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Sheep May Safely Graze lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : Sheep may safely graze All the wolves have been rounded up And put to bed Sheep may safely graze There are only days of happiness Up ahead Sheep may safely graze, my boy All the crocodiles have been hunted From your dreams Sheep may safely graze While the lambs are gambolling By the streams Sheep may safely graze All the lost children will be found In time Sheep may safely graze, my boy Close your eyes Your daddy is by your side And if by chance, you wake at night The hollow sorrow that lingers And you grab at the tails of your dreams But they scuttle through your fingers All you can hear outside Is the roar of a city being raised That's just the powers that be Making it safe to graze Sheep may safely graze The bluebirds have chased the vultures From the sky Sheep may safely graze The day has merely gone now And closed its eyes Sheep may safely graze, my boy All the fishes are leaping Into the ...

Nocturama lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : I passed by silent tigers The ailing ape The forgotten llama The penguin face down in the water I retreat into the nocturama When will I ever be your husband? When will you ever be my bride? When will you take me from this place With hope and hopelessness collide? To be by your side To be by your side To be by your side To be by your side To be by your side To be by your side To be by your side Again and again Baby I'm not that strong I got a chain around my ankle And it's dragging me down Oh nothing moves behind the glass Deep inside this artificial night The tiny eyes blink from the darkness Saying everything will be alright It'll be alright It'll be alright It'll be alright It'll be alright To be by your side To be by your side To be by your side To be by your side But again and again Baby I'm not that tough When night falls round here It's never not enough To be by your side ...

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : [Chorus: ] Dig yourself Laz'rus dig yourself Laz'rus dig yourself Laz'rus dig yourself Back in that hole Larry made his nest high up in the autumn branches Built from nothing but high hopes and thin air He collected up some baby blasted mothers who took their chances And for a while they lived quite happily up there He came from New York City man, but he couldn't take the pace He thought it was like dog eat dog world Then he went to San Francisco, spent a year in outer space With a sweet little San Franciscan girl I can hear my mother wailing and a whole lot of scraping of chairs I don't know what it is but there's definitely something going on upstairs [Chorus:] (I want you to dig) Back in that hole (I want you to dig) (I want you to dig) Meanwhile Larry made up names for the ladies Like Miss Boo and Miss Quick He stockpiled weapons and took potshots in the air He feasted on ...

Albert Goes West lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : Albert he goes west he crosses The vast indifferent deserts of Arizona He had a psychotic episode on a dude ranch That involved a bottle of ammonia Henry he went south and lost his way Deep in the weeping forest of Le vulva He grew so worn he grew so sick He ended up in a bungalow sucking a revolver The light upon your rainy streets Offers many reflections And I won't be held responsible For my actions Bobby, he goes north then he goes east Then over to New Hampshire Bobby is a cautious man he walked into A Concord dive, to drink a beer Do you wanna dance?? Yeah do you wanna move?? Yeah do you wanna dance?? Don't you wanna groove?? The world is full of Endless abstractions And I won't be held responsible For my actions Me, I ain't going anywhere Just sit and watch the sun come up I like it here! I watch the people go ticking past I go hey hey hey You know I gotta say, I like it here!! Sh...

Train Long-suffering lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : Woo-wooooooo Woo! In the name of pain! (In the name of pain and suffering) In the name of pain! (In the name of pain and suffering) There comes a train! (There comes a train) Yeah! A long black train (There comes a train) Lord, a long black train. Woo-woo! Woo-woo! Punched from the tunnel (The tunnel of love is long and lonely) Engines steaming like a fist (A fistful of memories) Into the jolly jaw of morning (Yeah! O yeah!) O baby it gets smashed! (You know that it gets smashed) I kick every goddamn splinter Into all the looking eyes in the world Into all the laughing eyes Of all the girls in the world Oooooo-woooooh She ain't never comin back. She ain't never comin back. She ain't never comin back. She ain't never comin back. And the name of the pain is... And the name of the pain is... The name of the pain is A train long-suffering On rails of pain (On rails of pain and suffering) ...

To Be By Your Side lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : Across the oceans Across the seas, Over forests of blackened trees. Through valleys so still we dare not breathe, To be by your side. Over the shifting desert plains, Across mountains all in flames. Through howling winds and driving rains, To be by your side. Every mile and every year for every one a little tear. I cannot explain this, Dear, I will not even try. Into the night as the stars collide, Across the borders that divide forests of stone standing petrified, To be by your side. Every mile and every year, For every one a single tear. I cannot explain this, Dear, I will not even try. For I know one thing, Love comes on a wing. For tonight I will be by your side. But tomorrow I will fly. From the deepest ocean To the highest peak, Through the frontiers of your sleep. Into the valley where we dare not speak, To be by your side. Across the endless wilderness where all the beasts bow down their heads. Darling I will never rest t...

