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  1. 1(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World
    It was a miracle I even got outta Longwood alive, This town fulla men with big mouths and no guts, I mean, if you can just picture it, The whole third floor of the hotel gutted by the blast, And the s...
  2. 2500 Miles
    If you miss the train I'm on. Then you know that I'll be gone. You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles. A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles. You can hear...
  3. 3A Box For Black Paul
    Who'll build a box for Black Paul?. Ah'm enquirin on behalf of his soul. Ah'd be beholdin to ya all. For a lil information, just a little indication. Just who'll dig the hole?. Whe...
  4. 4A Dead Song
    This is True. Mister nothing said forever said. I can sing. Hit it! Make it a dead one. with words like. blood, soldier mother. O. K. O. k. I want to sleep before the end. which is impolite. Hit It!...
  5. 5Abattoir Blues
    The sun is high up in the sky and I'm in my car. Drifting down into the abattoir. Do you see what I see, dear?. The air grows heavy. I listen to your breath. Entwined together in this culture of...
  6. 6Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore
    Once there came a storm in the form of a girl. It blew to pieces my snug little world. And sometimes I swear I can still hear her howl. Down through the wreckage and the ruins. And it ain't gonna...
  7. 7Albert Goes West
    Albert goes west, he crossed the vast indifferent deserts of Arizona, oh yeah. He had a psychotic episode on a dude ranch that involved a bottle of ammonia. Henry, he went south and lost his way deep...
  8. 8All The Pretty Little Horsies
    From the Current '93 album All The Pretty Horsies. Hush-a-bye. Don't You cry. Go to sleepy little baby. Go to sleepy little baby. When You wake. You shall have. All the pretty little horsies...
  9. 9All Tomorrow's Parties
    (L. Reed). And what costume shall the poor girl wear. To all tomorrow's parties. A hand-me-down dress from who knows where. To all tomorrow's parties. And where will she go and what shall s...
  10. 10And No More Shall We Part
    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 contracts are drawn up, the ring is locked...
  11. 11Anthrocene
    All the fine winds gone. And this sweet world is so much older. Animals pull the night around their shoulders. Flowers fall to their naked knees. Here I come now, here I come. I hear you been out ther...
  12. 12Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?
    I've felt you coming girl, as you drew near. I knew you'd find me, cause I longed you here. Are you my desitiny? Is this how you'll appear?. Wrapped in a coat with tears in your eyes?....
  13. 13As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
    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 she spoke these words to me. And with brand new eyes, op...
  14. 14Avalanche
    (Leonard Cohen). I stepped into an avalanche. It covered up my soul. When I am not this hunchback that you see. I sleep beneath the golden hill. You who wish to conquer pain. You must learn to serve m...
  15. 15Babe, I Got You Bad
    Babe I got you bad. Dreaming blood-wet dreams. only madmen have. Baby I got you bad. I wish to God I never had. And it makes me feel so sad, O, Baby I got you bad. Yeah, Babe I got you bad. I long for...
  16. 16Babe, I'm on Fire
    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 fi...
  17. 17Babe, You Turn Me On
    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,...
  18. 18Banks of the Roses
    A traditional song which was a likely inspiration for Where The Wild Roses Grow. Nick's song is also available. When I was a wee thing, I heard my mother say. That I was meant for rambling and w...
  19. 19Big Jesus Trash Can
    Big Jesus soulmates Trash Can. fucking rotton business this. bot feet in the bad-boot. siff in the crypt, babay, like a rock. rock-rock-rock. Big-Jesus soul-mates Trash-Can. pumped me fulla Trash at l...
  20. 20Black Betty (Nick Cave Version)
    Look-a look-a yonder (3x). Well the sun done gone. The captain can't hold her (3x). The way I do now. Ada got a gold mine (3x). Way above her knees. The shiv (?) is golden (3x). Above her knees....
  21. 21Black Crow King
    Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm. I am the black crow king. Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm. I am the black crow king. Keeper of the nodding corn. Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!. All the hammers are a-talking. All the nails are a-singing. S...
  22. 22Black Hair
    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...
  23. 23Blast Off
    This time it's the truth. this time nothings goinna fall on through. these books. are broken up. Blast off!. Wham! bam!. Right off the shelf. Right off the shelf. Blast off!. This is it- the last...
  24. 24Bless His Ever Loving Heart
    Bless his ever loving heart. Only he knows who you are. He may seem so very far. Bless his ever loving heart. And when your feeling sad. And everywhere you look you can't believe the things you s...
  25. 25Blind Lemon Jefferson
    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....
  26. 26Blue Bird
    I got a blue bird, a blue bird on my shoulder. I got a blue bird, a blue bird on my shoulder. I saw her standing, standing by the water. She was naked, her hair in great disorder. And I know that I fl...
  27. 27Blundertown
    Blundertown is drowned in no brainstorm. smothered in mud at the foot of the river. the color vague is slapped around stupid. blood dries to a very dull color. I'm drowning and there is no relief...
  28. 28Breathless
    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....
  29. 29Bright Horses
    The bright horses have broken free from the fields. They are horses of love, their manes full of fire. They are parting the cities, those bright burning horses. And everyone is hiding, and no one make...
  30. 30Bring It On
    This garden that I built for you. That you sit in now and yearn. I will never leave it, dear. I could not bear to return. And find it all untended. With the trees all bended low. This garden is our ho...
  31. 31Brompton Oratory
    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...
  32. 32Brother, My Cup Is Empty
    Brother, my cup is empty. And I haven't got a penny. For to buy no more whiskey. I have to go home. I am the captain of my pain. Tis the bit, the bridle, The trashing cane. The stirrup, the harne...
  33. 33By The Time I Get To Phoenix
    (J. Webb). By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising. And she'll find that note that I left hanging on the door. And she'll laugh when she reads the part. That says: "I'...
  34. 34Cabin Fever!
    The Captain's fore-arm like bunched-up rope. with A-N-I-T-A wrigglin' free on a skull'n'dagger. and a portrait of Christ, nailed to an anchor. etched into his upper. O o o' Ca...
  35. 35Cannibal's Hymn
    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 swell u...
  36. 36Capers
    All words that look prounouncable are not typos, any that look unpronouncable are probably typos. Each set of two lines is one line in the lyric book. (ie. what has not got. sir names)(one line). W...
  37. 37Carry Me
    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...
  38. 38Cassiel's Song
    We've come to bring you home. Haven't we, Cassiel?. To cast aside your loss and all your sadness. And shuffle off that mortal coil and mortal madness. For we're here to pick you up and...
  39. 39Christina The Astonishing
    Christina the Astonishing. Lived a long time ago. She was stricken with a seizure. At the age of twenty-two. They took her body in a coffin. To a tiny church in Liege. Where she sprang up from the cof...
