The closing track of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 1986 album, ‘Kicking Against the Pricks’ is a cover of The Seekers' 1965 famous song ‘The Carnival Is Over’. There are slight variations to the lyrics. The song acts as a fitting final song to what is an album filled with Cave’s interpretations of songs by other artists. Nick Cave’s unique aura and vocal prowess is on display in the melancholy reinterpretation of the track. The lead singer’s delivery and the Bad Seeds tweaked instrumental give the song a very different tone to the original by ‘The Seekers’. It is a gloomy song filled with despair. It is understandable why it was selected to be the closing moment on the album as it captures the feeling of letting go of one’s “true lover”.