Minnie Driver Lyrics, Photos, Pictures, Paroles, Letras, Text for every songs

B i o g r a p h y
(by Label Zoe)

The delete bins of history are littered with the recording attempts of actors who fancy themselves as singers. In the case of Minnie Driver, an acclaimed and award-winning English actress best known for her roles in movies like Grosse Pointe Blank and Good Will Hunting, singing actually came first. Had it not been for the runaway success of Circle of Friends, in which she starred opposite Chris O'Donnell, Driver’s career might have taken a much different turn. She began singing in London’s jazz clubs as a teenager, before joining a band that landed a development deal with Island Records. Recalls Driver: “When things with Island dissolved, I began talking with EMI about a solo deal. But just then Circle of Friends came along and changed everything.” With Everything I’ve Got in My Pocket (Zoë/Rounder), Driver has finally made the album she’s been dreaming of since her teenage years. With 10 original songs and an unforgettable cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Hungry Heart,” Driver’s debut bears the mark of an accomplished singer-songwriter. Strongly autobiographical songs like the folky “Invisible Girl” and the country-tinged “Fast As You Can” bear resemblances to Neil Young and Cowboy Junkies respectively, while there are hints of Sarah McLachlan and Gillian Welch on such tracks as the more pop-oriented “Wire” and the gorgeous ballad “Home,” about having faith in the power of love to guide one through life. In fact, much of the album deals with being on both the winning and losing side of love. “Some pretty major changes happened in my life,” explains Driver. “I started writing as a way to understand what was going on.” Produced by Marc ‘Doc’ Dauer (Pete Yorn), Everything I’ve Got in My Pocket also features several dreamy, hypnotic numbers, including the hopeful, reassuring title track. “Deeper Water,” with its lyrical ebb and flow and rhythmic push and pull, offers a well constructed metaphor for love’s strong tide. “It’s a thinly veiled analogy to having the courage to fall in love with someone after being really devastated,” admits Driver. “It’s about the sweetness of that moment when you’re ready to dive back into something, and how surprising you find it that you can ever love again.” Meanwhile, “So Well,” with its mellifluous chorus, deals with the act of letting go of love—or at least trying to. “I will put your pictures in a wooden box, find a heart next time with fewer locks,” sings Driver. “I can let you go,” she adds, trying to convince herself, “but not your memory yet.”

Driver credits Dauer, who she met through Yorn, with pushing her to commit her songs to tape. “Doc was really persistent,” she recalls. “He kept saying, ‘when are you going to come over to my house and play me some of your songs?’ Every time I’d see him, he’d go, ‘I’m waiting.’ He’s been incredibly supportive.” Dauer, who plays guitar on most tracks, brought in some exceptional musicians to join Driver, including Rami Jaffee, keyboardist with The Wallflowers, pedal steel player Ben Peeler (The Mavericks), bassist Sheldon Gomberg (Warren Zevon) and guitarist Jeff Trott (Sheryl Crow). The result is a moody folk-pop album with stirring country overtones and shades of more trippy, groove-based sounds. One of the album’s most memorable tracks is “Hungry Heart,” which Driver dramatically recasts as a slow, melancholic piano ballad. “Growing up, Springsteen’s The River was one of my all-time favorite records,” says Driver. “I was blown away by how Springsteen could seduce you with the accessible nature of his music and then take you even deeper with his lyrics.” Driver’s stark version underscores the poignancy that lies at the core of the song. Driver first played the songs live at Hollywood’s Hotel Café, before showcasing them more formally at this year’s Sundance and South by Southwest festivals. Performing her own songs, as opposed to the jazz standards she’d previously sung, proved strangely satisfying. “There is a lot to be said for standing up in front of a crowd of people and knowing exactly how to sing something, because it originated in you; oddly, it gave me a lot more confidence.” With so few actors having successfully multi-tasked into music, Driver knows all too well the challenge she faces. “The bar is set pretty low—I’m fully aware of that,” she says. “There aren’t too many actors who’ve made good records.” But Driver is steadfast in her determination to break the mold. “I’m doing this because it’s something that I always intended to do,” she says. “This record began in the back yards and on the front porches of my friends houses, it was always just a creative endeavor that found it’s way to fruition through the relentless support of a few key people.” She adds: “They are songs that reflect the truest version of myself. Hopefully, people will connect with that.”

