Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is an American television, stage and film actress. She has appeared in roles as diverse as Angela Chase in My So-Called Life, as Juliet in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, as Kate Brewster in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, as Yvaine in Stardust and as Temple Grandin in the HBO TV film Temple Grandin. She portrays Carrie Mathison in the Showtime series Homeland.
Danes was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Carla (née Hall), is a day-care provider, painter, and textile designer who later served as her daughter's manager, and her father, Christopher Danes (b. May 6, 1944 in Austin, Texas), is a computer consultant and former architectural photographer. Danes has described her background as being "as WASPy as you can get"; her paternal grandfather, Gibson Andrew Danes (1910–1992 in Litchfield, Connecticut), was the dean of the art and architecture school at Yale University. She has an older brother, Asa (b. 1973).
Danes attended the Dalton School in New York City, the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, the Professional Performing Arts School, and the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. In 1998, Danes went to Yale University, her father's alma mater. Director Oliver Stone wrote her letter of recommendation to Yale. After studying for two years as a psychology major, she dropped out of Yale to focus on her film career.
Lying here beside you in the shadows with your body close to mine
I can't help but wish that I could have you here beside me all the time
Knowing that I cannot keep you from your going when the day is done
Makes me wish that I was tall enough to reach the sky and stop the sun
But I can see the evening shadows slipping silent cross the floor
And I curse the day for coming to an end
You'll fix your face comb your hair and leave my arms once more
But when tomorrow comes we'll watch the evening shadows fall again
[ piano ]
When we're here together I don't question why you came or why you go
I'm sure you have your reasons but your being here is all I have to know
Knowing when you come to me there's nothing I can do to make you stay
Just like all the other times you'll leave me at the ending of the day
Those few times good fortune came to call
And all those days bad luck set in for keeps
If there were one that I could re-arrange
How much would I alter, how much would I change?
I'll take an evening, best time of the day
When the sun had gone, and the rain was settin' in
That's my evening, one that's always there
How I sat and wondered, why you said goodbye
And left me here to fall.
If all the light and love that we both shared
Meant as much to you as they still mean to me
Then all we need to set it all to rights
Are just four words, and I'll be by your side.
But there's still evening, best time of the day
When the sun has gone, and the rain is settin' in
It's still my evening, one I can't forget
How I sit and wonder, why you shook your head
Evening, every night you come and you find me
And you always remind me that my baby's gone
Evening, you got me deeply in your power
Every minute seems just like an hour, now that my baby's gone
Shadows fall upon the wall, that's the time I miss your kiss most of all
Even though I try, how can I go on
Oh evening, let me sleep till glow of dawn is breakin'
I don't care if I don't awaken, since my baby's gone
(Solo)
Shadows fall upon the wall, that's the time I miss your kiss most of all
Even though I try, how can I go on
Evening, let me sleep till glow of dawn is breakin'
I don't care if I don't awaken, since my man is gone
Lying here beside you in the shadows
With your body close to mine
I can't help but wish that I could have you
Here beside me all the time
Knowing that I cannot keep you
From your going when the day is done
Makes me wish that I was tall enough
To reach the sky and stop the sun.
But I can see the evening shadows
Slipping silent cross the floor
And I curse the day for coming to an end
You'll fix your face, comb your hair
And leave my arms once more
But when tomorrow comes
We'll watch the evening shadows fall again.
When we're here together
I don't question why you came or why you go
I'm sure you have your reasons
But your being here is all I have to know
Knowing when you come to me
There's nothing I can do to make you stay
Just like all the other times
You'll leave me at the ending of the day.
