Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Who'll build a box for Black Paul? Ah'm enquirin on behalf of his soul Ah'd be beholdin to ya all For a lil information, just a little indication Just who'll dig the hole? When ya done ransackin' his room grabbin any damn thing that shines, throw the sc...

I've been loving you a long time Down all the years, down all the days And I've cried for all your troubles Smiled at your funny little ways We watched our friends grow up together And we saw them as they fell Some of them fell into Heaven Some of them fell in...

Albert goes west, he crossed the vast indifferent deserts of Arizona, oh yeah 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 forests of Le Vulva He grew so wan, he grew...

And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties A hand-me-down dress from who knows where To all tomorrow's parties And where will she go and what shall she do When midnight comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday's gown And cr...

And no more shall we part It will no longer be necessary And no more shall I say, dear heart "I am alone and she's left me" No more shall we part The contracts are drawn up, the ring is locked upon the finger And never again will my letters start Sadly...

There was a girl, call her Animal X 22, 24, 25 it’s hard to tell It’s hard to tell She comes from the city where there is light and air Where you can watch television Where you can go to the movies And read books just for the joy of it She went out walk...

All the fine winds gone And this sweet world is so much older Animals pull the night around their shoulders Flowers fall to their naked knees Here I come now, here I come I hear you been out there looking for something to love The dark force that shifts at the...

I stepped into an avalanche It covered up my soul When I am not this hunchback that you see I sleep beneath the golden hill You who wish to conquer pain You must learn to serve me well You strike my side by accident As you go down to your goal This cr...

Babe I got you bad Dreaming blood-wet dreams only madmen have Baby I got you bad I wish to God I never had And it makes me feel so sad, O, Baby I got you bad Yeah, Babe I got you bad I long for your kiss, for the turn of your mouth Your body is a long thing H...

Stay by me, stay by me You are the one, my only true love The butcher bird makes it's noise And asks you to agree With it's brutal nesting habits And it's pointless savagery Now, the nightingale sings to you And raises up the ante I put one hand on yo...

Look-a look-a yonder [3x] Well the sun done gone The captain can't hold her [3x] The way I do now Ada got a gold mine [3x] Way above her knees The shiv (?) is golden [3x] Above her knees Look-a look-a yonder [3x] Well the sun done gone Wohoh, Black Betty,...

Bless his ever loving heart Only he knows who you are He may seem so very far Bless his ever loving heart And when you're feeling sad And everywhere you look You can't believe the things you see When it all comes down so bad And beauty lies exhausted in the s...

Blind Lemon Jefferson is a-coming Tap tap tappin with his cane Blind Lemon Jefferson is a-coming Tap tap tappin with his cane His last ditch lies down the road of trials Down the road of trials Half filled with rain O Sycamore, Sycamore! Stretch your...

The bright horses have broken free from the fields They are horses of love, their manes full of fire They are parting the cities, those bright burning horses And everyone is hiding, no one makes a sound And I'm by your side and I'm holding your hand Brigh...

By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising And she'll find that note that I left hanging on the door And she'll laugh when she reads the part That says: "I'm leaving" Cause I've left that girl so many times before And by the time I get to Albuquerque, she...

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! O o o' Cabin Fever! Slams his fucken tin-dish down Our Captain, tak...

You have a heart and I have a key Lie back and let me unlock you Those heathens you hang with down by the sea All they want to do is defrock you I know a river, where we can dream It will swell up, burst it's banks, babe, and rock you But if you'...

I lay down by the river The shadows moved across me, inch by inch And all that I heard Was the war between the water and the bridge Turn to me, turn to me, turn to me Turn and drink of me Or look away, look away, look away And never more think of me C...

Now that mountains of meaningless words and oceans divide us And we each have our own set of stars to comfort and guide us Come into my sleep Come into my sleep, oh yeah Dry your eyes and do not weep Come into my sleep Swim to me through the deep blue sea upo...

Well we were born within one hour of each other. Our mothers said we could be sister and brother. Your name is Deborah, Deborah. It never suited ya. Oh they thought that when we grew up, we'd get married, and never split up. We never did it, although oft...

Let us go now, my one true love Call the gasman, cut the power out We can set out, we can set out for the distant skies Watch the sun, watch it rising in your eyes Let us go now, my darling companion Set out for the distant skies See the sun, see it rising Se...