Everything I've Got In My Pocket

I want to lay down with you forever
Or just this afternoon
Watching the shadows getting long
I'll sing you a quiet song
Watch you sleep so slow and deep

Baby I know that all your pain will pass
I know you're sad, but it won't last
I'm betting you everything that I've got in my pocket
When you're staring out into the sky
See what you have
And don't ask why
Things can't be different, they're perfect

Want to remind you how you laugh
Sometimes you don't even make a sound
Till you fall down on the ground
I'm going to love you every day
Maybe it'll balance out the pain
That I can't take away

Baby I know that all your pain will pass
I know you're sad, but it won't last
I'm betting you everything that I've got in my pocket
when you're staring out into the sky
See what you have, and don't ask why
Things can't be different
They're perfect

So come on and lay down with me
I'll tell you all the useless things
That I have learned
But this one good thing my old man told me

Baby I know that all your pain will pass
I know you're sad, but it won't last
I'm betting you everything that I've got in my pocket
when you're staring out into the sky
See what you have, and don't ask why
Things can't be different
They're perfect

Invisible Girl

Panda eyes and your sister's dress that you took and you tore
And you know that you got a long walk home
Pick your way over drunken shapes on the lawn by the pool
And you lost both your shoes that his Mom's gonna find

Her dress,
Your shoes,
Little flower bruise
Old smoke in your hair,
No subway fare, but you just don't care

Heart shines like a neon sign
For tonight won't you just be mine
Invisible girl, in the sodium light
She's the Queen of the Night

Crown starts to slip and fade, little feet on the street
tired girl in someone else's clothes
Stand in the quiet house, making tea, making toast
Making room for your daytime ghost

Her dress,
Your shoes,
Little flower bruise
Old smoke in your hair
No subway fare, but you just don't care

Heart shines like a neon sign
For tonight won't you just be mine
Invisible girl, in the sodium light
She's the Queen of the Night

Heart shines like a neon sign
For tonight won't you just be mine
Invisible girl, in the sodium light
She's the Queen of the Night

Your sun is the evening star
Your temple the downtown bar
Invisible girl, in the sodium light
She's the Queen of the Night
She's the Queen of the Night

Fast As You Can

Oh be a man, as fast as you can,
Oh be a man, as fast as you can
Growing up wild, out in the fields
In awe of the stars, and the power they wield

Oh you loved them anyway
Don't think they noticed you

See how the stars change, from summer to fall
The sole indication, that we're moving at all
Carry the world, with the hands of a child
You can't be a boy, she wants you to be wild

She was the sun, sun, sun
And you were the moon
And the light of the sun
Fills up the room

Oh you loved her anyway
And she tried to love you

When she was asleep, you'd watch her face
Taken in sleep to a more peaceful place
You'd stand by the door, cause you were her guard
And you'd love her in silence, and it wasn't that hard.

Cause she was the sun, sun, sun
And you were the moon
And the light of the sun
Eclipses the moon

Oh you loved her anyway
And she tried to love you

She never asked you, what you're dreaming of
She told you 'bout Texas, and liquor and love
She was hard-edged and broken, she blamed a man
But she told you to be one, as fast as you can

Wire

Living on a wire, the sight of you could save my skin
And the sun is in my eyes, and the breeze lifts the hair from my neck
So precariously I am inching my way across my life
I could fall if you don't call
a sick safety net appears when I'm with you

Oh, I climb, so high waiting to fall
And then I cry, like a child, on a neverending ride

How does it go down, when you're the biggest kid in your own playground
And how do you see me, how do I fit in your hierarchy?
Oh you tell the girls line up in single file, just gotta rearrange my denial
So I can play with you, and now I see, all the shit that isn't me
I'm too relieved to be mad, relieved and sad

I misplaced my mind, thought it was lost
But now I find, you were just very, very unkind

You know I always found, that my feet were dangling looking for solid ground
Is it maybe worth closing down the Ivory Tower
And coming back down to earth?

