“Well saturday gives what sunday steals,
And a child is born on his brother's heels,
Come sunday morn the first-born is dead,
In a shoebox tied with a ribbon of red.”

—  Nick Cave

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

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