David Gray – How to play 'Skellig' on Guitar

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Learn to play "Skellig" by David Gray on guitar.

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"Skellig" Lyrics:

Oh that the song I'm singing
Was an ocean wide
And that the word I'm bringing
Reaches over to the other side

Each heart a burning vessel
Out on a pitch black wave
Chewing the bone and gristle
When it's the flesh of love we crave

And when a lie starts dancing
Oh boy it sure can run
Be halfway around the world
Before the truth can get its trousers on

And in a nightclub mirror
I caught the merest glimpse
Of my pre-human spirit
Frozen like a deer yeah, in the headlamps

Until it just don't matter
Until we're far from care
And when illusions shatter
You see the carnage everywhere

So with a taste like metal
On through the fog of war
So many hurts like nettles
All growing up around my door

I'm gonna cut that stairway
Yeah with my own bare hands
Up to that high rock plateau
Make my home inside the winds

Inside the winds
Inside the winds
Up to that high rocky plateau
Make my home inside the winds

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Not many professional musicians take the time to do this, so thank you David, you are a beautiful person.

DjNikGnashers

What a beautiful song, I've been a huge fan of David's for years but I have to say that this song Skellig is up there with the best of his,

eamonngallagher

It is beautiful to see a person explain their craft.

josemariaherrera

THANK YOU DAVID!!!! I love that you teach us fans how you play your songs.. I can't express how awesome it is..

davesad

“Darling, I have to buy a baritone guitar. David Gray says so”

jamesmccarthy

Thank you for being so generous with your craft.

CaptainAcoustic

I did not know all those chords, wayy back, 39 years ago when I knew a Dave Gray in Sale-Cheshire. But I knew a lot of them. We never got round to talking about music. I wonder if we had connected better whether I would have ditched science A-levels and done Art instead. I like to think ( 39 years ago ) David had someone better than me, waiting somewhere. xx

andreasmith

Hi Dave, my husband and I have only just discovered Skellig. Just a few months ago I recalled your name from my memory banks from 1985, and googled you. Its our favorite album, played loud on our Focal floor standers. Is mesmerising. The other night I just watched his face as he absorbed it. White Ladder has been in my head since 2000 and I never realised it was you. I found it very hard to watch you back then. Now I know why it was disquieting. I see the real Dave in this video, I think.
I have been playing since about 12y/o. I used to jam with my mum's non-trad folk band as a kid. I devoured the Paul Simon songbook. In 1985 I had a Tokai Strat and a Roland SH101. 1990 I went to Uni, and discovered loads more music and started playing again. I was in a Cajun band playing fiddle in 2002. And 2005 to '17 I sang and played guitar as well as fiddle, doing songs like, when you come back down Nickel Creek, in folk session sing arounds. We did Babylon ! Then I lost my music ear. I thought it was menopause (but after having a huge stress reaction when I realised you had become David Gray) I stopped taking Montelucast, and I am "me" again. I had no idea what it was doing to me.
You saved me from myself in 1985, and sort-of again in 2024. I've had a mad tangle of a life. Not laid out like a garden, there has been plenty of room for the wild. Perhaps with that though, there is no final scene to end this story. I have been revisiting my "greatest hits", the people who wowed me all the way back to the Urban Road days. I have had so much love in my life. There are some bad things too, but if that gets too much I put all the "love" into an imaginary bliss-duvet and it warms my soul. Dave, I have a bit of you in that bliss-mix, a willow tree one damp night, 1985, your eyes like flint on a stone.

andreasmith