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 – Helpless
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A cover of the classic Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song, this rendition was originally released on The Bridge – A Tribute to Neil Young, a charity album in support of the Bridge
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Cocks N' Asses
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The closest thing to an instrumental in their discography, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' “Cocks N' Asses” is a sound collage of chickens, or cocks, and donkeys, or asses, along with
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Good Son
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The song is a seen as a depiction of the biblical story of Cain and Abel,the first two sons of Adam in which Cain murders Able due to jealousy for God favours Abel’s sacrifice to
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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 – Sleeping Annaleah
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [Chorus
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Plain Gold Ring
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[Verse 1] / Plain gold ring on her finger she wore / It was where everyone could see / It belonged to someone, but not me / On her hand she wore a plain gold ring / [Verse 2
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Song of Joy
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[Verse 1] / Have mercy on me, sir / Allow me to impose on you / I have no place to stay / And my bones are cold right through / I will tell you a story / Of a man and his family
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Albert Goes West
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Albert, he goes west / He crossed the vast indifferent deserts of Arizona / He had a psychotic episode on a dude ranch / That involved a bottle of ammonia / Henry, he went south
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Witness Song
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[Verse 1] / Yeah, yeah, well, well, well, yeah, well, well, well, yeah, well, well, well / I took a walk down to the port / Where strangers meet and do consort / All blinkered with
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Ship Song
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[Intro] / 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
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Tom Jones – Weeping Annaleah
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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
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Hammer Song
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Ft. PJ Harvey) – Henry Lee
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Track #3 from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds‘ ninth studio album Murder Ballads.
Sung as a duet with English musician PJ Harvey, “Henry Lee” is a reworking of the traditional folk
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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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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Sorrow's Child
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[Verse 1] / 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 feels
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The Flaming Lips & Nell Smith – O Children
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Pass me that lovely little gun / My dear, my darling one / The cleaners are coming one by one / You don't even want to let them start / They're knocking now upon your door / They
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Up Jumped the Devil
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[Verse 1] / Oh my, oh my, what a wretched life / I was born on the day that my poor mamma died / I was cut from her belly with a Stanley knife / My daddy did a jig with the drunk
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Lament
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[Verse 1] / 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
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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 – Lucy
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[Verse 1] / Last night I lay trembling / The moon it was low / It was the end of love / Of misery and woe / Then suddenly above me / Her face buried in light / Came a vision of
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Willow Garden
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A rendition of the traditional folk ballad, this song was released as a B-side to the single “Where the Wild Roses Grow” off of the 1996 album Murder Ballads. It was later
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The Flaming Lips & Nell Smith – The Ship Song
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[Intro] / 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
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – A Box for Black Paul
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[Chorus] / Who'll build a box for black Paul? / [Verse 1] / Ah'm enquirin' on behalf of his soul / Ah'd be beholdin to ya all / For a lil information, just a little indication
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Tim Rose – Long Time Man
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[Verse 1] / Yeah, they came to take me away / They 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
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The Flaming Lips & Nell Smith – No More Shall We Part
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[Verse] / 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
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