Nick Cave : Skeleton Tree
2016
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- Jesus Alone
- Rings Of Saturn
- Girl In Amber
- Magneto
- Anthrocene
- I Need You
- Skeleton Tree
Jesus Alone
You fell from the sky
Crash landed in a field
Near the river Adur
Flowers spring from the ground
Lambs burst from the wombs of their mothers
In a hole beneath the bridge
She convalesce, she fashioned masks of twigs and clay
You cried beneath the dripping trees
Ghost song lodged in the throat of a mermaid
With my voice
I am calling you
You're a young man waking
Covered in blood that is not yours
You're a woman in a yellow dress
Surrounded by a charm of hummingbirds
You're a young girl full of forbidden energy
Flickering in the gloom
You're a drug addict lying on your back
In a Tijuana hotel room
With my voice
I am calling you
With my voice
I am calling you
You're an African doctor harvesting tear ducts
You believe...
Rings Of Saturn
Upside down and inside out and on all eights like a funnel web, like a black
fly on the ceiling, skinny white haunches high and skyward and her black oily
gash, crawling backwards across the carpet to smash all over everything her
wet, black fur against the sun going down over the shops and the cars and the
crowds and the town
And this is the moment this is exactly what she is born to be
This is what she does and this is what she is
And this is the moment this is exactly what she is born to be
This is what she does and this is what she is
Her eyes that look at me through her rainy hair are two round holes where the
air buckles and rushes in, her body moon-blue as a jellyfish, and I'm breathing
deep and I'm there and I'm also not there and spurting ink over the sheets but
she remains, completely unexplained or maybe I'm just too tongue-tied to drink
it up and swallow back the pain. I thought slavery had been abolished, how come
it's gone and reared its ugly head again
And this is the moment this is exactly what she is born to be
This is what she does and this is what she is
And this is the moment this is exactly what she is born to be
This is what she is and this is what she does
This is the moment this is exactly what she is born to be
And this is what she does and this is what she is
And this is the moment this is exactly what she is born to be
This is what she does and this is what she is
And now she's jumping up with her leaping brain, stepping over heaps of
sleeping children, disappearing and further up and spinning out again, up and
further up she goes, up and out of the bed, up and out of the bed and down the
hall where she stops for a moment and turns and says "Are you still here?" and
then reaches high and dangles herself like a child's dream from the ring of
Saturn
Girl In Amber
Some go on, some stay behind, some never move at all
Girl in amber, trapped forever, spinning down the hall
Let no part of her go unremembered, clothes across the floor
Girl in amber, long does slumber, shuts the bathroom door
The phone, the phone, the phone, it rings, it rings, it rings no more
The song, the song, the song, it spins since 1984
The phone, the phone, the phone, it rings, the phone it rings no more
The song, the song, it's been spinning now since 1984
If you want to bleed, just bleed
If you want to bleed, just bleed
If you want to bleed, don't breathe
A word, just step away
And let the world spinning now
You turn, you turn, you kneel lace up his shoes your little blue-eyed boy
Take him by his hand, go moving spinning down the hall
I get lucky I get lucky cause I tried again
I knew the world it would stop spinning now since you've been gone
I used to think that when you died you kind of wandered the world
In a slumber until you crumbled, were absorbed into the earth
Well I don't think that anymore, the phone it rings no more
The song, the song, it spins, it spins now since 1984
The song, the song, the song, it spins, it's been spinning now
And if you hold me I will tell you that you know that
If you want to leave, don't breathe
If you want to leave, don't breathe
If you want to leave, don't breathe
A word, and let the world turn
The song, the song, it spins, the song, it spins, it spins no more
The phone, it rings, it rings and you won't stay
Don't touch me
Don't touch me
Don't touch me
Don't touch me
Magneto
Oh, mostly I never knew which way was out
Once it was on, it was on, and that was that
The umbilicus was a faucet that fountained rabid blood
And I spun on my wheel like a laboratory rat
I was an electrical storm on the bathroom floor, clutching the bowl
My blood was full of gags and other people's diseases
And my monstrous little memory had swallowed me whole
Oh, it was the year I officially became the Bride of Jesus
In love in love in love you laugh in love
You move I move and one more time with feeling
I love you love I laugh you laugh, I saw you in half
And the stars are splashed across the ceiling
Oh, the urge to kill somebody was basically overwhelming
I had such hard blues down there in the supermarket queues
I had a sudden urge to become someone, someone like you
Who had started out with less than anyone I ever knew
In love in love I love you love I laugh you laugh
I move you move and one more time with feeling
I love you love I laugh you laugh, I'm sawn in half
And all the stars are splashed across the ceiling
And oh, you come shyly. And softly to the hole to drink
Come as far as the edge of my blood and then swim
And in the bathroom mirror I see me vomit in the sink
And all through the house we hear the hyena's hymns
Of love I love you love I love you love I laugh you laugh
I move you move you move and one more time with feeling
I love you love I laugh you laugh we saw each other in half
And all the stars are splashed and splattered across the ceiling
Anthrocene
Oh the fine wind is gone
And this sweet world is so much older
The animals pull the night around their shoulders
The flowers fall to their naked knees
Here I come now! Here I come!
