David Gray - Babylon (Official Video)
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- Watch the official video for “Babylon” by David Gray from 'White Ladder'.
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Babylon Lyrics:
Friday night I'm going nowhere
All the lights are changing green to red
Turning over TV stations
Situations running through my head
Looking back through time
You know it's clear that I've been blind, I've been a fool
To open up my heart to all that jealousy
That bitterness, that ridicule
Saturday I'm running wild
And all the lights are changing red to green
Moving through the crowds I'm pushing
Chemicals are rushing in my bloodstream
Only wish that you were here
You know I'm seeing it so clear
I've been afraid
To show you how I really feel
Admit to some of those bad mistakes I've made
And if you want it
Come and get it
Crying out loud
The love that I was
Giving you was
Never in doubt
Let go of your heart
Let go of your head
And feel it now
Let go of your heart
Let go of your head
And feel it now
Babylon, Babylon, Babylon
Sunday all the lights of London shining
Sky is fading red to blue
Kicking through the autumn leaves
And wondering where it is you might be going to
Turning back for home
You know I'm feeling so alone
I can't believe
Climbing on the stair
I turn around to see you smiling there
In front of me
And if you want it
Come and get it
Crying out loud
The love that I was
Giving you was
Never in doubt
Let go of your heart
Let go of your head
And feel it now
Let go of your heart
Let go of your head
And feel it now
Let go of your heart
Let go of your head
And feel it now
Let go of your heart
Let go of your head
And feel it now
Babylon, Babylon, Babylon, Babylon, ah
#DavidGray #Babylon #WhiteLadder20 #WhiteLadder - Hudba
my dad loved david gray. i forgot he existed until i was sitting in the car waiting to go in the funeral home for my dads service and heard this song. i used to tell dad he was a flamer or a chick listening to these songs and here i am at 28 years old. crying listening to my dads old music. i miss you man. so much.
Kelly Scott Bush
September 17, 1968-February 17, 2024
you’re my hero old man. your legacy lives on 💙
I'll raise a glass to your old man
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
So sorry for your lose, I lost my Dad 3 months ago. Been looking through his old music collection as well.
❤
Cherish the moments you had, man. I lost my mom a couple years ago and you never lose that feeling, but the feelings have softened and I've been able to reflect and reminisce without losing it now. Hopefully, someday you're able to do the same with his music and just listen and smile. I'm with ya, my guy.
David Gray is ridiculously underrated!
They play him on KOST now!
100%
He’s isn’t underrated one bit!
Who by?
Yes also think!!!
🤨🥰👏🔥
I remember in my late teens sitting in a stolen car with two of my childhood friends, in a car park taking heroin… this song came on the radio and we all paused in a moment of life evaluation… for those 2 minutes we shared this song and a magical moment. my two friends are no longer here… yet my life has ended up really good, great job, home, and a family that love me… I’m 40 years old on Sunday, I consider myself very lucky!
You really are 😘
Sounds like you were born in 1982 like I was. I turned 40 back on May 29th. When this song came out you were 18 and I was 18 since the song came out around late 2000. I remember hearing this song in the Fall of 2000, was my first quarter in community college. Sorry to hear about your friends, what happened to them? Im glad in end your life turned out for the good.
@@danka2000 yes I was born in 1982, One got killed in an accident at work, the company tried to blame him being on drugs but it was found that they were in breach of health and safety. The other tried to take a short cut over a railway line and his coat got caught on the fence and it strangled him 😕 he was homeless and really fucked up at the time.
@@danka2000 and thanks 😊
Well, I´m sorry. Sorry for those you stole from and all the people youve harmed.
I get a heartache kind of nostalgia when I listen to these songs.
Yes I do also, young an dumb I was.
Yes me too ❤️
@@rhiannonleigh2715 Me to. Sends me back to the good old days. Great artist.
Me too reminds me how life felt so much better when this song was in the charts and I sore this wonderful video for the first time.
Heart definitely started beating irregularly for sure
Sweet freaking jesus, I've literally been looking for this song for about a decade or so. I heard it in a safeway grocery store and misinterpreted the lyrics and eventually figured I'd never find out. You have no idea how nice it is to find the title to the song that's been playing on my head for ten years.
