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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – I Need You
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds recorded “I Need You” shortly after the catastrophic death of Nick Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur in July 2015; he died after falling off a cliff.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Midnight Man
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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
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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 – Moonland
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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
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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 – 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 – 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 – O Children
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This gospel-influenced slow burn of a song was one of Nick Cave’s hidden gems until it was used in a controversial scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, where
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – In the Ghetto
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[Verse 1] / As the snow flies / On a cold and grey Chicago morn / A poor little baby child is born in the ghetto / And his mama cries / 'Cause there's one thing that she don't need
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Genius – Best Songs of 2016 Nominations
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What is this?
In December, Genius will be releasing an all-genres list of the 100 best songs of the year, ranked by members of the community. This page is for deciding which songs
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Song Directory
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Dec 2, 2023 ... Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Into My Arms (2011 Remaster) Lyrics · WhoisZari? – Lucy I Want You But I'm Not Waiting So Give Me A Chance Lyrics ...
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Papa Won't Leave You Henry
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[Verse 1] / I went out walking the other day / The heat hung wet around my neck / My head, it rung with screams and groans / From the night I spent amongst her bones / And I passed
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Nicholas Lens & Nick Cave – X. Litany of Godly Love
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[Nicholas L. Noorenbergh] / I am vengeance and forgiveness / I am everywhere and nowhere at all / I eat children and I gather them to me / I'm a single word and no word at all
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – There She Goes, My Beautiful World
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This is a song about the creative process, writer’s block, suffering for one’s art, and the need of the artist to achieve immortality through one’s work. Here Cave is, perhaps, in
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Faraway So Close
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[Verse 1] / Empty out your pockets and toss the lot upon the floor / All those treasures, my friend, you don't need them anymore / Your days are all through dying, they gave all
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Waiting for You (Live at Alexandra Palace, 2020)
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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 – Avalanche
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[Verse 1] / I stepped into an avalanche / It covered up my soul / When I am not this hunchback that you see / I sleep beneath a golden hill / You who wish to conquer pain / You
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Vampire Weekend – Worship You
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“Worship You” is a direct message to God. Although the lyrics are hard to understand with Ezra’s fast-paced vocals, it’s clear to see while reading them it’s an affirmation and
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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 – Wake Up My Lover
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[Verse 1] / Wake up my lover with the long tangled hair / Wake up for I have arrived / My house is in order and I've done to me / All the things that you said you require / [Verse
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Into My Arms
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[Verse 1] / 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 / Oh
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Rings of Saturn
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The second track off of the album, Cave delivers an unusual vocal performance that comes in stark contrast to the previous song, “Jesus Alone” and the last thirty years of his
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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 – Do You Love Me?
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[Verse 1] / I found her on a night of fire and noise / Wild bells rang in a wild sky / I knew from that moment on / I'd love her till the day that I died / And I kissed away a
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Ft. Else Torp) – Distant Sky
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The penultimate track on Skeleton Tree begins the catharsis which concludes on the final track. It features Danish soprano Else Torp.
A straight-forward interpretation of the song
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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 – Where the Action Is
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Where streets start getting wild / Well you're moving on down on the other side of the tracks / Would you cross that line baby, there ain't no turning back / Some raise and I don't
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Limp Bizkit – Snacky Poo
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[Intro] / Mm / Choc— Chocolate on the starfish / Choc— Chocolate on the starfish, everybody kiss it / [Verse 1] / The name is L.B., I never hate to admit it / Takin' out you
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