The Weeping Song lyrics song presented by 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? They all are weeping for their men Then why are all the men there weeping? They are weeping back at them. This is a weeping song A song in which to weep While all the men and women sleep. This is a weeping song But I won't be weeping long. Father why are all the children weeping? They are merely crying son. O, are they merely crying father? Yes, true weeping is yet to come. This is a weeping song A song in which to weep While all the little children sleep. This is a weeping song But I won't be weeping long. O father tell me are you weeping? Your face seems wet to touch. O then I'm so sorry father I never thought I hurt you so much. This is a weeping song A song in which to weep While we rock ourselves to sleep. This is a weeping song But I won't be weeping l...

Where The Wild Roses Grow Lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : They call me The Wild Rosebut my name was Elisa Daywhy they call me it I do not knowfor my name was Elisa Dayfrom the first day I saw I knew she was the oneas she stared in my eyes and smiledfor her lips were the colour of the rosesthat grew down the river, all bloody and wildwhen he knocked on my door and entered the roommy trembling subsided in his sure embracehe would be my first man, and with a careful handhe wiped at the tears that ran down my facechoruson the second day I brought her a flowershe was more beautiful than any woman I'd seeni said, "Do you know where the wild roses growSo sweet and scarlet and free?"On the second day he came with a single red rosesaid, "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?"I nodded my head, as I lay on the bedhe said, "If I show you the roses will you follow?"choruson the third day he took me to the riverhe showed me the roses and we kissedand the...

The Sorrowful Wife Lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : 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 her a promise I could not deliver And the cry of the birds sends a terrible shiver Through me and my sorrowful wife Who is shifting the furniture around Who is shifting the furniture around Now we sit beneath the knotted Yew And the bluebells bob around our shoes The task of remembering the telltale clues Goes to my lovely, my sorrowful wife Who is counting the days on her fingers Who is counting the days on her..... Come on and help me babe Come on now Help me babe I was blind The grass here grows long and high Twists right up to the sky White clouds roll on by Come on now and help me babe I was blind I was a fool babe I was blind Come on now A loose w...

The Six Strings That Drew Blood Lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : Guitar thug blew into town. His eyes like wheels spinnin' round. Jerkin-off at every sound. Layin' all his crosses down. O yeah. He got Six Strings. The Six Strings that drew blood. The bar is full of Holy-Joes. A Holy-hole-a-whole-aria. Around the neck of our consumptive rose Is the root of all his sorrows. O yeah. He got Six Strings. Six Strings that drew blood. A Holy-hole-a-whole-aria. Six Strings that drew blood. In the bathroom under cover. He turns on one tap to discover. He's smashed his teeth out on the other. Well he look in the mirror and say Don't f**k me brother. Cause I got Six Strings. Six Strings that drew blood. Numbin' the runt of reputation they call rat fame. Top-E as a tourniquet. A low tune whistles across his grave. Forever the master and the slave of his Six Strings. A Holy-hole-a-whole-aria. Six Strings that drew blood.

The Ship Song Lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : Come sail your ships around me And burn your bridges down We make a little history, baby Every time you come around Come loose your dogs upon me And let your hair hang down You are a little mystery to me Every time you come around We talk about it all night long We define our moral ground But when I crawl into 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 time is nigh When I must remove your wings And you, you must try to fly Come sail your ships around me And burn your bridges down We make a little history, baby Every time you come around Come loose your dogs upon me And let your hair hang down You are a little mystery to me Every time you come around

The Moon Is In The Gutter Lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : 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 cut through the saw-mills and the stacks, Leaping over the gully where I would one day take Lucy Then wash up my hands in the gully and the moon. Such a long way from home, just me and The moon is in the gutter All my plans are flushed down the drain I wander lonely as a cloud Over memories at her mound Then lie down in the bitter gutter moon.

The Mercy Seat Lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : 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 Those sinister dinner meals The meal trolley's wicked wheels A hooked bone rising from my food All things either good or ungood. And the mercy seat is waiting And I think my head is burning And in a way I'm yearning To be done with all this measuring of truth. An eye for an eye A tooth for a tooth And anyway I told the truth And I'm not afraid to die. Interpret signs and catalogue A blackened tooth, a scarlet fog. The walls are bad. Black. Bottom kind. They are sick breath at my hind They are sick breath at my hind They are sick breath at my hind They are sick breath gathering at my hind I hear stories from the chamber How Christ was born...

The Lyre Of Orpheus Lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : Orpheus sat gloomy in his garden shed Wondering what to do With a lump of wood, a piece of wire And a little pot of glue O Mamma O Mamma He sawed at the wood with half a heart And glued it top to bottom He strung a wire in between He was feeling something rotten O Mamma O Mamma Orpheus looked at his instrument And he gave the wire a pluck He heard a sound so beautiful He gasped and said O my God O Mamma O Mamma He rushed inside to tell his wife He went racing down the halls Eurydice was still asleep in bed Like a sack of cannonballs O Mamma O Mamma Look what I've made, cried Orpheus And he plucked a gentle note Eurydice's eyes popped from their sockets And her tongue burst through her throat O Mamma O Mamma O God, what have I done, he said As her blood pooled in the sheets But in his heart he felt a bliss With which nothing could compete O Mamma O Mamma Orpheus went leaping through the fields Strumming as hard as he did ...

The Loom Of The Land Lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : It was the dirty end of winter Along the loom of the land When I walked with sweet sally Hand upon hand And the wind it bit bitter For a boy of no means With no shoes on his feet And a knife in his jeans Along the loom of the land The mission bells peeled From the tower at saint mary's Down to reprobate fields And I saw that the world Was all blessed and bright And sally breathed softly In the majestic night O baby please don't cry And try to keep Your little hand upon my shoulder Now go to sleep The elms and the poplars Were turning their backs Past the rumbling station We followed the tracks We found an untrodden path And followed it down The moon in the sky Like a dislodged crown My hands they burned In the folds of her coat Breathing milky white air From deep in her throat O baby please don't cry And try to keep Your little head upon my shoulder Now go to sleep I told sally in whispers I'll never bring you h...

The Kindness Of Strangers Lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : They found mary bellows cuffed to the bed With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head O poor mary bellows She'd grown up hungry, she'd grown up poor She left her home in arkansas O poor mary bellows She wanted to see the deep blue sea She travelled across tennessee O poor mary bellows She met a man along the way He introduced himself as richard slade O poor mary bellows Poor mary thought that she might die When she saw the ocean for the first time O poor mary bellows She checked into a cheap little place Richard slade carried in her old suitcase O poor mary bellows I'm a good girl, sir, she said to him I couldn't possibly permit you in O poor mary bellows Slade tipped his hat and winked his eye And turned away without goodbye O poor mary bellows She sat on her bed and thought of home With the sea breeze whistling all alone O poor mary bellows In hope and loneliness she crossed the floor And undid the l...

The Hammer Song (In Album Kicking Against The Pricks) Lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : (A. 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 Don't let the sun go down Said the man with the fire, firing the furnace I been buried in the snow And I keep on firing, keep on firing, keep on firing, Firing the furnace Oh don't talk to me Said the man with the chisel, chiseling the surface I been sleeping far too long And I keep on chiseling, keep on chiseling, keep on chiseling, Chiseling the surface I don't know what you mean Said the man with the shovel, shoveling the ashes I been digging in the frozen ground And I keep on shoveling, keep on shoveling, keep on shoveling, Shoveling the ashes Shoveling the ashes Chiseling the surface Firing the furnace Hammering the anvil

The Hammer Song Lyrics song presented by 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 And then the hammer came down Lord, the hammer came down Many miles did I roam Through the ice and through the snow My horse died on the seventh day I stumbled into a city Where the people tried to kill me And I ran in shame Then I came upon a river And I laid my saddle down And then the hammer came down Lord, the hammer came down It knocked me to the ground And I said, "Please, please Take me back to my home town" Lord, the hammer came down Now I've been made weak by visions Many visions did I see All through the night On the seventh hour an angel came With many snakes in all his hands And I fled in fright I pushed off into the river And the water came around And then the hammer came down Lord, the hammer came down And...

The Good Son Lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : 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 q**** plans Against his brother and against his family Yet he worships his brother And he worships his mother But it's his father, he says, is an unfair man The good son The good son The good son The good son has sat and often wept Beneath a malign star by which he's kept And the night-time in which he's wrapped Speaks of good and speaks of evil And he calls to his mother And he calls to his father But they are deaf in the shadows Of his brother's truancy The good son The good son The good son The good son And he curses his mother And he curses his father And he curses his virtue like an unclean thing The good son The good son The good son One more man gone One more man gone One more man One more man gone One more man gone One more man One more ...

The Friend Catcher Lyrics song presented by Nick Cave : 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 lungs and your wrists They throb like trains Choo choo choo It's a prison of sound A prison of sound She, by the hair of my chinny chin chin Eee-oh Eee-oh Eee-oh Eee-oh Like a zippo smokes the way Hope, around You, your lungs and your wrists They throb like trains Choo choo choo It's a prison of sound I poke around...