Drake, Nick - Way To Blue Lyrics






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?





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  1. M.... B....

    Such a cheerful bugger is he that maybe someone should report him for toxic emissions of sadness and despair!.

  2. K.... H....

    I imagine a medieval troubadour would sound just like this. The beauty, the simple genius of the words and melody....heavenly. Timeless. Eternal.

  3. A.... K....

    Breathtakingly siiik

  4. K.... S....

    Crying like a baby.

  5. K.... S....

    Haven't listened to this for 15 years. Now I remember why. Happiness isn't something you experience - it's something you remember (Oscar Levant). God this shakes me to the soles of my feet. Poor Nick.

  6. p.... ....

    And still no footage of the adult Nick? Although the brief YouTube clip of the back of a tall willowy man at a festival is compelling

  7. a.... ....

    mi meraviglio sempre di quanta bellezza avesse dentro quest'uomo

  8. k.... f....

    I came up with other ways to love ,new northern sky and several similar titles when shortly after this I found nick weird but not so weird if your an artist he did inspire my open c tuning and the songs just came my roommate at the time freaked out

  9. k.... f....

    yes!!!!!! whiners are rewarded if they hang in long enough I mean look at the fake news learn the truth about the ages coming chickens coming home to roost lol I mean I was affected directly by the fake news essentially my family faked homelessness to gain a go fund total of 200 000 dollars wow talk about hurting yes mediocrity rules

  10. M.... C....

    While I prefer the Five Leaves Left version of this song, this version fits with the video. Just piano and nicks raw voice lends to the sadness while viewing the images of him as a baby and a little boy. The hope, the bright future and the promise that was cruelly ripped away upon his death. Such a beautiful soul and rare artist. Nick, you are much mourned.

  11. L.... D....

    When you need to cry he will pull it out of you.

  12. K.... B....

    Hmm. Interesting song. Another melancholy one from his collection. This song is a little too sorrowing for me.

  13. B.... N....

    Thank you so much !!!

  14. F.... A....

    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?

  15. f.... 2....

    Beautiful Nick, thank you for your music x

  16. P.... L....

    Cubensis Revealed...

  17. P.... L....

    Such A Wondrous Soul...

  18. b.... ....

    I recently acquired Pink Moon. He was a unique talent, for sure. This strikes me as the music people listen to just before slitting their wrists. The guy sure felt things deeply, and that's not a criticism of his art. On a sidenote, I came to this song because I was worried that he made a common mistake in that he was meaning to say he was "Way Too Blue". Happy to see I was wrong. The struggles of grammar naht-see's are real.

  19. L.... M....

    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?

  20. K.... P....

    I am always blue when Nick Drake is with me

  21. P.... f....

    1.48(Look through time find your eye tell us what you find, we will wait at your gate hoping like the blind..) sublime lyrics such emotion.. Nick has guided me through some deep moods.. Thankyou forever ❤️

  22. s.... ....

    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
    Tell us all today
    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?

  23. G.... G....

    This was the first Nick Drake song I’ve heard and I fell in love right away.

  24. D.... M....

    ThInGs BeHiNd tHe SuN A Nick Drake memoir & tribute.His music,melancholia & magic.

  25. M.... A....

    Otherworldly. Sounds almost like a personal demo being worked out on a piano, just lovely and melancholic.

  26. K.... O....

    No way did Nick Drake not understand his own massive talent. But depression beats to its own drum. sadly. That is why his music touches so many.

  27. G.... A....

    Lindo,simplesmente original

  28. J.... V....

    "Way To Blue" by Nick Drake, track 4 from his 1969 debut album "Five Leaves Left." https://youtu.be/S40DdlD9JxI

  29. L.... ....

    Are they all original shots? Underwater shots had to be difficult at that time. I find it hard for my heart, I like his songs. He is still an unappreciated musician. His mother was very nice woman.

    L.... ....

    Did u know Mollie? I would have loved to have met her. Nick died 3 months before I was born. I discovered his music about a year ago and have been a huge admirer since. I'm not sure but I think the underwater shots and some of the scenery was edited in. They don't seem to have the same graininess as the home movies.

