i am a crooked man And i’ve walked a crooked mile Night, the shameless widow Doffed her weeds, in a pile The stars all winked at me They shamed a child Your funeral, my trial A thousand marys lured me To feathered beds and fields of clover Bird with crooked wing cast It’s wicked shadow […]
The Carny - Nick Cave And 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 […]
She Fell Away - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Once she lay open like a road Carbed apart the madness that i stumbled from But she fell away She fell away Shed me like a skin She fell away Left me holding everything Once the road lay open like a girl And we drank and laughed and threw the bottle over But she fell […]
Scum - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Well, i lived with one Well, i lived with one, i lived with two, I even lived with a third I wanna tell you about number one He was a miserable shitwringing turd Like he reminded me of some evil gnome Shakin hands was like shakin a hot, fat, oily bone Holdin on for far […]
Sad Waters - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Down the road i look and there runs mary Hair of gold and lips like cherries We go down to the river where the willows weep Take a naked root for a lovers seat That rose out of the bitten soil But sound to the ground by creeping ivy coils O mary you have seduced […]
Long Time Man - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Written by tim rose Yeah, they came to take me away Said i’d be sitting here for the rest of my life But i don’t really care – i shot my wife And brother, i can’t even remember the reason why Oh, it makes a long time man feel bad Yeah, it makes a long […]
Jack’s Shadow - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
They dragged jack and his shadow From the hole And the bulb that burned above him Did shine both day and night And his shadow learned to love his Little darks and greater light And the sun it shined And the sun it shined And the sun it shined A little longer Jack wept and […]
It is for she that the cherry bleeds That the moon is steeped in mild nad blood That i steal like a robber From her altar of love O money lender! o clover gender! I am the fiend hid in her skirts And it’s as hot as hell in here Coming at her as i […]
Zoo Music Girl - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Zoo-music girl, zoo-music girl Our ligfe together is a hollow tooth, Spit out the shells, spit out the shells, You know exactly what i’m talking about Don’t drag the orchestra into this thing Rattle those sticks, rattle those sticks The sound is beautiful, its perfect! The sound of her young legs in stockings The rhythem […]