Home

Angel, asleep on my shoulder
You don't know, how you're gonna grow.
Think you'll be strong and kind like your daddy
Sweet and generous, as your mamma too.
Sky above, endless and ever blue
filled with stars, shining their light on you
They're there when you're feeling scared you're all alone, they lead you home.
Home
Angel, look what you've come to.
Like the deep blue sea love is all around you.
It's there when you're standing tall
it'll be there when you fall
It's at the edge of all the dreams you dream
Sky above, endless and ever blue
filled with stars, shining their light on you
They're there when you're feeling scared, you're all alone, they lead you home.
Home
Angel, asleep on my shoulder
you don't know how you're gonna grow.
Think you'll be strong, like your daddy
sweet and generous, as your mamma too.
It's waiting for you, it's waiting for you, it's waiting for you.

Deeper Water

Take me out, take me out
Far into the deeper water
Show me how, show me how
For I have longed to love deep water

I was washed up on the shore
You take me out in the water once more

Slowly, I cannot swim fast
And I know, neither can you
We'll float, let all the clouds pass by
You and I, you and I
You and I, you and I

Why you blue, why you blue
Did she bring you out here too
Wait and see, wait and see
The tide might bring you here to me

I was washed up on the shore
You take me out in the water once more

Slowly, I cannot swim fast
And I know, neither can you
We'll float, let all the clouds pass by
You and I, you and I...

So Well

I will pass by your house and not look
I won't pick up the phone
I'll read a book
I will put your pictures in a wooden box
I will find a heart next time
With fewer locks

I can let you go
I can let you go
But I can lie as well
Ask your friends how you doing
They say you're doing well
But you can lie as well
So well

I won't feel the rush of you under my skin
My poor brain will hear your voice
I'm not tuning in
Too soon to know the first thing I'll forget
I can let this go
Just not, your memory yet

I can let you go
I can let you go
But I can lie as well
Ask myself how you doing
You say you're doing well
But you can lie as well
So well

Hungry Heart

Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
I went out for a ride and I never went back
Like a river that don't know where it's flowing
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going

Everybody's got a hungry heart
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody's got a hungry heart

I met her in a Kingstown bar
We fell in love I knew it had to end
We took what we had and we ripped it apart
Now here I am down in Kingstown again

Everybody's got a hungry heart
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody's got a hungry heart

Everybody needs a place to rest
Everybody wants to have a home
Don't make no difference what nobody says
Ain't nobody like to be alone

Everybody's got a hungry heart
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody's got a hungry heart

Down

Too bad, she don't love you no more
And I've a half a mind to give her a call
Curled up in a ball
Is that where you are
Is that where you are

Well it was the same for me, I'll tell you what you will see
As you go
Down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down

I never wished you any harm
But Karma has a certain charm
My dad always used to say
You never run up a tab, you don't eventually have to pay

Well it was the same for me, I'll tell you what you will see
As you go
Down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down

Buy a book that'll teach you how to relate
Then tell her all the things you learned too late

In time, the pain will go away
And you'll be free to love and lose another day
Mind what you do
Cause as you see, things come back to you

What do you want from me?
I'm not sorry…

That you are down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down

Yellow Eyes

She had the yellow eyes of opal moons
So full of love, how could she see?
He thought he'd drown in them
So he set sail
Gracefully she dreamed him free

The Indian Ocean washed him on her shore
Flat backed on a dirt packed floor
One eye on the door
You're ten thousand miles away
As the birds fly, and you want to die
Because you let her go

You say, you say

Oh when she holds me, nobody told me
All of the fear her love would bring
If you could see me
Would you believe me darling
That all my fear was only love

He had a one time look at paradise
A white light, it was bright to blinding paradise
All of the angels that you can't see
When you're equating love
Equating love, with never being free