  30. C.... B....

    no words can describe how perfect this is.

    C.... B....

    Isn't it just the most incredible sound to ever hear.I adore his music but this...xxx

  31. D.... ....

    Today, it almost hurts to listen to this.

  32. o.... ....

    I absolutely love this; lyrics on point! :)

  33. G.... S....

    I always thought the title of the song could have been: „Way ‚too‘ Blue“. Too instead of to ...

  34. C.... M....

    If angels exist, Nick Drake is one of them...

  35. L.... J....

    A simple , beautiful song.

  36. C.... B....

    He was so ahead of his time...

  37. m.... d....

    poignant

  38. O.... m....

    Make this available please.

  39. I.... H....

    It’s very sad that a little-known musician is having his incredible music pulled from public sight. How very sad.

  40. J.... L....

    Beautiful video!

  41. D.... M....

    Tragic , His death.Amazing works of art.His work will always be treasured.

  42. L.... J....

    such simple beauty in this song..timeless.

  43. F.... J....

    he was a smoker? Bad for your health nick

  44. G.... S....

    told my friend to listen the Nick Drake song and he heard Drake Hotline bling and he said..you had awful taste..watahael??What are you listen to dude?this..he showed me and i laugh so hard and want to piss my pants off

  45. S.... ....

    Reminds me a little bit of XTC's _stunning_ song 'Rook'. At least, some parts of 'Rook' Either way, they're both fantastic songs!

  46. s.... j....

    Excellent video for this excellent track

  47. K.... S....

    Very difficult to listen to this song. I generally skip over it. Too painful. And this video makes it so much harder! Tragically beautiful.

  48. M.... R....

    "Can you understand/The light among the trees?" Yes, I can - the way that beauty can convey something unspeakable, and sometimes it reminds you that life is all too much and sometimes it's not enough - and sometimes it's both at the same time.
    Clinical depression is shit.

  49. F.... t....

    This takes you through so many emotions.. despair, hope, despair again and over and over until you get that glimmer of hope at the end. Beautiful.

    F.... t....

    The only thing I could find more beautiful than this song was your profile picture. <3

  50. O.... m....

    Not available. Total disgrace I want to hear this song.

  51. A.... O....

    Sheeran's latest video got 5times more views in as many hours as this track has in nine and a half years..... Muse upon that for a moment. O*D

  52. I.... J....

    This video is not available. I'm sure Nick would've been proud.

  53. H.... L....

    Am I really high !?!?!? Oh wait no I'm just listening to Nick Drake.

  54. b.... ....

    Nick Drake was still virtually unknown to anyone in the mid 1980s, I first got played a record by him in 1985, just before the first tranche of early re-releases. It was at this point that interest amongst a few grew, Pink Moon, the only fanzine at the time was our only source of information. People shared his records like a religion and those that knew spread the word. He's one of those artists who inspires an evangelical zeal amongst his fans. I listened to the Dutch radio interviews with him and the home recordings when the only way you could get hold of them was on cassette.

    Really it's the internet and a highly intelligent marketing strategy that has brought him to the world's attention and put his records in Sainsbury's supermarkets. I can remember the day I first heard one of his songs being used as background on a documentary. And frankly if you can recall the surprise you felt as you realised he was becoming known and more mainstream, then you were one of the reasons his popularity and reputation has grown.

    Nick was ignored at the time because he wouldn't engage, not just because people didn't engage with him. He let's you into your own soul with his music..

  55. B.... ....

    Great video. We are very fortunate that there are so many good photos and footage of his infancy. And yet there's no footage of him playing live or even just playing.

  56. p.... ....

    Blue! - 'Tis the life of Heaven - the domain
    of Cynthia - the wide palace of the sun...
    John Keats

  57. R.... Z....

    Cadrai mai quando la luce si sarà spenta?

  58. T.... I....

    as a boy he looks similar to the murder victim Roy Tutil.

    T.... I....

    Why would u say something like that?
    !!

