Song Of Joy Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

met a girl named Joy She was a sweet and happy thing Her eyes were bright blue jewels And we were married in the spring I had no idea what happiness and little love could bring Or what life had in store

song of joy Nick Cave

ago I met a girl named Joy She was a sweet and happy thing Her eyes were bright blue jewels And we were married in the spring I had no idea what happiness and little love could bring Or what life

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,

Lightning Bolts Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Two lightning bolts were delivered to my room They were gifts from Zeus I rock the bolts in a bassinet of pine People ask me how I am I say, "I'm all right, I'm fine" [Verse 2] I push the lightning bolts

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 & 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

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

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 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 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?

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 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

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 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

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

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

Saint Huck Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Born of the river, Born of its ever-changing, never-changing murky water Oh riverboat just rollin' along through the great great greasy city Huck standing like a Saint, upon its deck If ya wanna catch

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

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

Why is the bedroom so cold? Turned away on your side. Is my timing that flawed? Our respect run so dry? Yet there\'s still this appeal, That we\'ve kept through our lives.

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

Lay Me Low Nick Cave

All the stories will come out When I go All the stars will glow bright (Lay me low) And my friends will give up the fight They'll see my work in a different light When I go They'll try telephoning my

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

Scum Nick Cave

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

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

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...

Seeds Of Night The Cave Singers

Oh my darling we're meadowing now Oh love is bold in the cricketing fields And a sly part of night gets down to get up Oh bright light sing me a song, on and on Oh, de da Oh, I know Oh my love this is

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

Black Hair Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

depths of her hair of deepest black While my fingers pushed into her straight black hair Pulling her black hair back from her happy heart-shaped face To kiss her milk-white throat, a dark curtain of black

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

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

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

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

Darker With The Day Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

As so with that, I thought I'd take a final walk The tide of public opinion had started to abate The neighbours, bless them, had turned out to be all talk I could see their frightened faces peering

Tupelo Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

O go to sleep lil children The sandmans on his way O go to sleep lil children The sandmans in his way But the lil children know They listen to the beating of their blood listen to the beating of

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

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

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

The Kindness Of Strangers Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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

The Curse Of Millhaven Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Of Millhaven How last Christmas Bill Blake's little boy didn't come home They found him next week in One Mile Creek His head bashed in and his pockets full of stones Well, just imagine all the wailing

Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

They are all out back Under fifteen feet of pure white snow Would you please put down that telephone We're under fifteen feet of pure white snow I waved to my neighbour My neighbour waved to me But my

A Box For Black Paul Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

O man it's hot and And some of them ants they just climb to the spot Who threw the first stone at Black Paul?

Train Long-Suffering Nick Cave

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!

City Of Refuge Nick Cave

You better run You better run and run and run You better run You better run You better run to the City of Refuge You better run You better run You better run to the City of Refuge You stand before your

Rock Of Gibraltar Nick Cave

Let me say this to you I'll be steadfast and true And my love will never falter The sea would crash about us The waves would lash about us I'll be your Rock of Gibraltar Sometimes it's hard And we're both

And No More Shall We Part Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

And no more shall we part It will no longer be necessary And no more will I say, dear heart I am alone and she has left me And no more shall we part The contracts are drawn up, the ring is locked upon

Brother My Cup Is Empty Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Brother, my cup is empty And I haven't got a penny For to buy no more whiskey I have to go home I am the captain of my pain Tis the bit, the bridle, The trashing cane The stirrup, the harness

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!

Stagger Lee Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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 woman threw

As I Sat Sadly By Her Side Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

As I sat sadly by her side At the window, through the glass She stroked a kitten in her lap And we watched the world as it fell past Softly she spoke these words to me And with brand new eyes, open wide