Patrick Watson

"Close To Paradise"

We're walking close to Paradise
And more than other days
Yes, I'm walking closer and closer
But not close enough
Yes, I'm walking closer and closer
But not close enough

Waking morning sunshine burns
'Cause you fall from where your felt you are
And you're running faster and faster
Oh, but the days they ain't slowing down
And don't you, don't you wanna be there, there right now

Yes, I'm walking closer and closer
But not close enough
Yes, I'm walking closer and closer
To Paradise
We'll promise that
To Paradise
We'll promise that

Hey lovely people down there
Let's fill that hole up in the sky
Don't be afraid to care
I'm sure you'll find yourself there
Hey lovely people down there
Let's fill that hole up in the sky
Don't be afraid to care
I'm sure you'll find yourself there

I'm sure you'll find yourself there
When you're down, hold on
I'm sure you'll find yourself there
When you're down, hold on
I'm sure you'll find yourself there

Close, close to Paradise

Daydreamer
Come talk to me now
Daydreamer, daydreamer
Come with me now

Don't, no you're sitting down
From your eyes
Is he sleeping anyhow?

You're sitting down, sweet eyes
Still I'm sleeping anyhow

But daydreamer, oh daydreamer
Wake me now
From for the early sunlight
Pan my heart away
Day dreamer, oh day dreamer

My daydreamer


Won't you stay inside your house
'Cause I don't feel so lonely when you are around

(Previous lines played backwards)
When you are around


Lay my head
Tie me out of my shoes
An' walk another place away from blues
When my head is heavy on my shoulders
Daydreamer gonna make it over

My daydreamer
Won't you stay inside your house
(previous lines backwards)

slip into your skin and spend the night
and get out of mine
walking the streets in dark
where lamps are the sunshine for the trees
oh for the trees

cause everybody needs somebody
to hold them down
oh everybody needs somebody
to hold them down
when your feet are leaving the ground
leaving the ground
leaving the ground


leaving the ground

be the blanket for my bones
be a place that i call home
slipped into your skin and spent the night
cause i feel like a different man
i feel it when i'm with you
when i'm with you
when i'm with you
when i'm with you

is it just me or do you feel a little strange
is it just me or do you feel a change
now is it me
how about you?

isn't it strange at times a little fast
isn't it strange that nothing ever lasts
well now is it me
how about you?

well now is it me
how about you?

don't be a fool
well don't be afraid
nothing's really ever supposed to last

now don't be a fool
well don't be afraid
everybody needs to breathe the air

isn't it funny the very angel through


where talk is like walking on broken glass
no need to feather im in the same as you
one of these days im gonna meet my matchmaker too

well don't be a fool
well don't be afraid
nothing's really ever supposed to last

oh, don't be afraid
everybody needs to breathe the air

oh, i feel i feel so alive
at the edge of the world

well now is it me
how about you?

well now is it me
how about you.

I got my feet knocked off the ground
I got my head knocked off my feet
I tried to swallow all of the world
And now I'm diving in too deep
And now I'm falling towards the sky
I just don't know how am I
But I got the weight of all the world
I better not let go of the reins

Oh what am I s'pposed to do
Am I s'pposed to echo all of you?
Am I s'pposed to fall back to the sky?
Or keep on rising for a while?

I think I'm fallin' down
I'm back to very ground
I couldn't hold it anymore


I've had my hours asking for
I think these nice to hold
Or I don't see how could I change my way
I was carrying the weight of all the world
I'm gonna get what I deserve
I got my feet knocked off the ground
I got my head knocked off my feet
I tried to spin it all away
I think I got in too deep
I think you know I have to go
I think you know what I deserve
Here comes the weight of all the world
And it's coming straight for me.

found himself out into the road
the dust up to his nose
put that anchor down
to find a place where he could go
'cause he was looking for the shelter
from the storm

you were looking for a place that you could call your own... you...

kept on, now walking past the signs you used to see
kept on getting used to dropping-anchor
in the sea
'cause you´re looking for a shelter of the storm
looks like news that storm is coming closer every day now...

