoned along the wrong path
Winding up in the past
And this dark and velvet night that surrounds us
This dark and velvet night, I will wrap around us
It's softer than words that are spoken
Or painted as slogans and flung to the lions
Written on slips as the punters wait smoking
A leap of faith, the odds sky-high
Said goodbye to your place or mine
Don't like to make promises that I can't keep
Don't want to hurt this old heart or wreck my sleep
Thinking how will we part?
Will I hold your hand or you be left holding mine?
Between this breath and then
There's this airlock of time
This airlock of time
And this dark and velvet night that surrounds us
This dark and velvet night, I will wrap around us
It's softer than words that were spoken
In the towers of great cities that toppled and drowned
Engraved on gold rings or some other love token
No walls, no bells to sanctify this dark and velvet night
Writer: David Gilmour, Polly Samson
Copyright: Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Copyright: Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Sings
Darling, turn back the clock
Give me time, make it stop
Let's hold back the news
Stay inside this cocoon
No doubting you
No doubting me
No doubt the mess we're in
Sail away in my dreams
Away on untroubled seas
From this worn-out world
That's torn apart at the seams
No doubting you
No doubting me
No doubt the mess we're in
Found a lifetime ago
Down the Portobello Road
Lovers' snapshots of delight
Those rosy days of black and white
Darling, don't make the tea
Stay and snooze here with me
I'm not ready for news
Or to leavе this cocoon
No doubting you
No doubting me
No doubt the mess wе're in
Seems a lifetime ago
Power cuts that shut us down at night
And the faces in my mind
Glowing amber in the candlelight
And behind the kitchen shelves
Something's lost there and out of sight
Young love's photographs
Growing old in black and white
[Instrumental Outro]
Give me time, make it stop
Let's hold back the news
Stay inside this cocoon
No doubting you
No doubting me
No doubt the mess we're in
Sail away in my dreams
Away on untroubled seas
From this worn-out world
That's torn apart at the seams
No doubting you
No doubting me
No doubt the mess we're in
Found a lifetime ago
Down the Portobello Road
Lovers' snapshots of delight
Those rosy days of black and white
Darling, don't make the tea
Stay and snooze here with me
I'm not ready for news
Or to leavе this cocoon
No doubting you
No doubting me
No doubt the mess wе're in
Seems a lifetime ago
Power cuts that shut us down at night
And the faces in my mind
Glowing amber in the candlelight
And behind the kitchen shelves
Something's lost there and out of sight
Young love's photographs
Growing old in black and white
[Instrumental Outro]
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Scattered
Take my arm and walk with me
Once more down this dusty old path
The sunset cuts the hill in half
Our shadows stretch back to touch the night
The light's fading, you say
But these darkening days
Flow like honey
These days slowing down
A whole life in a glance
The clearest light shines in the darkness
Shining on me
And we're still doing this dance
One step at a time
As the days slip by
As smooth as glass
The moments pass
And all these precious things you gave
That I've been holding in my hands
These grains of sand
A man stands in a river
Pushes against the stream
Time is a tide that disobeys
It disobeys me
These days slowing down
A whole life in a glance
The clearest light shines in the darkness
Still shining on me
And we're still doing this dance
The moon and the stars
As the days slip by
As smooth as glass
The moments pass
[Instrumental Break]
And all these precious things you gave
Falling through my hands
These worlds, this scattered sand
I stand in a river
Push against the stream
Time is a tide that disobeys
And it disobeys me
It never ends
Once more down this dusty old path
The sunset cuts the hill in half
Our shadows stretch back to touch the night
The light's fading, you say
But these darkening days
Flow like honey
These days slowing down
A whole life in a glance
The clearest light shines in the darkness
Shining on me
And we're still doing this dance
One step at a time
As the days slip by
As smooth as glass
The moments pass
And all these precious things you gave
That I've been holding in my hands
These grains of sand
A man stands in a river
Pushes against the stream
Time is a tide that disobeys
It disobeys me
These days slowing down
A whole life in a glance
The clearest light shines in the darkness
Still shining on me
And we're still doing this dance
The moon and the stars
As the days slip by
As smooth as glass
The moments pass
[Instrumental Break]
And all these precious things you gave
Falling through my hands
These worlds, this scattered sand
I stand in a river
Push against the stream
Time is a tide that disobeys
And it disobeys me
It never ends
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Yes, I Have Ghosts
[ Featuring Romany Gilmour ]
The heat of the sun stayed on through the night
Made spectres of strangers playing games with my sight
I passed through the station, a face in the crowd
The whistle was blowing, the barrier came down
There was my baby, in another's embrace
I called out her name in shame and disgrace
Yes, I have ghosts, not all of them dead
Making dust of my dreams, spinning round and around
Around in my head
Train on the tracks, teeth of the zip
