Nick Drake Lyrics

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Lyrics

Many say that Nick has left us with a small but very meaningful legacy.
Here we have a man who started to write and magic flew from his pen.
Some dare say his lyrics are immature, a young man talking about the things
that trouble many a youngster & that he never had the chance to 'grow' up in his lyrics.
Now you do him a favour and read the lyrics. Let them sink in. Think about them.
What feeling do they give you? Sense them. Then, only then, give your opinion.
Does this sound like someone who hardly knew about life?
Or perhaps more as someone... who knew too much...?

Sometimes melancholic in their meaning, one might easily mistake the lyrics for depressed words.
However, if you look closely, here's someone who had figured out things quite thoroughly.
Here's someone not afraid of telling it the way he sees things, someone who pays great attention
to everything around him & who can teach us a little lesson in the way we look at life...
In the way we live life...

The lyrics on these pages can be divided into two sections;
- songs written by Nick Drake himself -
- songs written by someone else, but Nick has sung them, so they have appeared on cd -

The Lyrics are in alphabetical order. Please click on a letter above the mentioned Lyrics to go to
the page with those Lyrics. Or go directly to the designated song by clicking on the title. When there
is a different author of the song than Nick himself, that author's name shall be mentioned next to the song.
Some additional differences in Nick's songs, in the way they appear in the booklet, in the way they are sung
or in other earlier versions of the songs, may occur as the songs were sometimes changed with time.
Please note that all Lyrics here have copyright. Using them without permission by the author
or by someone appointed (The Estate Of Nick Drake) to give agreement for use, is prohibited.