  59. m.... w....

    https://www.facebook.com/Nick-Drake-Five-Leaves-Left-1684909638418028/
    Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

  60. P.... H....

    Could Nick Drake have been the predecessor for the English shoe gazer bands and the 4AD label of the 1990s? When I was performing and writing songs (1990s), I leaned towards melancholy too. I am one of the lucky ones to have healed my chronic depression. I wonder what would have happened had Nick been born into a different era?

    P.... H....

    He wouldn't have been Nick, the Nick you recognise at least.

  61. P.... v....

    Does anyone know if this version was published on CD? If so, which one?

    P.... v....

    +Peter van Zalm Theres another version with the strings fam. So good

  62. a.... ....

    This is from 1969? A lot of his work sounds much more modern than the era it was written in.

    a.... ....

    Sounds like 2000s.

    a.... ....

    adamscott That’s cause it was played acoustically & well recorded...a good song well realised i.e well played, simply and beautifully arranged & recorded will always stand the test of time (<#

    a.... ....

    He genius like Beethoven with his piano

    a.... ....

    He genius like Beethoven with his piano

    a.... ....

    Great chord work, even on piano. His guitar tunings and strumming were also pretty advanced.

  63. D.... M....

    Does anyone know the way to blue?This version hits you like a freight train.

    D.... M....

    This was the first version I heard (this video, in fact) and I can never get used to the album version.

  64. s.... m....

    as you can stop the tears falling listening to this song. Beautiful soul...

  65. A.... G....

    The only drake I listen to

    A.... G....

    Haha yeah same here, I don't listen to drones.

    A.... G....

    Wow man what a comment 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

    A.... G....

    well you should listen to her mom's stuff too, google Molly Drake, and you'll see where Nick came from.

    A.... G....

    Bro groovy..

  66. D.... A....

    genius..

  67. O.... ....

    Yesterday's song of the day!

  68. R.... C....

    what went wrong, Nick? you lost your way, me as well. i paint, it keeps me alive in this dark.

    R.... C....

    Keep painting. <3

    R.... C....

    Keep fighting depression buddy!

  69. M.... V....

    what an excellent video!

  70. J.... J....

    In a word..... gorgeous

    J.... J....

    my kryptonite..

  71. S.... S....

    Happy Birthday Nick ♥ You will always have a special
     place in my heart! Forever..

  72. O.... J....

    Look through time and find your rhyme
    Tell us what you find
    We will wait at your gate
    Hoping like the blind.

    Yes we will, Nick. 
    Yes we are.

  73. R.... M....

    Lovely song! Fine photos and videos. We miss you Nick!

  74. I.... B....

    how don't remember this Pearl???

    I.... B....

    Italo Bino. I remembered & will never forget💜

  75. L.... C....

    I bought Pink Moon when it came out. I was 14 and I fell in love with Nick Drake. I bought the other 2 albums and loved him even more. I was heartbroken when he died, and still am when I listen to his songs. Depression is a terrible thing. He was extraordinary but didn't know it.

    L.... C....

    do watch, kleenex or no, very interesting. His sister is doing most of the talking, lovely and funny too sometimes. BtWay, thanks for writing!

    L.... C....

    My pleasure Harry! Well met, my dear.

    L.... C....

    that's beautiful

    L.... C....

    sorte a sua poder ter apreciado esta obra prima quando ele ainda estava vivo.

    L.... C....

    What a precious baby he was..He had a beautiful poetic sadness about him..This song describes for me, a different way of seeing the light among the trees...

  76. B.... N....

    wonderful...just wonderful...

  77. a.... a....

    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?

    a.... a....

    angela ancona ♥️

  78. J.... W....

    amazing video too, the music speaks for itself 

  79. C.... ....

    wow so there is video footage of him :)

    C.... ....

    +cspj12 yes but not as an adult. The video footage of him as a child is heart breaking. He looks so happy. It could all have been so different but if it was perhaps we wouldn't have all those wonderful songs.

  80. s.... ....