And you say, you say

Oh when she holds me, nobody told me
All of the fear her love would bring
If you could see me
Would you believe me darling
That all my fear was only love

She had the yellow eyes of opal moons
You looked away from them too soon
The best I can say to you
Though I don't know when
Is that I know you'll feel this way
I know, I know you'll feel this way again

And next time

Tell her you love her
You're always with her
Even when you are far away
Cause if she could see you
I think she'd believe you darling
That all your fear was only love
All your fear was only love

Ruby Adeline

Ruby Adeline
Your life will be so fine
Ruby Adeline
You're gonna have the sweetest time

I could wish you lots of things
A clever mind and diamond rings

The knowledge that you're always free
Compassion for all that you see

But the best thing, I can think of
Is to wish you love

Ruby Adeline
Your life will be so fine
Ruby Adeline
You're gonna have the sweetest time

So right from the very start
I wish you a lions heart
A little darkness let it come
So that you will always know the sun
May it shine down from above
Let it fill your life with love

Ruby Adeline
Your life will be so fine
Ruby Adeline
You're gonna have the sweetest time

Stars & satellites

You court the darkness like she's your lover
A girl you nailed one time
And can't get over
Feverish and sleepless at night
It's only because you cannot
Tear your eyes away from her

If love is the answer you seek
You're asking the kind of questions.
The wrong kind of questions will keep
You asking me, asking me for love
And all the stars and satellites give you nothing.
'Cause all the satellites died.

And all the satellites in your atmosphere
They burn for you but you're cold as mars.
I know you see the light in the sky like I do
But for you they're just dying stars

If love is the answer you seek
You're asking the kind of questions.
The wrong kind of questions will keep
You asking me, asking me for love
And all the stars & satellites give you nothing
'Cause all the satellites died.

I guess there's poetry in a dayless life
And profit to be made from your pain
I hope you call me up if you ever get old
I would like to see your face again

If love is the answer you seek
You're asking the kind of questions
The wrong kind of questions will keep

You asking me, asking me for love
You asking me, asking me for love
You asking me, asking me for love

If love is the answer you seek
You're asking the kind of questions

If love is the answer you seek
You're asking the kind of questions…

Sorry baby

(feat. Liz phair)

I wish you everything good
It's no less than you deserve
Wish I could fake what you want
Oh, I give you my love

Sorry baby
Sorry baby
Sorry baby, I’m sorry baby
I miss you now

You grow like a tree in my life
Yeah, but I’m like a vine
Can't let you carry my weight anymore
Baby, it's mine

Sorry baby
Sorry baby
Sorry baby, I’m sorry baby
I miss you now

You are a thousand miles away
And I can't come find you anymore
Anymore

Oh, I’ve got a ghost in my head
Yeah, he's a bad man
Some kind of lingering dept
Oh, I pay what I can

Sorry baby
Sorry baby
Sorry baby, I’m sorry baby
I miss you now

Beloved

The late light of the desert made
The mountains a silhouette
As curved as a woman's side
As far off as I feel inside
This gravity that used to feel like fear
Pulls me to a new conclusion
The light of you is the weight that keeps me here

I wake up with my soul on fire
I'm swimming in my heart's desire not
Drowning in somebody's wake, not
Smiling for somebody's sake
Why don't you just stay here in the sun
Beats me why you disappear honey
Ain't I your beloved one

My beloved, my beloved, my beloved one
My beloved, my beloved, my beloved one

I see you blue eyed old and grey still
Up all night 'til break of day.
You dance me across the kitchen floor,
You still got one eye on the door.
How you love me with,
Them halfway eyes.
And when I think there's nothing left
I think of love and all the time it buys.

My beloved, my beloved, my beloved one
My beloved, my beloved, my beloved one

The late light of the desert made
The mountains a silhouette
As curved as a woman's side,
As far off as I feel inside.
The battle was hard fought but nobody won,
I'll be your magnetic north baby,
You be my beloved one.

