Day Is Done

by Nick Drake

From the album: Fruit Tree: The Complete Recorded Works

Track 5 of 35 on Fruit Tree: The Complete Recorded Works (1979).

Duration: 2:22

Fruit Tree: The Complete Recorded Works cover art

Lyrics for Day Is Done

When the day is done Down to earth then sinks the sun Along with everything that was lost and won When the day is done When the day is done Hope so much your race will be all run Then you find you jumped the gun Have to go back where you began When the day is done When the night is cold Some get by but some get old Just to show life's not made of gold When the night is cold When the bird has flown Got no-one to call your own Got no place to call your home When the bird has flown When the game's been fought You sped the ball across the court Lost much sooner than you would have thought Now the game's been fought When the party's through Seems so very sad for you Didn't do the things you meant to do Now there's no time to start anew Now the party's through When the day is done Down to earth then sinks the sun Along with everything that was lost and won When the day is done

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More from Fruit Tree: The Complete Recorded Works

  1. Time Has Told Me
  2. River Man
  3. Three Hours
  4. Way To Blue
  5. Day Is Done
  6. 'Cello Song
  7. The Thoughts Of Mary Jane
  8. Man In A Shed
  9. Fruit Tree
  10. Saturday Sun
  11. Introduction
  12. Hazey Jane II
  13. At The Chime Of A City Clock
  14. One Of These Things First
  15. Hazey Jane I
  16. Bryter Layter
  17. Fly
  18. Poor Boy
  19. Northern Sky
  20. Sunday
  21. Pink Moon
  22. Place To Be
  23. Road
  24. Which Will
  25. Horn
  26. Things Behind The Sun
  27. Know
  28. Ride
  29. Parasite
  30. Harvest Breed
  31. From The Morning
  32. Voice From The Mountain
  33. Rider On The Wheel
  34. Black Eyed Dog
  35. Hanging On A Star