by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Nocturama

She sat in a wicker chair, her eyes they were downcast She breathed in the future, by breathing out the past The die is done, the die is shook, the die is duly cast There is a dead man in my bed, she

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Your Funeral... My Trial

Yeah, they came to take me away 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 the reason why Oh, it makes a long time ma

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album The Boatman’s Call (2011 - Remaster)

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 You

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album The Boatman’s Call (2011 - Remaster)

People just ain't no good I think that's well understood You can see it everywhere you look People just ain't no good We were married under cherry trees Under blossom we made our vows All the blossoms

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album The Boatman’s Call (2011 - Remaster)

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 fac

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album The Firstborn Is Dead

Blind Lemon Jefferson is a-coming Tap tap tappin with his cane Blind Lemon Jefferson is a-coming Tap tap tappin with his cane His last ditch lies down the road of trials Down the road of trials Half f

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

The tree don't care what the little bird sings We go down with the dew in the morning light The trees don't know what the little bird brings We go down with the dew in the morning And we breathe

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

Can't remember anything at all Flame trees lined the street Can't remember anything at all But I'm driving my car down to Geneva I've been sitting in my basement patio It was hot Up above th

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

On Jubilee Street There was a girl named Bee She had a history But she had no past When they shut her down The Russians moved in I'm too scared, I'm too scared To even walk on past She used

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

It's up in the morning and on the downs Little white clouds like gambolling lambs And I am breathless over you And the red-breasted robin beats his wings His throat it trembles when he sings For

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

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

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

In his boat and through the dark he rowed Chained to oar and the night and the wind that blowed Horribly 'round his ears Under the bridge and into your dreams he soars While you lie alone in that

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

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 & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

I hold this letter in my hand A plea, a petition, a kind of prayer I hope it does as I have planned Losing her again is more than I can bear I kiss the cold, white envelope I press my lips agains

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

Up those stone steps I climb Hail this joyful day's return Into its great shadowed vault I go Hail the Pentecostal morn The reading is from Luke 24 Where Christ returns to his loved ones I loo

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

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 Not to touch a hair on your head To lea

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

I've searched the holy books Tried to unravel the mystery of Jesus Christ, the saviour I've read the poets and the analysts Searched through the books on human behaviour I travelled the whole worl

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

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 & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

O Deanna O Deanna! O Deanna Sweet Deanna! O Deanna You know you are my friend, yeah O Deanna And I ain't down here for your money I ain't down here for your love I ain't down here for your lo

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on album Lovely Creatures [The Best Of]

Stranger than kindness Bottled light from hotels Spilling everything Wet hand from the volcano Sobers your skin Stranger than Kindness You caress yourself And grind my soft cold bones below