uuu...

drove himself into a town
the roads were paved with gold
(all the roads were paved with gold)
eyes wide open, shutters closed
(eyes wide open, shutters closed)
just waiting for my time to know
(quarter to twelve is time to go)

the sorrow's hiding underground
the rain is falling upside down
(and the clouds are turning red like flames)

oh 'cause I'm looking for a shelter from the storm... 'cause she's getting closer every daaaaaaayyyyyyeyeyeyehey!

the storm is getting closer every day
the storm is getting closer every day
the storm is getting closer every day

every day

Sweet oh luscious life
Celebrate your dreams when you are away
Doesn't it taste so sweet?
Like it's growing on oh growing on the trees
Growing on the trees

When you pick me up off the ground
I'll slowly turn you from a frown
Sweet oh luscious life

My sweet oh luscious life
You taste so sweet
When you are so free
My sweet oh luscious life you taste so sweet to me



Hold time no need for the moment of the day
I celebrate I need I need you today

Was wondering of the day
To celebrate
To let it be
To feel so free
When you and me
In a sweet luscious life
For a minute of day
You taste so sweet

We are drifting away
Follow everyday
Soon we'll have nothing to say
We'll be too far away
We'll be too far away
Too far away

From where we started begins
Where we started away
We'll be too far away
Cause we are drifting
Follow everyday

When I will remember
Even if I'm drifting far away


But I will remember
Even if I'm fading all away
Out of my head and till the sea
Oh I want the ocean over me
And I though all the time to swallow off the shore
I couldn't find you anymore

You look great drifters
But it's more look great drifters
But it's more look great drifters
We are drifters away
We are drifters away

I was hiding underneath the sea here
I was looking out for me
To be a better man, to be a better man

I was hiding underneath the sea
I was looking out for me
Just me, the fish and the sea
Just me, the fish and the sea
Oh 'cause the music was so much louder



Just me, the fish and the sea
Just me, the fish and the sea
Hide from all your apathy

'Cause I was born a noise machine
Wait I still, I was born again

The great escape

by Patrick watson



Bad day, looking for a way, home, looking for the great escape

Gets in his car and drives away, far from all the things that we are

Puts on a smile and breathes it in and breathes it out, he says

bye bye bye to all of the noise

Oh, he says bye bye bye to all of the noise

Doo doo doo doo doo noo noo Doo doo doo doo doo noo noo noo noo

Doo doo doo doo doo noo noo Doo doo doo doo doo noo noo noo noo

Hey child, things are looking down. That's OK, you don't need to win anyways.

Don't be afraid, just eat up all the gray and it will fade all away

Don't let yourself fall down

Doo doo doo doo doo noo noo Doo doo doo doo doo noo noo noo noo

Doo doo doo doo doo noo noo Doo doo doo doo doo noo noo noo noo

Bad day, looking for the great escape.

He says bad day looking for the great escape

On a bad day, looking for the great escape, the great escape.

Oh those bright shinny lights
There shinning so bright
Casting a shadow
On all the simple things you used to own
Casting a shadow
On all the simple things you used to own

Oh those bright shinny lights
There shining so bright
Blinding the simple man
Oh what a sorrowful sight
Blinding the simple man
Oh what a sorrowful sight

Oh those bright shinny lights
There shinning so bright
There casting a shadow
Oh what a sorrowful sight
There casting a shadow
On all the simple things we used to own
There casting a shadow
Oh what a sorrowful sight

After all the flames
In the morning
Quiet ashes fell
For hours and hours
And in the morning rise
We planted our skin
Like a seed in the ground

So we dug ourselves a hole
And planted all our skin
Like a seed in the ground
To grow again

Where the fireweeds grow
Where the fireweeds grow
Where the fireweeds grow

Oh I got a feeling
And it's shaking in me now
I don't know the reason why

Oh I got a feeling
And it's burning in me bright
Burns me a hole straight through all of my heart

So I went down to the riverside
And I lay down there for hours

And I jumped into the rivers hands
As it washed away our hearts

And it shines so bright
And helps me to measure when there ain't any light
And it shines so bright
And helps me to measure when there ain't any light

