The Ship Song Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Everything comes tumbling down Come sail your ships around me And burn your bridges down We make a little history, baby Every time you come around Your face has fallen sad now For you know the

The Ship Song Nick Cave

your arms Everything comes tumbling down Come sail your ships around me And burn your bridges down We make a little history, baby Every time you come around Your face has fallen sad now For you know the

Foi Na Cruz Nick Cave

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The Hammer Song Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Harvey) Oh please don't send me out Said the man with the hammer, hammering the anvil I been walking on a road of rocks And I keep on hammering, keep on hammering, keep on hammering, Hammering the anvil

The Weeping Song 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?

Song Of Joy Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

same as my wife's Method of murder much the same as my wife's It was midnight when I arrived home Said to the police on the telephone Someone's taken four innocent lives They never caught the man He's

The Singer Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

(Cash, Daniels) As I walk these narrow streets Where a million passin feet have trod before me With my guitar in my hand Suddenly I realize nobody knows me Where yesterday the multitude Screamed and cried

The Hammer Song Nick Cave

I set out on monday The night was cold and vast And my brother slept And though I left quite quietly My father raged and raged And my mother wept Now, my life was like a river All sucked into the ground

The Weeping Song Nick Cave

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?

The Witness Song Nick Cave

on Now, who will be the witness When the fog's too thick to see And I saw a friend beside a wall Her hands were raised in supplication And her face I could not see at all And I raised my hands in rage

song of joy Nick Cave

same as my wife's Method of murder much the same as my wife's It was midnight when I arrived home Said to the police on the telephone Someone's taken four innocent lives They never caught the man

Long Time Man Nick Cave

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 [Chorus:] Oh, it makes a long

Cabin Fever! Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The Captain's fore-arm like bunched-up rope with A-N-I-T-A wrigglin' free on a skull'n'dagger and a portrait of Christ, nailed to an anchor etched into his upper... O o o' Cabin Fever!

Sugar Sugar Sugar Nick Cave

Sugar Sugar Sugar That man is bad The road he drives you down O sugar its a drag That road it twists That road is crossed Its down that road A lot of little girls go lost Sugar Sugar Sugar Keep on driving

The Carnival Is Over Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Farian) Say goodbye, my one true lover And we'll steal a lover's song How it breaks my heart to leave you Now the carnival has gone Oh my love, the dawn is breaking And my tears are falling rain For the

Stagger Lee Nick Cave

ice and snow And told him, "Never ever come back no more" Stagger Lee So he walked through the rain and he walked through the mud Till he came to a place called The Bucket Of Blood Stagger Lee

Saint Huck Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Straight in the arms of the city goes Huck, down the beckonin' streets of op-po-tunity whistling his favorite river-song...

Sunday's Slave Nick Cave

Monday's got one too Our sufferings are countless Our pleasures are motley few Spend all day digging my grave Now go get Sunday's slave Tuesday sleeps in a stable Wednesday's in a chains Tuesday gathers up the

Hallelujah Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

On the first day of May I took to the road I'd been staring out the window most of the morning I'd watched the rain claw at the glass And a vicious wind blew hard and fast I should have taken it as a warning

Dead Man In My Bed Nick Cave

She sat in a wicker chair, her eyes they were downcast She breathed in the future, by breathing out the past The die is done, the die is shook, the die is duly cast There is a dead man in my bed, she said

There Is A Light (Batman Forever Soundtrack) Nick Cave

I'm going downtown for some bad ju-ju Ya going downtown too, Mr. Gigolo? Damn right I am, Daddy-O...

Lay Me Low Nick Cave

They're gonna lay me low (Lay me low) They're gonna sink me in the snow They're gonna throw back their heads and crow When I go They're gonna jump and shout (Lay me low) They're gonna wave their arms about

The Curse Of Millhaven Nick Cave

Our little town fell into a state of shock A lot of people were saying things that made little sense Then the next thing you know the head of Handyman Joe Was found in the fountain of the Mayor's

Scum Nick Cave

Well then he hooked up with some slut from the same game Black snow! Black snow!

