Patrick "Paddy" Casey is an Irish singer-songwriter from Dublin. Paddy was discovered by Sony A&R Scout Hugh Murray at the International Bar in Dublin, while performing at the singer/songwriter night hosted by Dave Murphy. Paddy was signed by Sony, and was eventually taken in by U2's management company, Principle Management.
Paddy released his first album Amen (So Be It) in 1999 . This album was produced by Pat Donne and was certified double platinum. Casey played a range of different instruments in the time spent recording it, and the track Winter's Fire featured Mundy as a guest guitarist. Sweet Suburban Sky surfaced the following year on the soundtrack to the award winning US TV teen drama Dawson's Creek. Paddy received nominations for Best Irish Songwriter and Best Male Singer at the Hot Press Awards. Hot Press readers themselves voted the album Best Debut Album, as well as voting Paddy the year’s Most Promising Act and nominating him in seven other end of the year categories. Touring saw Casey providing support to artists like R.E.M., Ian Brown, Ani DiFranco and The Pretenders.
Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970 in Dublin, Ireland) is the Academy Award–winning principal songwriter and vocalist/guitarist for Irish group The Frames and one half of folk rock duo, The Swell Season. He is also known for his acting, having appeared in the BAFTA winning film The Commitments, as well as starring in the film Once. His song, "Falling Slowly", from Once, co-written with his co-star Markéta Irglová, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2007, and earned him ten other major awards or nominations between 2007-08.
Hansard quit school at age 13 to begin busking on local Dublin streets. He formed The Frames in 1990, and they've been staples of the Irish music scene ever since. Their first album, Another Love Song, was released on Island Records in 1991, and their most recent, The Cost, was released in 2006.[citation needed]
Hansard came to international attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the 1991 Alan Parker film The Commitments, after attending the New York Film Academy School of Acting. He has often stated that he regretted taking the role, because he felt it distracted him from his music career. In 2003, he presented the television programme Other Voices: Songs from a Room, which showcased Irish music talent on RTÉ.
Know you like to run away
Just a game you like to play
Pretend you're free for one day
And maybe give your heart away
And it might be good for you
So, whatever gets you true
So whatever gets you true
When an open fire just won't suffice
And your home's been built on sacrifice
Might sound good, but it is nice
And you rarely get to play with a rollin' dice
Like all those humans do
So whatever gets you true
So whatever gets you true
Know you like to stay out late
Waiting for some relevate
I know you like your whiskey straight
So your mind can elevate
Well me, I like elevators too
So whatever gets you true
So whatever gets you true
Well me, I'm only human too
So whatever gets you true
So whatever gets you true
Tonight, this loneliness has found you
Tonight, there's a darkness that surrounds you
Adjusts your state of mind
It's got you in this blind
You can't move, so you lay upon your bed
You run through, all the darkness in your head
And hope that sleep will bring
An end to everything
And this shadow, that's hanging over you
Makes it feel just like, well you won't make it through
So please just stay around
'Cause where there's life there's hope
And a heart gets found
Well you feel like your lost and left for dead
You've made real, all these ghosts inside your head
And these ghosts are so unkind
They adjust your state of mind
And this shadow, that's hanging over you
Makes it feel just like, well, you won't make it through
So please just stay around
'Cause where there's life there's hope
And a heart gets found
And this shadow that is hanging over you
Makes it feel just like, well, you won't make it through
Please just stay around
'Cause where there's life there's hope
And a heart gets found
Hey, what's hanging over you
How d'ya get so down?
How d'ya get so blue?