  40. 40Cindy
    Words and music by Kaye - Weisman - Fuller. "The Bad Seeds performed Cindy regularly in their live sets in 1990,and indeed on a TV appearance as well. I have a version of Elvis Presly doing this...
  41. 41City of Refuge
    You better run You better run and run and run. You better run You better run. You better run to the City of Refuge. You better run You better run. You better run to the City of Refuge. You stand befor...
  42. 42Come Into My Sleep
    Now that mountains of meaningless words. and oceans divide us. And we each have our own set of stars. to comfort and guide us. Come into my sleep. Come into my sleep, oh yeah. Dry your eyes and do not...
  43. 43Cosmic Dancer
    I was dancing when I was twelve. I was dancing when I was twelve. I was dancing when I was out. I was dancing when I was out. I danced myself right out the womb. I danced myself right out the womb. Is...
  44. 44Crow Jane
    Crow Jane Crow Jane. Crow Jane. Horrors in her head. That her tongue dare not name. She lives alone by the river. The rolling rivers of pain. Crow Jane Crow Jane. Crow Jane Ah hah huh. There is one sh...
  45. 45Cry
    When ya walk out of here. when ya walk out. I gotta fill up that space. or fill up that no-space. I'll fill it up with tears [4 lines of this line repeated]. Cry Cry Cry Cry. Where no-fish can sw...
  46. 46Darker With the Day
    As so with that, I thought I'd take a final walk. The tide of public opinion had started to abate. The neighbours, bless them, had turned out to be all talk. I could see their frightened faces pe...
  47. 47Dead Joe
    Oh-ho-ho-ho Dead Joe. Welcome to the car smash. Dead Joe. Junk sculpture turning back to junk Dead Joe. Oh joe nooooo! it's christmas time Joe. it's christmas time now for you and all the li...
  48. 48Dead Man in My Bed
    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, s...
  49. 49Deanna
    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 h...
  50. 50Death Is Not The End
    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...
  51. 51Deep in the Woods
    The woods eats the woman and dumps her honey-body in the mud. Her dress floats down the well and it assumes the shape of the body of a little girl. Yeah I recognize that girl. She stumbled in some tim...
  52. 52Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
    Dig yourself, Lazarus dig yourself. Lazarus dig yourself, Lazarus dig yourself. Larry made his nest high up in the autumn branches. Built from nothing but high hopes and thin air. He collected up some...
  53. 53Distant Sky
    [Nick Cave:]. Let us go now, my one true love. Call the gasman, cut the power out. We can set out, we can set out for the distant skies. Watch the sun, watch it rising in your eyes. [Else Torp:]. Let...
  54. 54Do You Love Me?
    I found her on a night of fire and noise. Wild bells rang in a wild sky. I knew from that moment on. I'd love her till the day that I died. And I kissed away a thousand tears. My lady of the Vari...
  55. 55Do You Love Me? (Part 2)
    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 ro...
  56. 56Don't Fear The Reaper
    All Our Times Have Come. Here But Now They're Gone. Seasons Don't Fear the Reaper. Nor Do the Wind, the Sun Or the Rain. we Can Be Like They Are. Come On Baby. don't Fear the Reaper. Ba...
  57. 57Down in a Willow Garden
    Down in a willow garden. Where me and my love did meet, 'Twas there we sat a courting. My love dropped off to sleep. I had a bottle of the Burglar's wine. Which my true love did not know, An...
  58. 58Dull Day
    The light from the window. falls on the floor. and after it breaks. I cut my feet. on the little bright pieces. I glow in the dark. But only when night falls. it's falling it's falling. it f...
  59. 59Dumb Europe
    On this European night out on the brink. The cafes and the bars still stink. The air is much too thick for seeing. But not thick enough for leaning. I leave in a catatonic crawl. And if I die tonight...
  60. 60Easy Money
    It's difficult. It's very tough. I said to the man who'd been sleeping rough. To sit within a fragrant breeze. All among the nodding trees. That hang heavy with the stuff. He threw his...
  61. 61Everything Must Converge
    Everything must converge, In time. And so it goes, by and by. Everything must converge, Some day, Somehow, some way. Everything must converge, In time, Or so it seems and by and by, Every little thing...
  62. 62Fable Of The Brown Ape
    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...
  63. 63Far Away, So Close!
    Empty out your pockets, toss the lot upon the floor. All those treasures, my friend, you don't need them anymore. Your days are all through dying, they gave all their ghosts away, so kiss close a...
  64. 64Far From Me
    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...
  65. 65Fears of Gun
    Gun wears his alcoholism well. Finger in Bottle and swingin' it still. From Bed to Sink and back again. Clock is crawlin' round the same. He's bustin' Clock (he hates its face). Ju...
  66. 66Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow
    Where is Mona?. She's long gone. Where is Mary?. She's taken her along. But they haven't put their mittens on. And there's fifteen feet of pure white snow?. Where is Michael?. Wher...
  67. 68Finishing Jubilee Street
    Oh oh oh. I just finished writing "Jubilee Street". I lay down on my bed and fell into a deep sleep. When I awoke, I believed I'd taken a bride called Mary Stanford. And I flew into a f...
  68. 69Fireflies
    Jesus lying in his mother's arms. Is a photon released from a dying star. We move through the forest at night. The sky is full of momentary light. And everything we need is just too far. We are p...
  69. 70Foi Na Cruz
    Foi na cruz, foi na cruz. Que um dia. Meus pecados castigados em Jesus. Foi na cruz. Que um dia. Foi na cruz. Love comes a-knocking. Comes a-knocking upon our door. But you, you and me, love. We don&a...
  70. 71From Her To Eternity
    Ah wanna tell ya 'bout a girl. You know, she lives in Room 29. Why that's the one right up top a mine. Ah start to cry, ah start to cry-y. O ah hear her walkin'. Walkin' barefoot c...
  71. 72Galleon Ship
    If I could sail a galleon ship. A long, lonely rider across the sky. Seek out mysteries while you sleep. And treasures money cannot buy. For you know I see you everywhere. A servant girl, an empress....
  72. 73Gates to the Garden
    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 t...
  73. 74Get Ready For Love
    Get ready for love! Praise Him!. Get ready tot love! Praise Him!. Get ready for love! Get readyl. Well, most of all nothing much. ever really happens. And God rides high up in the ordinary sky. Until...
  74. 75Ghosteen
    This world is beautiful. Held within its stars. I keep it in my heart. The stars are your eyes. I loved them right from the start. A world so beautiful. And I keep it in my heart. A ghosteen dances in...
  75. 76Ghosteen Speaks
    I am beside you, I am beside you. I am beside you, I am beside you. Look for me, look for me. I am beside you, look for me. I try to forget to remember that nothing is something. Where something is me...
  76. 77Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass
    I can't raise my glass, without seeing her ass. Through its telescopic bottom. I can't raise my glass, without seeing her ass. Through its telescopic bottom. If you wanna know what agony is....