Same bro been looking for ages till I heard it on the radio recently
What do you make of it?
Ah that's lovely ,delighted u found it
Same!
Biblical Babylon
Another 90s kid here who fell in love with this song in 2000. And 20 years later it's as powerful now as it was then.
95' here and this is one of my favorite songs ever
@@sammysweetheart8600 My heart still sinks into my stomach at “if you want it, come and get it, for crying out loud, the love that I was, giving you was, never in doubt.” 2000 nostalgia for life 💕
As a guy who was born in the late 90s, I definitely feel you on that.
50’s kid here and love this song! Good music can never be denied.
@@normcooprjr Truth! You have undeniable good taste!
Thank you, Matt McCusker for reminding me of this gem.
Brother, I knew the shaman wouldn't lead me here alone! God bless!
the shaman would never mislead us
Took a David Gray deep dive when I heard Matt mention him.
My personal favorite so far is “Lead Me Upstairs.”
Shoutout to all the DAWGZ.
That"s how i got here!
Haha same I couldn't remember who sung "this years love" for years till Matt brought him up 😂😂
This was our tune. First heard it on holiday in Ibiza.
He died last year.
Rest in peace hubby. ❤
Haley Hazey so sorry for your loss. 🙏
Rest in eternal peace ✝️
God willing you'll see him again
Till you meet again
🫂❤️
💖🙏🫶💔😢
For my best friend and all the times we sang this song dunk as hell. Miss you bro. R.I.P. Daniel Hagen
How he die
SuperPhilcool have some respect you dosser
Sorry to hear that James. May he rest in peace brother!
Sorry for your loss, hang in there brother
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Laying down on my couch listening to David singing Babylon.
Here in 2024 🎉🎉 hello from Ireland 🇮🇪
I lost my former Sweetheart just before Christmas. She loved David Gray. His music were the first songs that come to mind when I think of her. I miss her so much.
Sending much love
I hope your doing okay mate 🙏🏼
Keep your head up bro
🌹
Four months in and I think that you are going to do ok. This is a great tune. Enjoy it. Don't let the past be an anchor. Smile lots, work out and be the person you want to attract. Trust me.
I quit my job yesterday to get myself better mentally. My job has caused me stress anxiety and depression and has been affecting life with my little boy and girl as well as my partner. This song makes me feel like everything is going to be ok. I know we'll be fine.
You’ve got my support my friend
Blessings to you Adam White
I hope it all worked out well for you!
Best of luck to you and yours.
Hope you're awesome, no job is worth your mental health and there is always another out there :)
My baby sister got me into this artist, in the early 2000's. She went to heaven in 2012. We had the BEST taste in music, and books. I miss her everyday, and can't wait to listen to music together again.🎼🎶
Ru Irish
My little sister loved this song so much she requested it for her funeral, sadly she died at 43 due to addiction, this song was played whilst she departed alone..
Nice song 🥲, as someone who beat addiction I feel very fortunate that I’m still alive.
Rip 🙏🏻 🕊
No one departs alone . they're waiting for us , RIP
My condolences.
❤❤
In France, "Babylon" was on heavy rotation on radios by summer 2000.
Being 20 in the 90's was the coolest time.
Leta Robinson it sure was
Good song
Leta Robinson Being twenty in any time is the coolest time.
Leta Robinson l was there.
How’s 45 for you
God I miss these days
Still there again
As do i 🙏
If we band together get find stewie I'm sure he can build us a time machine
Because I rather be there and my Grandparents was still alive
You mean when things were a little more normal (the people weren't as strange either)
Yep same
Shocking that this song has only 17 million views in 10 years as it should have atleast 10x that. Well atleast there's 17 million people in this world that know what proper music sounds like
Come on, David Gray, we need a live show in Manchester
1 million of those views were from me 😅
Sometimes I listen to this song on repeat all day while working. Is that normal? I love it.
Totally 😎
Yep, I am guilty as charged.
Yes 👍❤
no - go get yourself checked
Seems reasonable
My brother loved David Gray. Rip Clayton Finn, too beautiful for this Earth, leave a light on for me bro x
He's right next to you!! Regardless!! We never leave those we LOVE,, EVER🎼🤗🎵🙏🤗 They become our New Angels who watch over us n sit right next to us hearing every single word you say to them... Till yous meet again💙🎼🙏🎵💙🤗😘
God Bless yous!!🙏🤗🙏
Beverly, that's lovely.