So please just stay around
Who was the lucky one
Who was the lucky one
Under the sun
Under the sun
Who was the lucky one
Who will not no doubt
And not no pain
Pilgrimage of desire
You were standing in the fire
Ya didn't know
You were runnin' on the track with a target on your back
Man ya didn't know
There was a devil in your mind
Keeping you blind with a light show
He kept ya occupied
So ya couldn't get wide
So ya couldn't grow
Man you were takin' in lies
Your lettin' out lies
You're never more the wise
You stumble
Ya saw prophets in pain,
Ya thought they were insane
Ya didn't show
Ya were heading their cries in a poor disguise
Ya didn't know
Ya saw angels in the crowd,
Weren't standin' proud
So it didn't show
Their wing's had been sliced,
They took the sacrifice
So someone else could go
You been takin' in lies
You letting out lies
You never more the wise
You stumble
Man you were takin' in lies
You letting out lies
You never more the wise
You stumble
Pilgrimage of desire
You were standing in the fire
Ya didn't know
You were runnin' on the track with a target on your back
Man ya didn't know
There was a devil on your mind
Keeping you blind with a light show
He kept ya occupied
So ya couldn't get wide
So ya couldn't grow
You were taking in lies,
You letting out lies
You never more the wise
You stumble
Yeah, you were takin in lies,
You letting out lies
You never more the wise
Are you listening, can you hear them?
In the silence low, can you hear them?
It's just a sound that was created, in a place that's been sedated
In a life that's been frustrated, in a need that's left unsated
It's a scream that has been stifled, someone's life that has been rifled
Not of the few but of the multitude, born hard and raised in the necessitude
Are you listening, can you hear them?
In the silence low, can you hear them?
It's the silent sound of anger, it's the silent sound of rage
It's the spirits cry for freedom, from their story in a cage
Where so much is left unspoken and by that very same token
Hearts and backs are broken 'cos so much is left unspoken
Are you listening, can you hear them?
In the silence low, can you hear them?
What would make him do it, has he no way to see through it?
Through the sound that's been created, in a life that's been frustrated
Are you listening, can you hear them?
In the silence low, can you hear them?
Are you listening, can you hear them?
Anyone can loose it all
Anyone can loose it all
If you don't heed your warnings call
Anyone can loose it all
Anyone can make a mess
Anyone can make a mess
Just take so much and make it less
Anyone can make a mess
When you got time and streets making saints and sinners
Ink on sheets makin' losers and winners
Well it's not what your dreams should be
Anyone can be a saint
Well anyone can be a saint
Well you just forget that you ain't
Well we can go and be a saint
Anyone can be a star
Well anyone can be a star
We'll just get in your car
And we can go and be a star
When you got time and streets making saints and sinners
Ink on sheets makin' losers and winners
Well it's not what your dreams should be
You know I wish we had more time
You know I wish we had more time
You know I think it was a crime
The things we waste trying to not waste our time
When you got time and streets making ends for beginners
Shuffling feets on these losers and winners
I am a refugee, I am a refugee
I can see you but you don't see me
I am a refugee, sometimes I'm just like a mirror
A reflection of what you ignore
The look on my face is just the disgrace
Of the child you locked outside your door
I am flesh and bone born of mother
From a home that ceases to be
I have walked these roads to long my friend
To return to my family, I was born in a different time
In a world not run by machines
I am part of a time that is no more
'Cept in my heart and in my dreams
Some men they call me unlucky
Some men they just call me weak
They look on with shame as if I am to blame
For something they dare not to speak
Most every place that I go
I am greeted with suspicious eyes
As if a man on his knees has some disease
That mankind must despise
I am flesh and bone born of mother
From a home that ceases to be
I have walked these roads to long my friend
To return to my family
I was born in a different time
In a world not run by machines
I am part of a time that is no more
'Cept in my heart and in my dreams
I am a refugee, I am a refugee
Like a ghosts I've returned
I was caught up and burned
In the machine that created me
I am flesh and bone born of mother
From a home that ceases to be
I have walked these roads to long my friend
To return to my family
I was born in a different time
In a world not run by machines
I am part of a time that is no more
'Cept in my heart and in my dreams
I was born in a different time
In a world not run by machines
I am part of a time that is no more