  77. 78Girl In Amber
    Some go and some stay behind. Some never move at all. Girl in amber trapped forever, spinning down the hall. Let no part of her go unremembered. clothes across the floor. Girl in amber [?] slumber shu...
  78. 79Give Us a Kiss
    Childhood days in a simmer haze. Give us a kiss. In the blue you whisper into the music. And the feel underneath the foam bush. Give us a kiss. Hold me over, passing down. Pass the blood factory and t...
  79. 80God Is in the House
    We've laid the cables and the wires. We've split the wood and stoked. the fires. We've lit our town so there is no. Place for crime to hide. Our little church is painted white. And in t...
  80. 81God's Hotel
    Available on the Rare On Air benefit CD. Everybody got a room. Everybody got a room. Everybody got a room. In God's Hotel. Everybody got a room. Well you'll never see a sign hanging on the d...
  81. 82Good Good Day
    See the little cloud up in the sky. It's a good good day today. See the little cloud pass on by. It's a good good day today. Mary comes now, let Mary be, Can you see her down on the street?....
  82. 83Good Is In The House
    We've laid the cables and the wires. We've split the wood and stoked. the fires. We've lit our town so there is no. Place for crime to hide. Our little church is painted white. And in t...
  83. 84Green Eyes
    Kiss me again, rekiss me and kiss me. Slip your frigid hands beneath my shirt. This useless old fucker with his twinkling cunt. Doesn't care if he gets hurt. Green eyes, Green eyes. Green eyes, G...
  84. 85Grief Came Riding
    A grief came riding. On the wind. Up the sun on river Thames. I was sittin' on the bank with my mouth open. When I felt it entering. I began thinkin' about our wedding day. And how love was...
  85. 86Hallelujah
    On the first day of May I took to the road. I'd been staring out the window most of the morning. I'd watched the rain claw at the glass. And a vicious wind blew hard and fast. I should have...
  86. 87Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
    Hamlet fishin' in the grave. thru custard bones and stuff. he aint got no friend in there. I believe our man's in love. Hamlet's got a gun-now. he wears a crucifex. pow pow pow pow. Ham...
  87. 88Happy Birthday
    It's a very happy day. We are at lots of fun fun fun. And it's ice-cream and jelly. and a punch in the belly. How much can you throw over the walls?. And see how his face glows. It's a...
  88. 89Hard On For Love
    It is for she that the cherry bleeds. That the moon is steeped in mild nad blood. That I steal like a robber. From her altar of love. O money lender! O clover gender!. I am the fiend hid in her skirts...
  89. 90He Wants You
    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 yo...
  90. 91Helpless
    Written by Neil Young. There is a town in north Ontario. And I take comfort from memories there. And in my mind I still need a place to go. All my best changes were there. Blue, blue windows behind th...
  91. 92Henry Lee
    Get down, get down, little Henry Lee. And stay all night with me. You won't find a girl in this damn world. That will compare with me. And the wind did howl and the wind did blow. A little bird l...
  92. 93Here Comes The Sun
    Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, And I say it's all right. Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter. Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here. Here com...
  93. 94Hey Joe
    (W. Roberts). Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?. Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?. I'm gonna shoot my baby, I caught her messin round with another man. Hey...
  94. 95Hiding All Away
    You went looking for nur, dear, Down by the sea. You found some Iittle silver fish. But you didn't find me. I was hiding, dear, hiding all way. I was hiding, dear, hiding all way. You went to the...
  95. 96Higgs Boson Blues
    Can't remember anything at all. Flame trees line the streets. Can't remember anything at all. But I'm driving my car down to Geneva. I've been sitting in my basement patio. Aye, it...
  96. 97Ho-ho
    Worn and gnawn. a little hole. just a small hole. letting in a sick wind. in small puffs. yo-ho hole. yo-ho hole. through which blow. a small sick wind. yo-ho hole. yo-ho-hole. puff puff. the sick win...
  97. 98Hold 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 the saxophone. Laying down a litany of excuses. There&ap...
  98. 99Hollywood
    The fires continued through the night. The kid with a bat face. appeared at the window. then disappeared into the headlights. I was halfway to the pacific coast. I had left you in your longing and you...
  99. 100How Long, How Long Blues
    Leroy Carr. A traditional song which was a likely inspiration for The Train Song. How long, how long, has that evenin' train been gone?. How long, how long, baby how long. Heard the whistle blowi...
  100. 101I do Dear, I Do.
    I wish you happy christmas. I do dear, I do. I wish for you the stars, babe. I wish for you the moon. You can sit, and you can drink your champagne. With your gibbering gum. I hope he's being goo...
  101. 102I Had A Dream, Joe
    I had a dream. I had a dream. I had a dream, Joe. I had a dream, Joe. You were standing in the middle of an open road. I had a dream, Joe. Your hands were raised up to the sky. And your mouth was cove...
  102. 104I Let Love In
    Despair and Deception, Love's ugly little twins. Came a-knocking on my door, I let them in. Darling, you're the punishment for all my former sins. I let love in. The door it opened just a cr...
  103. 105I Need You
    When you're feeling like a lover. Nothing really matters anymore. I saw you standing there in the supermarket. With your red dressing falling. And your eyes are to the ground. Nothing really matt...
  104. 106I Put A Spell On You
    From Department of Enjoyment, NME compilation cassette; available on some bootlegs. I put a spell on you, 'cause you're mine. You'd better stop those things that you're doin'....
  105. 107I Rowed a Little Boat
    John Lee Hooker - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar (Orpheum Music, 1959). A traditional song similar to My Little Boat Is Empty. Nick's song is also available. You know I rowed a little boat, five miles &...
  106. 108I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
    (J. L. Hooker). Yeah, my baby left me this morning. And I don't care now, I don't care what the people say. Yeah, I did everything that I could, everything I could, Lord knows I did everyth...
  107. 109Idiot Prayer
    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...
  108. 110In The Ghetto
    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. Is another little hungry...
  109. 111Into My Arms
    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...
  110. 112Jack The Ripper
    I got a woman. She rules my house with an iron fist. I got a woman. She rules my house with an iron fist. She screams out Jack the Ripper. Every time I try to give that girl a kiss. I got a woman. She...
  111. 113Jack's Shadow
    They dragged Jack and his shadow. From the hole. And the bulb that burned above him. Did shine both day and night. And his shadow learned to love his. Little darks and greater light. And the sun it sh...
  112. 114Jangling Jack
    Jangling Jack. Goes Yackety Yack. Visits the home of the brave. Hails a fat yellow cab. Jack wanna celebrate. Jack wanna big drink. Driver drops him at a bar. Called the Rinky Dink. Jack pushes throug...
  113. 115Jennifer's Veil
    So you've come back for Jennifer. You know, she hides her face behind a veil. I'm warning you Frankie, leave on the next train. Your Jennifer she just isn't the same. Quit waving that t...
  114. 116Jesus Alone
    You fell from the sky. Crash landed in a field. Near the river Adur. Flowers spring from the ground. Lambs burst from the wombs of their mothers. In a hole beneath the bridge. She convalesce, she fash...
  115. 117Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
    (Traditional, Arr. The Alabama Singers). Jesus met the woman at the well. Jesus met the woman at the well. And he told her, everything that she'd done, that she'd done. And he said, woman,...
  116. 118Jesus Of The Moon
    I stepped out of the St. James Hotel, I'd left you behind curled up like a child. A change is gonna come, and as the door whispered shut. I walked on down the high-windowed hall. You lay sleepin...
  117. 119John Finn's Wife
    Well the night was deep and the night was dark. And I was at the old dance-hall on the edge of town. Some big ceremony was going down. Dancers writhed and squirmed and then, Came apart and then writhe...
  118. 120Jubilee Street
    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. Now I am too scared, i am too scared, to even walk on past. She use...
  119. 121Junkyard
    I am the King, I am the kind. One dead marine through the hatch. scratch and scrape this heavenly body. every ince of winning skin. there's garbage in honeys sack again. honey honey honey honey....
  120. 122Just You and Me
    First: I tried to kill it with a hammer. thought that I could lose. the head. sure! We've eaten off the silver. when even the food was against us. and then I tried to kill it in the bed. Second:...
  121. 123Katy Cruel (traditional version)
    When I first came to town. They called me the roving jewel. Now they've changed their tune. They call me Katy Cruel. Oh diddle day, oh diddle lie o day. Oh that I was where I would be. Then I wou...
  122. 124Kewpie Doll
    Well I love that Kewpie Doll. yeah I bought her in a show. I dressed her up in a cheap red cotton dress. but everything was either fished-out or spat out. fished out or spat out. well i love that kewp...
  123. 125King Ink
    This leaves out a lot of the repetions on this lyric sheet, and I'm pretty sure a few sections are out of order compared with the recorded song. King Ink strolls into town. he sniffs around. King...
  124. 126King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O
    (Can you turn me up a bit?). King kong kitchee kitchee ki-mi-o [4 times and throughout song]. Well frog went a-courtin' and he did ride. With a sword and a pistol by his side And he rode 'ti...
  125. 127Kiss Me Black
    Now they put the stink on us. stuffed us fulla incubus. choc-o-block with sucubus. never more than fuck to us. c'mon and kiss me black....
  126. 128Knockin' On Joe
    These chains of sorrow, they are heavy, it is true. And these locks cannot be broken, no, not with one thousand keys. O Jailer, you drag a ball-n-chain you cannot see. You can lay your burden on me. Y...
  127. 129Knoxville Girl
    I met a little girl in Knoxville. A town we all know well. And every sunday evening. In her home I'd dwell. We went to take an evening walk. About a mile from town. I picked a stick up off the gr...
  128. 130Lament
    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 sleeping limbs, your foreign hymns. Y...
  129. 131Lay Me Low
    They're gonna lay me low (Lay me low). They're gonna sink me in the snow. They're gonna throw back their heads and crow. When I go. They're gonna jump and shout (Lay me low). They&...
  130. 132Let It Be
    When i find myself in times of trouble. Mother mary comes to me. Speaking words of wisdom, let it be. And in my hour of darkness. She is standing right in front of me. Speaking words of wisdom, let it...
  131. 133Let The Bells Ring
    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...
  132. 134Leviathan
    Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my. I love my baby and my baby loves me. Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my. I love my baby and my baby loves me. We talked it round and round again. Then drove the car down to the sea...
  133. 135Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl)
    Well, you lost a foe. And found yourself a friend. (Lie down here & be my girl). I'm back now, baby, that man. He won't be coming round here again. (Lie down here & be my girl). I&ap...
  134. 136Lightning Bolts
    Two lightning bolts were delivered to my room. They were gifts from Zeus. I rock the bolts in a basinet of a pine. People as me how I am. I say I'm alright. I'm fine!. I push the lightning b...
  135. 137Lime-tree Arbour
    Lime-Tree Arbour. The Boatman calls from the lake. A lone loon dives upon the water. I Put my hand over hers. Down in the lime-tree arbour. The wind in the trees is whispering. Whispering low that I l...
  136. 138Little Empty Boat
    You found me at some party. You thought I'd understand. You barreled over to me. With a drink in each hand. I respect your beliefs, girl, And I consider you a friend, But I've already been b...
  137. 139Little Ghost Song
    Please forgive me. (it's impossible to say). if I appear unkind. (it's impossible to know) but any fool can tell you, it's all in your mind. Down in the meadow, the old lion stirred. as...
  138. 140Little Janey's Gone
    Janey's gone now and she won't be back no more. It was only yesterday I went knocking on her door. Now she's gone away. We won't see her no more. Little Janey's gone now, Jane...
  139. 141Long Black Veil
    (D. Del, M. Wilkins). She walks these hills in a long black veil. She visits my grave when the night winds wail. Nobody knows, nobody sees. Nobody knows but me. Ten years ago, on a cold dark night....
  140. 142Long Time Fan
    Oh, plane, take me away. Said, I'll be sittin' here for the rest of my life. and I am really scared-- Nick's not coming tonight. And brother, I can't even think of a reason why. Oh...
  141. 143Long Time Man
    Written by Tim Rose. 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...
  142. 144Love Henry
    Words and Music by Bob Dylan (1993 Special Rider Music). Original version of Henry Lee. Nick's version is also available. "Get down, get down, Love Henry," she cried, "And stay al...
  143. 145Love Letter
    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...
  144. 146Lovely Creature
    There she stands, this lovely creature. There she stands, there she stands. With her hair full of ribbons. And green gloves on her hands. So I asked this lovely creature. Yes, I asked. Yes I asked. W...
  145. 147Loverman
    There's a devil waiting outside your door (How much longer). Bucking and braying and paywing the floor. Well, he's howling with pain and crawling up the walls. There's a devil waiting o...
  146. 148Lucy
    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 beauty. All covered in white. Now the bel...
  147. 149Mack The Knife
    Nick covered this in a segment in September Songs: A Tribute to Kurt Weill. See the shark with teeth like razors. And he wears them in his face. And Macheath has got a knife. But not in such an obviou...
  148. 150Magneto
    Mostly I never knew which way was out. Once it was on, it was on and that was that. The umbilicus was a force that they'd found in rabid blood. Then I spin on my wheel like a laboratory rat. I wa...
  149. 151Mama's Boy
    I was born in a motel room. the night my Daddy lost his job. Just after one, he pulled a gun. and blew the brains out of some poor slob. They call me mamma. They call me mamma. They call me mamma&apos...
  150. 152Mercy
    I stood in the water. In the middle month of winter. My camel skin was torture. I was in a state of nature. The wind, sir, it was wicked. I was so alone. Just as I predicted. My followers were gone. A...
  151. 153Mermaids
    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 crutch. Now I sit around and watch. The mermaids sun themselves...
  152. 154Messiah Ward
    I hope you're sitting comfortably. I saved you the best seat in the house. Right up in the front row. The stars have been torn down. The moon is locked away. And the land is banked in frozen snow...
  153. 155Midnight Man
    Hold that chrysalis in your palm, see it split and change. It won't do you any harm, it's just trying to rearrange. It was born to live a day, now it flies up from your hand. It's beaut...
  154. 156Mister Frog Went A-Courting
    Mister frog went a-courting and he did ride. Uh-hmm, Uh-hmm. Mister frog went a-courting and he did ride. A sword and pistol by his side. Uh-hmm, Uh-hmm. He went down to Missy Mousie's door. Wher...
  155. 157Mojo
    Nick performed this for the Italian film Mojo, and it is available on a CD called Soho. They call him Joe The Dragon. He's on the water wagon. He's got that look of mourning and concentratio...
  156. 158Moonlands
    When I came up from out of the meat locker. The city was gone. The sky was full of lights. The snow provided a silent cover. In moonland. Under the stars. Under the snow. And I followed this car. And...
  157. 159More News From Nowhere
    I walk into the corner of my room, see my friends in high places. I don't know which is which and whom is whom, they've stolen each other's faces. Janet is there with her high-hatting h...
  158. 160Mr. Clarinet
    I have a friend in you, oh Mr Clarinet. You make me laugh, and then cry like the song of the clarinet. Marry me, marry me alive O. I put on my coat of trumpets. Will she be there? Is my piccolo on str...
  159. 161Muddy Water
    (J. Bundrick). Mary, grab the baby, the river's rising. Muddy water taking back the land. The old-frame house, she can't take-a one more beating. Ain't no use to stay and make a stand....
  160. 162Mutiny in Heaven
    Well ah jumpt! and fled this fucken heap on doctored wings. Mah flailin pinions, with splints and rags and crutches!. (Damn things nearly hardly flap). Canker upon canker upon one million tiny punctur...
  161. 163Nature Boy
    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, n...
  162. 164Needle Boy
    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...
  163. 165New Morning
    One morn I awakened. A new sun was shining. The sky was a Kingdom. All covered in blood. The moon and the stars. Where the troops that lay conquered. Like fruit left to wither. Poor spiritual food. An...
  164. 166Nick the Stripper
    Nick the stripper. hideous to the eye. hideous to the ee. he's a fat little insect. a fat little insect. and OOOOOOHHHH! Here we go again. Nick the stripper. dances on all fours. dances on all fo...
  165. 167Night Of The Lotus Eaters
    Sapped and stupid I lie upon the stones and I swoons. The darlig little dandelions have done their thing and changed from suns into moons. The dragons roam the shopping malls, I hear they're gonn...
  166. 168Night Raid
    There's a picture of Jesus lying in his mother's arms. Shuttered windows, cars humming on the street below. The fountain throbbed in the lobby of the Grand Hotel. We checked into room thirty...
  167. 169Nobody's Baby Now
    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...
  168. 170O Children
    Pass me that lovely little gun. My dear, my darting one. The cleaners are coming, one by one. You don't even want to let them start. They are knocking now upon your door. They measure the room, t...
  169. 171O'malley's Bar
    I am tall and I am thin. of an enviable height. and I've been known to be quite handsome. from a certain angle and in a certain light. well I entered into O'Malley's. said: "O&apos...
  170. 172Oh My Lord
    I thought I'd take a walk today. It's a mistake I sometimes make. My children lay asleep in bed. My wife lay wide-awake. I kissed her softly on the brow. I tried not to make a sound. But wit...
  171. 173Oh, Happy Day
    Oh happy day, oh happy day. When Jesus washed, oh when He washed. When my Jesus washed, He washed my sins away. Oh happy day. He taught me how to walk, fight and pray, fight and pray. And in rejoicing...
  172. 174Opium Tea
    Here I sleep the morning through. 'Til the wail of the call to prayer awakes me. And there ain't nothing at all to do but rise and follow. The day wherever it takes me. I stand at the window...
  173. 175Oxford Tragedy (Traditional version )
    From English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, Sharp. Collected from Mary Wilson and Mrs. Townley, Kentucky, 1917. Once there was a little tailor boy. About sixteen years of age;. My father...
  174. 176Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
    I went out walking the other day. The wind hung wet around my neck. My head it rung with screams and groans. From the night I spent amongst her bones. I passed beside the mission house. Where that mad...
  175. 177Peace In the Valley
    Erik wrote: "The theme is similar to the Nick's song New Morning. Note also that the line 'There'll be no sadness, no sorrow' also is in New Morning. Finally, the bright day...
  176. 178People Ain't No Good
    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 v...
  177. 179Plain Gold Ring
    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. Plain gold ring's got a story to tell. It was...
  178. 180Pleasure Is The Boss
    They're working us like dogs around here. 'Cause pleasure is the boss. And I'm the happiest slave alive round here. 'Cause pleasure is the boss. And nothing is safe that don't...
  179. 181Push The Sky Away
    I was right. I was right. Oh, the sun, the sun. The sun is rising from the field. I've got a feeling. I just can't shake. I've got a feeling. That just won't go away. You've g...
  180. 182Rainy Night In Soho
    (S. MacGowan). I've been loving you a long time. Down all the years, down all the days. And I've cried for all your troubles. Smiled at your funny little ways. We watched our friends grow u...
  181. 183Red Right Hand
    Take a little walk to the edge of town. Go across the tracks. Where the viaduct looms, like a bird of doom. As it shifts and cracks. Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires. Hey ma...
  182. 184Red Right Hand (Scream 3 version)
    Take a little walk to the edge of town. Now spread your wings and fly. Don't the lights of the city look so damn pretty. When you're flying so high?. It's hard to know 'bout the do...
  183. 185Release the Bats
    Whoooahh! Bite! Whoooah! Bite!. Release the bats! Release the bats!. Don't tell me that it doesn't hurt. a hundred fluttering in your skirt. don't tell me that it doesn't hurt. My...
  184. 186Riddle House (Howard)
    The street is very wide. and I can't see across it. my house isn't clear to me. the cars move in between. Chorus And I say: Question. when is a door not a door???. and I say: "That&apos...
  185. 187Right Now I'm A-roaming
    When I get home, I'm gunna clean up my house. When I get home, I'm gunna kick out that mouse. When I get home, I'm gunna put things in order. but right now, right right now, right now I...
  186. 188Right Out of Your Hand
    Please forgive me. If I appear unkind. But any fool can tell you. It’s all in your mind. Down in the meadow. The old lion stirs. Puts his hand ‘cross his mouth...
  187. 189Rings of Saturn
    Upside down and inside out and on all eights. You're like a funnel-web. Like a black fly on the ceiling. Skinny, white haunches high in the sky. And a black oily gash crawling backwards across th...
  188. 190Rock of Gibraltar
    Let me say this to you. I’ll be steadfast and true. And my love will never falter. The sea would crash about us. The waves would lash about us. I’ll be your R...
  189. 191Running Scared
    (Orbison, Melson). Just running scared, each place we go. So afraid, that he might show. Yeah, running scared, what would I do. If he came back and wanted you?. Just running scared, feeling low. Runni...
  190. 192Rye Whiskey
    Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds, I know you most of all. You've robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold. And Whiskey, you villain, you've been my down-fall. You've cuffed and you&a...
  191. 193Rye Whiskey (traditonal version)
    I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when l'm dry, If the hard times don't kill me, I'll lay down and die. Rye whisky, rye whisky, Rye whisky, I cry, If you don't gi...
  192. 194Sad Dark Eyes
    [As sung by Mick Harvey; Nick's live versions deviate from this. ]. Credits: Humphreys/Lovett/Richards/Lynch/Anderson/LPA. I look at you in your sad dark eyes. And your gypsy face with your spani...
  193. 195Sad Waters
    Down the road I look and there runs Mary. Hair of gold and lips like cherries. We go down to the river where the willows weep. Take a naked root for a lovers seat. That rose out of the bitten soil. Bu...
  194. 196Sail Away
    I climbed the hill, lay in the grass. A little dark-eyed girl drifted past. She said all the best is come, it could not last. And the worst, it has come true. Her hands are small and fluttered up. I l...
  195. 197Saint Huck
    Born of the river, Born of its ever-changing, never-changing murky water. Oh riverboat just rollin' along through the great great greasy city Huck standing like a Saint, upon its deck. If ya wann...
  196. 198Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree
    O say goodbye to the little girl tree. O you know that I must say goodbye. To the little girl tree. This wall I built around you. Is made out of stone-lies. O little girl the truth would be. An axe in...
  197. 199Scum
    Well, I lived with one. Well, I lived with one, I lived with two, I even lived with a third. I wanna tell you about number one. He was a miserable shitwringing turd. Like he reminded me of some evil g...
  198. 200Several Sins
    This is a dead letter tale. If I could make this print talk. You made a deep mark/deep mark on me. and only saints say such things as those. so I slid under the floor. under the oak and the iron. with...
  199. 201She Fell Away
    Once she lay open like a road. Carbed apart the madness that I stumbled from. But she fell away. She fell away. Shed me like a skin. She fell away. Left me holding everything. Once the road lay open l...
  200. 202She Passed by My Window
    She passed by my window. Her eyes were all aglow. And bent to pick her glove she’d dropped. From the bright and brittle snow. Nature had spoken it in the Spring. With apple, plum...
  201. 203She's Hit
    there is woman-pie in here. mr. evangalist says she's hit. the best cook you ever had. ya can't blame the good-woman now, dad. and ya looked him up for 20 years. now there's action on...
  202. 204Shivers
    I've been contemplating suicide, but it really doesn't suit my style, so I think I'll just act bored instead. who can take (alt: And Contain) the blood I would've. shed?. She makes...
  203. 205Shivers (Howard)
    I've been contemplating suicide, but it really doesn't suit my style, so I think I'll just act bored instead. who can take (alt: And Contain) the blood I would've shed?. She makes...
  204. 206Shoot Me Down
    An old sentimental night. You roll me at your sides. You shot me down. Though I had no enemy here. You get me very near and shoot me down. Shoot me down. Your hands they flutter up. -?-. And shoot me...
  205. 207Silent Scream
    White dress, torture in discuise, pointing flashlight right into my eyes. Sharp pain every single night-, every day I fight a hopeless fight. I look, over thirty years, ive wished that I was dead. Som...
  206. 208Six Inch Gold Blade
    I stuck a six inch gold blade inside the head of a girl. she: lying through her teeth. him: lying on his back. hands of this one,hands off she cried. grinning at me from hip to hip. hands off, pretty...
  207. 209Skeleton Tree
    Sunday morning, skeleton tree. Oh, nothing is for free. In the window, a candle. Well, maybe you can see. Fallen leaves thrown across the sky. A jittery TV. Glowing white like fire. Nothing is for fre...
  208. 210Sleeping Analeah
    (Newbury, Folger). 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 Analeah, W...
  209. 211Slowly Goes The Night
    Lover, lover, goodbye. So slowly goes the night. I trace the print of your body with my hand. Like the map of some forbidden land. I trace the ghosts of your bones. With my trembling hand. Dark is my...
  210. 212Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
    (Greenaway, Cooke). Something's gotten hold of my heart. Keeping my soul and my senses apart. Something's gotten into my life. Cutting its way through my dreams like a knife. Turning me up a...
  211. 213Song Of Joy
    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. And I swear that it is true. Ten years...
  212. 214Sonny's Burning
    Have you heard how Sonny's burning. Like some bright erotic star?. And He lights up the proceedings. And raises the temperature. Flame on! Flame on!. Now I've seen to Sonny's burning. S...
  213. 215Sorrow's Child
    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 seems as though. You&ap...
  214. 216Spell
    Through the woods, and frosted moors. Past the snow-caked hedgerows I. Bed down upon the drifting snow. Sleep beneath the melting sky. I whisper all your names. I know not where you are. But somewhere...
  215. 217Spinning Song
    Once there was a song, the song yearned to be sung. It was a spinning song about the king of rock 'n' roll. The king was first a young prince, the prince was the best. With his black jelly h...
  216. 218Stagalee
    Three traditional versions of the song from Murder Ballads. Nick's version is also available. Further details (and the actual book Nick edited from) are also available. Stagolee. Bad man Stagal...
  217. 219Stagger Lee
    It was back in '32 when times were hard. He had a Colt . 45 and a deck of cards. Stagger Lee. He wore rat-drawn shoes and an old stetson hat. Had a '28 Ford, had payments on that. Stagger Le...
  218. 220Still in Love
    The cops are hanging around the house. The cars outside look like they’ve got the blues. The moon don’t know if it’s day or night. Everyb...
  219. 222Stow-a-way
    Hey hey I am the stow-a-way. Hey hey I am the stow-a-way. My girl turned blue as an iceberg do. And me I'm totally shipwrecked over her. Baby baby don't blow away. Hey hey I am the stow-a-wa...
  220. 223Straight To You
    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 captu...
  221. 224Stranger than Kindness
    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. Yo...
  222. 225Sugar Sugar Sugar
    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. Ke...
  223. 226Sun Forest
    I lay in the forest amongst the butterflies and the fireflies. And the burning horses and the flaming trees. As a spiral of children climb up to the sun. Waving goodbye to you and goodbye to me. As th...
