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“Fingers down the throat of love! Love! Love!”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, The Bad Seed EP (1993), Fears of Gun

Love

“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.”

Nick Cave

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

“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.”

Nick Cave

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

Girl , Time , Loneliness

“When ya done ransackin' his room,
Grabbin' any-damn-thing that shines,
Throw the scraps down on the street,
Like all his books and his notes.
All his books and his notes and all the junk that he wrote,
The whole fucken lot goes right up in smoke.”

Nick Cave

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

Books

“Along crags and sunless cracks I go,
Up rib of rock, down spine of stone,
I dare not slumber where the right winds whistle,
Lest her creeping-soul clutch this heart of thistle.”

Nick Cave

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

Soul , Heart

“The song is heroic because the song confronts death. The song is immortal and bravely stares down our own extinction. The song emerges from the spirit world with a true message: Some day I will tell you how to slay the dragon.”

Nick Cave

monologue in 20,000 Days on Earth
Music

Death , World

“In heaven His throne is made of gold,
Where the ark of His testament is stowed,
A throne from which I'm told all history does unfold,
Down here it's made of wood and wire,
And my body is on fire,
And God is never far away.”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), The Mercy Seat

God , History

“Ah read her diary on her sheets,
Scrutinizin' every lil' piece of dirt,
Tore out a page'n'stufft it inside my shirt.
Fled outa the window,
And shinning it down the vine,
Outa her night-mare, and back into mine.”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), From Her to Eternity

Reading , Night

“In a clap-board shack with a roof of tin,
Where the rain came down and leaked within,
A young mother frozen on a concrete floor,
With a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw.”

Nick Cave

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

Box

“O ah hear her walkin',
Walkin' barefoot 'cross the floor-boards,
All thru this lonesome night,
And ah hear her crying too.
Hot-tears come splashin' down,
Leaking thru the cracks,
Down upon my face, ah catch'em in my mouth!”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), From Her to Eternity

Tear , Cry , Night

“O no don't go O no O slow down Joe!
The righteous path is straight as an arrow,
Take a walk and you'll find it's too narrow,
Too narrow for the likes of me.”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), Up Jumped the Devil