Come back sister now as fast as you can
well you know that i'm not as bad as they say I am
No fiend or foul, just the name of the game
well they all left just the way they came
Well I'm sure not feelin tough
and I'm sure not feelin tall
well I'm sure that you are not feeling me at all
you know I could be right cos I'm not sure that I am wrong
but I thought that time was meant for more than just getting along
so lets not just get along now
lets get along in style
cos' you know that i'm pretty sure that this is more worthwhile
I think it's time we gave this thing the hard-sell
cos love was meant to live and not mearly just to dwell
not just to dwell
I wanna hold your hand
start workin' on our promised land
well I dont think you understand
but this time we did some
work on our promised land
well tonight I wanna be that line
yeah the one that I just told you
and tonight i wanna be that story
yeah the one that I just sold you
lets take it to the land of fantasy where all things are real
where the enemy's not a ghost
but one you can touch and feel
no the chains they are not metal
no there only made of steel
where the magic's elemental and the right words can heal
lets become that dignity
become that grace
it's time to light your candle in a dark and lonely place
well in a dark and lonely place
well i'm not sure if you understand
but this time we did some
work on our promised land
I wanna hold your hand
start workin' on our promised land
well I dont think you understand
but this time we did some
work on our promised land
Come back sister now as fast as you can
well you know that i'm not as bad as they say I am
No fiend or foul, just the name of the game
well they all left just the way they came
I wanna hold your hand
start workin' on our promised land
well I dont think you understand
but this time we did some
work on our promised land
I wanna hold your hand
start workin' on our promised land
well I'm not sure you understand
but this time we did some
No, I am not out to get you
And I never meant to upset you, baby, baby
And I'm so glad that I met you
I do not think I will regret you, baby, baby
No, I am not out to get you
If you wanna leave then I must let you, baby
So take your hands from 'round my throat
I'll buy you a ticket for the boat to sail away from me
Just think how happy you could be
If you were far away from me
You and the friends inside your head
There'd be no need for me to be dead and you'd be free
You are right, I stand corrected
I've been a fool and I've neglected you lately, lately
So you can put your knife away
This is no way for grownups to play, baby, baby
No, I am not out to get you
If you wanna leave then I must let you, baby
So take your hands from 'round my throat
I'll buy you a ticket for the boat to sail away from me
Just think how happy you could be
If you were far away from me
You and the friends inside your head
There'd be no need for me to be dead and you'd be free
These days don't know how I'm coping
I've had to sleep with one eye open lately, lately
I pray that drunkenness will keep
You from my throat while I sleep lately, lately
No, I am not out to get you
If you wanna leave then I must let you, baby
So take your hands from 'round my throat
I'll buy you a ticket for the boat to sail away from me
Think how happy you could be
If you were far away from me
You and the friends inside your head
There'd be no need for me to be dead
Just think how happy you could be
If you were far away from me
You and the friends inside your head
Yeah, there'd be no need for me to be dead and you'd be free
No, I am not out to get you
Living in your town
Mankind's crowd
You try to say I'm lazy
I just call it living in your town
Well if everyone was just the same
Then some just play a different game
I call it living in your town
Living in your town
Living in this age
World so full of rage
You try to say I'm crazy
Sun comes up and life goes on its way
But inside these walls, they are taking yours away
And there in the dawn's calls, drifting out over it all
You are lying in the shadows ?neath the window
And you are leaving
This long day is gonna test your heart again
And though you are just a boy, they will hurt you as a man
And they will come again to see, if they can steal your dignity
And leave you naked and bleeding in the doorway
But you are leaving
And what they just don't really see
Is that you are already free
And I know that you feel, that your time, it is not long
There is maybe just enough, for this one last song
So there in the cold night, you close your eyes and you take to flight
And you are singing in the darkness ?neath the window
And you are leaving
Your words escaped, through the cracks in the wall
Just like birds they flew and they move above it all
So there in the cold night, you close your eyes and you take to flight
And you are hoping through the gaps in the steel
