Sorrow's Child Nick Cave

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've got strength enough to stand

New Morning Nick Cave

with the dawning And a voice came so brightly I covered my eyes Thank you for giving This bright new morning So steeped seemed the evening In darkness and blood There'll be no sadness There'll be no sorrow

Your Funeral My Trial Nick Cave

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 Marys lured me

The Carny Nick Cave

There was not one among them that did not cast an eye behind In the hope that the carny would return to his own kind And the carny had a horse, all skin and bone A bow-backed nag, that he named "Sorrow

Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Nick Cave

With this ring This silver hoop of wire I bind your maiden mainstream Just to keep you as a child. O say goodbye to the little girl tree. O you know that I must say goodbye To my little girl tree.

Straight To You Nick Cave

the time that I'll come running Straight to you For I am captured Straight to you For I am captured One more time The light in our window is fading The candle gutters on the ledge Well now sorrow

Straight To You (2010 Remastered Ver.) Nick Cave

undoing This is the time that I'll come running Straight to you For I am captured Straight to you For I am captured One more time The light in our window is fading The candle gutters on the ledge Well now sorrow

Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For? Nick Cave

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built Out of longing great wonders have been willed They're only little tears, darling, let them spill And lay your head upon my shoulder Outside my window the

Where The Wild Roses Grow Nick Cave

On the second day he came with a single red rose Said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow" I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed He said, "If I show you the roses, will you follow?"

Where The Wild Roses Grow Nick Cave

On the second day he came with a single red rose Said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow" I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed He said, "If I show you the roses, will you follow?"

Knockin' On Joe Nick Cave

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 wear a ball-n-chain you cannot see You can lay your burden on me You can

Sugar Sugar Sugar Nick Cave

twitch You'll be his queen for the night But the morning you'll wake With the Lords and high ladies Of the bottom of the lake Sugar sugar sugar That man is wild And sugar, you know That you're merely a child

Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division Cover) Nick Cave

Yet there\'s still this appeal, That we\'ve kept through our lives. Love, love will tear us apart again. Love, love will tear us apart again. Do you cry out in your sleep?

song of joy Nick Cave

la la la la la la la la Then one morning I awoke to find her weeping And for many days to follow She grew so sad and lonely Became Joy in name only Within her breast there launched an unnamed sorrow

Tupelo (Single Version) Nick Cave

And a child is born on his brothers heels. Come Sunday morn the first-born dead. In a shoebox tied with a ribbon of red. Tupelo-o-o! Hey Tupelo! In a shoebox tied with a ribbon of red.

Tupelo Nick Cave

With a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw Well Saturday gives what Sunday steals And a child is born on his brothers heels Come Sunday morn the first-born dead In a shoebox tied with a ribbon

O'malley's Bar Nick Cave

my wings .....squeezed my hand in it's fraudulent claw with it's golden hairless chest and I glided through the bodies and killed the fat man Vincent West who sat quietly in his chair a man become a child

Foi Na Cruz Nick Cave

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (l,m) Cave (p) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds < Nick Cave: vocals, piano, hammond, harmonica; Mick Harvey: bass, acoustic guitar,

Henry Lee (Nick Cave version) Nick Cave

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 La la la la la La la ...

Deanna Nick Cave

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 love or...

Stagger Lee Nick Cave

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 Lee His woma...

Henry Lee Nick Cave

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 La la la la la La la ...

Into My Arms Nick Cave

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 leav...

The Mercy Seat Nick Cave

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 chill T...

Red Right Hand Nick Cave

Take a litle 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 man,...

Let It Be Nick Cave

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...

Crow Jane Nick Cave

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 shini...

From Her To Eternity Nick Cave

Ah wanna tell ya 'bout a girl You know, she lives in room 29 Why... Why... that's the one right up top a mine Ah start to cry, Ah start to cry O Ah hear her walkin' Walkin' barefoot cross the flo...

Nobody's Baby Now Nick Cave

I've searched the holy books I 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 this world a...

Henry Lee Nick Cave

A traditional version is also available. 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 a...

Loverman Nick Cave

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 outside your doo...

The Weeping Song Nick Cave

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 Then...

Black Crow King Nick Cave

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 So swe...

Lovely Creature Nick Cave

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 Wou...

Let It Be (Beatles Cover) Nick Cave

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 ...

The Curse Of Millhaven Nick Cave

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 ...

The Kindness Of Strangers Nick Cave

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...

Stranger than Kindness Nick Cave

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 Your ...

Death Is Not The End Nick Cave

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 that death is n...

He Wants You Nick Cave

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 i...

Do You Love Me? Nick Cave

I found her on a night of fire and noise Wild bells rang in a wild sky I knew from that moment on I'll love her till the day that I died And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various S...

Wonderful Life Nick Cave

Come in, babeAcross these purple fieldsThe sun has sunk behind youAcross these purple fieldsThat idiot-boy in the cornerIs speaking deviated truthsCome on, admit it, babeIt's a wonderful lifeIf you...

Right Out Of Your Hand Nick Cave

Please forgive meIf I appear unkindBut any fool can tell youIt's all in your mindDown in the meadowThe old lion stirsPuts his hand 'cross his mouthHe has no use for wordsPoor little girlWith your h...

Bring It On Nick Cave

This garden that I built for youThat you sit in now and yearnI will never leave it, dearI could not bear to returnAnd find it all untendedWith the trees all bended lowThis garden is our home, dearA...

Dead Man In My Bed Nick Cave

She sat in a wicker chair, her eyes they were downcastShe breathed in the future, by breathing out the pastThe die is done, the die is shook, the die is duly castThere is a dead man in my bed, she ...

Still In Love Nick Cave

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 their shoesYou're mak...

There Is A Town Nick Cave

There is a townWhere I was bornFar far awayAcross the seaAnd in that townWhere I was bornI would dreamThat one dayI would leaveAnd cross the seaAnd so it goesAnd so it seemsThat God lives only in o...

Rock Of Gibraltar Nick Cave

Let me say this to youI'll be steadfast and trueAnd my love will never falterThe sea would crash about usThe waves would lash about usI'll be your Rock of GibraltarSometimes it's hardAnd we're both...

She Passed By My Window Nick Cave

She passed by my windowHer eyes were all aglowAnd bent to pick her glove she'd droppedFrom the bright and brittle snowNature had spoken it in the SpringWith apple, plum and brand new pearHave you t...

Babe, I'm On Fire Nick Cave

Father says it, mother says itSister says it, brother says itUncle says it, Auntie says itEveryone at the party saysBabe, I'm on fireBabe, I'm on fireThe horse says it, the pig says itThe judge in ...