The slider moves down, we were joined at the hip
Stealing the groove, the widening gap
Unfastening rails from a past with no map
Yes, I have ghosts, a fleeting sight
It's always the living that are haunting my nights
Where is the sweet soul that you used to be
Gone like a thistle that's blown on the breeze
I guess when it's over, this haunting will end
The waiting, the baiting, my killer, my friend
Yes, I have ghosts, not all of them dead
And they dance by the moon, millstones white as the sheet
On my bed
Writer: David Gilmour, Polly Samson
Copyright: Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Copyright: Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Luck and Strange
In the light before the dawn
Shadows shake in my peripheral
Mesmerise me, bring it on
Heart beats with fear here in the theatre of my soul
You see, I hope it will go on an' on
And when the curtain call is done
Morning always comes
It was a fine time to be born
De-mob happy street and free milk for us all
It was the right place to be sure
Those dreaming spires and, yeah, oh so pastoral
But let's hope it's not just luck and strange
A one-off peaceful goldеn age
That's a dark thought in the dark
Seek what you won't find, that is a wasted lifе
Or so the Ancients dropped by to tell me
They drank me dry but my, oh my, so far
Ah-ha
Quite the time to be a boy
Six-string masters of an expanding universe
It was a high time to be sure
Soaring and free from the bounds of the Earth
But let's hope it's not just luck and strange
A one-off peaceful golden age
That's a dark thought in the dark
Time for this mortal man to love the child that holds my hand
And the woman who smiles when I embrace her
These eyes stay dry but my, oh my, guitar
Shadows shake in my peripheral
Mesmerise me, bring it on
Heart beats with fear here in the theatre of my soul
You see, I hope it will go on an' on
And when the curtain call is done
Morning always comes
It was a fine time to be born
De-mob happy street and free milk for us all
It was the right place to be sure
Those dreaming spires and, yeah, oh so pastoral
But let's hope it's not just luck and strange
A one-off peaceful goldеn age
That's a dark thought in the dark
Seek what you won't find, that is a wasted lifе
Or so the Ancients dropped by to tell me
They drank me dry but my, oh my, so far
Ah-ha
Quite the time to be a boy
Six-string masters of an expanding universe
It was a high time to be sure
Soaring and free from the bounds of the Earth
But let's hope it's not just luck and strange
A one-off peaceful golden age
That's a dark thought in the dark
Time for this mortal man to love the child that holds my hand
And the woman who smiles when I embrace her
These eyes stay dry but my, oh my, guitar
Writer: David Gilmour, Polly Samson
Copyright: Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Copyright: Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Luck and Strange is the fifth studio album by the English guitarist and songwriter David Gilmour, released on 6 September 2024 by Sony Music. It was produced by Gilmour and Charlie Andrew. Gilmour said Andrew challenged him musically and was not intimidated by his past work with Pink Floyd.
Gilmour's wife, the novelist Polly Samson, wrote many of the lyrics, which she said addressed mortality and ageing. Their children contributed additional vocals, lyrics and instrumentation. The song "Luck and Strange" features keyboards recorded in 2007 by the Pink Floyd keyboardist, Richard Wright, who died in 2008.
The album also features a cover of the 1999 song "Between Two Points", originally by the British band the Montgolfier Brothers.
Luck and Strange became Gilmour's third number-one album in the UK. "The Piper's Call", "Between Two Points", "Dark and Velvet Nights" and "Luck and Strange" were released as singles. Gilmour is due to begin a tour in September 2024.
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, Gilmour and his family performed music on livestreams. Gilmour said this inspired him to "discard some of the past that I'd felt bound to" and explore new musical ideas. Gilmour felt Luck and Strange was his best work since the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon by his band Pink Floyd.
-Wikipedia
Performed By:
David GilmourGilmour's wife, the novelist Polly Samson, wrote many of the lyrics, which she said addressed mortality and ageing. Their children contributed additional vocals, lyrics and instrumentation. The song "Luck and Strange" features keyboards recorded in 2007 by the Pink Floyd keyboardist, Richard Wright, who died in 2008.
The album also features a cover of the 1999 song "Between Two Points", originally by the British band the Montgolfier Brothers.
Luck and Strange became Gilmour's third number-one album in the UK. "The Piper's Call", "Between Two Points", "Dark and Velvet Nights" and "Luck and Strange" were released as singles. Gilmour is due to begin a tour in September 2024.
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, Gilmour and his family performed music on livestreams. Gilmour said this inspired him to "discard some of the past that I'd felt bound to" and explore new musical ideas. Gilmour felt Luck and Strange was his best work since the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon by his band Pink Floyd.
-Wikipedia
Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Metal
Producer(s): David GilmourCharlie Andrew
Length: 43:21
Released: September 12th, 2024
Year: 2024