And you are leaving
And what they just don't really see
Is that you are already free
And what they just don't really see
Well it's all over now, and we both know why
'Cause we burnt our bridges as we passed them by
Yeah it's over now, and the dream is broken
And all our bitter words, will have now been spoken
Well it's all over now, well it's better this way
'Cos long goodbyes well they eat your, your heart away
It's over now, well the cup is wasted
Spilt and sour look, for what's even tasted
For all that we had, well now there's more than us at stake
History's repetition it's just too much to take
So it's all over now, yeah life's better this way
Cos long goodbye's, well they've been eating our hearts away
It's over now, it's over now
I keep you here inside my head, I am not letting go
The way you breathe, the things you said, just so you know
Well, there's you and there's me and some old R&B;
And we're being as natural as people can be
And nothing feels wrong
And there's no one around and there's only the sound
Of your breathe in my ear and our hearts as they pound
That's where we belong
I keep you here inside my head, I'm not letting go
The way you breathe, the things you said, just so you know
Well, there's you and there's me and we run from the crowd
And we go to climb back on our own private cloud
And nothing feels wrong
Well, somewhere not to care and you let down your hair
And we taste each other in our own private air
That's where we belong
I keep you here inside my head, not letting go
The way you breathe, the things you said, just so you know
Well, somewhere in between the cracks of our dreams
We let go each other and floated downstream
If ya ever get lonely or lost out at sea
Don't be too stubborn to come and see me
'Cause, I keep you here inside my head, not letting go
Well, I'm scared for my child, Lord, for her mother
For what you people wanna do to one another
For the water, for the trees
Man, I'm scared of pollution, well, of disease
And I'm scared that my child won't live a long time
With your murderin', rape and your drug money crime
And I'm scared of the drugs stealing youth from the young
Well, their life story, well, that'll never be sung
Well, I pray my child lives happy and long, Lord
And I hope she never will sing this song
And I pray, my child, live happy and long, Lord
And I hope she never will sing this song
Well as some men talk of peace now, good intentions
I'm only gonna look at his latest inventions
And I hope I'm wrong, heard I'm right
Well, he could end it all tonight
Man I know upon this night another village is burning
Child lose their life as their first sun is turning
Leaders of holocaust stand so tall
Man it looks like there ain't no value on life at all
Well, I pray my child will live happy and long, Lord
My hope she never will sing this song
And I pray, my child, live happy and long, Lord
And I hope she never will sing this song
So Lord please forgive me if my fear offend now
It's just so hard to transcend now
'Cause when I ran away from my bad dream
And the child inside was too scared and screamed
So Lord please forgive me if my fear offend now
It's just so hard to transcend now
'Cause when I ran away from my bad dream
And the child inside was too scared and screamed
Well, I pray my child will live happy and long, Lord
And I hope she never will sing this song
Well, I pray, my child, live happy and long, Lord
In the heart of the city
On a lonely Friday night
Well, you been walking in the shadows
While the rest walk in the light
Girls all look so pretty
The big ones and the small
But they don't look in the shadows
So they don't see your kind at all
You're just another lonely soul
Walkin' round this rock and roll, yeah
You're just another lonely soul
Walkin' round this rock and roll, yeah
Well, in the heart of the city
You got some money left to spend
Even the barman thinks you are funny
'Cos you came without a friend
You're just another lonely soul
Walkin' round this rock and roll, yeah
You're just another lonely soul
Walkin' round this rock and roll, yeah
This could be the night when it all comes together
If you let yourself get better
This could be the night the light shines down on you
You're just a little old country fool, yeah
This could be the night when it all comes together
If you let yourself get better
This could be the night the light shines down on you
You're just a little old country fool, yeah
You're just another lonely soul
Walkin' round this rock and roll, yeah
You're just another lonely soul
Walkin' round this rock and roll, yeah
You're just another lonely soul
Would you catch me when I fall?
Could you hear me when I call?
Could you smile upon my face?
And put right my disgrace.
Could you bend down low to me?
Soi can sing with thee
'Cause when your crying in the rain,no one else can feel your pain.
