Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Take a little walk to the edge of town Go across the tracks Where the viaduct looms Like a bird of doom As it shifts and cracks Where secrets lie in the border fires In the humming wires Hey, man, you know You’re never coming back Past the square, past the bridge Past the mills,…

Sunday morning, skeleton tree Oh, nothing is for free In the window, a candle Well, maybe you can see Fallen leaves thrown across the sky A jittery tv Glowing white like fire Nothing is for free I called out, i called out Right across the sea But the echo comes back empty And nothing is…

It’s up in the morning and on the downs Little white clouds like gambolling lambs And i am breathless over you And the red-breasted robin beats his wings His throat it trembles when he sings For he is helpless before you The happy hooded bluebells bow And bend their heads all a-down Heavied by the…

Go son, go down to the water And see the women weeping there Then go up into the mountains The men, they are weeping too Father, why are all the women weeping? They are weeping for their men Then why are all the men there weeping? They are weeping back at them This is a…

You fell from the sky Crash landed in a field Near the river adur Flowers spring from the ground Lambs burst from the wombs of their mothers In a hole beneath the bridge She convalesce, she fashioned masks of clay and twigs You cried beneath the dripping trees Ghost song lodged in the throat of…

I hold this letter in my hand A plea, a petition, a kind of prayer I hope it does as i have planned Losing her again is more than i can bear I kiss the cold, white envelope I press my lips against her name Two hundred words. we live in hope The sky hangs…

Looka yonder! looka yonder! Looka yonder! a big black cloud come! A big black cloud come! O comes to tupelo. comes to tupelo Yonder on the horizon Yonder on the horizon Stopped at the mighty river Stopped at the mighty river and Sucked the damn thing dry Tupelo-o-o, o tupelo In a valley hides a…

I was just a boy when i sat down To watch the news on tv I saw some ordinary slaughter I saw some routine atrocity My father said, don’t look away You got to be strong, you got to be bold, now He said, that in the end it is beauty That is going to…

There’s a devil waiting outside your door (how much longer?) There’s a devil waiting outside your door (how much longer?) And he is bucking and braying and pawing on the floor (how much longer?) Well, he’s howling with pain and crawling up the walls (how much longer?) oh yeah And there’s a devil waiting outside…

It began when they come took me from my home And put me in death row Of which i am nearly wholly innocent, you know And i’ll say it again I am not afraid to die I began to warm and chill To objects and their fields A ragged cup, a twisted mop The face…

O deanna O deanna! O deanna Sweet deanna! O deanna You know you are my friend, yeah O deanna And i ain’t down here for your money I ain’t down here for your love I ain’t down here for you love or money I’m down here for you soul No carpet on the floor And…

I don’t believe in an interventionist god But i know, darling, that you do But if i did i would kneel down and ask him Not to intervene when it came to you Not to touch a hair on your head To leave you as you are And if he felt he had to direct…

On jubilee street There was a girl named bee She had a history But she had no past When they shut her down The russians moved in And i’m too scared I’m too ​scared To even walk on past She used to say All those good people down on jubilee street They ought to practice…

We’ve laid the cables and the wires We’ve split the wood and stoked The fires We’ve lit our town so there is no Place for crime to hide Our little church is painted white And in the safety of the night We all go quiet as a mouse For the word is out God is…