But I can see the evening shadows
Slipping silent cross the floor
And I curse the day for coming to an end
You'll fix your face, comb your hair
And leave my arms once more
But when tomorrow comes
Ten twenty eight two thousand and one
the moon rose in the night
shadows parted to shine down
upon this little girl
evening was born
jack-o-lanters in a row
the corn reaped in the fields
a spirit entered into life
a change upon this world
I've Got A Crystal Clear Conscience And An Alibi
An Accidental Overdose That Flew Too High
If It Weren't For This Ambivalence I'd Feel Alive
If You're Looking For Advice
On Broken Hearts And Tragedies
I've Found The Perfect Truth
Believe The Ones Who Love You Really Do
I Have A Method To My Sadness It Gets Me By
Something Missing Yet To Be Identified
You'll Need More Than Just Coincidence To Prove I Lied
If By Chance You Get This Message
Vapor Air Will Take You There
I've Been Hiding Imperfections
Bring Them With You Make Connections
For The Last Time
I'm Evening The Odds Of Repeat
Underestimated
Be Polite So Nobody Leaves
I Have Been Doing Some Very Bad Things
Greater Complications Are Now Evening Against Me
Given Time All Will Fade
Just As Though It Never Happened
I've Got A Bitter Disposition And A Guarantee
If You Advance Without Permission There'll Be Casualties
And If I Don't Complete My Vision You Will Not Miss Me
If You're Looking For Advice
On Broken Hearts And Tragedies
I've Found The Perfect Truth
Believe The Ones Who Love You Really Do
I Have Experimental Cold Emotion Energy
Here's My Confession And A Motive For Your Mystery
You Think You Have Found A Clue But It's A Trilogy
If By Chance You Get This Message
Vapor Air Will Take You There
I've Been Hiding Imperfections
Bring Them With You Make Connections
For The Last Time
I'm Evening The Odds Of Repeat
Underestimated
Be Polite So Nobody Leaves
I Have Been Doing Some Very Bad Things
Greater Complications Are Now Evening Against Me
Given Time All Will Fade
Now if you take a number
You want it, you want it and wait
His hands are clean, we think
Now if you spare the time to infiltrate
The flashing lights appear again
And again, and again, and again, and again, and again,
and a-
You're going to see
That these cuts run so deep
Upon the street
Pylons of meat
Racing your atrophy
Please don't ever leave
Don't ever leave
Just want to be
Scrapbooks are outlasting me
Don't honor this fate, fate
I heard a silent film star
Laughing today
As talking seemed so fucking
Out of place, today
You know I couldn't write
Due to nothing to say
I can't wait
You're going to see
That these cuts run so deep
Upon the street
Pylons of meat
Racing your atrophy
Please don't ever leave
Don't ever leave
It's symptomatic, as it's something I fear
Caught up in traffic, with the sun on my heels
As I walk in, suffering from delusions
These simple kids run with what used to be
Lock myself out
Just for a minute
When there's a drought
I turn you off
Feeding your emotions
Give me this for a moment
How pale was the moon lit?
It comes through my window as I lose it
Lock myself out
Just for a minute
When there's a drought
It's open mouth
I've seen it all before as I come down
A picture, I'm a fixture on this wall
Breeds another one
Sleep as light is falling into it
The sky is about to split, I'm suffering
We're choking, yeah, but it's alright,
It pulls me in
It pulls me in and out of
Time is all we've got
The future's looking bright synthetically
The holes I fill are leaking white
Repeatedly on T.V. screens
I can't recall a single thing
I'm running with no memory
As these words are stored in the cells used before us
Is your chauffeur driven car bound to collide?
We've come undone
It takes up all control of thoughts of yours
This fiction, your addiction has gone far
Squint your eyes as
Time is all we've got
The future's looking bright synthetically
The holes I fill are leaking white
Repeatedly from T.V. screens
Feed our minds then walk us through it along with a
script
Save us all from leaning in, the power's out
The days that follow us are streaming in, they fail to
Before they find it out
Conceal our spacecraft's landing
Why get up? I'm stuck here
Care enough
Wouldn't want to
Fine tune apes
Dear I'm left up here
Caged in all past
Shields wouldn't last
This frightening speed
Of the one thing that I didn't want to see
As you gently sweep
A pathway directly to me
Before they find us out
Can't leave a trace of anatomy
With your head up in a vacuum
Can you see what they send?
Is just being automatic
What comes natural to them?
Why get up? I'm stuck here
Care enough
Wouldn't want to
Fine tune apes
Dear I'm left up here
Caged in all past
Shields wouldn't last
This frightening speed
Of the one thing that I didn't want to see
As you gently sweep
Fade into dark - I don't know where to start
As the dreams have been bought from the strings on their
arms
Shapes in disguise pave the ground, then we'll hide
Now that fake is so wise, shield the age from your eyes
I don't know what to feel
The shaking goes through the night
Calling it what you will
Fall into you
I fell into the sky
I don't want you to disappear
Or my thoughts could run into nothing
We're shouting out
Don't display your fears
As their lives fall in in beneath us
"...do you dare me to sit in the saucer? I dare you, I
This is something that I feel
And yes, we're caught up in it
My life is cut but I can heal
I see that you're alone, we wait for it
You know they want it
Yuppy coke and biker speed
They're so dishonest
Was it something that you've seen?
Is this how we're taught to kneel?
And yes, we're caught up in it
These lightning bolts of cancer steel
I see that you're alone, we wait for it
You've gone away
I have nothing left, nothing left to give
You've gone away
I have nothing left, nothing left to give
You know they want it
Yuppy coke and biker speed
They're so dishonest
Was it something that you've seen?
(Ahhhhh)
They're on to us
They know we're wise
I said to give, I said to give
To give up
Sounds all the same
We lack this, who's to say?
