The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon (Athens 21/11/2019)

The Waterboys live in Athens Greece - Piraeus 117 Academy
I pictured a rainbow
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon
Hmm, you were there in the turnstiles, with the wind at your heels
You stretched for the stars and you know how it feels to reach too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon
I was grounded
While you filled the skies
I was dumbfounded by truth
You cut through lies
I saw the rain dirty valley
You saw Brigadoon
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
I spoke about wings
You just flew
I wondered, I guessed and I tried
You just knew
I sighed
But you swooned, I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon
with a torch in your pocket and the wind at your heels
You climbed on the ladder and you know how it feels to get too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon, hey yeah!
Unicorns and cannonballs, palaces and piers
Trumpets, towers and tenements
Wide oceans full of tears
Flags, rags ferryboats
Scimitars and scarves
Every precious dream and vision
Underneath the stars, yes, you climbed on the ladder
With the wind in your sails
You came like a comet
Blazing your trail too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon
Songwriters: Michael Scott
The Whole of the Moon lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc

[@jamesbustin2837]

1986, Thatcher's Britain, and The Waterboys shone a ray of light across everything. Joyous, lyrically brilliant.

[@mazambane286]

What a ridiculous thing to post.

[@lonestar6709]

@@mazambane286 No it's not.

[@franckpeeters2405]

@@mazambane286 It’s absolutely spot on, actually.

[@samofthesun2371]

Couldn't agree more James Bustin ...and I was only 6! xxx

[@frankgreen1663]

​@mazambane286 no its correct

[@kevandfrank1]

One of the greatest writers of all time. Scotts tone with vocals is just amazing...timeless and legendary.

[@boukjetijhuis6456]

I will never stop listening to this song. Thank you Mike Scott for this best song ever. Great that The Waterboys are still performing live!

[@johnnyjoey]

Sounds just as good as it did over 35 years ago! I WILL NEVER TIRE OF THIS SONG!

[@phillipedwards7022]

This song is a classic that has no ending timeline - it will always have meaning to many.

[@neilh990]

I love this song so much and I like it when the vionlist is there!

[@jonmortimer5831]

This guy, his band - the world is just such a better place while they perform in it. Thanks Mike Scott. You really are one hell of a spirit.

[@kathyfrancis9229]

With you buddy

[@Corky341]

The beauty of this song, those lyrics is; it's about anyone, everyone you've ever known. MIke Scott used a whole myriad of people/subjects as inspiration for the lyrics and consequently we can read into it what we want. Sad, happy, lost opportunities/loves. This songs covers every emotion known. Just a great song. Thank you guys.

[@gtsoriano]

A deep song, you just feel in your soul...

[@tendencies7528]

I pictured a rainbow You held it in your hands I had flashes But you saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years While you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon The whole of the moon Hmm, you were there in the turnstiles, with the wind at your heels You stretched for the stars and you know how it feels to reach too high Too far Too soon You saw the whole of the moon I was grounded While you filled the skies I was dumbfounded by truth You cut through lies I saw the rain dirty valley You saw Brigadoon I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon I spoke about wings You just flew I wondered, I guessed and I tried You just knew I sighed But you swooned, I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon The whole of the moon with a torch in your pocket and the wind at your heels You climbed on the ladder and you know how it feels to get too high Too far Too soon You saw the whole of the moon The whole of the moon, hey yeah! Unicorns and cannonballs, palaces and piers Trumpets, towers and tenements Wide oceans full of tears Flags, rags ferryboats Scimitars and scarves Every precious dream and vision Underneath the stars, yes, you climbed on the ladder With the wind in your sails You came like a comet Blazing your trail too high Too far Too soon You saw the whole of the moon

[@denton1972]

You know how it feels to reach too high, too far, too soon... I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon... What a song!!!

[@cathsalazar9930]

Knew this band was going places when I heard & saw this video of this hot singer 37 years ago at a club killer then killer now such an amazing musician killer still !!! Lol ❤️👍😻🤟🔥🇺🇸

[@in3rcia218]

I though you were talking about Mike voice

[@richardcoats6430]

A beautifully nostalgic song,class.

[@allanmumby]

like these guys we grow old gracefully, great song well done guys love it

[@mwatson5702]

😩🤫🤐

[@pymats]

35 years on and still brilliant!!!

[@davidwilson1035]

Probably one of the best songs ever written -🙂 corka

[@caramason56]

Absolutely beautiful tune 😊❤️🎶😊❤️🎶

[@neilfield3229]

Young lad going to clubs in the early nighties this song was great 😊

[@paulmerritt4240]

Brilliant Band Brilliant Song Brilliant Lyrics Brilliant Waterboys 💙

[@marcobaglione5482]

The Waterboys,que vocalista,que grupo,que temazo sonaba en todas las F.M del mundo y aca ni te cuento.tengo todas las verciones extendidas,raras,y en vivo.si lo habre bailado.mil gracias por esta que no la tenia.

