Truck Love - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Truck love! right here! Truck love! right now! Bewitched by pure power. that’s truck love! In the gully of your choice. truck love! Jam-up on a leaping tree. head on! head first! And god came down and talked to me And i dammn nearly wept. Tears rolling down the dash! tears rolling down the dash! […]

Tower Of Song - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

From i’m your fan, a leonard cohen tribute album Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places i used to play And i’m crazy for love but i’m not coming on I’m paying my rent everyday in the tower of song I said to leonard cohen: how lonely […]

Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Hidden track on the x-files tv series soundtrack. We were called to the forest, And we went down. A wind wind blew warm and eloquent, We were searching for the secrets of the universe, We rounded up demons and forced them To tell us what it all meant. We tied them to trees, And broke […]

There Is A Light - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

From the batman forever soundtrack. Hey there sugar where ya gunna go? I’m going downtown daddy-o What ya gunna do when you get there, girl? I’m gunna get messed up in a god-shaped hole Hey mr hophead, what ya gunna do? I’m going downtown for some bad ju-ju Ya going downtown too, mr. gigolo? Damn […]

The Willow Garden - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Down in the willow garden, me and my love did meet And as we sat a-courting, my love fell off to sleep I had a bottle of burgundy wine; my love, she did not know And so i poisoned that dear little girl along the banks below Along the banks below I drew my saber […]

The Sweetest Embrace - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

From the album oedipus schmoedipus by barry adamson Our time is done my love We’ve laid it all to waste One thousand moonlit kisses Can’t sweeten this bitter taste My desire for you is endless And i’ll love you ’till we fall I just don’t want you no more And that’s the sweetest embrace of […]

The Sorrowful Wife - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

i married my wife on the day of the eclipse Our friends awarded her courage with gifts Now as the nights grow longer and the season shifts I look to my sorrowful wife Who is quietly tending her flowers Who is quietly tending her ….. The water is high on the beckoning river I made […]

The Good Son (nick Cave Version) - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

One more man gone One more man gone One more man is gone The good son walks into the field He is a tiller, he has a tiller’s hands But down in his heart now He lays down his queer plans Against his brother and against his family Yet he worships his brother And he […]

The Good Hun - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

One more land gone One more land gone One more land… One more land gone One more land gone One more land is gone… The good hun rode into the fields He is attila, he has a great big axe Thinkin’ bout movin’ westwards He’s making invasion plans Against the romans, and against the belgians […]

The Friend Catcher - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

I, cigarette fingers Puff and poke Puff and poking the smoke Touches the ground You, your lungs and your wrists They throb like trains Choo choo choo It’s a prison of sound Of sound She, by my chinny chin chin [buying chilly chin-chin?] Eee-oh eee-oh Like a zippo smokes the way Hope, around You, your […]