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“Thrown into a dungeon,
Bread and water was my portion,
Faith - my only weapon,
To rest the devil's legion.
The speak-hole would slide open,
A viper's voice would pleade,
A voice think with innuendo,
Syphillis and greed.”

Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), Mercy

“I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.”

Politics, society and humanity

“Oh! God! Please let me die beneath her fists!”

Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), Zoo-Music Girl

“O You kings of halls and ends of halls,
You will die within these walls,
And I'll go, all down the row,
Knockin' on Joe.”

Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Knockin' on Joe

“Pilgrim gets 1 hacked daughter,
And all we get are 40 hack reporters,
Uptown 100 skirts are bleeding,
And Mr. Evangilist says She's hit, ev'ry little bit.”

Song lyrics, Junkyard (1982), She's Hit

“O the same God that abandon'd her,
Has in turn abandon'd me,
Deep in the Desert of Despair,
I wait at the Well of Misery.”

Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Well of Misery

“Looka yonder! Looka yonder! A big black cloud come!”

Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Tupelo

“I am the king! I am the king! I am the king!
One dead marine through the hatch,
Scratch and scrape this heavenly body,
Every inch of winning skin,
Honey Honey Honey Honey Honey, come and kiss me-e-e-e-e-e!”

Song lyrics, Junkyard (1982), Junkyard

“Another ship ready to dock… the rigging comes loose… like Jennifer's Veil.”

Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Jennifer's Veil

“The Captain's fore-arm like buncht-up rope,
With Anita wrigglin' free onto skull n' dagger,
And a portrait of Christ, nailed to an anchor,
Etched into the upper…”

Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Cabin Fever!

“Oh! Yer! What a wonderful life! Fats Domino on the radio!”

Nick Cave book King Ink

Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), King Ink

“If you're involved with imagination and the creative process, it's not such a difficult thing to believe in a God. But I'm not involved in any religions, and I've never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view.”

"Interview with Nick Cave" http://www.musicomh.com/music/features/nick-cave_0308.htm, musicOMH (March, 2008) <br class="br">God and religion

“My body is a monster driven insane,
My heart is a fish toasted in flames.”

Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), Zoo-Music Girl

“Ah've cried one thousand tears, it's true.”

Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), A Box for Black Paul

“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 time last loneliness,
But I could not stand to touch her now,
My one and only onlyness.”

Song lyrics, The Bad Seed EP (1993), Deep in the Woods

“Here comes the Judgement train! Git on board!”

Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Blind Lemon Jefferson

“Rats in paradise! Rats in paradise!”

Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven

“In the days of madness, my brother, my sister,
When you're dragged toward the Hell-mouth,
You will beg for the end, but there ain't gonna be one, friend,
For the grave will spew you out! It will spew you out!”

Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), City of Refuge

“King Ink feels like a bug,
Swimming in a soup-bowl.”

Nick Cave book King Ink

Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), King Ink

“The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas. So that if you mention God, or a belief in God, in England, it's almost automatically associated with that kind of thinking. Religion's gotten a really bad name.”

"The resurrection of Nick Cave" http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/feature/2004/11/18/cave/index2.html, Salon (November 18, 2004) <br class="br">God and religion