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LYRICS

Words have always been central to Gavin Friday’s art—poetic, provocative, and deeply personal. His lyrics blend storytelling and emotion, often drawing on themes of love, identity, and transformation. 

Explore Gavin’s lyrics below. 

Solo Career
Collaborations
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Solo career

  1. Lovesubzero
  2. Ecce Homo
  3. The Church of Love
  4. Stations of the Cross
  5. Lady Esquire
  6. When the World Was Young
  7. The Best Boys in Dublin
  8. Lamento
  9. When the World Was Young (Reprise)
  10. Cabarotica
  11. Amaranthus (Love Lies Bleeding)
  12. Daze
  13. Behold the Man

 

  1. Able
  2. Land on the Moon
  3. A Song that Hurts
  4. The Only One
  5. Blame
  6. The Sun and the Moon and the Stars
  7. It’s All Ahead of You
  8. Perfume
  9. Epilogue
  10. Where’d Ya Go? Gone
  11. Lord I’m Comin’
  1. Shag Tobacco
  2. Caruso
  3. Angel
  4. Little Black Dress
  5. The Slider
  6. Dolls
  7. Mr Pussy
  8. You, Me and World War Three
  9. Kitchen Sink Drama
  10. My Twentieth Century
  11. The Last Song I’ll Ever Sing
  12. Le Roi d’Amour
  1. I Want to Live
  2. Falling Off the Edge of the World
  3. King of Trash
  4. Why Say Goodbye?
  5. Saint Divine
  6. Melancholy Baby
  7. Fun & Experience
  8. The Big No No
  9. Where in the World?
  10. Wind and Rain
  11. Eden
  1. Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves
  2. Tell Tale Heart
  3. Apologia
  4. Dazzle and Delight
  5. Next
  6. You Take Away the Sun
  7. Death is Not the End
  8. He Got What He Wanted
  9. Man of Misfortune
  10. Rags to Riches
  11. The Next thing to Murder
  12. Love is Just a Word
  13. Another Blow on the Bruise

Collaborations and soundtracks

  1. Banna Strand
  2. Easter Rising

 

  1. Until I’m In you
  1. Time Enough for Tears
  1. In the Name of the Father
  2. You Made me the Thief of Your Heart

 

  1. There’s Nothing To Be Afraid Of
  1. Baltimore Whores
  1. In the Shadow of a Gun
  2. Everything’s gonna be alright
  1. Fatal Flower Garden
  2. When that Great Ship Went Down
  1. Sonnet 40
  2. Macushla
  3. Tenderness of Wolves
  4. Blue Blue Moon
  5. A Thousand Years
  6. The Road to Perdition

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