NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Wings Off Flies

She loves me, she loves me notShe loves me, she loves me notShe loves me, she loves me notWe-e-ll, ah’ve spent seven days and seven nightstryin to get ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – We Came Along This Road

I left by the back doorWith my wife’s lover’s smoking gunI don’t know what I was hoping forI hit the road at a runI was your loverI was your manThere ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Watching Alice

Alice wakesIt is morningShe is yawningAs she walks about the roomHer hair falls down her breastShe is naked and it is JuneStanding at the windowI wonder ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – The Sorrowful Wife

I married my wife on the day of the eclipseOur friends awarded her courage with giftsNow as the nights grow longer and the season shiftsI look to my sorrowful ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – The Six Strings That Drew Blood

Guitar thug blew into townHis eyes like wheels spinnin’ roundJerkin-off at every soundLayin’ all his crosses downO yeahHe got Six StringsThe Six Strings ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – The Singer

As I walk these narrow streetsWhere a million passin feet have trod before meWith my guitar in my handSuddenly I realize nobody knows meWhere yesterday ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – The Mercy Seat

It began when they come took me from my homeAnd put me in Dead Row,Of which I am nearly wholly innocent, you know.And I’ll say it againI.. am.. not.. ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – The Loom Of The Land

It was the dirty end of winterAlong the loom of the landWhen I walked with sweet SallyHand upon handAnd the wind it bit bitterFor a boy of no meansWith ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – The Carnival Is Over

Say goodbye, my one true loverAnd we’ll steal a lover’s songHow it breaks my heart to leave youNow the carnival has goneOh my love, the dawn is breakingAnd ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Straight To You

All the towers of ivory are crumblingAnd the swallows have sharpened their beaksThis is the time of our great undoingThis is the time that I’ll come runningStraight ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Sorrow’s Child

Sorrow’s child sits by the riverSorrow’s child hears not the waterSorrow’s child sits by the riverSorrow’s child hears not the waterAnd just when it seems ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart

Something’s gotten hold of my heartKeeping my soul and my senses apartSomething’s gotten into my lifeCutting its way through my dreams like a knifeTurning ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree

O say goodbye to the little girl treeO you know that I must say goodbyeTo the little girl treeThis wall I built around youIs made out of stone-liesO little ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Red Right Hand

Take a little walk to the edge of townand go across the tracksWhere the viaduct looms,like a bird of doomAs it shifts and cracksWhere secrets lie in the ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry

I went out walking the other dayThe wind hung wet around my neckMy head it rung with screams and groansFrom the night I spent amongst her bonesI passed ...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Needle Boy

At the turn of the century I did many things to protect myselfI did many things to protect myselfI made myself a needle-boyAnd i Hid him in the closetAnd ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Muddy Water

Mary, grab the baby, the river’s risingMuddy water taking back the landThe old-frame house, she can’t take-a one more beatingAin’t no use to stay and ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Mercy

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 ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Lucy

Last night I lay tremblingThe moon it was lowIt was the end of loveOf misery and woeThen suddenly above meHer face buried in lightCame a vision of beautyAll ...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Love Letter

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, ...