Come sail your ships around meAnd burn your bridges downWe make a little history babyEvery time you come aroundCome loose your dogs upon meAnd let your hair hang downYou are a litt...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Upside down and inside out and on all eightsYou're like a funnel-webLike a black fly on the ceilingSkinny, white haunches high in the skyAnd a black oily gash crawling backwards ac...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
I stood in the waterIn the middle month of winterMy camel skin was tortureI was in a state of natureThe wind, sir, it was wickedI was so aloneJust as I predictedMy followers were g...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
AchtungYeahBorn of the riverBorn of its ever-changing, never-changing murky waterYeah, uhOh, river boat just rolling along Through the great, great greasy cityHuck standing like a ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The cops are hanging around the houseThe cars outside look like they've got the bluesThe moon don't know if it's day or nightEverybody's creeping around with plastic covers on thei...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
I was just a boy when I sat downTo watch the news on TVI saw some ordinary slaughterI saw some routine atrocityMy father said, don't look awayYou got to be strong, you got to be bo...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
I hold this letter in my handA plea, a petition, a kind of prayerI hope it does as I have plannedLosing her again is more than I can bearI kiss the cold, white envelopeI press my l...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
It began when they come took me from my homeAnd put me in Dead RowOf which I am nearly wholly innocent, you knowAnd I'll say it againI am not afraid to dieI began to warm and chill...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
[Chorus:]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...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Up those stone steps I climbHail this joyful day's returnInto its great shadowed vault I goHail the Pentecostal mornThe reading is from Luke 24Where Christ returns to his loved one...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds