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(I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World
It was a miracle I even got outta Longwood alive, / I mean, if you can just picture it,....
If you miss the train I'm on / You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles....
Who'll build a box for Black Paul? / Ah'd be beholdin to ya all....
This is True / I can sing....
The sun is high up in the sky and I'm in my car / Do you see what I see, dear?....
Once there came a storm in the form of a girl / Sometimes I swear I can still hear her howl....
Hushaby, don' you cry / And all the pretty little horses.....
From the Current '93 album All The Pretty Horsies / Hush-a-bye....
(L. Reed) / And what costume shall the poor girl wear....
And no more shall we part / And no more will I say, dear heart....
Are You The One I've Been Waiting For
I've felt you coming girl, as you drew near / Are you my desitiny? Is this how you'll appear?....
As I sat sadly by her side / She stroked a kitten in her lap....
(Leonard Cohen) / I stepped into an avalanche....
Babe I got you bad / only madmen have....
Father says it, mother says it / Uncle says it, Auntie says it....
Stay by me, stay by me....
A traditional song which was a likely inspiration for Where The Wild Roses Grow. Nick's song is also available. / When I was a wee thing, I heard my mother say....
Big Jesus soulmates Trash Can / bot feet in the bad-boot....
Black Betty (Nick Cave Version)
Look-a look-a yonder (3x) / The way I do nowAda got a gold mine (3x)....
Black Betty (Traditional Version)
Oh, Lawd, Black Betty, / Oh, Lawd, Black Betty,....
(Leadbelly)....
Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm / Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm....
Last night my kisses were banked in black hair / And all her mystery dwelled within her black hair....
This time it's the truth / these books....
Bless his ever loving heart / He may seem so very far....
Blind Lemon Jefferson is a-coming / Blind Lemon Jefferson is a-coming....
I got a blue bird, a blue bird on my shoulder / I saw her standing, standing by the water....
Blundertown is drowned in no brainstorm / the color vague is slapped around stupid....
It's up in the morning and on the downs / And I am breathless over you....
This garden that I built for you / I will never leave it, dear....
Up those stone steps I climb / Into its great shadowed vault I go....
Brother, my cup is empty / For to buy no more whiskey....
(J. Webb) / By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising....
The Captain's fore-arm like bunched-up rope / and a portrait of Christ, nailed to an anchor....
You have a heart and I have a key / Those heathens you hang with down by the sea....
All words that look prounouncable are not typos, any that look unpronouncable are probably typos. Each set of two lines is one line in the lyric book. (ie. what has not got....sir names)(one line) / What has not got my heart in it shall we be dubbed sir names....
I lay down by the river / And all that I heard....
We've come to bring you home....
Christina the Astonishing / She was stricken with a seizure....
Words and music by Kaye - Weisman - Fuller / "The Bad Seeds performed Cindy regularly in their live sets in 1990,and indeed on a TV appearance as well. I have a version of Elvis Presly doing this song, but I think it's a traditional, also known as 'I Wish I Was An Apple', or as 'Sydney'. I think The Bad Seeds often sang 'Come on home, Sydney Cindy' -Maurice....
You better run You better run and run and run / You better run to the City of Refuge....
Now that mountains of meaningless words / And we each have our own set of stars....
Crow Jane Crow Jane / Crow Jane, ah hah huh....
When ya walk out of here / I gotta fill up that space....
As so with that, I thought I'd take a final walk / The neighbours, bless them, had turned out to be all talk....
Oh-ho-ho-ho Dead Joe / Dead Joe....
She sat in a wicker chair, her eyes they were downcast / The die is done, the die is shook, the die is duly cast....
O DEANNA / O DEANNA....
When you're sad and when you're lonely / Just remember that death is not the end....
The woods eats the woman and dumps her honey-body in the mud / She stumbled in some time last loneliness....
Onward! And Onward! And Onward I go / Till the soles of my shoes are shot full of holes....
I found her on a night of fire and noise / I knew from that moment on....
Down in a willow garden / 'Twas there we sat a courting....
The light from the window / and after it breaks....
On this European night out on the brink / The air is much too thick for seeing....
It's difficult. It's very tough. / To sit within a fragrant breeze....
Farmer Emmerich went into his barn / And a brown ape clanking a heavy chain....
For you dear, I was born / For you I've lived and for you I will die....
From the soundtrack to the film of the same name. Empty out your pockets, toss the lot upon the floor. / you don't need them anymore.....
Gun wears his alcoholism well / From Bed to Sink and back again....
Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow
Where is Mona? / Where is Mary?....
