Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds songs lyrics

[As sung by Mick Harvey; Nick's live versions deviate from this.] Credits: Humphreys/Lovett/Richards/Lynch/Anderson/LPA I look at you in your sad...

Hushaby, don' you cry Go to sleepy little baby When you awake you shall have cake And all the pretty little horses. Blacks and Bays, Dapples...

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...

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...

They're working us like dogs around here 'Cause pleasure is the boss And I'm the happiest slave alive round here 'Cause pleasure is the boss ...

Gun wears his alcoholism well Finger in Bottle and swingin' it still From Bed to Sink and back again Clock is crawlin' round the same He's...

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,...

Worn and gnawn a little hole just a small hole letting in a sick wind in small puffs yo-ho hole yo-ho hole through which blow a small...

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? ...

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...

On this European night out on the brink The cafes and the bars still stink The air is much too thick for seeing But not thick enough for leaning ...

I climbed the hill, lay in the grass A little dark-eyes girl drifted past She said, œAll the best has come, it could not last And the worst is...

I left by the back door With my wife's lover's smoking gun I don't know what I was hoping for I hit the road at a run I was your lover I was...

Janey´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 ...

The sun is high up in the sky and I'm in my car Drifting down into the abattoir Do you see what I see, dear? The air grows heavy. I listen to your...

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...

It is for she that the cherry bleeds That the moon is steeped in mild nad blood That I steal like a robber From her altar of love O money lender!...

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...

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...

Now it begins, now that you're gone Needles and pins, twilight till dawn Watching that clock till you return And lighting that torch and watching...