My beloved, my beloved, my beloved one
My beloved, my beloved, my beloved one

Cold dark river

Sky's on fire
It's blazing up into the sun
Shouting red on everyone
But you're blue

Oh, I’m better than I used to be
Finally got up off my knees
I can't save you

Don't let it bring you downstream
You're drinking all of that cold dark river

Oh, love come down on me
Tell my heart to set me free
Oh, love come down on me

Can't shake you
You're there in everything I know
You're staring out from my soul
In every song, in every song I sing

Mountains, mountains
That I should have learned
I'll stand by and watch them burn with you

Don't let it bring you downstream
You're drinking all of that cold dark river

Oh, love come down on me
Tell my heart to set me free
Oh, love come down on me

Mockingbird

Sure do song a pretty song darlin'
Pretty music, lord, and pretty words
Like a lark and sweeter than a starling
But mostly like a mockingbird.

Words that leave your mouth all turn to ashes.
They flutter to the ground like falling snow,
They make a bed that's soft enough to lie in
And your foot steps make no sound as you go.

Mockingbird, you just sound like what you said you were
Mockingbird, you were the sweetest thing, I ever heard.

The colour of desire is a wretched blue,
It burns just like the centre of a flame.
It pulls the loosest thread inside your mind.
It burns everything
But it calls you out by name.

Mockingbird, you just sound like what you said you were
Mockingbird, you were the sweetest thing, I ever heard.

The devil stole the wings from a poor angel
They grew into the skin upon his back
Now half of his heart for me it beats
And the other half just repeats
The things I’m feeling for my mockingbird.

Oh my my my my,
My mockingbird.

Mockingbird, you just sound like what you said you were
Mockingbird, you were the sweetest thing, I ever heard.

How to be good

I could write the book of you
And illustrate the pages
You shouldn't read it
I'm the one that you put down,
It was written in a hurry,
Slipped through your fingers.

I do everything I should
Still got to learn,
How to be good.
You got two strong arms I see,
Can't you bring them around
Wrap them around me?

I lay my storms down at your feet
Maybe you'll build a shelter,
Maybe do my heart work for me.
Oh, I kick and scream,
But the job is mine,
So I’ll stay by the ocean
You got your own hills to climb.

I do everything I should
Still got to learn,
How to be good.
You got two strong arms I see,
Can't you bring them around
Wrap them around me?

And I know that I am full of holes
Still they let me, see on through to the other side.
And the southern cross has got you in her sights.

I do everything I should
Still got to learn,
How to be good.
You got two strong arms I see,
Can't you bring them around
Wrap them around me?

Gotta wrap 'em around
Gotta wrap 'em around
Gotta wrap 'em around me...

I do everything I should
Still got to learn,
How to be good.
You got two strong arms I see,
Can't you bring them around
Wrap them around me

King without a queen

Indigo light as the day starts to fade
Still enough light for me to stand in your shade.
I have developed a good idea
Of the words you love,
Yeah, what you want to hear.

All alone with the wind whistling round your throne.

And I know it wears you down,
So slowly
You chased me all around
Just to show me,
That your head is hanging down
From the weight of your own crown,
You're a king without a queen.

Stop the thunder when you come around,
And the white lighting that burn
Me to the ground.
You say you want me,
But just not now.
Should I be afraid,
Maybe you'll show me how.

And I know it wears you down,
So slowly
You chased me all around
Just to show me,
That your head is hanging down
From the weight of your own crown,
You're a king without a queen.
A king without a queen...

All alone with the wind whistling round your throne.

And I know it wears you down,
So slowly
You chased me all around
Just to show me,
That your head is hanging down
From the weight of your own crown,
You're a king without a queen

Mary

Eyes as blue as the cheapest streets
You build your hotels on.
You take the pennies I'm betting with,
Because cash is cash.
I steal your whiskey and cigarettes,
From behind the old television set
It's still got a dial,
When I get sick you smile.

Oh oh are you watching?
Sometimes it's so hard to see
Oh oh are you watching?
Mary watch over me.

When I was bloodied and broken,
From a deadbeat kind of love.
You laughed as you held my hand,
And said "go on and cry,
But let that be the very last thing,
That you give him darling
Now let's go on in the house,
And make a voodoo doll."