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 Sorrows Some begged, some borowed, some stolen Some kept s...

Onward and Onward! And Onward I go Where no man before could be bothered to go Till the soles of my shoes are shot full of holes And it's all downhill with a bullet This ramblin' and rovin' has taken it's course I'm grazing with the dinosaurs and the dear...

Everything must converge in time And so it goes, by and by Everything must converge some day Somehow, some way Everything must converge in time (Everything must converge) Or so it seems and by and by Every little thing must converge it's true (Everyth...

Farmer Emmerich went into his barn And found a cow suckling a serpent And a brown ape clanking a heavy chain Said Farmer Emmerich to the ape Never ask me to come into this barn again So Long Farewell So Long Farmer Emmerich caught the serpent And the...

Where is Mona? She's long gone Where is Mary? She's taken her along But they haven't put their mittens on And there's fifteen feet of pure white snow? Where is Michael? Where is Mark? Where is Mathew Now it's getting dark? Where is John? They are a...

Oh oh oh I just finished writing "Jubilee Street" I lay down on my bed and fell into a deep sleep When I awoke, I believed I'd taken a bride called Mary Stanford And I flew into a frenzy searching high and low Because in my dream, the girl was very young...

Jesus lying in his mother’s arms Is a photon released from a dying star We move through the forest at night The sky is full of exit wounds of light Everything we need is just too far We are fireflies a child has trapped in a jar I am here and you are whe...

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 floor-boards All thru this lonesome night Ah hear her crying...

If I could sail a galleon ship, a long, lonely rider across the sky Seek out mysteries while you sleep And treasures money cannot buy For you know I see you everywhere A servant girl, an empress My galleon ship will fly and fall Fall and fly and fly and...

This world is beautiful Held within its stars I keep it in my heart The stars are your eyes I loved them right from the start A world so beautiful And I keep it in my heart A ghosteen dances in my hand Slowly twirling, twirling all around Glowing cir...

I am beside you, I am beside you I am beside you, I am beside you Look for me, look for me I am beside you, look for me I try to forget to remember that nothing is something Where something is meant to be I am beside you, I am beside you Look for me, lo...

I can't raise my glass, without seeing her ass Through its telescopic bottom I can't raise my glass, without seeing her ass Through its telescopic bottom If you wanna know what agony is Ask the girl at the bottom of my glass Well love'll come a-knockin' wit...

Some go and some stay behind Some never move at all Girl in amber trapped forever, spinning down the hall Let no part of her go unremembered, clothes across the floor Girl in amber lumber slumber shuts the bathroom door The phone, the phone, the phone it rings...

Childhood days in a shimmer and a haze Give us a kiss In the blue room you whispered into the music In the field underneath ofthe thorn bush Give us a kiss And across the overpass and down Past the blood factory and into town Give us a kiss One little...

Everybody's got a room Everybody's got a room Everybody's got a room in God's hotel Everybody's got a room You'll never see a sign hanging on the door Sayin', 'There ain't no rooms available here anymore' Everybody's got wings Everybody's got wings E...

See the little cloud up in the sky. It's a good good day today. See the little cloud pass on by. It's a good good day today. Mary comes now, let Mary be, Can you see her down on the street? Mary's laughing 'cause Mary sees That she's a-wearin' that dre...

A grief came riding On the wind Up the [sullen] river Thames I was sittin' on the bank with my mouth open When I felt it entering I began thinkin' about our wedding day And how love was [avowed] I was thinkin' about the chamber door Only we can enter...

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, As a warning, a warning, As a warning......

It is for she that the cherry bleeds That the moon is soaked in milk and blood That I steal like a robber From her altar of love O money lender! O cloven gender! I am the fiend hid in her skirts And it's as hot as hell in here Coming at her as I am from...

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 la la lee A little bird lit down on Henry Lee I can't get down...

Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm gonna shoot my baby, I caught her messin round with another man Hey Joe, I heard you shot your baby down Hey Joe, I heard you shot your baby down Ye...

You went looking for me, dear Down by the sea You found some Iittle silver fish But you didn't find me I was hiding, dear, hiding all away I was hiding, dear, I was hiding all away You went to the museum And you climbed a spiral stair You searched for...