Foi na cruz, foi na cruz / Meus pecados castigados em Jesus....
Ah wanna tell ya 'bout a girl / Why... Why... that's the one right up top a mine....
Past the ivy-covered windows of / Down Athenaeum Lane to the cathedral....
Get ready for love! Praise Him! / Get ready for love! Get readyl....
Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass
I can't raise my glass, without seeing her ass / Through its telescopic bottomIf you wanna know what agony is....
We've laid the cables and the wires / the fires....
Available on the Rare On Air benefit CD.....
Kiss me again, rekiss me and kiss me / This useless old fucker with his twinkling cunt....
A grief came riding / Up the [SOLEMN] river Thames....
On the first day of May I took to the road / I'd watched the rain claw at the glass....
Hamlet fishin' in the grave / he aint got no friend in there....
It's a very happy day / And it's ice-cream and jelly....
It is for she that the cherry bleeds / That I steal like a robber....
In his boat and through the dark he rowed / Horribly ‘round his ears....
Written by Neil Young / There is a town in north Ontario....
Get down, get down, little Henry Lee / You won't find a girl in this damn world....
Get down, get down, little Henry Lee / You won't find a girl in this damn world....
(W. Roberts) / Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?....
You went looking for nur, dear, / You found some Iittle silver fish....
Worn and gnawn / just a small hole....
Leroy Carr / A traditional song which was a likely inspiration for The Train Song.....
I wish you happy christmas / I wish for you the stars, babe....
I Do Love Her So (Lime Tree Arbour)
The boatman calls from the lake / I put my hand over her....
Well I feel so good I don't know what to do / Well I feel so good I feel like I wanna play with you....
I had a dream / I had a dream, JoeI had a dream, Joe....
I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
Credits: Newberry / Newberry / I woke up this morning with the sun out shining in....
Despair and Deception, Love's ugly little twins / Darling, you're the punishment for all of my former sinsI let love in....
From Department of Enjoyment, NME compilation cassette; available on some bootlegs.....
John Lee Hooker - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar (Orpheum Music, 1959) / A traditional song similar to My Little Boat Is Empty. Nick's song is also available.....
They're taking me down, my friend / Will I bid you adieu?....
(J.L. Hooker) / Yeah, my baby left me this morning....
(M. Davies) / As the snow flies....
I don't believe in an interventionist God / But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him....
I got a woman / I got a woman....
They dragged Jack and his shadow / And the bulb that burned above him....
Jangling Jack / Visits the home of the brave....
So you've come back for Jennifer / I'm warning you Frankie, leave on the next train....
Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
(Traditional, Arr. The Alabama Singers) / Jesus met the woman at the well....
Well the night was deep and the night was dark / Some big ceremony was going down....
I am the King, I am the kind / scratch and scrape this heavenly body....
First: I tried to kill it with a hammer / the head....
Katy Cruel (Traditional Version)
When I first came to town / Now they've changed their tune....
Well I love that Kewpie Doll / I dressed her up in a cheap red cotton dress....
This leaves out a lot of the repetions on this lyric sheet, and I'm pretty sure a few sections are out of order compared with the recorded song. / King Ink strolls into town....
King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O
(Can you turn me up a bit?) / With a sword and a pistol by his side And he rode 'til he came to Miss Mouse's door....
Now they put the stink on us / choc-o-block with sucubus....
These chains of sorrow, they are heavy, it is true / no, not with one thousand keys....
I met a little girl in Knoxville / And every sunday evening....
I've seen your fairground hair, / Your vampire tooth, your little truth....
They're gonna lay me low (Lay me low) / They're gonna throw back their heads and crow....
C'mon, kind Sir, let's walk outside / See the many that have lived and died....
You found me at some party / You barreled over to me....
Janey´s gone now and she won´t be back no more / Now she´s gone away....
(D. Del, M. Wilkins) / She walks these hills in a long black veil....
Oh, plane, take me away. / and I am really scared-- Nick's not coming tonight.And brother, I can't even think of a reason why...Oh it makes a long time fan feel bad....
Long Time Man (Nick Cave Version)
Written by Tim Rose / Yeah, they came to take me away....
Written by Tim Rose / Yeah, they came to take me away....
Words and Music by Bob Dylan (1993 Special Rider Music)Original version of Henry Lee. Nick's version is also available. / "Get down, get down, Love Henry," she cried,....
I hold this letter in my hand / I hope it does as I have planned....
There she stands, this lovely creature / With her hair full of ribbons....
There's a devil waiting outside your door / There's a devil waiting outside your door....
