Nick Cave : No More Shall We Part
2001
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- As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
- And No More Shall We Part
- Hallelujah
- Love Letter
- Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow
- God Is In The House
- Oh My Lord
As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
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As I sat sadly by her side
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At the window through the glass
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She stroked a kitten in her lap
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And we watched the world as it fell past
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Softly she spoke these words to me
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And with brand new eyes, open wide
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We pressed our faces to the glass
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As I sat sadly by her side
She said, father, mother, sister, brother
Uncle, aunt, nephew, niece
Soldier, sailor, physician, laborer
Actor, scientist, mechanic, priest
Earth and moon and sun and stars
Planets and comets with tails blazing
All are there forever falling
Falling, lovely and amazing
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Then she smiled and turned to me
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And waited for me to reply
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Her hair was falling down her shoulders
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As I sat sadly by her side
As I sat sadly by her side
The kitten she did gently pass
Over to me and again we pressed
Our different faces to the glass
That may be very well, I said
But watch that one falling in the street
See him gesture to his neighbors
See him trampled beneath their feet
All outward motion connects to nothing
For each is concerned with their immediate need
Witness the man reaching up from the gutter
See the other one stumbling on who he can not see
With trembling hand I turned toward her
And pushed the hair out of her eyes
The kitten jumped back to her lap
As I sat sadly by her side
Then she drew the curtains down
And said, when will you ever learn
That what happens there beyond the glass
Is simply none of your concern?
God has given you but one heart
You are not a home for the hearts of your brothers
And God does not care for your benevolence
Anymore than he cares for the lack of it in others
Nor does he care for those who sit
At windows in judgement of the world He created
While sorrows pile up around him
Ugly, useless and over-inflated
At which she turned her head away
Great tears leaping from her eyes
I could not wipe the smile from my face
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As I sat sadly by her side
And No More Shall We Part
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And no more shall we part
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It will no longer be necessary
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And no more will I say, dear heart
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I am alone, and she has left me
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Lord stay by me
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Don't go down
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I will never be free
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If I'm not free now
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For no more shall we part
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And no more shall we part
Hallelujah
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On the first day of May I took to the road
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I'd been staring out the window most of the morning
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I'd watched the rain claw at the glass
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And a vicious wind blew hard and fast
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I should have taken it as a warning
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As a warning
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A warning
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As a warning
I'd given my nurse the weekend off
My meals were ill prepared
My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb
And my piano crouched in the corner of my room
With all its teeth bared
All its teeth bared
All its teeth bared
All its teeth bared
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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I left my house without my coat
Something my nurse would not have allowed
And I took the small roads out of town
And I passed a cow and the cow was brown
And my pyjamas clung to me like a shroud
Like a shroud
Like a shroud
Like a shroud
There rose before me a little house
With all hope and dreams kept within
A woman's voice close to my ear
Said, Why don't you come in here?
You looked soaked to the skin
Soaked to the skin
You look Soaked to the skin
Soaked to the skin
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
I turned to the woman and the woman was young
I extended a hearty salutation
But I knew if my nurse had been here
She would never in a thousand years
Permit me to accept that invitation
Invitation
That invitation
That invitation
Now, you might think it wise to risk it all
Throw caution to the reckless wind
But with her hot cocoa and her medication
My nurse had been my one salvation
So I turned back home
I turned back home
I turned back home
Singing my song
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah
The tears are welling in my eyes again
Hallelujah
I need twenty big buckets to catch them in
Hallelujah
And twenty pretty girls to carry them down
Hallelujah
And twenty deep holes to bury them in
Hallelujah
Love Letter
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I hold this letter in my hand
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A plea, a petition, a kind of prayer
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I hope it does as I have planned
Losing her again is more than I can bear
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I kiss the cold, white envelope
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I press my lips against her name
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Two hundred words, we live in hope
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The sky hangs heavy with rain
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Love letter, love letter
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Go get her, go get her
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Love letter, love letter
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Go tell her, go tell her
A wicked wind whips up the hill
A handful of hopeful words
I love her and I always will
The sky is ready to burst
Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
It all came out the wrong way
Love letter, Love letter
Go get her, go get her
Love letter, love letter
Go tell her, go tell her
Rain your kisses down upon me
Rain your kisses down in storms
And for all who'll come before me
In your slowly fading forms
I'm going out of my mind
Will leave me standing in the rain
With a letter and a prayer
Whispered in the wind
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Come back to me
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Come back to me
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Oh, baby, please come back to me
Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow
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Where is Mona? She's long gone
Where is Mary? She's taken her along
But they haven't put their mittens on
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And there's fifteen feet of pure white snow
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Where is Michael, where is Mark?
Where is Mathew, now it's getting dark?
