Nick Cave: Herring

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“My oh My, what a wretched Life.
I was born on the day that my poor mama died.
I was cut from Her belly with a stanley knife.
My daddy did a jig with the drunk midwife”

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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.”

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

“I took her from rags right through to stitches,
Oh baby, tonight we sleep in separate ditches.”

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

“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.”

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

“The sound is beautiful, it's perfect!
The sound of her young legs in stockings,
The rhythm of her walk, it's beautiful!
Just let it twist, let it break,
Let it buckle, let it bend,
I want to hear the noise of my Zoo-Music Girl.”

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

“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!”

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