Accidental Babies Lyrics

Performed by Damien Rice

Well I held you like a lover
Happy hands and your elbow in the appropriate place

And we ignored our others, happy plans
For that delicate look upon your face

Our bodies moved and hardened
Hurting parts of your garden
With no room for a pardon
In a place where no one knows what we have done

Do you come
Together ever with him?
And is he dark enough?
Enough to see your light?
And do you brush your teeth before you kiss?
Do you miss my smell?
And is he bold enough to take you on?
Do you feel like you belong?
And does he drive you wild?
Or just mildly free?
What about me?

Well you held me like a lover
Sweaty hands
And my foot in the appropriate place

And we use cushions to cover
Happy glands
In the mild eschew of our disgrace

Our minds pressed and guarded
While our flesh disregarded
The lack of space for the light-hearted
In the boom that beats our drum

Well I know I make you cry
And I know sometimes you wanna die
But do you really feel alive without me?
If so, be free
If not, leave him for me
Before one of us has accidental babies
For we are in love

Do you come
Together ever with him?
Is he dark enough?
Enough to see your light?
Do you brush your teeth before you kiss?
Do you miss my smell?
And is he bold enough to take you on?
Do you feel like you belong?
And does he drive you wild?
Or just mildly free?

What about me?
What about me?

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Close to home. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/24/11

This song, as others have noted, resonates because it describes my own experience. I, too, had a affair. She did not choose me over her husband for the long term. That hurts, and this song accurately-and profoundly-describes the feelings, trials, hopes, and despairs of my own intransgression. Thank you, Damien Rice, for helping me through this time with your cathartic art.

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My Life | Reviewer: CB | 9/6/11

Reading the other comments on this site has urged me to write my story. I love Damien Rice. He is a fantastic artist. I feel at home when I listen to his music.

I met the love of my life when I was in college. I was young and wild and selfish. He followed me across the Atlantic. All I wanted to do was party and have a good time. He thought I didn't love him because of this. I wanted freedom so we broke up. The timing was off. I always thought that we would go off and do our own things and then get back together again.

In my partying, I met a guy. He did not love me and I did not love him. We made a beautiful, accidental baby together.

My beautiful, accidental baby was too much. My true love moved on. Now I just sit and listen to songs like this and feel the truth and reality of the situation.

Damien Rice is legend.

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This happened to me | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/28/11

My boyfriend dedicated this to me one time we "had" to broke up because his ex told him she pregnant (yeah, we began to go out rigth after they broke up, he didn't cheated on me...).... I just cryeeeeeeeeed to death when I heared it, it was like hearing someon singin my feelings..
But the real problem was that, he didn't love her anymore, I mean that's why they broke up but he felt like he had de "duty" of taking care of his son...
Thinking that the person who you are nbdihni in love with is having a baby with another one.. is just the worst thing in the world... ):
but after all that, she found out she wasn't pregnant at all so they broke up (again) and I got my boyfriend back <3333 :)

but those were like the 2 or 3 most horrible months in my life...

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we are the same | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/3/09

this song has special meaning to me as I see it does with the other reviewers here.

Its funny how though all our situations are different it's as if we feel the same pain. I often feel that I'm alone in what I'm feeling but seeing that others are sharing in my misery is kind of...comforting.

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wow! | Reviewer: ender038 | 6/30/09

I have had this album for quite some time but never really sat down to listen. And now that I have I can't believe how closely this song resembles my situation. I met my ex when I was 22 years old, she was breathtaking, and I knew when I met her that it was the start of something. We dated for about a year and a half. But, she was entering her wild party years and I couldn't take it. So we split, about three months later we started dating again. And things were great. We made it one more year, and then it just fizzled out, I was uncomfortable around her feeling like she was going to cheat (having found out later she did). And then early last summer we ran into each other, one thing led to another and we ended up sleeping together. About two months later I got a call from her out of the blue saying she was pregnant. And the first thing I thought was this was the best thing that has ever happened to me. But she was pretty broken up about it, and decided to terminate the pregnancy. I reluctantly agreed and went through the process. I can still remember falling apart in the doctors office, it was terrible. Shortly after the abortion we tried to make it work, but it was too hard for me. I found out she was dating another man that was six years older then her and had a eight year old son. And now after a year all I do is think about her, I find myself losing it. I drink too much, and find myself making incredibly self destructive decisions. Well I found out just recently that she is three months pregnant, and to make matters worse I have a daughter due in august with someone I could care less about. This song is my life... and it breaks my heart.

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My situation | Reviewer: peter | 6/2/09

This song sums up my life. i am going through a terible heartache. I was with my girfriend for 2 years and we had the most amazing passionate time, but i became scared of commitment being too young,22, so i split up with her and broke her heart, as months went on,she waited for me, i missed her throught the time so much and realised i had given up the most amazing thing that had ever happened to me, but she met someone else and will not give me another chance, i know she still loves me but she is scared of a broken heart again and does not wanto let this new guy down, the passion and love we have for each other is so powerful. i hate myself and my heart is truely broken, i am now going thorugh what she went through, i realised i messed up badly but i think i am too late, i cant sleep or eat and my heart is pounding, i just wanto give her the whole world and have a family with her, all i need is one chance. i dont know what to do, i listened to this song and now i am obsessed with it, it makes me so sad but i still cant help myself, i wanto put it on a cd and give it to her.i am preying she gives love another chance with me.x

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delicate | Reviewer: elena | 12/7/08

I find it simply amazing... and incredibly delicate... sadness, loneliness, pain, hunger, fall, love, passion... talking about a movie of his, Pasolini appreciated it as being "atrocious and delicate"... and I thing Damien Rice is exactly like this... atrocious and delicate... are his "accidental babies"... collinding inside... and this song is not wonderful because of the story that it could say... it's wonderful because of its suggestions... the delicate gesture, the delicate rhythm of ideas and dreams and words and music...

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So moving | Reviewer: Adam | 8/29/08

I have only just discovered Damien Rice, and thank God I did. He is amazing. As all my fellow reviewers have already said, this song in particular is a work of art, so honest, heart-wrenchingingly painful, and yet so beautiful.
Thank you Damien, for sharing this with us...

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Beautiful | Reviewer: Sarah | 7/24/08

this song relates so heavily on my life.

my situation is a tad more complicated and ironic than the average cheating situation. I cheated on my boyfriend with his best friend (terrible but he was the guy that I truly loved although I did love both of them which was what made it so hard). I eventually broke up with my boyfriend for his best friend and I had never been happier however me and the ex-boyfriend kept trying to keep our leverl of closeness which we had established. So I stayed at his house and we slept together. The irony is now that I actually ended up cheating on both of them. I may be a terrible person or perhaps I just got too confused to make a choice as I really did love both of them so much.

Now as it turns out, I'm a week late for my period. If I am pregnant and my boyfriend finds out then I have most likely ruined the first chance of happiness that has come my way in a long time let alone having to have a child whilst taking a levels.

sorry this turned into a full blown confession...I meant to write about the song lol but thats the first time Ive ever written it down and it felt good. The song I can totally imagine my ex-boyfriend singing to me because so many of the things mentioned here reflected my feelings aswell as the things we used to do to each other.

And god yes. I realy do miss his smell :(

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... | Reviewer: Brea | 5/7/08

So tragic, so painful and so touching...
Though I don't really connect it with a situation from my life, still it makes me cry every time when I hear it. Fantastic lyrics, so beautiful, and the way he sings it...

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