Last night I lay trembling / It was the end of love....
Nick covered this in a segment in September Songs: A Tribute to Kurt Weill See the shark with teeth like razors / And Macheath has got a knife....
I was born in a motel room / Just after one, he pulled a gun....
I stood in the water / My camel skin was torture....
I hope you're sitting comfortably / Right up in the front row....
Mister frog went a-courting and he did ride / Mister frog went a-courting and he did ride....
Nick performed this for the Italian film Mojo, and it is available on a CD called Soho. They call him Joe The Dragon / He's got that look of mourning and concentration on his face....
I have a friend in you, oh Mr Clarinet / Marry me, marry me alive O....
(J. Bundrick) / Mary, grab the baby, the river's rising....
Well ah jumpt! and fled this fucken heap on doctored wings / (Damn things nearly hardly flap)....
I was just a boy when I sat down / I saw some ordinary slaughter....
One morn I awakened / The sky was a Kingdom....
Nick the stripper / hideous to the ee....
I've searched the holy books / I've read the poets and the analysts....
Pass me that lovely little gun / The cleaners are coming, one by one....
Oh happy day, oh happy day / When my Jesus washed, He washed my sins awayOh happy day....
I thought I'd take a walk today / My kids lay asleep in bed....
I am tall and I am thin / And I've been known to be quite handsome....
Here I sleep the morning through / And there ain't nothing at all to do but rise and follow....
Oxford Tragedy (Traditional Version)
From English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, Sharp. Collected from Mary Wilson and Mrs. Townley, Kentucky, 1917Once there was a little tailor boy / My father hired me to a miller....
I went out walking the other day / My head it rung with screams and groans....
From the Current '93 album All the Pretty Horsies / The rivers of Babylon flow, and fall, and carry....
Erik wrote: "The theme is similar to the Nick's song New Morning. Note also that the line 'There'll be no sadness, no sorrow' also is in New Morning. Finally, the bright day versus black night antithesis is also the same. / Well, I'm tired and so weary but I must go along,....
People just ain't no good / You can see it everywhere you look....
Plain gold ring on her finger she wore / It belonged to someone, but not me....
They're working us like dogs around here / And I'm the happiest slave alive round here....
(S. MacGowan) / I've been loving you a long time....
Take a litle walk to the edge of town / Where the viaduct looms,....
Whoooahh! Bite! Whoooah! Bite! / Don't tell me that it doesn't hurt....
The street is very wide / my house isn't clear to me....
When I get home, I'm gunna clean up my house / When I get home, I'm gunna put things in order....
Please forgive me / But any fool can tell you....
Let me say this to you / And my love will never falter....
(Orbison, Melson) / Just running scared, each place we go....
Rye Whiskey (Tranditonal Version)
I'll eat when I'm hungry, / If the hard times don't kill me,....
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry, / If you was a hornet way up in a tree,....
[As sung by Mick Harvey; Nick's live versions deviate from this.]....
Down the road I look and there runs Mary / We go down to the river where the willows weep....
I climbed the hill, lay in the grass / She said all the best is come, it could not last....
Born of the river, / Oh riverboat just rollin' along through the great great greasy city Huck standing like a Saint, upon its deck....
Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree
O say goodbye to the little girl tree / To the little girl tree....
Well, I lived with one / I even lived with a third....
This is a dead letter tale / You made a deep mark/deep mark on me....
Once she lay open like a road / But she fell away....
She passed by my window / And bent to pick her glove she’d dropped....
there is woman-pie in here / the best cook you ever had....
You were planning to stay in, you had it carefully planned / You walked over to your woman, your pale distracted love....
I've been contemplating suicide, / so I think I'll just act bored instead....
I stuck a six inch gold blade inside the head of a girl / him: lying on his back....
(Newbury, Folger) / Yesterday the sun was shining but you're finding the sun it....
Slowly Goes The Night / Darling,....
Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
Something's gotten hold of my heart / Something's gotten into my life....
Have mercy on me, sir / I have no place to stay....
Have you heard how Sonny's burning / And He lights up the proceedings....
Sorrow's child sits by the river / Sorrow's child sits by the river....
Through the woods, and frosted moors / Bed down upon the drifting snow....
Three traditional versions of the song from Murder Ballads. Nick's version is also available. Further details (and the actual book Nick edited from) are also available. / Stagolee....
It was back in '32 when times were hard / Stagger Lee....
The cops are hanging around the house / The moon don’t know if it’s day or night....
Hey hey I am the stow-a-way / And me I'm totally shipwrecked over her....