Oh oh are you watching?
Sometimes it's so hard to see
Oh oh are you watching?
Mary watch over me.

Got a faded photograph
A lion just like me
I folded it in half
I keep it with me.

Oh you didn't go quietly
Into the great white shining light,
You were hopped up on love,
And singing Johnny Cash.
You looked up and you yelled at me,
You said "Bad is cheap and good is free,
So don't pull any fast ones kid,
'Cause I’ll be watching you."

Oh oh are you watching?
Sometimes it's so hard to see
Oh oh are you watching?
Mary watch over me.

Lakewater Hair

Lakewater hair,
The sweetest smile you've seen for awhile
In the green tipped afternoon.
Trade the sun for the moon and the velvet of the night,
Gives you a buzz, gives you a second sight,
You know that she's the one.

Last time you fell in love, was the first time.
Last time you fell in love, was the first time.

Love has a shape,
Feel it swallow dive into your head
And surface in your heart
In the late summer night
There's a bending of time
And a million years seems to last all night,
You know that she's the one.

Last time you fell in love, was the first time.
Last time you fell in love, was the first time.

Oh it gives you something to talk about
Something to hold onto, forever

Say goodbye, a half wave through the window
Of a car then the tail lights drown her out
Go down to the lake and you stay out all night,
You get pretty drunk, feel bad inside,
That girl was the one.

Last time you fell in love, was the first time.
Last time you fell in love, was the first time.

London Skies

I'm an alien in my life,
Don't you know
My skin is white as snow.
I went running to the sun it burned me up,
A painful kind of fun.

You, your loving me give me eyes to see.

Rain, cool me down
I'm feverish oh, and i'm to blame,
Rain, calling me from London Skies,
Bring me home again.

And you always let me go,
Even when you knew I was gone for good
In the wreckage of the hell I made,
You were there, the fire storm and you.

You, your loving me give me eyes to see.

Rain, cool me down
I'm feverish oh, and i'm to blame,
Rain, calling me from London Skies,
Bring me home again.

So I tell you that I love you,
Though words are cheap
And they cannot buy me time.
When my shadow cuts my life in two,
I can see, the best of me is you.

You, your loving me give me eyes to see.
You, you'll never know how much you mean to me.

Rain, cool me down
I'm feverish oh, and i'm to blame,
Rain, calling me from London Skies,
Bring me home again.

We alter and grow,
Oh how we change,
But some things stay immutable
We alter and grow,
Oh how we change,
But some things stay immutable
Like love.

Coming back to life

I see you coming back to life
I didn't know when you died.
I watch you in the morning sun
You're sleeping hard alone but,
Now I think the darkness is done.

Believe, believe in me, and I will
Be in your real life, your real life.

People feeling safe when you're sad
Throws into relief what they have
And sympathy just tightens the knot
They're smiling but they're thinking
"...there but for the grace of God..."

Believe, believe in me, and I will
Be in your real life, your real life.

Let me be in your real life, your real life,
I'll take the weight of your real life,
Your real life, oh your real life
Not the one you made to hide away.

I had a dream of you and I,
We were falling side by side
There was no where left for us to be
And nothing complicated
Just the way you looked at me...

Love is love

When I saw your eyes for the first time
They were bluer than in my dream.
I felt my life, run to catch you up,
And I was there before you smiled.

Love is love, hoe can I stop
Know that I never would,
'Cause you are something,
And we are nothing,
But love is good.

Learn to Be Lonely

(Phantom of the Opera soundtrack, oscar nominee 2005)

Child of the wilderness
Born into emptiness
Learn to be lonely
Learn to find your way in darkness

Who will be there for you
Comfort and care for you
Learn to be lonely
Learn to be your one companion

Never dreamed out in the world
There are arms to hold you
You’ve always known your heart was on its own

So laugh in your loneliness
Child of the wilderness
Learn to be lonely
Learn how to love life that is lived alone

Learn to be lonely
Life can lived, life can be loved alone