Can't remember anything at all Flame trees line the streets Can't remember anything at all But I'm driving my car down to Geneva I've been sitting in my basement patio It was hot Up above, girls walk past, the roses all in bloom Have you ever heard abo...

The fires continued through the night The kid with a bat face appeared at the window then disappeared into the headlights I was halfway to the pacific coast I had left you in your longing and your yearning like a ghost There's little room for wonder now, a...

I could not shift the shadow Or form sugar from your halos Channeled table-taps from ghost gods Prowled and slept in steep ships Mixed Mythology with pathology Tossed a coin and hymned the groves Then did you scent the wind drop And count the codes of...

I wish you happy christmas I do dear, I do I wish for you the stars, babe I wish for you the moon You can sit, and you can drink your champagne With your gibbering gum I hope he's being good to you I do dear, I do Ain't no whirlwind below you...

Despair and Deception, Love's ugly little twins Came a-knocking on my door, I let them in Darling, you're the punishment for all of my former sins I let love in I let love in The door it opened just a crack, but Love was shrewed and bold My life flashed...

When you're feeling like a lover Nothing really matters anymore I saw you standing there In the supermarket With your red dress falling Your eyes to the ground Nothing really matters Nothing really matters when the one you love is gone You're still in...

Yeah, my baby left me this morning And I don't care now, I don't care what the people say Yeah, I did everything that I could, everything I could, Lord knows I did everything I could I tried to satisfy her worried mind, that's what I did You know she wa...

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 leave you as you are And if He felt He had to direct you Then...

They dragged Jack and his shadow From the hole And the bulb that burned above him Did shine both day and night And his shadow learned to love his Little darks and greater light And the sun it shined And the sun it shined And the sun it shined...

Jangling Jack Goes Yackety Yack Visits the home of the brave Hails a fat yellow cab Jack wanna celebrate Jack wanna big drink Driver drops him at a bar Called the Rinky Dink Jack pushes through the door And crosses the floor Tips his hat to a man Gr...

You fell from the sky Crash landed in a field Near the river Adur Flowers spring from the ground Lambs burst from the wombs of their mothers In a hole beneath the bridge She convalesce, she fashioned masks of clay and twigs You cried beneath the dripp...

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 your husband? She said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I don't have one H...

I stepped out of the St. James hotel And I left you behind curled up like a child A change is gonna come And as the door whispered shut I walked on down the high-windowed hall You lay sleeping on the unmade bed The weatherman on the television in the St...

On Jubilee Street there was a girl named Bee She had a history but she had no past When they shut her down the Russians moved in Now I'm too scared, I'm too scared to even walk on past She used to say all those good people down on Jubilee Street They oug...

(Can you turn me up a bit?) King kong kitchee kitchee ki-mi-o Well frog went a-courtin' and he did ride With a sword and a pistol by his side And he rode 'til he came to Miss Mouse's door And then he knelt right down upon the floor He said, "Little Miss M...

These chains of sorrow, they are heavy, it is true And these locks cannot be broken, no, not with one thousand keys O Jailer, you drag a ball-n-chain you cannot see You can lay your burden on me You can lay your burden down on me You can lay your burden...

I've seen your fairground hair, your seaside eyes Your vampire tooth, your little truth Your tiny lies I know your trembling hand, your guilty prize Your sleeping limbs, your foreign hymns Your midnight cries So dry your eyes And turn your head away...

C'mon, kind Sir, let's walk outside And breathe the autumn air See the many that have lived and died See the unending golden stair See all of us that have come behind Clutching at your hem All the way from Arkansas To your sweet and last amen Let the...

Oh my, oh my, oh my I love my baby and my baby loves me Oh my, oh my, oh my I love my baby and my baby loves me We talked it round and round again And drove the car down to the sea, the sea We sat in the car park for an hour or two I love my baby and my...

Well, you lost a foe And you found a friend Lie down here and be my girl I'm back now, baby, that man He won't be coming round here again Lie down here and be my girl I'm trying to tread careful, baby You're as brittle as a wishbone of a bird Lie down...

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. I push the lightning bolts in a pram, Till the sun goes down and it gets dark, And...

