“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…”

—  Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven

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