Nick Cave: Likeness

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“The boy watches his father cross the road and thinks there is something about the way his dad moves through the world that is truly impressive. Cars screech to a halt, drives shake their fists and stick their heads out the windows and curse and blow their horns and Bunny walks on as if radiating some super-human force field, like he has walked off the pages of a comic book. The world can't touch him. He seems to be the grand generator of some hyper-powerful electricity.”

Nick Cave book The Death of Bunny Munro

The Death of Bunny Munro (2009)
Books

“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!

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

Nick Cave book King Ink

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

“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.”

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

“Hit it! With words like Blood, Soldier and Mother…”

Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), A Dead Song

“I hear stories from the chamber,
How Christ was born into a manger,
And like some ragged stranger died up on the cross,
And might I say it seems to fitting in its way,
He was a carpenter by trade,
Or at least that's what I'm told.”

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

“Ah wassa born…
And Lord shakin', even then was dumpt into some icy font,
Like some great stinky unclean!
From slum-chuch to slum-church, ah spilt mah heart to some fat cunt behind a screen…”

Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven

“I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it. But I wouldn't like to dwell on it. Perhaps you could lighten up a bit.”

Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, by Simon Reynolds (1988)
Love and relationships

“The moon was turned toward me,
Like a platter made of gold,
My death, it almost bored me,
So often was it told.”

Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), Mercy

“One morn I awakened, a new sun was shining,
The sky was a kingdom, all covered in blood.
The moon and the stars, where the troops that lay conquered,
Like food left to wither, poor spirital food.”

Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), New Morning

“Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.”

The Daily Telegraph (November 20, 1997)
Love and relationships

“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.”

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