Jus Somethin so Special bout his words!! Babylon kisses our hearts is so many ways!! RIP Clayton Finn!💞 are yous with me for him?!?😘💞🤗😘💞
Sorry too hear about that, but don’t worry his light is forever burning, never give up, always remember! Sorry for your loss
The 90's were so amazing. Shame we didn't appreciate them enough at the time 😐
yeah was the best for music, movies and everything really
It all went so fast.. shows we had great fun.
Ah but we appreciate them now so
Nothing beats 90s music.
Agree 100% but I keep it alive by listening to 90s music all the time - so much that my son born in 2003 prefers 90s music to anything else. Makes this momma proud.
People don’t know how symbolic this song truly is
It was about the loss.of innocence....and a few years later 9/11 happened and to me the song was prophecy
Amen 🔥💞🔥
I think many do.
Do you ear them ...
Actually people do understand.
Such a timeless song. Just a joy to listen to every time.
Thank you for sharing your White Ladder memories in these comments! We're working on a special project to share these stories for the 20th anniversary of White Ladder - help us bring this project to life by sending us your memories with a photo or video at davidgray.com/wl-memories.
Brilliant
Nice idea! Love you David Gray, thank you for the music!!
What is the meaning behind the lyric "Babylon”?I always thought it was a plea to go back to the beginning of the said relationship? I'd really appreciate you letting me know. Though I appreciate you cannot have/take the time to answer all questions. But if you could, I'd be very appreciative!!! Gb, amazing song, thanx for your music, George.
My husband and kids and I love all your music, its especially good in our car on long trips. My kids have grown up listening to it. It has been the source of much comfort listening to your music. Thank you. ❤
What ever happened to this project. I have the best story.
This is one of my all time favorite songs hands down.
It was used for torture
Daniel so was a picture of you haha shutup this song is amazing
This songis poignant af
I haven't heard this song in years. I find it again tonight while tripping on shrooms. The feels are strong AF. ♥️
No doubt
This song came at a difficult in my life and it saved me , God bless David grey and all you wonderful people still listening to a masterpiece🙏🏻❤️
🎵a wobbly voice, and a wobbly head🎵
20 years ago, where has it all gone?
It finally happened, I finally found the song!! It played in my head for more than a decade!!!!!!
Yeah it came out in like 1999 or 2000.
I had a basset hound named Elvis at the time and any time this song/video would come on he would come running From wherever he was and stand in front of the TV and bark his head off until it was over.
It was hilarious. 🤣
I don’t know what it was about this song but it’s the only one he ever did that to.
So of course I think of him any time I hear this song.
But it’s a great song from a GREAT album and I highly recommend you checking out the rest of this album for sure.
It’s absolutely fantastic.
Glad you found it after looking for it for so long. I know what that’s like and it can be maddening! 😜
Seriously…check out the whole album.
You won’t be disappointed. ❤
You and I, Mr Bull, have had the same predicament. I shrieked when I found it as well. I have been singing along to bits of it without knowing the artist or the title. Here's the fun part, my colleague's name is David Gray!!! lol
All you had to do was let go of your heart, let go of your head… respectfully.
Too funny the stuff you hear at the supermarket
Perhaps a comment on life😂😂
Reminds me of living in Bayswater, London. I'm in Nottingham now, I'm 52. I just want to turn the clocks back a bit.
Reminds me of living in Fulham bro. I saw him at Earls Court during this time. I'm in New Zealand now and life is good but sometimes when I think back to those London days...
Woof Olliesmydog Reminds me of working in a Nursing home-2002/3? Now 54, I get what you mean by turning the clock back.I would like to have one long weekend,June/July 1983 Chichester,West Sussex,with the knowledge/wisdom if you like of myself today x
@@deesmit2222 I think we all wish that!
AHH bless. It reminds me of working at Nottingham train station aged 26 as a train guard. Early mornings and late nights I've seen many lights change from green to red. Yes I miss those days😢
Me too
Who here listening 2024 🎉 happy new year from Ireland 🇮🇪
Happy New year to you also.
