Way To Blue

Don’t you have a word to show what may be done

Have you never heard a way to find the sun

Tell me all that you may know

Show me what you have to show

Won’t you come and say

If you know the way to blue

Have you seen the land living by the breeze

Can you understand a light among the trees

Tell me all that you may know

Show me what you have to show

Tell us all today 

If you know the way to blue?

Look through time and find your rhyme

Tell us what you find

We will wait 

At your gate

Hoping like the blind

Can you now recall all that you have known

Will you never fall

When the light has flown

Tell me all that you may know

Show me what you have to show

Won’t you come and say

If you know the way to blue?

Nick Drake

Things behind the sun

Please beware of them that stare

They’ll only smile to see you while 

Your time away

And once you’ve seen what they have been

To win the earth just won’t seem worth

Your night or your day

Who’ll hear what I say?

Look around you find the ground

Is not so far from where you are

But don’t be too wise

For down below they never grow

They’re always tired and charms are hired

From out of their eyes

Never surprise

Take your time and you’ll be fine

And say a prayer for people there

Who live on the floor

And if you see what’s meant to be

Don’t name the day or try to say

It happened before

Don’t be shy you learn to fly

And see the sun when day is done

If only you see

Just what you are beneath a star

That came to stay one rainy day

In autumn for free

Yes, be what you’ll be

Please beware of them that stare

They’ll only smile to see you while 

Your time away

And once you’ve seen what they have been

To win the earth just won’t seem worth

Your night or your day

Who’ll hear what I say

Open up the broken cup

Let goodly sin and sunshine in

Yes that’s today

And open wide the hymns you hide

You’ll find renown while people frown

At things that you say

But say what you’ll say

About the farmers and the fun

And the things behind the sun

And the people round your head

Who say everything’s been said

And the movement in your brain

Sends you out into the rain

Nick Drake

Parasite

Lifting the mask from from a local clown 

Feeling down like him 

Seeing the light in a station bar 

And travelling far in sin 

Sailing downstairs to the northern line

Watching the shine of the shoes 

And hearing the trial of the people there 

Who's to care if they lose. 

And take a look you may see me on the ground 

For I am the parasite of this town. 

Dancing a jig in a church with chimes 

A sign of the times today 

And hearing no bell from a steeple tall 

People all in dismay 

Falling so far on a silver spoon 

Making the moon for fun 

And changing a rope for a size too small 

People all get hung. 

Take a look and see me coming through 

For I am the parasite who travels two by two. 

When lifting the mask from a local clown 

And feeling down like him 

And I'm seeing the light in a station bar 

And travelling far in sin 

And I'm sailing downstair to the northern line 

Watching the shine of the shoes 

And hearing the trials of the people there 

Who's to care if they lose.

And take a look you may see me on the ground 

For I am the parasite of this town. 

And take a look you may see me in the dirt 

For I am the parasite who hangs from your skirt.

Nick Drake

Day Is Done

When the day is done 

Down to earth then sinks the sun 

Along with everything that was lost and won 

When the day is done. 

When the day is done 

Hope so much your race will be all run 

Then you find you jumped the gun 

Have to go back where you began 

When the day is done.

When the night is cold 

Some get by but some get old 

Just to show life's not made of gold 

When the night is cold. 

When the bird has flown 

Got no-one to call your own 

Got no place to call your home 

When the bird has flown. 

When the game's been fought 

You speed the ball across the court 

Lost much sooner than you would have thought 

Now the game's been fought. 

When the party's through 

Seems so very sad for you 

Didn't do the things you meant to do 

Now there's no time to start anew 

Now the party's through. 

When the day is done 

Down to earth then sinks the sun 

Along with everything that was lost and won 

When the day is done.

Nick Drake