For Nick Drake by Grace Gillespie published on 2020-04-13T16:25:14Z GRACE GILLESPIE - For Nick Drake You set your sights on some faraway shores But it’s all there in your mind, you have all you need and more And you left me in the basement learning finger-picked guitar With Joni on the stereo and Bobby in my heart And now I set my sails for a small whitewash house And I suppose I’ll get to know what domestic life is all about For I did not learn the poets but they’re burned into my bones I’m ready for to meet them you can say I’m going home So I howl for Allen Ginsberg And I cry for Kerouac and Plathe And for Dickenson and Angelou finally set free And for Nick I will stand before the sea Only silence for your sweetest tragedy So I read from your back pages because I know the story well Suspending my disbelief in your effervescent spells And Neil on in the background, Alabama have you not learned? And Peter Green my saviour, heavenly man of the world So I howl for Allen Ginsberg And I cry for Kerouac and Plathe And for Dickenson and Angelou finally set free And for Nick I will stand before the sea Only silence for your sweetest tragedy So I tried to live in lyric, I suppose a life like you Gathering up words and trying to make them stand up tall and true But poetry’s not dead, I saw her shiver in the draught Nick I’m sorry they did not listen, you know it nearly broke my heart © 2020 Kaleidoscope Genre Folk & Singer-Songwriter Comment by Miaow McDonald lovely! xxx 2021-09-19T08:29:35Z Comment by DMc.Music (1) Just Beautiful. Nick was a genius. Thank You x 2020-12-10T16:46:34Z Comment by tbone711 Wow...:) 2020-12-03T12:26:21Z Comment by DownByTheRiver Great song, love all the references 2020-11-28T11:34:50Z Comment by Mr Cagey Fabulous song, beautifully recorded. Amazing vocals. 2020-11-28T07:31:46Z