Ridiculously good song, even after 25 years.
Yes me 13-01-2024 i heard this song yesterday on the radio on my way home from work it was new for me amazing
@@loekrietmeijer5487 it's brilliant 👏
I’m listening in 2025, I’m a time traveller like Marty McFly but in a converted Peugeot 208 instead of a DeLorean. To prove it I’ll tell you who wins the 2024 General Election - a Labour landslide. There you go there’s your proof. 😃
Here and grateful to listen again
I love this song but really hardly ever listen to because every time i do i end up crying. i love it so much than it hurts. Reminds me of my best years.
The best is yet to come bud
Don't worry. Probably not as sad as the Iraqis forced to listen to it on repeat for hours and hours from a massive speaker Infront of their face, while soldiers would "gRAPE" their children in front of them... You'll be fine bud.
I can feel you but I'm a cry baby ..😂😂
Me too. Very emotional record
Like a fine wine, just gets better with age, a pure classic.
without a doubt so good its frightening
It has an atmospheric quality that's almost impossible to translate into words............other-worldly or something like that!!
Amazing isn't it?
Thank you 😉
YOURE SO FUCKING RIGHT NEVER GETS OLD ONLY BETTER WITH TIME. BABYLON
“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” God Bless everyone
warren Stephens hmmmm
That's a good thing, frankly.
I have so many notebooks filled with lyrics and drawings but can’t play an instrument... seeing this written with the words u use, so simple yet so true.. I had to comment
@Ali Alejandro cheers brother 😁 Diolch thank you
@@deejarrett8291 No one wants to hear what my nana had locked up in her. Trust me.
This song takes be back to my time just out of university landing a job in Chicago and living in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Absolutely loved going on pub crawls with my buddies and hearing this song being played. The bartenders would crank up the volume for this song and the whole pub would sing along.
My brother died today.. I was working with him. He was diabetic.. He told us his blood sugar was low.. He had glucose tablets in his backpack and emergency diabetic supplies. We offered him some food not even 5 minutes before he fell. My friend we were helping with a job told me my brother was on the ground. I had just seen him a minute before that standing up. We didn't have cell service where we were at.. We carried him to the truck and drove to the nearest house. They let us come in and we began chest compressions my brother had stopped breathing. I gave my brother mouth to mouth.. I felt his hands grow cold. I watched as his face turned pale. We continued for 30 minutes before emergency vehicles showed up and continued on for another hour... Until there was nothing we could do anymore. I watched as my brother was zipped into a body bag... I cried... I couldn't cry. Then cried some more. I prayed. I pleaded. I let go. I decided to try to finish the job my brother and I started.. On the way back to unload the lumber... This song played on the radio... So beautiful. Rest in peace brother Jesus has you now. This isn't goodbye... I'll see you later... Until then I'm gonna strive to make you proud... You will be sorely missed. I love you always. I know you'll always be with me.. You wont have to suffer anymore. I'm gonna miss you. Until we meet again my friend!
I needed to read this today in January 2024... thank you❤
I'm so sorry lost too many also blessings x
My heartfelt condolences to you & that agonising pain is unexplainable 😔 lost my brother sept 2021 & still feels so raw & very painful to accept..44 years old & I’d choose him as my brother again,he didn’t just say he cared about anyone,he really made you feel loved & had a big heart..I’ll never be the same & listen to music he once did ‘ he loved his 🎧 on their soul journeys & will be waiting when it’s our turn ❤️
Hi Bruce, so sorry for you. Mark
So so sorry for your loss my son had dmd sadly died before his 18 birthday I was holding his hand at the end our loved ones always in our hearts❤ xx
Anyone else singing to this this 2020?
Like a fine wine, just gets better with age, a pure classic.
3-29-20
Absolutely love Mr. Gray's tunes, they're seemingly ageless to me! 🙂
4/11/20 👍✌️
May now! Time keeps tickin'. Stay safe out there! Blessings from FL
What do yous all think of it?
If you are watching this in 2021, then just remember that you are a Legend! 🔥💯
👍
An unknown legend
Brilliant song I have it in my head even without listening to it I also had a dream about having the song on last night.