All the towers of ivory are crumbling / This is the time of our great undoing....
Stranger than kindness / Spilling everything....
Sugar Sugar Sugar / The road he drives you down....
Sunday's got a slave / Sunday's got a slave....
Through the windswept coastal trees / With a teddy-bear clamped between her knees....
Quixanne, ah'm in its grip / Sinken in the mud....
Come over here, babe / I don't claim to understand....
Jazz / Crazy two timing bitches running round....
The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane
There was a thick set man with frog eyes / and a little bald man with wing-nut ears....
Nick performed this for the Italian film Mojo, along with Gallon Drunk and it is available on a CD called Soho. Now it begins, now that you're gone / Watching that clock till you return....
(T. Springfield, F. Farian) / Say goodbye, my one true lover....
And no-one saw the carny go / Until they moved on the show....
I live in a town called Millhaven / But if you come around just as the sun goes down....
Inanimational items elude I, and / Motive of quicker location is slammed....
I, cigarette fingers / puff and poking the smoke....
One more land gone / One more land...One more land gone....
The Good Son (Nick Cave Version)
One more man gone / One more man is gone....
One more man gone / One more man is gone....
I set out on monday / And my brother slept....
They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed / O poor Mary Bellows....
It was the dirty end of winter / When I walked with sweet Sally....
Orpheus sat gloomy in his garden shed / With a lump of wood, a piece of wire....
It began when they come took me from my home / Of which I am nearly wholly innocent, you know.....
The moon is in the gutter / I am the king of the blues....
Come sail your ships around me / We make a little history, baby....
(Cash, Daniels) / As I walk these narrow streets....
The Six Strings That Drew Blood
Guitar thug blew into town / Jerkin-off at every sound....
I married my wife on the day of the eclipse / Now as the nights grow longer and the season shifts....
Our time is done my love / One thousand moonlit kisses....
Tell me how long's the train been gone? / And was she there?....
Go son, go down to the water / Then go up into the mountains....
Down in the willow garden, me and my love did meet / I had a bottle of burgundy wine; my love, she did not know....
Yeah, yeah / I took a walk down to the port....
Just like a bird that sings up the sun / Such is my faith for you....
From the Batman Forever soundtrack. Hey there sugar where ya gunna go? / What ya gunna do when you get there, girl?....
There is a town / Far far away....
There She Goes My Beautiful World
The wintergreen, the juniper / All the words you said to me....
I know you've heard it all before / For the setting up of camps....
Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum
Hidden track on the X-Files TV series soundtrack. We were called to the forest, / A wind wind blew warm and eloquent,We were searching for the secrets of the universe,....
(Cave / Coulais) / Across the oceans across the seas,....
From I'm Your Fan, a Leonard Cohen tribute album / Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey....
Woo-wooooooo Woo! / (In the name of pain and suffering)....
Truck love! Right here! / Bewitched by pure power. That's truck love!....
(John Lee Hooker 1959) / A song which was a likely inspiration for Tupelo. Nick's song is also available.....
Looka yonder! Looka yonder! / A big black cloud come!....
O My O My / I was born on the day....
These lyrics were taken from an edition of The Witness, the Official fan newsletter. / Viviane....
Ah fed Vixo on ev'ry fear 'n' fret 'n' phobia / Sucked a chicken bone, tossed it in the corner....
Printed in J. Silverman, American History Songbook. Nick has sung his version of this song live. / (Chorus)....
I'm a wanted man, wanted man... / Oh yeah.......
Alice wakes / She is yawning....
I left by the back door / I don't know what I was hoping for....
Along crags and sunless cracks I go / I dare not slumber where the night winds whistle....
With a crooked smile and a heart-shaped face / She's got a house-big heart where we all live....
(Weiss/Douglas) / I see trees of green, red roses too....
From a Frech promo CD given away with Henry's Dream. / All my life I failed to see....
When I first came to town / They bought me drinks....
Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere
I remember a girl so very well / Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell....
Where streets start getting wild / Would you cross that line baby, there ain't no turning back....
They call me The Wild Rose / Why they call me it I do not know....
Hold me up baby for I may fall / Our bodies melt together (we are one)....
She loves me, she loves me not / She loves me, she loves me not....
Come in, babe / The sun has sunk behind you....
In our yard / on our fingers and toes....
Young Hunting (Tranditional Version)
It happened on one evening late, / She heard a sound, a beautiful sound,....
I am a crooked man / Night, the shameless widow....
Zoo-music girl, zoo-music girl / spit out the shells, spit out the shells,....
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