Woke up in Beijing
With someone else's arms on me
Through someone else's life
That I'm not sure belongs to me

It was a sound of a city, speaks to me
It was a sound of a city, sings me a song for the lovely moments

Through someone else's eyes


Strangers, they don't look like mine
Through someone else's words
Just to take a break from mine

It was a sound of a city, speaks to me
It was a sound of a city, sings me a song for the lovely moments (x2)

I wish I'd be in your wooden arms
That'll swallow me into a thousand dreams
And held me close while wooden eyes
That weep just like a willow tree

I wish it would be in black and white


But at least I will sleep in your wooden arms tonight
In your wooden arms, in your wooden arms, in your wooden arms
In your wooden arms, in your wooden arms, in your wooden arms

Deep
Deep in the tallest clouds
A man lost his way
A 69 Chardonney
Sitting beside
There lays a traveling man
Who fell from the skies
Selling some piece of mind

A man
Swimming with sharks in his glass
Can't find his way
Convinced to the empty space


A traveling salesman
Fills in the gaps
He sells him the tools
To measure into the dark
A need divine
Selling the distance between us and sky
Selling the distance between us and sky

Selling the distance between us and sky
Selling the distance between us and sky

There was a house half way round the world
And I was invited in for a small taste of gin
There was a hall with a thousand birds long
But the biggest one of them all was in a cage too small

I asked the caretaker 'cause he was the Maker
He looked at me and laughed, took another sip from his glass and said
Open up your ears and hearts
You put a big bird in a small cage and he'll sing you a song
That we all love to sing along
To the sound of the bird that mourns

Well we rolled into town into sweet New Orleans
To the Apple Bell bar there was a hole in the wall


The ceilings weren't tall, the floors weren't grand
But the sound they made just warmed your heart

Well it was a quarter to twelve when the boys walked in
They got their black suits on and the songs would begin
You open up your ears and hearts
You put a big bird in a small cage and he'll sing you a song
That we all love to sing along
To the sound of the bird that mourns (x4)
You put a big bird in a small cage and he'll sing you a song (x5)

I knew a boy that was swallowed by the sky
By the flashing lights
I knew a man that got lost in the big dull blue
And came out alive

I knew a boy, I knew a man
Who looked a lot like you

I knew a time you could stand still beside
never rushing by
I knew a place you can go where your head could explode
Into peace of mind

I knew a time, I knew a place
That felt a lot like you
I knew a boy, I knew a man
Who looked a lot like you



Just like you

I knew a friend that would hold on to the flames
Keep them from burning you
I knew a smile
I could see through all of the stars
That the world had thrown

I knew a smile, I knew a friend
That looked a lot like you
I knew a boy, I knew a man
Who looked a lot like you

Life sings a heavy song
I put my wolf suit on
And I'll howl all the night
(...?)

To where the wild things are
I go where the wild things are

I take a boat to (...?)


And there's monsters that are chasing me all day long
But I ain't afraid where the wild things are
I go where the wild things are

Where the wild things are
I go where the wild things are

Got to keep on waiting for the morning hours
Watch them running by to where they're going

Cuz when you're upside down those nuts and bolts feel awfully strange
Are crowds of moments feeling all the same

Are you tired in the morning do you shout out loud
Got to keep on running when you're down
Gotta get out

Got to keep away from all those empty hands
That suck up all your love and all your cares

Best to trade it all in for those old dancing shoes
And get rid of all the weight that has been holding you down
Keep your toes from tapping on the ground

But we didn't know where to go from here
No we didn't know where to go from here
No we didn't know where to go from here
Cuz it all felt wrong
So we best be moving on
You better get out

In a crowd of people looking for a spark to catch
To put back in our mouths to set a flame

Cuz I didn't know what to say to you
No I didn't know what to say to you
No I didn't know what to say to you
I was just about to pack it in

But then I heard the news that you'd be here soon
And so I sang ah ah ah
You brought it back to me
You gave it back to me
You brought me back the love