Genius Lyrics
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Weeping Song
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From a Youtube video (Live at Dresden, June 21, 2009):
Blixa? Well, he went away. He went away about five years ago. And this song… (unintelligible audience member response)… I
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
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The notion of a Red Right Hand goes back to John Milton’s Paradise Lost where it also plays the role of an undefined threat. There are discussions among scholars whether it
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Kindness of Strangers
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Track #7 from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds‘ ninth studio album Murder Ballads.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Waiting for You
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Loverman
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Mark Mordue: Loverman was the other song that I got into. When my friend and I were listening to it, he described it as ‘a real togs-off rock & roll song’.
Nick Cave: (Laughs) I
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Anthrocene
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The fifth track from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' 2016 album Skeleton Tree. The title, “Anthrocene”, is a variant of the proposed scientific term Anthropocene (from Greek anthro- or
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Mermaids
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[Verse 1] / 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 / I sit around and
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – O'Malley's Bar
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Track #9 from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds‘ ninth studio album Murder Ballads.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Carny
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
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Like the sunrise after a long, lonesome night, “Skeleton Tree” is the final track on the album of the same name, and represents a kind of catharsis. A demo version, featured in the
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Girl in Amber
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“Girl in Amber” is the third song on the 2016 album Skeleton Tree.
In the documentary One More Time with Feeling, this song is implicitly linked to Cave’s wife, Susie Bick.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Brompton Oratory
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Track #4 on Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds‘ tenth studio album The Boatman’s Call.
Brompton Oratory is a large Catholic church in the heart of London, in Knightsbridge.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Jesus Alone
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“Jesus Alone” is Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' first single from their 2016 album Skeleton Tree, and Cave’s first release since the untimely death of his son Arthur in July 2015.
The
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Bright Horses
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[Chorus: Warren Ellis] / (Ooh) / (Ooh, oh) / [Verse 1: Nick Cave] / The bright horses have broken free from the fields / They are horses of love, their manes full of fire / They
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Scum
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' “Scum” is a non-album single detailing Nick Cave’s grievances with his former roommate, journalist Mat Snow. A reaction to Snow’s lukewarm review of
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Darker With The Day
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Track #12 from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds‘ eleventh studio album No More Shall We Part.
As the rough narrative of the album reaches its conclusion, we find that Cave’s
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Jack the Ripper
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This song is possibly a portrayal of an abusive relationship, with the woman the abuser and the man the victim. The woman is controlling and violent. This song also expresses
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Watching Alice
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[Verse 1] / Alice wakes, it is morning / She is yawning as she walks about the room / Her hair rolls down her breast / She is naked and it is June / [Verse 2] / Standing at the
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Nature Boy
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I was just a boy when I sat down to watch the news on TV / I saw some ordinary slaughter, I saw some routine atrocity / My father said, don't look away, you gotta be strong, you
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Night Raid
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Incredibly moving and beautiful conception song for Nick’s twins, Earl and Arthur Cave.
The song is set in Room 33 of a hotel in New Orleans on Nick and Susie’s honeymoon in 1999.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues
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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 breath / Entwined together
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Ft. Anita Lane, Kylie Minogue, PJ Harvey & Shane MacGowan) – Death Is Not the End
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After a spree of songs detailing gristly narratives, Murder Ballads closes on a (relatively) optimistic note, with Kylie Minogue, Shane MacGowan and PJ Harvey joining in on a cover
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Green Eyes
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[Verse 1] / Kiss me again, rekiss me and kiss me / Slip your frigid hands beneath my shirt / This useless old fucker with his twinkling cunt / Doesn't care if he gets hurt / [
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Breathless
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Inspired by by the myth of Orpheus this song describes a passionate love that Orpheus felt for this wife Eurydice and that Nick had described before when meeting his wife for the
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
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[Chorus] / Dig yourself, Lazarus / Dig yourself, Lazarus / Dig yourself, Lazarus / Dig yourself back in that hole / [Verse 1] / Larry made his nest up in the autumn branches
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – There Is a Kingdom
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Track #5 on Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds‘ tenth studio album The Boatman’s Call
The title of this song probably refers to Immanuel Kant’s notion of the kingdom of ends, where all
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Sad Waters
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[Verse 1] / Down the road I look and there runs Mary / Hair of gold and lips like cherries / We go down to the river where the willows weep / Take a naked root for a lovers seat
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Spinning Song
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Curse of Millhaven
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Track #6 from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds‘ ninth studio album Murder Ballads.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – We No Who U R
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[Verse 1] / Tree don't care what the 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
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Hallelujah
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
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[Verse 1] / I was riding, I was riding home / The sun, the sun, the sun was rising from the field / [Verse 2] / I got a feeling I just can't shake / I got a feeling that just won't
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Lay Me Low
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[Verse 1] / They're gonna lay me low (Lay me low) / They're gonna sink me in the snow (Lay me low) / They're gonna throw back their heads and crow (Lay me low) / When I go / They'
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