@@matthewkiggin5456 dream a dream baby
God I love this guy's voice
I was born in 1990 and this song could be in the background of some of the most "coming of age" moments of my life as I look back. So many people listened to it so you would hear it everywhere you went.
This guy is a genius ,such an amazing talent ,grossly underrated
💯
so grossly
Nobody missed this.Major.
White ladder saved my life.
I have been loooking for this song for almost 20 years. It's like reuniting with an old friend after many years.
Vernor Oviedo i mean clearly not you would have found it fairly easily by just listening to the lyrics and asking people
Me too
@@weewarrior1228 This song is not easy to find just off the chorus.
understand
Wow, thank you Matt McCusker for bringing me back to this. My mom used to sing along to this on the radio driving me home from school when I was 8 years old. Really good memories
praise be to the shaman
This has been an earworm of mine for years. I can often be found doing mundane tasks and singing this song
If you are watching this in 2020, then just remember that you are a Legend! 🔥💯
I’m visiting from chromatica
Keep seeing this comment on a few bangers out there
Thank for the reassurance
What a song. Can evoke so many good memories for me. Where does the time go 😅
Love this song my mother is sick in hospital I dedicate this song to her❤
David Gray's music makes me feel so nostalgic. It reminds me of the bus rides into town with mum as a young kid, his music was on the radio a lot back then in the early 2000s. My town (Christchurch City, NZ) changed so much after the earthquakes and isn't the same anymore. So this music takes me back to a better time 💜
This tune has a magical power to take every listener to a private place where you will reminisce or remember a certain era/place in your timeline and mentally time travel to it. Still ❤️ 2022
Yes yes yes. I am in a place, with a circumstance, and I can still feel that like a jacket when I hear this
.you are so right. Nice work 🙏
It’s true.
This song came out when I was 23, and now I'm 45. Almost half my life ago. I'm not sure what made me think of this song. Being in a place now, traveling for an extended period, where I'm contemplating everything that has ever happened in my life and the music that draws me to those memories. This song has has a special place in my timeline.
my sons were messing around with my mom's old record collection that she gave me. My mom has records since the 1940s. I also have glass records from my grandmother since the late 1800's.. I had a large cassete tape collection that is gone now and a lot of my cd collection is missing which is a long story. My sons were messing with the records I had left, cassettes, and cds. they were messing with my old cds and talking about them with me and then they found David Greay. I was a dj in highschool and college. I was working on an associates in radio broadcasiting and I was working at a cafe on the campus. I was a dj on college radio for years and was an intern for a lot of stations and I remember this was one of my favorite songs to play. The entire album is so amazing and unique. Once the cafe closed and I was totally discouraged by my father and transferred to a different job I felt I was going nowhere. I gave it all up to marry my middle school sweetheart who was in the navy when we graduated highschool.. I have been with my husband my wholle life and we are very happy still, but I gave up a lot of dreams. I was a dj for a long time and this song was huge then. It's too bad that it faded away in peoples memories. It's still good. It's still a gem. Thanks David Gray for all of the good memories. You are still an idol in my heart and am icon at everything I deejayed. I have a lot of fond memories with this song, and now my sons will too.. My husband does also, God bless!
Wow just wow ❤❤❤
Whos here 2024
Never left😅
Me listening to it 😊🇬🇧
Ireland 🇮🇪
🇮🇪
@@mickygilmore1560exactly what I was about to say😂
What a time the 90s were. As a child, I remember falling in love with this song and so many others and feeling nothing but optimism. I feel so lucky to have grown up in this era. No social media. Tech didn't rule our day to day lives. Truly simpler times.
The song's theme suggests that just like the city of Babylon (the 3rd World Power in human history) was kept safe by walls too high to scale and the Euphrates river as a giant moat surrounding it on all sides for miles, a fragile human heart will desperately try to shield itself from pain and regret by creating all sorts of barriers designed to keep harmful people out and peaceful solitude in. The downside is that such a strategy also keeps helpful people out and painful loneliness in as well. In order to live a full life, a person HAS to let go of fear and doubt to be free to truly enjoy his/her time on earth.