[@kilowhiskeyalpha6078]

So perfect, this little ditty has travelled with me for decades.

[@noahgoyette467]

Just absolutely amazing still. 2 decades and more later.

[@MrRafaron]

classic! Awesome! Awesome! Great tune. Great tune. perfect song perfect song Awesome!

[@SShoaibAhmed]

Great tune. perfect song perfect song

[@royreyes8422]

timeless ... thank you for sharing....

[@dj2sher1]

Amazing!

[@MoahGentle]

Wow, just wow.

[@charliewrites]

this is one of those rare songs with truth that chills,inspires .humbles.It;s ecstatic.thanks for posting this

[@renatorodriguez1894]

this song inspires me to not give up.

[@redsidebiker]

I loved this song ever since I heard it first time *mumble* years ago. Well done on a different spin on it. Didn't stop me liking it.

[@coldeb8911]

Marvellous...just simply bloody Marvellous...Mike Scotts voice hasn't changed has it? ..weren't those two backing singers great and when one of them ( the one in the Stripe trousers ) came in at around 2:20 with the Rrrrs , the hairs on the back of my neck stood up ... 😊

[@kokokellitn1]

I never got to see them with these back-up singers but I wish I had. They personify the joyfulness of this particular song. Love it.

[@PaulinaMroz-dt3jk]

Whole of the moon without mist on the sky😃❤️🇵🇱✌️🇺🇦

[@freehermanjose5816]

I dedicate this song to Henry David Thoreau.

[@fifanominas]

Magníficent

[@colinforth9148]

Thank you Mike Scott!

[@AlanLawra]

perfect song

[@robertoreyesperez4822]

Yo los vi en España ,en Cantabria,,,,,,,fue impresionante

[@GUIGOU2013]

Bravooo...!!!

[@samemcgee]

Love the music and ……Wow! The lyrics!

[@jameso.6138]

Great tune.

[@jvaz6264]

One of my favorite songs ever. Great performance even though girls are a bit distracting.

[@nickburke443]

Awesome!

[@craig6840]

What shamless chours!!! That's sounds nothing like Max Edie's wholesome,truthful voice!

[@6foot849]

Das ist mein Jugend..my Songs....ich war 25 Jahre alt🤟👌☝

[@998cooper]

Fabulous.

[@sydbarret1973]

Shine on

[@JackSlider-hf1jb]

well, he's still got it.

[@vandovalentim16]

S E N S A C I O N A L 😃👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@theclappedoutdairy-man3507]

Playing in Glasgow tonight 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@s.longsteven6318]

perfect song ΤΙ ΟΜΟΡΦΑ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΑ ΡΕ ΣΠΥΡΕ ΣΕ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΥΜΕ ΓΙΑ ΤΑ ΒΙΝΤΕΟ!!!

[@jamiemartinez8674]

Back up singers and dancer are brilliant..

[@coldeb8911]

Weren't they just, and when one of them came in at around 2:20, with the arrrrs, I got this lump in my throat and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.

[@DCM1970]

Classic!

[@ayrtondemoraesjunior474]

Fantastic

[@klausdante]

Gorgeous

[@ximenamartincontreras7382]

Muy buen tema❤😊

[@armandofernandez6772]

Fiona Apple Version of this incredible masterpiece is awesome as well.

[@jrichards203]

It certainly is

This certainly a long way from when I saw the actual, "Waterboys" perform this live in 1985.

@H Kay Your point being?

[@cathsalazar9930]

U damn lucky bro where? 🙏🐈

[@cathsalazar9930]

solar clapson huh? 😹

@@cathsalazar9930 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver.

[@cathsalazar9930]

solar clapson unfortunately never got to see em USA never booked em at least not in my Washington DC area such a bummer! This was awesome though!!! ❤️👍

[@cleonesilva4475]

I discovered this at the U2 tour

[@sydbarret1973]

Sydbarret was an influence for this song, amongst others

[@mousamas]

ΤΙ ΟΜΟΡΦΑ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΑ ΡΕ ΣΠΥΡΕ ΣΕ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΥΜΕ ΓΙΑ ΤΑ ΒΙΝΤΕΟ!!!

[@spirspil1]

Thanks !

[@johnryman1366]

the girls don't add anything to the music and cheapen the vibe down to burlesque

[@hookywookywithmalarkyman704]

Seen mike in his solo days and with his as with an often changing band set feckin great as always .

[@Oh_I_Will]

Where did you see him as a Solo?

[@hookywookywithmalarkyman704]

glastonbury / gigs around merseyside & north yorkshire after than he grouped up the band as of now.

[@mecanoides]

💙💙💙

[@iamra1989]

Un récord !!!! Baby ... ver la luna llena Y semidormida bajar a tierra para pisar tierra nadie había allí

[@Gezoes]

If an asteroid would hit the Earth, I say we go for this one as we pop the last champaign bottles in the universe.

[@courtneyvandenham830]

classic!

[@peterschulz4115]

Respekt

[@josearalat]

That's how I dance when no one's watching!