  224. 227Sunday's Slave
    Sunday's got a slave. Monday's got one too. Sunday's got a slave. Monday's got one too. Our sufferings are countless. Our pleasures are motley few. Spend all day digging my grave....
  225. 228Supernaturally
    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...
  226. 229Swampland
    Quixanne, ah'm in its grip. Quixanne, ah'm in its grip. Sinken in the mud. Patron-saint of the Bog. They cum with boots of blud. Wit pitchfawk and with club. Chantin out mah name. Got doggie...
  227. 230Sweetheart Come
    Come over here, babe. It ain't that bad. I don't claim to understand. The troubles that you've had. But the dogs you say they fed you to. Lay their muzzles in your lap. And the lions th...
  228. 231Swing Low
    How is little Thomas Magee?. Thomas Magee, he swallowed a key. Jedediah, little Thomas Magee. Holly holly, just let him be. His wife now, little Thomas Magee. Called his kettle -?- on the telephone. H...
  229. 232That's What Jazz Is To Me
    Jazz. Fire eating drag-queens dressed as society whores. Crazy two timing bitches running round. Ghetto blasting blasters, blasting magnificently. Blossoms falling from the cherry trees. That's w...
  230. 233The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane
    There was a thick set man with frog eyes. who was standing by the door. and a little bald man with wing-nut ears. was waiting in the car. Well Robert Moore passed the frog-eyed man. as he walked into...
  231. 234The Big Hurt
    Nick performed this for the Italian film Mojo, along with Gallon Drunk and it is available on a CD called Soho. Now it begins, now that you're gone. Needles and pins, twilight till dawn. Watching...
  232. 235The Carnival Is Over
    (T. Springfield, F. Farian). 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 breakin...
  233. 236The Carny
    And no-one saw the Carny go. And the weeks flew by. Until they moved on the show. Leaving his caravan behind. It was parked out on the south east ridge. And as the company crossed the bridge. With the...
  234. 237The Curse Of Millhaven
    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 aro...
  235. 238The Dim Locator
    Inanimational items elude I, and. In-an-emotional-motion I swallow my. Motive of quicker location is slammed. my dim chance of skipping this thick world is thin. They call me Dim. I am the Dim Locator...
  236. 239The Friend Catcher
    I, cigarette fingers. puff and poke. puff and poking the smoke. touches the ground. You, your lungs and your wrists. they throb like trains. choo choo choo. it's a prison of sound. of sound. She,...
  237. 240The Good Hun
    One more land gone. One more land gone. One more land. One more land gone. One more land gone. One more land is gone. The Good Hun rode into the fields. He is Attila, he has a great big axe. Thinkin&a...
  238. 241The 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. Ag...
  239. 242The Hammer Song
    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 life was like a river. All sucked into t...
  240. 243The Kindness Of Strangers
    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...
  241. 244The Loom Of The Land
    It was the dirty end of winter. Along the loom of the land. When I walked with sweet Sally. Hand upon hand. And the wind it bit bitter. For a boy of no means. With no shoes on his feet. And a knife in...
  242. 245The Lyre Of Orpheus
    Orpheus sat gloomy in his garden shed. Wondering what to do. With a lump of wood, a piece of wire. And a little pot of glue. O Mamma O Mamma. He sawed at the wood with half a heart. And glued it top t...
  243. 246The Mercy Seat
    It began when they come took me from my home. And put me in Dead Row, Of which I am nearly wholly innocent, you know. And I'll say it again. I. am. not. afraid. to. die. I began to warm and...
  244. 247The Moon Is In The Gutter
    The moon is in the gutter. And the stars wash down the sink. I am the king of the blues. I scape the clay off my shoes. And wade down the gutter and the moon. The moon blinds my eye with opal cataract...
  245. 248The Rider Song
    THE RIDER. Nick Cave. 'When?' said the moon to the stars in the sky. 'Soon' said the wind that followed them all. 'Who?' said the cloud that started to cry. 'Me&apos...
  246. 249The Ship Song
    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 hair hang down. You are a little myste...
  247. 250The Singer
    (Cash, Daniels). As I walk these narrow streets. Where a million passin feet have trod before me. With my guitar in my hand. Suddenly I realize nobody knows me. Where yesterday the multitude. Screamed...
  248. 251The Six Strings That Drew Blood
    Guitar thug blew into town. His eyes like wheels spinnin' round. Jerkin-off at every sound. Layin' all his crosses down. O yeah. He got Six Strings. The Six Strings that drew blood. The bar...
  249. 252The Sorrowful Wife
    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 fl...
  250. 253The Sweetest Embrace
    Our time is done my love. We've laid it all to waste. One thousand moonlit kisses. can't sweeten this bitter taste. My desire for you is endless. and I'll love you 'till we fall. I...
  251. 254The Train Song
    Tell me how long's the train been gone?. Tell me how long's the train been gone?. And was she there?. And was she there?. Tell me how long's the train been gone?. Tell me how many coach...
  252. 255The Weeping Song
    Go son, go down to the water. And see the women weeping there. Then go up into the mountains. The men, they are weeping too. Father, why are all the women weeping?. They are weeping for their men. The...
  253. 256The Willow Garden
    Down in the willow garden, me and my love did meet. And as we sat a-courting, my love fell off to sleep. I had a bottle of burgundy wine; my love, she did not know. And so I poisoned that dear little...
  254. 257The Witness Song
    Yeah, yeah. Well, well. I took a walk down to the port. Where strangers meet and do consort. All blinkered with desire. And a winter fog moved thickly on. A winter fog moved thickly on. A winter fog m...
  255. 258There Is a Kingdom
    Just like a bird that sings up the sun. In a dawn so very dark. Such is my faith for you. Such is my faith. And all the world's darkness can't swallow up. A single spark. Such is my love for...
  256. 259There is a Light
    From the Batman Forever soundtrack. Hey there sugar where ya gunna go?. I'm going downtown Daddy-O. What ya gunna do when you get there, girl?. I'm gunna get messed up in a God-Shaped Hole....
  257. 260There Is a Town
    There is a town. Where I was born. Far far away. Across the sea. And in that town. Where I was born. I would dream. That one day. I would leave. And cross the sea. And so it goes. And so it seems. Tha...
  258. 261There She Goes, My Beautiful World
    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...
  259. 262Thirsty Dog
    I know you've heard it all before. But I'm sorry for this three year war. For the setting up of camps. and wire and trenches. I'm sorry for the other night. I know sorry it don't m...
  260. 263Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum
    Hidden track on the X-Files TV series soundtrack. We were called to the forest, and we went down. A wind wind blew warm and eloquent, We were searching for the secrets of the universe, we rounded up d...