+Jomanro great job, you did speak clearly to me, saying something and it has girth, time is short, used to think gazing at the stars was the end all of all, then life happens
+Jomanro Thank you for that
+Jomanro Keep it simple and just Babble on.
+Jomanro i totaly agree with written. it does not get any more truthful than that what you have written, for i have expirienced it myself. thank you for that friend...
+Georgia Fiefer ha ha...lol, clever girl
2020 and I'm still here. Anyone else?
Metoo
Oswaldtwistle. been here for the last 900 years at least .William the bastard did for us in 1085
yes lol. great tune. white ladder is amazing
cj90014 I think so??
This song is life
This song reminds me of a time in my life with lots of turmoil. A person, Daryl, came into my life and was nothing more than a friend. A friend who was needed and always lent an ear to my chaotic life and back and forth thoughts on a love lost. Still think of this guy now as he always used to listen to this song. Thanks for all the support D - miss ya man!
This artist is very much underrated, love David Gray's music always.
My mom played this song all the time in her car when I was little, it's been in the back of my mind for over 20 years. Didn't know enough about the song to be able to find it, but then just it randomly came on the radio today. How cool, haven't heard it in a very long time, great memories.
i love how a song can take me back in time sometimes to happier more innocent time, this is one of many
This is my absolute favorite song and always will be. The lyrics, melody, instrumentation, his voice. An absolute masterpiece
This always reminds of 2000's Ireland. Being a kid enjoying school, sun and the end of the Celtic tiger and some of the best memories of my life.
This song should be a monument in the history of music.
How incredible is this track. Will never get tired of this one.
Music4allofU. ...
Music4allofU wild 9.no.love productio s of ny.macho g.is the kingdom of princess nemo.and that's that little memo.on HBO
Try listening at 0.70 percent speed, voice pitch shifted. For a more soulful experience...
This is a great song and amazing album
What do yous all think of it?
Saw David and Ray at Millennium Park in Chicago on a warm summer night. Our first date after our son was born. Magical.
Can't believe I've gone 20 years without ever seeing the music video despite absolutely loving this song to death.
What
Me too, lot of years without listen it. Master Piece
There is no song out there that makes me reminisce to when I lived in London like this song, classic. Masterpiece.
Heaven for me will b living in the 90s doing whatever career you want and defo david gray non effing stop on radio!!🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for curing depression Dave ur a effing legend 😉
I had this stuck in my head tonight and posted on Facebook, in a desperate plea asking "Does anyone know that 90's song where the chorus says something like gooreahhah gooreahay? I tried googling it, and it just brought up results for Gonorrhea." My friend Jake came to the rescue after he had me send him a voice memo of me singing it because there was absolutely no way I was getting to it otherwise.
I'm so happy right now.
Sitting in a park, under a tree, with a coffee, my life is as it should be.
Its clear to see that this song has helped get people through very dark times. STAY STRONG, green and red lights will come and go. Go on amber and smile along the way.
Remember to bring passenger's but leave the luggage/deadweight behind.
This is such a great comment
@@sophieb5368 hope you are doing all ok !
I needed to see this comment 🫶
@@sophieb5368 How you doing Soph? x
I was 16 when this came out. Miss them days it was a far better time
This is the song of an entire generation. Thank you David for creating such a tune.
March 12,2006.. First time I heard this song playing in the background, and watching SA vs AUS 438 game. What memories !!! Wish I could go back and relive it once again.
I love this entire album so much. Every song peels back another layer and it surprisingly raw for a lot of it. The first song is Please Forgive Me which is kind of a quirky song and then this masterpiece. The album ends with Say Hello Wave Goodbye which makes you feel like Buddy Holly just died in American Pie for 9 minutes.
It's a good album, but it's not considered a classic in the pantheon of music.
Maybe it's just "a good song" .
Perhaps...
This song came out originally in mid 1999. It has this vibe to me. The 90s were almost over, a new point in time was soon coming in. Things weren't going to be the same.
Situations running through my head
My friend and I played this album constantly when her parents away, getting stoned and drunk. She no longer here. Play this, smile, remember her
When i was a kid, we used to go on holiday to Spain every year up until the financial crash.
Our first time there, my dad bought White Ladder an had it on the CD player on our rental car.
Hearing this brings me back to happy memories. Thanks David.