[@TobiasMeinecke]

Hate to say it, I aged better. But I never wrote a hit song :-) kinda makes up for it. Oh - and I love the song. Heard it first when it came out.

[@IainBruce7]

Zeenie summers is theeee best

[@platadeluna]

Málaga 1990 & Pakrati 1991

[@alexfigueira8886]

Banda com 40 anos

[@paulabritocamara5513]

🌸🌹🍀🌊

[@user-lt9tx6ob8n]

Why do people Wright down the lyrics on the comments lol we can here them being sung 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@derhampaul2182]

But the lyrics are fantastic

[@diegomar1000ify]

me encanta mucho este tema, lamentablemente lo conoci apenas hace un par de años, es grosso un clasico, de una epoca, la mina de pelo corto es la del video del 85???

[@maximilianolizarraga3119]

Tengo la misma duda de saber si la corista es Max "Lizard" Edie. Hace tiempo intento saber si sigue haciendo música. Es una de las mejores voces femeninas. Tiene muchas canciones grabadas con Nikki Sudden.

[@karllosvasquez8441]

Estoy investigando al respecto y no encuentro referências se tan solo supieramos su nombre seria mas fácil .A mi parecer es SI con várias plásticas para reducir las arrugas y el peso si no se lo perdonó los años. Le hago escuchar esa musica a mi hija de 5 años y le digo que esa chica es un Angel Disfrazada de humano, por la voz linda que tiene al corear(1985)

[@diegomar1000ify]

@@karllosvasquez8441 Max "Lizard" Edie es el nombre de la original, el de aca no se donde estaran los creditos

[@karllosvasquez8441]

@@diegomar1000ify ayudame ,como se llama la corista del 1985??? Para buscárla.

[@diegomar1000ify]

@@karllosvasquez8441 max Lizard eddie es el nombre de ella.en serio

[@u-ymarciano9782]

Had a cold. aeni` Marciano D'Anginou. BAck up by Fiona Apple, and Bono of u2. 2019 Created Looks. Fiona Apple u-Y` on Bodylanguage

[@sydbarret1973]

I was the influence

[@pigeon1664]

How big is his feet

[@oliviervinches5032]

He lost his voice. :(

[@degsdexter]

Ditch the dancing girls Mike. Its devalueing a national treasure of a song

[@ericvandenheuvel113]

Youre bloody well right🤣😁😂

[@Oh_I_Will]

They did well on Fisherman’s...but they are out of place here...

[@MrMonicaMorales]

Me los como ❤

[@NorthNarra]

WTF IS THAT?

[@derhampaul2182]

There not good live

[@martinpleass913]

Great song but awful keyboard playing and many absent details from the recording. Its hollow sounding and the dancing girls not making up for the loss of horns and exciting guitar.

[@brettnalder64]

Right? Sure, a lot of singers as they get older need to lower a song's key, but good lord, it sounds almost awful. And sure, playing live sometimes sacrifices a few subtleties, but good lord again, the organ fills?! And one last thing, before I go listen to it in my car over and over, full blast, like I used to... Wtf is up with the bass player not playing that iconic little riff of a bass line? Has he heard the record? Oops, lol, "record",... i meant, hasn't he heard the damn cassette? FYI... I design headstones for a living, and I just did one for a guy whose wife died, he put, "I wondered, I guessed, and I tried. You just knew" under her side of the stone. It was "their song", i almost f#%&ing cried.

[@JJJennings007]

I will always love this classical unique 80's song but the visual of the chubby white chic dancing removes 2 stars. I give this video 3*.

[@jameso.6138]

she's got a great voice nor does she look chubby. Check yourself.

[@jameso.6138]

oops I thought this was the 85 version. My bad.

[@motorcop505]

Max Edie sang the backup on the original. Mike Scott told her to sing like a carefree 8 year old on it.

[@jameso.6138]

@@motorcop505 She's great! Thanks.

[@seanbruce2425]

Shame on you

[@SonyDjuana]

I pictured a rainbow You held it in your hand I had flashes You saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years While you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon The whole of the moon You were there in the turnstiles With the wind at your heels You stretched for the stars And you know how it feels To reach too high Too far Too soon You saw the whole of the moon I was grounded While you filled the skies I was dumbfounded by truth You cut through lies I saw the rain dirty valley You saw "Brigadoon" I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon I spoke about wings You just flew I wondered, I guessed and I tried You just knew I sighed And you swooned I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon The whole of the moon The whole of the moon The torch in your pocket And the wind at your heels You climbed on a ladder And you know how it feels To get too high Too far Too soon You saw the whole of the moon The whole of the moon Popcorn and cannonballs All the season's fears Trumpets, towers, and tenaments Wide oceans full of tears Flags, rags, ferryboats Senators and scars Every precious dream and vision Underneath the stars Yes, you climbed on a ladder With the wind in your sails You came like a comet Blazing your trail Too high Too far Too soon You saw the whole of the moon