I hear you've been out there looking for something to love
There's a dark force that shifts at the edge of the trees
It's all right! It's all right!
Well, you've turned so long and lovely it's hard to believe
That we're falling now in the name of the Anthrocene
O the things we love we love we love, we lose
It's our bodies that fall when we're trying to rise
I hear you've been out looking for something to love
Sit down beside me and I'll name it for you
Behold! Behold the heaven-bound seas!
The wind casts its shadow and it moves through the trees
Behold the animals and the birds and the sky entire
I hear you've been out there looking for something to set on fire
The head-bowed children fall to their knees
Humbled in the age of the Anthrocene
Here they come now! Here they come, pulling you away
There are powers at play more forceful than we
Come over here and sit down and say a short prayer
A prayer to the air! To the air that we breathe!
And the astonishing rise of the Anthrocene
Come on now! Come on now!
Hold your breath while you say
It's a long way back and I'm begging you please
To come home now. Come home now
I heard you've been out looking for something to love
Close your eyes, little world, and brace yourself
I Need You
F#m
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F#m
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When you're feeling like a lover
F#m
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Nothing really matters anymore
F#m
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I saw you standing there in the supermarket
F#m
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F#m
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With your red dressing falling and your eyes are to the ground
F#m
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F#m
Nothing really matters, nothing really matters when the one you love is gone
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You're still in me, baby
A
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I need you
F#m
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In my heart, I need you
'Cause nothing really matters
F#m
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I'm standing in the doorway
F#m
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F#m
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You're walking round my place in your red dress, hair hanging down
D
F#m
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With your eyes on one, we love the ones we can
D
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'Cause nothing really matters when you're standing, standing
F#m
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I need you, need you
D
'Cause nothing really matters
F#m
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A
We follow the line of the palms of our hands
D
F#m
You're standing in the supermarket, nothing, holding hands
A
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In your red dress, falling, falling in, falling in
F#m
A long black car is waiting round
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F#m
I will miss you when you're gone
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F#m
I'll miss you when you're gone away forever
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'Cause nothing really matters
F#m
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I thought I knew better, so much better
A
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And I need you
A
I need you
D
'Cause nothing really matters
A
On the night we wrecked like a train
Purring cars and pouring rain
D
Never felt right about, never again
A
'Cause nothing really matters
D
Nothing really matters anymore, not even today
F#m
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No matter how hard I try
F#m
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F#m
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When you're standing in the aisle, and no, baby
F#m
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Nothing, nothing, nothing
F#m
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F#m
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I need, I need, I need you
A
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I need you
A
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I need you
Just breathe, just breathe
A
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I need you
Skeleton Tree
Sunday morning
Skeleton tree
Well nothing is for free
In the window
A candle
Well maybe you can see
Falling leaves
Thrown
Across the sky
A jittery TV
Glowing white like fire
Nothing is for free
I call out I call out
Right across the sea
But the echo comes back empty
Nothing is for free
Sunday morning
Skeleton tree
Pressed against the sky
A jittery TV
Glowing white
Like fire
I call out I call out
Right across the sea
I call out I call out
Nothing is for free
And it's all right now
And it's all right now
And it's all right now