Nick drake biography lyrics river man
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Nick Drake: The Biography
Drake was musical from an early age, sporty as a school student, bright enough to study English literature at Cambridge but was troubled and subject to depression, got absorbed bygd his music, released three albums, withdrew from public performance after the third, Pink Moon (), retreated further into himself and died at 26 from an overdose of the antidepressant amitriptyline. Thus there is little of him on record, literally and metaphorically, beyond achingly poignant footage of him as a little by at the beach and photos as an adult, still beautiful.
He would be forgotten but for this tragically romantic bio
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Nick Drake – River Man of the Unknown
Unknown and enigma seem to remain keywords about British singer-songwriter Nick Drake. It is a name on many lips of the ever-growing numbers of his fans, yet when Drake’s three albums came out () they never sold more than a few thousand copies.
Drake seems to have been a complete introvert, an enigma even to his close family, as they never really found out why he committed suicide back in November He seems not to have had many real friends, refused to give interviews, and was uneasy playing live concerts.
As his sister Gabrielle Drake, who wrote a book about her brother explains, “mostly Nick was uncommunicative and occasionally he’d become talkative and you hung on his every word even though, very often, one didn’t know what they meant because he’d talk in riddles.”
Yet, there seems to be this inner line Drake strikes with his listeners that made his stature grow as time passed. As British gardening writer and broadcaster Monty Done
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River Man
Betty came by on her way
Said she had a word to say
About things today
And fallen leaves
Said she hadn’t heard the news
Hadn’t had the time to choose
A way to lose
But she believes
Gonna see the river man
Gonna tell him all I can
About the plan
For lilac time
If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows
And all night shows
In summertime
Betty said she prayed today
For the sky to blow away
Or maybe stay
She wasn’t sure
For when she thought of summer rain
Calling for her mind again
She lost the pain
And stayed for more
Gonna to see the river man
Gonna to tell him all I can
About the ban
On feeling free
If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows
I don’t suppose
It’s meant for me
Oh, how they come and go
These are the lyrics as recorded bygd Nick and have been compiled in this format by Bryter Music, the Nick Drake estate. Our thanks go to them for permission to