Tag: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

I don’t believe in an interventionist GodBut I know, darling, that you doBut if I did I would kneel down and ask HimNot to intervene when it came to youNot to touch a hair on your headTo leave you as you areAnd if He felt He had to direct youThen direct you into my arms… Continue reading Into My Arms – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Take a litle walk to the edge of townGo across the tracksWhere the viaduct looms,like a bird of doomAs it shifts and cracksWhere secrets lie in the border fires,in the humming wiresHey man, you knowyou’re never coming backPast the square, past the bridge,past the mills, past the stacksOn a gathering storm comesa tall handsome manIn… Continue reading Red Right Hand – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Go son, go down to the waterAnd see the women weeping thereThen go up into the mountainsThe men, they are weeping too Father, why are all the women weeping?They are weeping for their menThen why are all the men there weeping?They are weeping back at them This is a weeping songA song in which to… Continue reading The Weeping Song – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

They call me The Wild RoseBut my name was Elisa DayWhy they call me it I do not knowFor my name was Elisa Day From the first day I saw her I knew she was the oneAs she stared at my eyes and smiledFor her lips were the colour of the rosesThat grew down the… Continue reading Where the Wild Roses Grow (feat. Kylie Minogue) – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

It began when they come took me from my homeAnd put me in Dead Row,Of which I am nearly wholly innocent, you know.And I’ll say it againI..am..not..afraid..to..die. I began to warm and chillTo objects and their fields,A ragged cup, a twisted mopThe face of Jesus in my soupThose sinister dinner mealsThe meal trolley’s wicked wheelsA… Continue reading The Mercy Seat – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds