New Morning Nick Cave

One morn I awakened A new sun was shining The sky was a Kingdom All covered in blood The moon and the stars Where the troops that lay conquered Like fruit left to wither Poor spiritual food And the spears

New Morning Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

One morn I awakened A new sun was shining The sky was a Kingdom All covered in blood The moon and the stars Where the troops that lay conquered Like fruit left to wither Poor spiritual food And

She Passed By My Window Nick Cave

She passed by my window Her eyes were all aglow And bent to pick her glove she'd dropped From the bright and brittle snow Nature had spoken it in the Spring With apple, plum and brand new pear Have you

Watching Alice Nick Cave

Alice wakes It is morning She is yawning As she walks about the room Her hair falls down her breast She is naked and it is June Standing at the window I wonder if she knows that I can see Watching Alice

Crow Jane Nick Cave

"Just fitted out a girl who looked like a bird Measured .32, .44, .38 I asked that girl which road she was taking Said she was walking the road of hate But she stopped on a coal-trolley up to New Haven

Sad Waters Nick Cave

little girl goes wading in Rollin her dress up past her knee Turning these waters into wine Then she platted all the willow vines Mary in the shallows laughing Over where the carp dart Spooked by the new

song of joy Nick Cave

what life had in store But all things move toward their end All things move toward their their end On that you can be sure La la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la Then one morning

Sugar Sugar Sugar Nick Cave

stretch is long You'll sleep and slide That stretch will find you Gagged and tied The hunter lies In a lowly ditch His eyes they sting And his fingers twitch You'll be his queen for the night But the morning

I Had A Dream Joe (2010 Remastered Ver.) Nick Cave

had a dream, Joe I opened my eyes, Joe The night had been a giant, dribbling and pacing the boards I opened my eyes, Joe All your letters and cards stacked up against the door I opened my eyes, Joe The morning

Train Long-Suffering Nick Cave

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!

John Finns' Wife (2010 Remastered Ver.) Nick Cave

going down Dancers writhed and squirmed and then, Came apart and then writhed again Like squirming flies on a pin In the heat and in the din Yes, in the heat and in the din I fell to thinking about brand new

O'malley's Bar Nick Cave

none taken" I replied to him to which he gave a little cough with blazing wings I neatly aimed blew his head completely off I've lived in this town for thirty years to no-one I am a stranger and I put new

Some Velvet Morning (ft. Nick Cave) Lydia Lunch

Male: Some velvet morning when I\'m straight I\'m going to open up your gate And maybe tell you \'bout Phaedra And how she gave me life And how she made it in Some velvet morning when I\'m straight

Foi Na Cruz Nick Cave

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (l,m) Cave (p) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds < Nick Cave: vocals, piano, hammond, harmonica; Mick Harvey: bass, acoustic guitar,

Henry Lee (Nick Cave version) Nick Cave

Get down, get down, little Henry Lee And stay all night with me You won't find a girl in this damn world That will compare with me And the wind did howl and the wind did blow La la la la la La la ...

Where The Wild Roses Grow Nick Cave

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 smil...

Tupelo Nick Cave

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 rive...

Deanna Nick Cave

O DEANNA O Deanna! O DEANNA Sweet Deanna! O DEANNA You know you are my friend, yeah O DEANNA And I ain't down here for your money I ain't down here for your love I ain't down here for your love or...

Stagger Lee Nick Cave

It was back in '32 when times were hard He had a Colt .45 and a deck of cards Stagger Lee He wore rat-drawn shoes and an old stetson hat Had a '28 Ford, had payments on that Stagger Lee His woma...

Henry Lee Nick Cave

Get down, get down, little Henry Lee And stay all night with me You won't find a girl in this damn world That will compare with me And the wind did howl and the wind did blow La la la la la La la ...

Into My Arms Nick Cave

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 leav...

The Mercy Seat 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 T...

Where The Wild Roses Grow Nick Cave

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 smil...

Red Right Hand Nick Cave

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,...

Let It Be Nick Cave

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be. And in my hour of darkness She is standing right in front of me Speaking words of wisdom, let it...

Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division Cover) Nick Cave

When routine bites hard, And ambitions are low. And resentment rides high, But emotions won\'t grow. And we\'re changing our ways, Taking different roads. Love, love will tear us apart again. Love...

