“O poor heart, I was doomed from the start,
Doomed to play the villian's part,
I was the baddest Johnny in the apple cart,
My blood was blacker than the chambers of a dead nun's heart.”

—  Nick Cave

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

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