Wow...Released 24 years ago, and it's still so good! David Gray is so talented!! Love his music, especially this song, and this album. I still have this CD. It means something to me -- 1999 was a life- changing year for me.
The lyrics have such a stream of consciousness feel. It’s amazing how fluid it all feels
Ooòhhh
Love
Such an unassuming, simple, but perfect and beautiful song. Takes me back!
It’s great hearing how this song makes people feel nostalgic.
I was born at the tail end of the 80s. Back in 2000 this song along with a few other artists was some of the first music I listened to that wasn’t my parents influence (they still think 70s music is the best).
The video is a great representation of London at the end of the 90s. It’s good to relive those memories.
Such a beautiful song, every time I hear it, it brings back the year 2000, when we had one foot still in the 20th Century, and the other in the 21st, the comfortable past was slipping away, and an unknowable future coming at us like a freight train.
Well said.
I love this song so much. Thank you David Gray for composing it and enriching my life
One of those songs that you can repeat and never gets old. Love this song!
Funny because they used this song to torture prisoners in abu grain by having it on repeat
I've been looking for this song for years lm glad I found it again I'll never lose it
The first time I heard this, I was laying on the deck of a boat sailing through the Whitsunday Islands, and it was glorious...
This is the first song I heard from David grey ❤❤ love it xx
If you want it, come and get it, crying out loud
The love I was giving you was never in doubt.
Let go your heart
Let go your head.
White ladder, biggest album sales ever in Ireland 👋💯🇮🇪👋💯🇮🇪
This is an absolute classic. I play it on loop frequently, love the video too. David is so underrated, its unbelievable.
In the 2000’s I had a daily commute of 1 hour and 20 minutes each way …
David Helped Me get through that Commute…
Great Driving Music…
Thank You David ❤️
I’m 13teen years old and this is my favourite song, I feel like it makes all my problems go away. :)
Keep this song with you for as long as you want, it will keep you happy.
When I was 11-12, I too felt the same back when it aired on the radio.
When I was in 6th grade I had a social studies teacher who would play David grey when we took test or did any projects I fell in love with his music back then and still listen to it today my kids also love David grey such good music
Until your rivers run dry...
To my ears, this might be one of the finest songs of the last 50 years. This song was a hit on the radio when I visited my family in England back in summer 2000. I bought the cd at Gatwick before my flight home and this song has never left my playlist.
Went to his concert Friday night at the Freo Arts Centre with the wifey. Absolute AMAZING!!!
"This Year's Love" was our wedding song that we danced to when we were married.
Honestly say that he sounds better live than he does recorded. AMAZING...
This song hits me in so many ways. So many memories. David gray, what a singer!
Day 72 of listing to Babylon everyday for the rest of my life
just checking in how is this going?
right!!
There is something special to me of songs that came out in the late 90s and the year 2000. Even though I didn’t listen to this song around that time (I honestly didn’t learn about this song until recently), it feels nostalgic to me. I’m really grateful for David Gray for composing this masterpiece of a song. I have honestly been listening to it on loop for the past several days now.
Every morning 4:30 driving through the empty streets of central London to go airport to clean the coffee stains off the carpets with me unkle and his dad bill I was a teenager first job 40 quid a morning good money bk then . The memories sleeping in the back of an old Astra van on a mattress sleeping with this tune playing on magic every morning. Bills now passed and life’s changed I hold the memories forever rip bill thanks for looking after me and thanks for the brick lane bagel stops on route ❤
2019 people here? Still a great tune 👍
Ronan, very much so. I was in the foyer of a bank ATM here in Philadelphia this past Saturday, making a sort of sad little deposit in a mood that the song speaks to so beautifully. Had never heard it before and yet in that setting - poor fidelity, steaming hot outside, a line queuing up behind me - the song completely arrested me. Gratitude for what I heard while standing there, but also that through a quick search later I was able to get to it so easily. With or without the accompanying video - which itself is quite wonderful - it's a beautiful song, a great tune, as you said.
2057
Any time travelling cunts here 🖕🏻
Best song ever
Still a classic
Heard it on Acoustic Sunrise radio a few weeks ago. Can’t stop listening to it. The acoustic version is really beautiful. Live them both.