Please forgive me If I appear unkind But any fool can tell you It's all in your mind Down in the meadow The old lion stirs As his hands cross his mouth He has no use for word Poor little girl With your hand full of snow Poor little girl Had no way...

ney's gone now and she won't be back no more It was only yesterday I went knocking on her door Now she's gone away, we won't see her no more Little Janey's gone now, Janey's gone now Janey's gone now, Janey's gone Little Janey's gone now, Janey's gone no...

She walks these hills in a long black veil She visits my grave when the night winds wail Nobody knows, nobody sees Nobody knows but me Ten years ago, on a cold dark night Someone was killed 'neath the Town Hall light There were few at the scene, but they all...

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 Oh, it makes a long time man feel bad Yeah, it makes a long time man feel bad Well I ai...

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 Would she walk with me a while Through this night so vast...

Mostly I never knew which way was out Once it was on, it was on and that was that The umbilicus was a force that they'd found in rabid blood Then I spin on my wheel like a laboratory rat I was an electrical storm on the bathroom floor, clutching the bowl My bl...

I stood in the water In the middle month of winter My camel skin was torture I was in a state of nature The wind, sir, it was wicked I was so alone Just as I predicted My followers were gone And I cried `Mercy' Have mercy upon me And I got down on m...

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 And I'll sit around and watch The mermaids hung themselves Out on the rocks Out beyond our touch I watch and w...

Hold that chrysalis in your palm, see it split and change. It won't do you any harm, it's just trying to rearrange. It was born to live a day, now it flies up from your hand. It's beautiful, it's the one they call your ever-loving man. Wolves have car...

when I came up from out of the meat-locker the city was gone the sky was full of lights the snow provides a silent cover in moonland under the stars under the snow I followed this car and I followed that car through the sand throught the snow I...

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 water in the valley Daddy's grave just went below the line...

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 of bright sun All brave with it conquest Di...

There's a picture of Jesus lying in his mother's arms Shuttered windows, cars humming on the street below The fountain throbbed in the lobby of the Grand Hotel We checked into room thirty-three, well well You were a runaway flake of snow You were skinny a...

I pass by silent tiger 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 Where hope and hopeless mi...

Pass me that lovely little gun My dear, my darling one The cleaners are coming one by one And you don't even wanna let them start They're knocking now upon your door They measure the room, they know the score They're mopping up the butcher's floor Of y...

Here I sleep the morning through 'Til the wail of the call to prayer awakes me And there ain't nothing at all to do but rise and follow The day wherever it takes me I stand at the window and I look at the sea And I am what I am, and what will be will be I sta...

People just ain't no good I think that's welll understood You can see it everywhere you look People just ain't no good We were married under cherry trees Under blossom we made pour vows All the blossoms come sailing down Through the streets and through...

I was right I was right Oh, the sun, the sun The sun is rising from the field I've got a feeling I just can't shake I've got a feeling That just won't go away You've got to just Keep on pushing Keep on pushing Push the sky away And if your frie...

Take a little walk to the edge of town and 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, you know you're never coming back. Past the square, past...

Upside down and inside out and on all eights You're like a funnel-web Like a black fly on the ceiling Skinny, white haunches high in the sky And a black oily gash crawling backwards across the carpet to smash all over everything Wet, black fur against the...

Just running scared, each place we go So afraid, that he might show Yeah, running scared, what would I do If he came back and wanted you? Just running scared, feeling low Running scared that you love him so Just running scared, afraid to lose If he came...

Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds, I know you most of all You've robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold And whiskey, you villain, you've been my down fall You've cuffed and you've kicked me but I loved you of old Oh, whiskey, rye whiskey, whiskey, I cried...

I climbed the hill, lay in the grass A little dark-eyes girl drifted past She said, “All the best has come, it could not last And the worst is has come true” Her hands were small and fluttered up A lamb amongst the buttercups I pulled on my coat and but...

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 a Saint, then bait ya hook, let's take a walk... '...

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 Shakin hands was like shakin a hot, fat, oily bone Holdin o...

Once she lay open like a road Carved apart the madness that I stumbled from But she fell away She fell away Shed me like a skin She fell away Left me holding everything Seems impossible to me now Seems impossible to me now Seems impossible to me now...

