David Gray

Released: October 19, 2009

Featuring: Annie Lennox

Songwriter: David Gray

Producer: Iestyn Polston Rob Malone David Gray

All our lives we’ve dreamed about it
Just to find that it was never real
This sure ain’t no great Valhalla
Coming closer each turn of the wheel
Forlorn, adrift on seas of beige
In this our Golden Age

Even in our darkest hour
Never thought that it could get so bad
Bullied, suckered, pimped and patronised
Every day your tawdry little lives
So loose your head
And step within
The silence deafening

Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it
Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming but still
Running full steam ahead

In and out of consciousness
It breaks my heart to see you like this
Crying, wringing hands and cursing fate
Always so little far too late
It’s 3am I’m wide awake
There’s still one call to make

Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it
Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it

Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming
But still running full steam
Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming but still
Running full steam
Now you
And I
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it
Now you
And I
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it

David Gray is a singer-songwriter from Cheshire, England who saw greatest recognition after the re-release of his 1998 album White Ladder in 2000. This album featured hit singles Babylon which has racked up over 28 million streams on Spotify, and Gray’s most popular single This Year’s Love which has achieved over 66 million streams almost 20 years since it’s release.

Gray’s style has shifted from his original folk-rock style where acoustic guitars were heavily featured, to darker and more downbeat tones found on Life In Slow Motion, and back to folk-rock in his most recent studio album Mutineers.

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