Whose gonna take you by the hand,try make you understand.
You feel like your left out In the cold,your story's so untold.
And whose gonna open up that door,a world you never seen before.
When You hurt so bad,and you feel so bad,Yeah..
'Cause you got the love that never dies
When You hurt so bad,and you feel so bad,Yeah..
'Cause you got the love that never dies,Never Dies....
In these days Instead of me,or someone I forgot to be.
And when my time is done,no more reaching for the sun.
Would you bend down low to me?
so i can sing with thee.
'Cause when your crying in the rain,no-one else can feel your pain.
And whos gonna take you by the hand,try and make you understand.
You feel like your left out in the cold,your story's so untold.
And whose gonna open up that door,a world you never seen before.
When You hurt so bad,and you feel so bad,Yeah..
'Cause you got the love that never dies
When You hurt so bad,and you feel so bad,Yeah..
'Cause you got the love that never dies,
When You hurt so bad,and you feel so bad,Yeah..
Lot left to tell you but I haven't quite worked it out yet
Don't want this story to be one that is filled with regret
Lot left to tell you but it might be no business of mine
Too busy looking and never really see the signs and
Maybe I'm just addicted to company and I love
Places to go and I love people to see
And that's alright. That's enough for tonight.
That's alright. That's enough for tonight.
No one has self tragedy and confusion and I
Don't wanna act to this day love illusion, I
Just telling you stories that don't belong in your head
And I think I'd rather just watch you dance instead and
Maybe I'm just addicted to company and I love
Places to go and I love people to see
And that's alright. That's enough for tonight.
That's alright. That's enough for tonight.
And baby, what are you looking for?
(Baby, what are you looking for? )
And is there something you're not sure of?
Are you looking for a sign?
Waiting for somebody
To throw your heart a line
Or a quick and easy answer
In a dark, uneasy time
Maybe that's alright. That's enough for tonight.
And that's alright. That's enough for tonight.
Baby (Baby)
What are you looking for? (what are you looking for? )
Why do you come here?
What's inside that door?
Baby (Baby)
What are you looking for? (what are you looking for? )
Why won't you come here?
I'm glad to meet you
I'm sorry to hear that your love shot through
But you'll get by, you always do
You'll find someone who will wait with you
I'm glad that you came my way
Though you were only passing another day
And it's no crime, just passing time
Waiting for some big bad man to come back for you
Maybe you're an angel with enough room in your heart for everyone
Maybe you are only a fire for the lonely sun
Maybe you're an angel with enough room in your heart for everyone
Maybe you are only a fire for the lonely sun
You'll get by, you always do
You'll find someone who will wait with you
I'm glad to meet you
Precious and the sweet you
You don't give up and you don't know how
There is no regrets in your here and now
Maybe you're an angel with enough room in your heart for everyone
Maybe you are only a fire for the lonely sun
Yeah, maybe you're an angel with enough room in your heart for everyone
Maybe you are only a fire for the lonely sun
And you'll get by, you always do
You'll find someone who will wait with you
Maybe you're an angel with enough room in your heart for everyoneMaybe you're an angel with enough room in your heart for everyone
Everything is sold
For highway's guns and gold
The earth, the sky, the sea
Future and history
This is not how it's supposed to be
And those who died to set us free
Must be ashamed of our liberty
In a self serving society
Where computers are a deity
And everything's about the me
We sit by and watch it all die
Trained not to try
As the ghosts begin to cry
This is not how it's supposed to be
And those who died to set us free
Must be afraid of our liberty
In a self serving society
Where computers are a deity
And everything's about the me
The parade is all lies
It's a death march in disguise
Where we bury our hearts
So we can play our parts
In a self serving society
Where computers are a deity
And everything's about the me
And Christ gets locked up in a cell
The prophets are all there as well
For teaching is about the hell
So come back to life
So come back to life
No this is not how it's supposed to be
And those who died to set us free
Must be ashamed of our liberty
And Christ gets locked up in a cell
The prophets are all there as well