The end is assured
Shopping malls are a cure
Gents' cromag dents
Fond ideas go like this
The past, it seems, outlives future needs
I lost everything
Here in the past
Understood nothing
Because it was good for us
Far from this place
We fasten her arms
'Cause God had a face
I saw it once in yours
Here stand my walls of ideals
Sounds all the same
We lack this, who's to say?
The end is assured
Shopping malls are a cure
Gents' cromag dents
Fond ideas go like this
The past, it seems, outlives future needs
I lost everything
Here in the past
Understood nothing
Because it was good for us
Far from this place
We fasten her arms
'Cause God had a face
I saw it once in yours
I know I'm wasted
Lay down, I don't want to sleep
These sounds are embracing me
He sells what I needed
Sent trails running down his face
Release what I'm trying to say
Feel left out from the perfect place [x2]
Ooh Ooh Ooh
I know I'm wasted
Lay down, I don't want to sleep
These sounds are embracing me
He sells what I needed
Sent trails running down his face
Release what I'm trying to say
Woke up
Was it wrong?
As I thought, you should be leaving
Not impressed with the stress
They went on and on
Was it wrong?
As I thought, they should be leaving
Not impressed with the stress
I've been inside her
Strung out on happiness
Well it's the pain you see
Was it you or me?
I've been inside her
I'm strung out on happiness
Well it's the pain you see
Was it you or me?
I want out
Is there something in my ears?
Oh well
My eyes are shut but I can hear
As well
On a country side's hovering frame
Where my arms don't feel the same
Going two forty four on a train
Going two forty four on a
Is there something in my ears?
Oh well
Is there something I should fear
In hell?
Is there something in my ears?
Oh well
Is there something I should fear
Pull the evening in
And let me down
To look is to listen
So close your mouth
Push the morning out
Don't let it in
Where is the sympathy
Oh where've you been
Don't mess around
Don't mess up
This is everything
This is everything
This is everything
Stop messing around
It's gone too far
I have seen enough
The higher odds
Help! The warning's out
Don't answer back
Told you to shut your mouth
Don't answer back
Take what you can and give it away
Take what you can and keep it to yourself
Take what you can and give it away
Take what you can and keep it to yourself
Don't mess around
Don't mess up
This is everything
This is everything
This is everything
This is everything
This is everything
Evening slips into my room
Echoes in the corridor
Street lamps turn a shade of blue
Lovers whisper in the dark
Evening when I miss you most of all
My heaven in this world
A silent raindrop falls
To the earth...
Evening knows my every move
Your finger running through my hair
Crimson lips a crimson kiss
In the strange electric air...
Evening when I miss you most of all
My heaven in this world
A silent raindrop falls
To the earth...
Evening (I miss you most of all)
Evening (A silent raindrop falls)
Evening... evening...
You make me ache
By the way you bow your head
In the neon glow
Flashing open through the window
On the unmade bed
On the unmade bed...
Evening brings the hunter home
And the silor from the sea
One by one each breath we take
Slips into eternity
Evening when I miss you most of all
My heaven in this world
A silent raindrop falls
To the earth...
Evening when I miss you most of all
My heaven in this world
A silent raindrop falls
You want to believe
Think that I'm leaving
Your fragments and greed
Are piled up eight feet
The price they received
Was sweeter than Eden
Your virus is free
Just waiting to breathe in
I've called out your name
Took something for nothing
Your price was the same
Just wanting to free them
You're feeling ashamed
In disabled trends
Your further is nearer
Now sink your teeth in
You won't fall if it's safe
I've lied
Is it safe for now?
Could you stay for long?
As we need a home
Pushing days along
Something's wrong
I've tried to say
I go home to see
An end in the making
Something's wrong
I've tried to say
I go home to see
An end in the making
Is it safe for now?
Could you stay for long?
As we need a home
I couldn't talk myself into believing that you're right
Fear them hiding within your mind
Spacemen, they won't to know when to stop
The reasons for landing, isn't it fucked up enough?
Please yourself
All aboard the success
Now you're chained to the dream
Falling stars, void of sleep
Why confess that there's problems in your head?
Look around [x4] down here
I couldn't talk myself into believing that you're right
Fear them hiding within your mind
Spacemen, they won't to know when to stop
The reasons for landing, isn't it fucked up enough?
I wouldn't want you to drag this out
Satellites appear to be getting us lost
Here we begin
It's face had a grin
I don't know whether to sin
Lean on my back again
I wasn't there
The comets falling through air
His mists of ashes roll clear
Oh, he's gone
He's gone, he's gone, he's gone, yeah
Let's begin at the end
With a face I let in
I don't know whether to sin
Lean on my back again
I wasn't there
The comets falling through air
His mists of ashes roll clear
And he's gone