You were planning to stay in, you had it carefully planned Your coat was hanging in the hall, your hat was in your hand You walked over to your woman, your pale distracted love Who was trying to put the wrong hand into the wrong glove Are you leaving, dear? A...

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 savely graze Wooly...

Sunday morning, skeleton tree Oh, nothing is for free In the window, a candle Well, maybe you can see Fallen leaves thrown across the sky A jittery TV Glowing white like fire Nothing is for free I called out, I called out Right across the sea But the echo come...

Yesterday the sun was shining but you're finding the sun it Don't shine all the time A winter day suddenly came your way And you ran into your mind Sleeping Annaleah, Weeping Annaleah Do you think you're ready for me? Oh and yesterday is gone forever a...

Darling, that morning you chose to go I woke in my boots and clothes You dig in my cards, stole all my cash Even my 500 dollar suit was slashed And I just lay there watching the sun fall down from the sky Not wanting to open the letter But opening it any...

Something's gotten hold of my heart Keeping my soul and my senses apart Something's gotten into my life Cutting its way through my dreams like a knife Turning me up and turning me down Making me smile and making me frown In a world that was small I onc...

Sorrow's child sits by the river Sorrow's child hears not the water Sorrow's child sits by the river Sorrow's child hears not the water And just when it seems as though You've got strength enough to stand Sorrow's child all weak and strange Stand...

Through the woods, and frosted moors Past the snow-caked hedgerows I Bed down upon the drifting snow Sleep beneath the melting sky I whisper all your names I know not where you are But somewhere, somewhere, somewhere here Upon this wild abandoned star...

Here I am the Moonlight Man with a six-barrel shooter But I’m not that kinda guy, I have a dream Sometimes I get the elevator to the top of the Burj Al Arab And shoot my guns across Dubai Bang, bang, bang, I’m that kinda guy But mostly I curl up inside m...

Stranger than kindness Bottled light from hotels Spilling everything Wet hand from the volcano It sobers your skin Stranger than kindness You caress yourself And grind my soft cold bones below Your map of desire Burned in your flesh Even a fool can...

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 on Until the City of right Becomes the Cit...

I lay in the forest amongst the butterflies and the fireflies And the burning horses and the flaming trees As a spiral of children climb up to the sun Waving goodbye to you and goodbye to me As the past pulls away and the future begins I say goodbye to al...

Sunday's got a slave Monday's got one too Sunday's got a slave 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...

Through the windswept coastal trees Where the dead come rising from the sea With a teddy-bear clamped between her knees She says, where can my loverman be? Well, I'm down here, babe, with the Eskimos With the polar bears and the Arctic snow With a party o...

Come over here, babe It ain't that bad I don't claim to understand The troubles that you've had But the dogs you say they fed you to Lay their muzzles in your lap And the lions that they led you to Lie down and take a nap The ones you fear are wind and...

How is little Thomas Magee? Thomas Magee, he swallowed a key Jedediah, little Thomas Magee Holly, holly, just let him be His wise now, little Thomas Magee Called his kid on the telephone Heart was beating in my chest I needed something I could not digest And...

Jazz Fire eating drag-queens dressed as society whores Crazy two timing bitches running round Ghetto blasting blasters, blasting magnificently Blossoms falling from the cherry trees That's what jazz is to me High buildings with crippled backs circle around my...

Luck kissed my brow and held me close Said, ''I can no longer stay My brother will watch over you While I'm gone away" "You two will get on fine," he said But he really did not convince The sun turned grey as he rode away And I haven't seen him since "I di...

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 carnival is over We may never meet again Like a drum my...

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...

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 somet...

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...

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 t...

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 al...

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 my name out for a song Today the streets are empty And the cro...

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 consump...

Once there was a song, the song yearned to be sung It was a spinning song about the king of rock 'n' roll The king was first a young prince, the prince was the best With his black jelly hair he crashed onto a stage in Vegas The king had a queen, the queen'...

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 all To think...

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 why are all the men there weeping? They are weeping back...

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 sa...

Yeah, yeah Well, well I took a walk down to the port Where strangers meet and do consort All blinkered with desire And a winter fog moved thickly on A winter fog moved thickly on A winter fog moved thickly on Now, who will be the witness When the fo...

