Grafton Street Lyrics
to see you lying still while we all come and go
No more watching sunsets that seem like summer’s holding on
No more standing quietly at your window
No more driving down your road, wondering when you’ll be home
and no more peace when they all leave and leave us two alone
My love I know we’re losing but I will stand here by you
but I’ll do my best to come
No more letting you warm my hands, no more trying to take it in
No more saying goodbye for the last time again
No more saying goodbye for the last time again
My love I know you’re leaving but I will stand here by you
No more sitting up all night waiting for any word
Nothing’s left that’s safe here now nothing will bring you home
Nothing can bring us the peace we had in Grafton Street
This song was written as a tribute to Dido's late father (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7687410.stm). Dido's father was Irish and I presume they used to walk along Grafton Street (a main shopping street in Dublin, Ireland), but now no more as her father has passed away. The remainder of the song flows along that logic.
i absolutely adore this song. just got back from dublin so i still feel the atmosphere of spending time on grafton street with special person. beautiful lyrics and gorgeous irish-sounding ending. so far my favourite from new album!
Yeh but what's special about grafton street??? Or maybe I'm just trying to read too much into it, apu...
Yeh but what's special about grafton street??? Or maybe I'm just trying to read too much into it, apu...
What a great song this is!
Beautiful song, seems obvious to me it's about death, though it could be interpreted otherwise.
It seems to me that almost all the songs on this album have some kind of relationship to death. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that her father passed away during the making of it.
its about her breakup with her last boyfriend. pretty sure they lived on grafton street. thats what i read anyways
It's about the death of her father. They use to visit Grafton street often together.
I think this song is about her boyfriend, who lives on Grafton Street, who is possibly in a coma, or possibly dead. "lying still while we all come and go".
This feels like she's singing this amidst visiting her dying father in the hospital, which is on Grafton Street. Or maybe in a hospice. He's bed-bound and she's staying long with him while people come and go to visit and pay respects and goodbyes. She takes trips to her car to call her friends for support for herself to relay she doesn't know when it'll be (that he'll pass on). I love this line: "And time we always lose is finally found here with you". It says all the time we meant to spend with our loved ones is forced upon us when imminent death lay before us. After he's passed on, there is no more continually visiting on Grafton Street. Via his death, they have made their peace between one another.