From Her To Eternity Nick Cave

Ah wanna tell ya 'bout a girl You know, she lives in room 29 Why... Why... that's the one right up top a mine Ah start to cry, Ah start to cry O Ah hear her walkin' Walkin' barefoot cross the flo...

Nobody's Baby Now Nick Cave

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 a...

Henry Lee Nick Cave

A traditional version is also available. Get down, get down, little Henry Lee And stay all night with me You won't find a girl in this damn world That will compare with me And the wind did howl a...

Loverman Nick Cave

There's a devil waiting outside your door (How much longer) Bucking and braying and paywing the floor Well, he's howling with pain and crawling up the walls There's a devil waiting outside your doo...

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? They are weeping for their men Then...

Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For? Nick Cave

I've felt you coming girl, as you drew near I knew you'd find me, cause I longed you here Are you my desitiny? Is this how you'll appear? Wrapped in a coat with tears in your eyes? Well take that ...

Black Crow King Nick Cave

Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm I am the black crow king Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm I am the black crow king Keeper of the nodding corn Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! All the hammers are a-talking All the nails are a-singing So swe...

Lovely Creature Nick Cave

There she stands, this lovely creature There she stands, there she stands With her hair full of ribbons And green gloves on her hands So I asked this lovely creature Yes, I asked. Yes I asked Wou...

Let It Be (Beatles Cover) Nick Cave

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be. And in my hour of darkness She is standing right in front of me Speaking words of wisdom, let it ...

Straight To You Nick Cave

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 St...

The Curse Of Millhaven Nick Cave

I live in a town called Millhaven And it's small and it's mean and it's cold But if you come around just as the sun goes down You can watch the whole town turn to gold It's around about then that ...

The Kindness Of Strangers 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...

Stranger than Kindness Nick Cave

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 ...

Death Is Not The End Nick Cave

When you're sad and when you're lonely And you haven't got a friend Just remember that death is not the end And all that you held sacred Falls down and does not mend Just remember that death is n...

He Wants You Nick Cave

In his boat and through the dark he rowed Chained to oar and the night and the wind that blowed Horribly 'round his ears Under the bridge and into your dreams he soars While you lie alone in that i...

Do You Love Me? Nick Cave

I found her on a night of fire and noise Wild bells rang in a wild sky I knew from that moment on I'll love her till the day that I died And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various S...

There Is A Light (Batman Forever Soundtrack) Nick Cave

Hey there sugar where ya gunna go?I'm going downtown Daddy-OWhat ya gunna do when you get there, girl?I'm gunna get messed up in a God-Shaped HoleHey Mr Hophead, what ya gunna do?I'm going downtown...

Up Jumped The Devil Nick Cave

O My O MyWhat a wretched lifeI was born on the dayThat my poor mother diedI was cut from her bellyWith a stanley knifeMy daddy did a jigWith the drunk midwifeWho's that younder all in flamesDraggin...

City Of Refuge Nick Cave

You better run You better run and run and runYou better run You better runYou better run to the City of RefugeYou better run You better runYou better run to the City of RefugeYou stand before your ...

Sunday's Slave Nick Cave

Sunday's got a slaveMonday's got one tooSunday's got a slaveMonday's got one tooOur sufferings are countlessOur pleasures are motley fewSpend all day digging my graveNow go get Sunday's slaveTuesda...

The Good Son Nick Cave

One more man goneOne more man goneOne more man is goneThe good son walks into the fieldHe is a tiller, he has a tiller's handsBut down in his heart nowHe lays down his queer plansAgainst his brothe...

Sorrow's Child Nick Cave

Sorrow's child sits by the riverSorrow's child hears not the waterSorrow's child sits by the riverSorrow's child hears not the waterAnd just when it seems as thoughYou've got strength enough to sta...

The Hammer Song Nick Cave

I set out on mondayThe night was cold and vastAnd my brother sleptAnd though I left quite quietlyMy father raged and ragedAnd my mother weptNow, my life was like a riverAll sucked into the groundAn...

The Witness Song Nick Cave

Yeah, yeahWell, wellI took a walk down to the portWhere strangers meet and do consortAll blinkered with desireAnd a winter fog moved thickly onA winter fog moved thickly onA winter fog moved thickl...