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

I left by the back door* With my wife's lover's smoking gun I don't know what I was hoping for I hit the road at a run I was your lover I was your man There never was no other I was you

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

As I sat sadly by her side
At the window, through the glass
She stroked a kitten in her lap
And we watched the world as it fell past

Softly

by Tomorrows Bad Seeds on album Early Prayers

She burned down my house, burned it down On Love Street, lord love-a ain't so sweet And the smoke clouds the seen clouds, the seen A a above me oohh love You know like I know Its hard to believe Betw

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Mermaids

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 watch The mermaids sun themselves out

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

For you dear, I was born For you I was raised up For you I've lived and for you I will die For you I am dying now You were my mad little lover In a world where everybody fucks everybody else over

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

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 got to be strong, you got to be bold, now H

by The Black Seeds on album Solid Ground

Every action, causes a reaction Through the constellations, of natural selection We are connected through the chain of life From the beginning of time itself I look through the keyhole Into worlds un

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Push the Sky Away

At the turn of the century I did many things to protect myself I did many things to protect myself I made myself a needle-boy And I Hid him in the closet And I made myself a money-man And I hid h

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Murder Ballads

I live in a town called Millhaven And it's small and it's mean and it's cold But if you come around just as the sun goes down You can watch the whole town turn to gold It's around about then that

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Push the Sky Away

Two lightning bolts were delivered to my room They were gifts from Zeus I rock the bolts in a basinet of pine People ask me how I am I say I am all right I'm fine! I push the lightning bolt in a

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

The wintergreen, the juniper The cornflower and the chicory All the words you said to me Still vibrating in the air The elm, the ash and the linden tree The dark and deep, enchanted sea The trem

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

C'mon, kind Sir, let's walk outside And breathe the autumn air See the many that have lived and died See the unending golden stair See all of us that have come behind Clutching at your hem All t

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Murder Ballads

They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head O poor Mary Bellows She'd grown up hungry, she'd grown up poor She left her home in Arkansas O poor Mary

by Tomorrows Bad Seeds on album Sacred for Sale

Looks like today could never be exactly what I had dreamed The proof's on your face and it's further away from me Soon it's all gone, moment of clarity and I'm not far behind Further and further is w

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

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Dig Lazarus Dig Hold On To Yourself I'm so far away from you Pacing up and down my room Does Jesus only love a man who loses? I turn on the radio There's some cat on th

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album Nocturama

Father says it, mother says it Sister says it, brother says it Uncle says it, Auntie says it Everyone at the party says Babe, I'm on fire Babe, I'm on fire The horse says it, the pig says it

by The Black Seeds on album On The Sun

INTRO: Oh yeah Oh yeah-eh-eh VERSE 1: The sweetest stuff, you give to me It makes me feel fine Every little word that you say to me Keeps my heart on time Red blood flowin' like a rough rapid When yo

by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on album The Good Son

One more man gone One more man gone One more man is gone The good son walks into the field He is a tiller, he has a tiller's hands But down in his heart now He lays down his queer plans Again

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

Past the ivy-covered windows of the Angel* Down Athenaeum Lane to the cathedral Through the churchyard I wandered Sat for a spell there and I pondered My back to the gates of the garden My back to the

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

Stay by me, stay by me You are the one, my only true love The butcher bird makes it's noise And asks you to agree With it's brutal nesting habits And it's pointless savagery Now, the nightinga