They call me the wild rose But my name was elisa day Why they call me it i do not know For my name was elisa day From the first day i saw her i knew she was the one She stared in my eyes and smiled For her lips were the colour of the […]
Tupelo - Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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 […]
The Weeping Song - Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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 […]
The Mercy Seat - Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
It began when they come took me from my home And put me in dead 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 of jesus in my soup […]
The Carny - Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
And no-one saw the carny go And the weeks flew by Until they moved on the show Leaving his caravan behind It was parked out on the south east ridge And as the company crossed the bridge With the first rain filling the bone-dry river bed It shone, just so, upon the edge Away, away, […]
Stranger than kindness Bottled light from hotels Spilling everything Wet hand from the volcano Sobers your skin Stranger than kindness You caress yourself And grind my soft cold bones below Your map of desire Burned in your flesh Even a fool can come A strange lit stair And find a rope hanging there Stranger than […]
Straight To You - Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
All the towers of ivory are crumbling And the swallows have sharpened their beaks This is the time of our great undoing This is the time that i’ll come running Straight to you For i am captured Straight to you For i am captured One more time The light in our window is fading The […]
Red Right Hand - Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Take a litle 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, […]
Nobody’s Baby Now - Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
I’ve searched the holy books I tried to unravel the mystery of jesus christ, the saviour I’ve read the poets and the analysts Searched through the books on human behaviour I travelled this world around For an answer that refused to be found I don’t know why and i don’t know how But she’s nobody’s […]
Into My Arms - Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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 […]