    Does anyone know if any live footage has been released of Nick as an adult/teenager?
    This is lovely, though. Thanks, Island Records.

    s.... ....

    He was very reclusive as an artist. Did not want to perform live, too shy to do anything to promote himself. I don't think there is any video of him performing live. He was way ahead of his time, only in the 21st century is his music finally appreciated for it's timelessness.

    s.... ....

    @ronnieguitar99 Shame. I was hoping for some home videos or Cambridge footage, at least, but I guess that if there was anything else they'd have released it by now.

  81. I.... A....

    ...tell us all today
    if you know the way to blue...

  82. L.... G....

    beautiful sadness

  83. K.... A....

    So beautiful, but in my opinion very under-rated. He's ineffable with enigmatic lyrics at the same time.  I wish Nick Drake was played on more than the Indie channels!  However I adore this song the most.

    K.... A....

    Nick Drake is practically mainstream now. :)

  84. R.... M....

    Nick Drake somehow manages to communicate the ineffable and intangible. This "cut-back",  version of  "Way to Blue", with its solitary strikes on the piano keyboard, conveys a sense of being at one with the ebb and flow of nature. It reminds me of  ephemeral innocence and transitory childhood. The poignant, paused notes that resonate from the piano keyboard in an empty room remind us all of our own mortality. It's such a beautiful song; and he appears to be such a joyful, pensive,  whimsical "nature child",  that it makes me cry.... His voice and music makes for such a transcendental experience! We lost him too soon and yet he takes us with him... xxx

    R.... M....

    Oh!  Indeed! Fine words, Rhona McGill 

    R.... M....

    wow beautiful put

  85. L.... ....

    The most beautiful song!

  86. M.... N....

    Look through time and find your rhyme. Tell us what you find..
    We will wait at your gate, HOPING like the blind!

    M.... N....

    Excellent!

  87. A.... C....

    Thank you Island records for this!  What a lovely thing to do for Nick's family, friends and MILLIONS of fans like me! 

  88. p.... ....

    Molto commovente vedere nick in queste immagini e filmati...maledetta depressione che se l`è portato via all`eta` di 26 anni!!! Non sarebbe dovuta finire cosi` la vita di questo genio e bellissimo ragazzo...le sue canzoni sono senza tempo...lui vive in noi che non abbiamo mai smesso di amarlo...e finche` avro` vita la sua musica mi accompagnera` nel cammino della vita....spero un giorno di vederlo e abbracciarlo in paradiso...ti ameremo per sempre!!!

  89. C.... ....

    in our culture, true talent is overlooked while mediocrity is celebrated.

    C.... ....

    +White Tigress agreed, whining goes well with seltzer !

    C.... ....

    K tiffy: You betcha. ;-)

    C.... ....

    We lambast achievement and laud envy.

    C.... ....

    Fruit Tree is basically about that.

  90. m.... ....

    Those opening chords have such a tragic feel to them. Played on a slightly out of tune piano, they reverberate with a profound sadness...

  91. S.... b....

    I had my heart broken and he sorted me out as we all have fallen at times. Trusting and forgotten. He makes me fly forever. I'm meeting him in heaven if I get there.

    S.... b....

    Thankyou for your understanding sometimes its hard to let go without being a little bitter. But that just eats you. i've already been chewew by a shark. Sue x

    S.... b....

    Trust in Jesus and you will :-)
    God bless :-)

  92. S.... E....

    I love this guy. When i'm feeling down, i listen "Way to Blue" and that isn't THE solution or a cure to my pain, but a live through those chords. Someway I get up again. And that's wonderful...

  93. H.... H....

    Thank you NPR and thank you PRX. The name of Drake is no longer a black mark in my musical repertoire. 

  94. A.... L....

    miracle
    <3

  95. K.... P....

    Oh Nick...

  96. D.... ....

    Nick shows us the way to blue with this song.

  97. K.... M....

    un genio adelantado a su epoca hoy dia seria tan grande como coldplay y u2

  98. T.... ....

    These wonderful images (of the child and his early world and the natural world) make a powerful and universal song even more moving