Well you dream of blondes And you dream of beer And life gets terribly stale It’s dead in the morgue But it’s deader in here There’s no night out in the jail The fellas I knew Must all miss me now I guess I better come clean I’m sweating it out in The boo...

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...

Little Janie, she wakes up from a dream A gun like a jawbone down the waistband of her jeans Mr Sandman can recite today's lesson in his sleep He says There oughta be a law against me going down on the street Little Janie pipes up and she says We're gon...

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. W...

It's been a pleasure, dear To find your treasure here And scatter it across the sand Heaps of coins and ruby rings And a yellow bird that sings Songs of sorrow to your man Well, stand back from that windowsill I'm not holding you here against your will Well,...

All through the night we drove and the wind caught her hair And we parked on the beach in the cool evening air Well sometimes it's better not to say anything at all Your body is an anchor, never asked to be free Just want to stay in the business of making...

Wake up my lover with the long tangled hair Wake up for I have arrived My house's in order and I've done to me All the things that you said you require Your fearless little man Has abandoned all his plans That crumbled the moment that I kissed you On y...

I'm a wanted man, wanted man... I'm wanted, I'm a wanted man... Oh yeah... yeah... ah honey, I'm a wanted man I'm a wanted man in California, I'm a wanted man in Buffalo I'm a wanted man in Kansas City, I'm a wanted man in Ohio I'm a wanted man in Miss...

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 rise year after year Up in her palace, she's c...

They take apart their bodies like toys for the local boys Because they're always there at the edge of the water They come from the capitol, these city girls go way down Where the stones meet the sea And all you young girls with your hide Down by the water, the...

Tree don’t care what a little bird sings We go down with the dew in the morning light The tree don’t know what the little bird brings We go down with the dew in the morning And we breathe, in it There is no need to forgive Breathe, in it there is no nee...

Tree don’t care what a little bird sings We go down with the due in the morning light The tree don’t know what the little bird brings We go down with the due in the morning And we breathe, in it There is no need to forgive Breathe, in it, there is no need to f...

Who took your measurements from your toes to the top your head? You know Who bought your clothes and new shoes and wrote you a book you never read Yah you know Who was it? You know we real cool On a far side of the morning Who was it? You know we rea...

Along crags and sunless cracks I go Up rib of rock, donw spine of stone I dare not slumber where the night winds whistle Lest her creeping-soul clutch this heart of thistle O the same God that abandon'd her Has in turn abandon'd me And softenin' the tu...

I see trees of green, red roses too I watch them bloom for me and you And I think to myself: What a Wonderful World I see skies of blue, clouds of white The bright blessed day and the dark sacred night And I think to myself: What a Wonderful World The colo...

All my life I failed to see One good thing standing in front of me And the planets gravitate around you And the stars, the stars surround you And the angels in heaven adore you And the saints, the saints all stand and applaud you What can I give you ? What ca...

I remember a girl so very well The carnival drums all mad in the air Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell O where do we go now but nowhere In a colonial hotel we fucked up the sun And then we fucked it down again Well the sun comes up and th...

You wave at the sky with wide lovely eyes Waves and waves of love good-bye And through the garden with your secret key Down the tunnel that leads to the sea Step on the beach beneath the iron skies You wave and wave your wide lovely eyes Crystal waves and wave...

Here she comes, my wife See her down on the street Well, yeah, she's mine, supine Or up on her feet Yeah, here she comes Through the dog-breath heat With her concertina spine And her ballerina feet Under a punishing sun Under a red and green umbrella Ca...

She loves me, she loves me not She loves me, she loves me not She loves me, she loves me not We-e-ll, ah've spent seven days and seven nights tryin to get sunk in this brine Don't turn on ya water-works 'cause ah got me a pair of water-wings, right?! I...

Come in, babe Across these purple fields The sun has sunk behind you Across these purple fields That idiot-boy in the corner Is speaking deviated truths Come on, admit it, babe It's a wonderful life If you can find it If you can find it If you can fi...

I am a crooked man And I've walked a crooked mile Night, the shameless widow Doffed her weeds, in a pile The stars all winked at me They shamed a child Your funeral, my trial A thousand Marys lured me To feathered beds and fields of glover Bird with...