by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus

I lay down by the river The shadows moved across me, inch by inch And all that I heard Was the war between the water and the bridge Turn to me, turn to me, turn to me Turn and drink of me Or loo

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Murder Ballads

When you're sad and when you're lonely And you haven't got a friend Just remember that death is not the end And all that you held sacred Falls down and does not mend Just remember that death is n

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Dig Lazarus Dig

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Dig Lazarus Dig Night Of The Lotus Eaters Sapped & stupid I lie upon the stones and I swoons the darling little dandeluons have done their thing and changed from suns in

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album The Boatman's Call

They're taking me down, my friend And as they uskher me off to my end Will I bid you adieu? Or will I be seeing you soon? If what they say around here is true Then we'll meet again Me and you

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Henry's Dream

All the towers of ivory are crumbling And the swallows have sharpened their beaks This is the time of our great undoing This is the time that I'll come running Straight to you For I am captured

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Let Love In

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 (When I go) They're gonna jump

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Tender Prey

O My O My What a wretched life I was born on the day That my poor mother died I was cut from her belly With a stanley knife My daddy did a jig With the drunk midwife Who's that yonder all in

by The Black Seeds on album Into The Dojo

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus

You have a heart and I have a key Lie back and let me unlock you Those heathens you hang with down by the sea All they want to do is defrock you I know a river, where we can dream It will sw

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Kicking Against the Pricks

Say goodbye, my one true lover And we'll steal a lover's song How it breaks my heart to leave you Now the carnival has gone Oh my love, the dawn is breaking And my tears are falling rain For t

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Dig Lazarus Dig

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Dig Lazarus Dig Moonland 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

by The Black Seeds on album On The Sun

Fire burning out there in the dark fire burning out there in the dark fire its getting hotter burning me inside it out there that's where i wanna be in the in the dark fire

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Let Love In

Onward! And Onward! And Onward I go Where no man before could be bothered to go Till the soles of my shoes are shot full of holes And it's all downhill with a bullet This ramblin' and rovin' has t

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus

Through the windswept coastal trees Where the dead come rising from the sea With a teddy-bear clamped between her knees She says, where can my loverman be? Well, I'm down here, babe, with the Eski

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album The Boatman's Call

Last night my kisses were banked in black hair And in my bed, my lover, her hair was midnight black And all her mystery dwelled within her black hair And her black hair framed a happy heart-shaped

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Tender Prey

Sugar Sugar Sugar That man is bad The road he drives you down O sugar its a drag That road it twists That road is crossed Its down that road A lot of little girls go lost Sugar Sugar Sugar

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album From Her to Eternity

The moon is in the gutter And the stars wash down the sink I am the king of the blues I scrape the clay off my shoes And weigh down the butter Gutter blues The moon blind my eyes With open ca

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus

Farmer Emmerich went into his barn And found a cow suckling a serpent And a brown ape clanking a heavy chain Said Farmer Emmerich to the ape Never ask me to come into this barn again So Long Far

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album No More Shall We Part

I married my wife on the day of the eclipse* Our friends awarded her courage with gifts Now as the nights grow longer and the season shifts I look to my sorrowful wife Who is quietly tending her flowe

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Let Love In

I've searched the holy books I tried to unravel the mystery of Jesus Christ, the Savior I've read the poets and the analysts Searched through the books on human behavior I traveled this world ar