David Gray

Hospital Food

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Just a little something for the pain
Hospital food getting you down?
Honey now I'm not one to complain
But this hangin’ around
Is wearing me out

So patch me up boys take me home
Are you not hearing a word I say?
She sounds so different on the phone
I just sink like a stone
Back to the bay

Tell me something
Tell me something
I don’t already know
Tell me something
Tell me something I don’t know

Don’t seem to have that much to show
For all the hard work, the sweat and toil
You say ‘well that’s right’, and you should know
You’ve been there before
You’ve basked in the glow
You’ve stood in the roar
You’ve tasted the snow

Tell me something
Tell me something
I don’t already know
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don’t already

Seeing it all so beautiful
The way it oughta be
Seeing it all so beautiful
And turning away
Turning away
Turning away

Tell me something
Tell me something
I don’t already know
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don’t already know

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jag3892 On Nov 08, 2005

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2005-11-08 04:49:49

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by 2putts4par

20y ago

I recently read an article in which David stated, "Hospital Food is just a metaphor for all of the sh!t that goes with life and that you have to eat"

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by robert1150

7y ago

I reckon this is a follow on from a previous song on the album, You're the One I Love. In that Gray describes the feelings of a dying soldier on the battlefield for his loved one. Well you know what ? - he survived - "patch me up and send me home". Now he's just bored with hospital food, fed up with just talking to his partner on the phone and itching to get home. David Gray - so unfashionable yet very lovely.

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