  261. 264To Be By Your Side
    (Cave / Coulais). Across the oceans across the seas, Over forests of blackened trees. Through valleys so still we dare not breathe, To be by your side. Over the shifting desert plains, Across mountain...
  262. 265Today's Lesson
    Little Janie, she wakes up from a dream. A gun like a jawbone down the waistband of her jeans. Mr Sandman, he can recite today's lesson in his sleep. He says there oughta be some kind of law agai...
  263. 266Tower Of Song
    From I'm Your Fan, a Leonard Cohen tribute album. Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in the places I used to play. And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on. I&apos...
  264. 267Train Long Suffering
    Woo-wooooooo Woo!. In the name of pain!. (In the name of pain and suffering). In the name of pain!. (In the name of pain and suffering). There comes a train!. (There comes a train). Yeah!. A long blac...
  265. 268Truck Love
    Truck love! Right here!. Truck love! Right now!. Bewitched by pure power. That's truck love!. In the gully of your choice. Truck love!. Jam-up on a leaping tree. Head on! Head first!. And God...
  266. 269Tupelo
    Looka yonder! Looka yonder!. Looka yonder! A big black cloud come!. A big black cloud come!. O comes to Tupelo. Comes to Tupelo. Yonder on the horizon. Yonder on the horizon. Stopped at the mighty ri...
  267. 270Up Jumped The Devil
    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 younder al...
  268. 271Viviane
    These lyrics were taken from an edition of The Witness, the Official fan newsletter. Viviane. I will love you till the last nail has been driven in. Viviane. Till we disappear hand in hand into oblivi...
  269. 272Vixo
    Ah fed Vixo on ev'ry fear 'n' fret 'n' phobia. Til it nor ah could stand the strain no longer. Sucked a chicken bone, tossed it in the corner. Raisin up like Lazaurs, up, up f...
  270. 273Wade In The Water
    Printed in J. Silverman, American History Songbook. Nick has sung his version of this song live. (Chorus). Wade in the water. Wade in the water, children. Wade in the water. God's gonna trouble...
  271. 274Waiting For You
    All through the night we drove and the wind caught her hair. And we parked on the beach in the cool evening air. Well, sometimes it's better not to say anything at all. Your body is an anchor, ne...
  272. 275Wanted Man
    I'm a wanted man, wanted man. I'm wanted, I'm a wanted man. Oh yeah. yeah. ah honey, I'm a wanted man. I'm a wanted man in California, I'm a wanted man in Buffalo. I&apos...
  273. 276Watching Alice
    Alice wakes. It is morning. She is yawning. As she walks about the room. Her hair falls down her breast. She is naked and it is June. Standing at the window. I wonder if she knows that I can see. Watc...
  274. 277Water's Edge
    They take apart their bodies like toys for the local boys. Because they're always there at the edge of the water. They come from the capitol, these city girls go way down. Where the stones meet t...
  275. 278We Call Upon The Author
    What we once thought we had we didn't, and what we have now will never be that way again. So we call upon the author to explain. (Doop doop doop doop dooop). Our myxomatoid kids spraddle the stre...
  276. 279We Came Along This Road
    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 w...
  277. 280We no Who u R
    Tree don't care what a little bird sings. We go down with the due in the morning light. The tree don't know what the little bird brings. We go down with the due in the morning. And we breath...
  278. 281We Real Cool
    Who took your measurements?. From your toes to the top of your head. Yea, you know. Who bought you clothes and new shoes. And wrote you a book you never read. Yea, you know. Who was it, yeah you know,...
  279. 282Well Of Misery
    Along crags and sunless cracks I go. Up rib of rock, donw spine of stone. I dare not slumber where the night winds whistle. Lest her creeping-soul clutch this heart of thistle. O the same God that aba...
  280. 283West Country Girl
    With a crooked smile and a heart-shaped face. Comes from the West country where the birds sing bass. She's got a house-big heart where we all live. And plead and council and forgive. Her widow&ap...
  281. 284What A Wonderful World
    (Weiss/Douglas). I see trees of green, red roses too. I watch them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself: What a Wonderful World. I see skies of blue, clouds of white. The bright blessed day and...
  282. 285What Can I Give You?
    From a Frech promo CD given away with Henry's Dream. All my life I failed to see. One good thing standing in front of me. And the planets gravitate around you. And the stars, the stars surround y...
  283. 286When I First Came To Town
    When I first came to town. All the people gathered round. They bought me drinks. Lord, how they quickly changed their tune. When I first came to town. People took me round from end to end. Like someon...
  284. 287Where do We Go Now But Nowhere?
    I remember a girl so very well, The carnival drums all mad in the air. Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell, O where do we go now but nowhere ?. In a colonial hotel we fucked up the sun, A...
  285. 288Where The Action Is
    Where streets start getting wild. Well you're moving on down on the other side of the tracks. Would you cross that line baby, there ain't no turning back. Some raise and I don't ever wa...
  286. 289Where The Wild Roses Grow (Feat. Kylie Minogue)
    They call me The Wild Rose. but my name was Elisa Day. Why they call me it I do not know. For my name was Elisa Day. From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one. As she stared in my eyes and s...
  287. 290Wide Lovely Eyes
    You wave at the sky with wide lovely eyes. Waves and waves of love go by. And through the garden with your secret key. Down the tunnel that leads to the sea. Step on the beach beneath the iron skies....
  288. 291Wild World
    Hold me up baby for I may fall. Hold my dish-rag body tall. Our bodies melt together (we are one). Post crucifixion baby, and all undone. It's a wild world. Church bells ring out the toll of our...
  289. 292Wings Off Flies
    She loves me, she loves me not. She loves me, she loves me not. She loves me, she loves me not. We-e-ll, ah've spent seven days and seven nights. tryin to get sunk in this brine. Don't turn...
  290. 293Wonderful Life
    Come in, babe. Across these purple fields. The sun has sunk behind you. Across these purple fields. That idiot-boy in the corner. Is speaking deviated truths. Come on, admit it, babe. Itâ€...
  291. 294Yard
    In our yard. How many chickens can we count. on our fingers and toes. on their toes. sitting on fathers hole. siting on his chest. crushing rocks of dirt. the earth is soft in our. yard yard. stones i...
  292. 295Young Hunting (tranditional version)
    It happened on one evening late, As the maid was going to bed, She heard a sound, a beautiful sound, That made her heart feel glad. She thought it was her brother John, Returning from the cane;. But w...
  293. 296Your Funeral... My Trial
    I am a crooked man. And I've walked a crooked mile. Night, the shameless widow. Doffed her weeds, in a pile. The stars all winked at me. They shamed a child. Your funeral, my trial. A thousand Ma...
  294. 297Zoo Music Girl
    Zoo-music girl, zoo-music girl. Our ligfe together is a hollow tooth, spit out the shells, spit out the shells, You know exactly what I'm talking about. Don't drag the orchestra into this th...
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