Where is John? They are all out back
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Under fifteen feet of pure white snow
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Would you please put down that telephone
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We're under fifteen feet of pure white snow
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I waved to my neighbour, my neighbour waved to me
But my neighbour is my enemy
I kept waving my arms till I could not see
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Under fifteen feet of pure white snow
Is anybody out there please?
It's too quiet in here and I'm beginning to freeze
I've got icicles hanging from my knees
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Under fifteen feet of pure white snow
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Is there anybody here who feels this low?
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Under fifteen feet of pure white snow
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Raise your hands up to the sky
Raise your hands up to the sky
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Raise your hands up to the sky
Is it any wonder?
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Oh my Lord! Oh my Lord!
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Oh my Lord! Oh my Lord!
Doctor, Doctor, I'm going mad
This is the worst day I've ever had
I can't remember ever feeling this bad
Under fifteen feet of pure white snow
Where's my nurse, I need some healing
I've been paralysed by a lack of feeling
I can't even find anything worth stealing
Under fifteen feet of pure white snow
Is there anyone else here who doesn't know?
We're under fifteen feet of pure white snow
Raise your hands up to the sky
Is it any wonder?
Oh my Lord Oh my Lord
Save Yourself! Help Yourself!
God Is In The House
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We've laid the cables and the wires
We've split the wood and stoked the fires
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We've lit our town so there is no
Place for crime to hide
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Our little church is painted white
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And in the safety of the night
We all go quiet as a mouse
For the word is out
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God is in the house
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God is in the house
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God is in the house
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No cause for worry now
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God is in the house
Moral sneaks in the White House
Computer geeks in the school house
Drug freaks in the crack house
We don't have that stuff here
We have a tiny little Force
But we need them of course
For the kittens in the trees
And at night we are on our knees
As quiet as a mouse
For God is in the house
God is in the house
God is in the house
And no one's left in doubt
God is in the house
Homos roaming the streets in packs
Queer bashers with tyre-jacks
Lesbian counter-attacks
That stuff is for the big cities
Our town is very pretty
We have a pretty little square
We have a woman for a mayor
Our policy is firm but fair
Now that God is in the house
God is in the house
God is in the house
Any day now He'll come out
God is in the house
Well-meaning little therapists
Goose-stepping twelve-stepping teetotalitarianists
The tipsy, the reeling and the drop down pissed
We got no time for that stuff here
Zero crime and no fear
We've bred all our kittens white
So you can see them in the night
And at night we're on our knees
As quiet as a mouse
Since the word got out
From the North down to the South
For no one's left in doubt
There's no fear about
If we all hold hands and very quietly shout
Hallelujah
God is in the house
God is in the house
Oh I wish He would come out
God is in the house
Oh My Lord
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I thought I'd take a walk today
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It's a mistake I sometimes make
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The kids lay asleep in bed
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My wife lay wide-awake
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I kissed her softly on the brow
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I tried not to make a sound
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But with stony eyes she looked at me
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And gently squeezed my hand
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Call it a premonition, call it a crazy vision
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Call it intuition, something learned from mother
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But when she looked up at me, I could clearly see
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The Sword of Damocles hanging directly above her
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Oh Lord, oh my Lord, oh Lord
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How have I offended thee?
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Wrap your tender arms around me
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Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh my Lord
They called at me through the fence
They were not making any sense
They claimed that I had lost the plot
Kept saying that I was not
The man I used to be
They held their babes aloft
Threw marsh mellows at the Security
And said that I'd grown soft
Call it intuition, call it a creeping suspicion
But their words of derision meant they hardly knew me
For even I could see in the way they looked at me
The Spear of Destiny sticking right through me
Oh Lord, oh my Lord, oh Lord
How have I offended thee?
Wrap your tender arms round me
Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh my Lord
Now I'm at the hairdressers
People watch me as they move past
A guy wearing plastic antlers
Presses his bum against the glass
Now I'm down on my hands and knees
And it's so fucking hot!
Someone cries, "What are you looking for?"
I scream, "The plot, the plot!"
I grab my telephone, I call my wife at home
She screams, "Leave us alone!" I say, "Hey, it's only me"
The hairdresser with his scissors, he holds up the mirror
I look back and shiver; I can't even believe what I can see
Be mindful of the prayers you send
Pray hard but pray with care
For the tears that you are crying now
Are just your answered prayers
The ladders of life that we scale merrily
Move mysteriously around
So that when you think you're climbing up, man
In fact you're climbing down
Into the hollows of glamour, where with spikes and hammer
With telescopic camera, they chose to turn the screw
Oh I hate them, Ma! Oh I hate them, Pa!
Oh I hate them all for what they went and done to you
Oh Lord, Oh my Lord, oh Lord
How have I offended thee?
Wrap your tender arms round me
Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh my Lord