The Mercy Seat Nick Cave

I began to warm and chill To objects and their fields, A ragged cup, a twisted mop The face of Jesus in my soup Those sinister dinner meals The meal trolley's wicked wheels A hooked bone rising from

The Carny 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

The Moon Is In The Gutter Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The moon is in the gutter And the stars wash down the sink I am the king of the blues I scape the clay off my shoes And wade down the gutter and the moon The moon blinds my eye with opal cataracts As I

Stagger Lee Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

ice and snow And told him, "Never ever come back no more" Stagger Lee So he walked through the rain and he walked through the mud Till he came to a place called The Bucket Of Blood Stagger Lee He said

People Ain't No Good Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

blossoms come sailing down Through the streets and through the playgrounds The sun would stream on the sheets Awoken by the morning bird We'd buy the Sunday newspapers And never read a single word

Gates To The Garden Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Past the ivy-covered windows of The Angel Down Athenaeum Lane to the cathedral Through the churchyard I wandered Sat for a spell there and I pondered My back to the gates of the garden My back to the gates

Death Is Not The End Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

end Not the end, not the end Just remember that death is not the end When you're standing on the crossroads That you cannot comprehend Just remember that death is not the end And all your dreams have

Mermaids Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

She was a catch We were a match I was the match that would fire up her snatch There was a catch I was no match I was fired from her crotch I sit around and watch The mermaids sun themselves out on the

God Is In The House Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

We've laid the cables and the wires We've split the wood and stoked the fires We've lit our town so there is no Place for crime to hide Our little church is painted white And in the safety of the night

Needle Boy Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

At the turn of the century I did many things to protect myself I did many things to protect myself I made myself a needle-boy And I hid him in the closet And I made myself a money-man And I hid him underneath

Papa Won't Leave You Henry Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

I went out walking the other day The wind hung wet around my neck My head it rung with screams and groans From the night I spent amongst her bones I passed beside the mission house Where that mad

The Carny Nick Cave

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

A Box For Black Paul Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

'Don't ask us', say the critics and the hacks The pen-pushers and the quacks 'We jes cum to git dah facks!' 'We jes cum to git dah facks!' Hey, hey, hey, hey...

The Sorrowful Wife Nick Cave & 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

Jesus Met The Woman At The Well Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The Alabama Singers) Jesus met the woman at the well Jesus met the woman at the well And he told her, everything that she'd done, that she'd done And he said, woman, look-a here woman, Tell me where is

Straight To You 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

Where the Wild Roses Grow (ft. Kylie Minogue) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

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

Where The Wild Roses Grow Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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

Tupelo Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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 town

Jack The Ripper Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

I got a woman She rules my house with an iron fist I got a woman She rules my house with an iron fist She screams out Jack the Ripper Every time I try to give that girl a kiss I got a woman She

The Good Son Nick Cave & 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

The Mercy Seat Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

I began to warm and chill To objects and their fields, A ragged cup, a twisted mop The face of Jesus in my soup Those sinister dinner meals The meal trolley's wicked wheels A hooked bone rising from

In The Ghetto Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Davies) As the snow flies On a cold and grey Chicago morn A poor little baby child is born in the ghetto And his mama cries Cause there's one thing that she don't need Is another little hungry mouth to

John Finn's Wife Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Well the night was deep and the night was dark And I was at the old dance-hall on the edge of town Some big ceremony was going down Dancers writhed and squirmed and then, Came apart and then writhed

Muddy Water Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Bundrick) Mary, grab the baby, the river's rising Muddy water taking back the land The old-frame house, she can't take-a one more beating Ain't no use to stay and make a stand Well the morning light shows

Brompton Oratory Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Up those stone steps I climb Hail this joyful day's return Into its great shadowed vault I go Hail the Pentecostal morn The reading is from Luke 24 Where Christ returns to his loved ones I look at the