Nick Cave : Grinderman

I've gotta get up to get down and start all over again Head on down to the basement and shout Kick those white mice and black dogs out Kick those white mice and baboons out Kick those baboons and other motherfuckers out And get it on get it on On the day that you got born They had to dig him from the ground They chipped him from the frozen snow They dug his monkey fingers But he had no where to go They dug his pink hair curlers They dug his sequined gown They dug his Stratocaster They dug his pornographic crown He's got some words of wisdom! I got some words of wisdom! He's got some words of wisdom! I got some words of wisdom! Get it on! Get it on! On the day that You got born! He crawled out of the ooze He defied evolution He had green flippers and sang the blues He caused a revolution He got in the British weeklies He got in the dailies too He drank panther piss and fucked the girls you're probably married to He's got some words of wisdom! I got some words of wisdom! He's got some words of wisdom! I got some words of wisdom! Get it on! Get it on! On the day that You got born! You gotta do The Vaughan (do The Vaughan!) Yeah, papa's down (papa's down!) Sweets is sweet (sweets is sweet!) Tex is on (tex is on!) Then one day he went away His neighbour claimed he'd shot him If he hadn't of disappeared The Taxman would have got him Yeah but before I leave I call out from the storm For those who gave their lives So we could get it on! Get it on! Get it on! On the day that You were born! Get it on! Get it on! Get it on! Get it on!

No Pussy Blues

My face is finished, my body's gone And I can't help but think standin' up here In all this applause and gazin' down At all the young and the beautiful With their questioning eyes That I must above all things love myself That I must above all things love myself That I must above all things love myself I saw a girl in the crowd I ran over I shouted out I asked if I could take her out But she said that she didn't want to I changed the sheets on my bed I combed the hairs across my head I sucked in my gut and still she said That she just didn't want to I read her Eliot, read her Yeats I tried my best to stay up late I fixed the hinges on her gate But still she just never wanted to I bought her a dozen snow-white doves I did her dishes in rubber gloves I called her Honeybee, I called her Love But she just still didn't want to She just never wants to Damn it! I sent her every type of flower I played her guitar by the hour I patted her revolting little chihuahua But still she just didn't want to I wrote a song with a hundred lines I picked a bunch of dandelions I walked her through the trembling pines But she just even then didn't want to She just never wants to I thought I'd try another tack I drank a litre of cognac I threw her down upon her back But she just laughed and said That she just didn't want to I thought I'd have another go I called her my little ho I felt like Marcel Marceau Must feel when she said That she just never wanted to She just didn't want to I got the no pussy blues I got the no pussy blues I got the no pussy blues God! Damn! I got the no pussy blues I got the no pussy blues I got the no pussy blues I got the no pussy blues Yeah! Yeah!

Electric Alice

Don't the stars look good tonight Thought Electric Alice In the pale moonlight Don't the moon look big and bright Thought Electric Alice In the pale moonlight I think I hear a baby cry Thought Electric Alice as she passed by Makes me feel like I'm a little child again Thought Electric Alice in the silver rain

Grinderman

I'm the grinderman In the silver rain In the pale moonlight I am open late Yes I'm the grinderman Seven days a week In the pale moonlight In the silver rain I'm the grinderman Any way I can In the silver rain In the pale moonlight Yes I'm the grinderman, yes I am In the silver rain In the pale moonlight I am open late Yes I'm the grinderman, yes I am In the silver rain In the pale moonlight I am open late Yes I'm the grinderman, yes I am, yes I am Anyway I can Yes I am

Depth Charge Ethel

Come on, Jim I entered the room and the canned laughter Ethel was angled across some dude's knee I offered to clothe her to feed and to bath her If she'd just give me a little exclusivity Yeah, Depth Charge Ethel is something special Yeah, Depth Charge Ethel is special to me Yeah Ethel is a woman that a river runs through She is famous throughout the land People come and bathe in her, yeah, you know, I do But lately its been getting right out of hand Yeah, Depth Charge Ethel is something special Yeah, Depth Charge Ethel is something special to me To kiss Ethel is like drinking the stars To not kiss her can make you come unglued So if you want a piece of her you better get in there fast Right now there is a ticket box and a queue Depth Charge Ethel is something special Yeah, Depth Charge Ethel is something special to me Depth Charge Ethel thinks we should all just take a chance We should all love one another, it could be special I'm in the back of a taxi-cab with ants in my pants I can't sit still, I know they're gonna send me I know they're gonna send me Depth Charge Ethel, boy she's something special Yeah, Depth Charge Ethel is something special Yeah, Depth Charge Ethel is heavy metal Yeah, heavy metal Yeah, Depth Charge Ethel is something special to me

Go Tell The Women

We done our thing We have evolved We're up on our hind legs The problem's solved We are artists We are mathematicians Some of us hold extremely high positions But we are tired We're hardly breathing And we're free Go tell the women that we're leaving We're sick and tired Of all this self-serving grieving All we wanted was a little consensual rape in the afternoon And maybe a bit more in the evening We are scientists We do genetics We leave religion To the psychos and fanatics But we are tired We got nothing to believe in We are lost Go tell the women that we're leaving We done our thing We're hip to the sound Of six billion people Going down We are magicians We are deceiving We are free and we're lost Go tell the women that we're leaving Hey hey, hey hey Come on back now to the fray Hey hey, hey hey Come on back now to the fray Hey hey, hey hey

(I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free

I saw you walkin' down on the street I called out from my window but you didn't hear me I lay down and I tried to sleep I waited for you to walk on by again I don't need you to set me free I don't want you to set me free Well every time I see you, I get sick And every time I think of you, well I get sick And every time I dream of you, well I get sick And every time I cry for you, well I get sick I don't want you to set me free I don't need you to set me free I don't want you to set me free I just need you to set me free I don't want you to set me free I just need you to set me free Alright come on Grinderman! Set me free Set me free Set me free Set me free Set me free Set me free Set me free Set me free Set me free Set me free Set me free

Honey Bee (Let's Fly To Mars)

Mad mullahs and dirty bombs Alert the coastal command Ack-ack positions everyone She's my honey bee and here she comes Cancer, rabies, SARS Hairy beards and hurtling stars Won't somebody touch me? Won't somebody touch me? Honey bee lets fly to Mars Honey bee lets fly to Mars Honey bee lets fly to Mars Honey bee lets fly to Mars There's a kid laying on the lawn The neighbours on the telephone The dispatcher asks "What's going on?" "Please Sir, what's going on?" The kid is laying on the lawn He's been giving me shit for years He rides his bike across my lawn Now he's laying on the lawn Won't somebody touch me? Won't someone please touch me? Honey bee lets fly to Mars Honey bee lets fly to Mars Honey bee lets fly to Mars Honey bee lets fly to Mars Scud missiles Asian flu The easily offended We are the undefended We are the undefended Won't somebody touch us? There's a virus come to town Won't somebody give me a kiss? He's been giving me shit for years Honey bee lets fly to Mars Honey bee lets fly to Mars Honey bee lets fly to Mars Honey bee lets fly to Mars Honey bee lets fly to Mars Honey bee Honey bee Honey bee Honey bee Honey bee

Man In The Moon

My daddy was an astronaut

That's what I was often taught

My daddy went away too soon

Now he's living on the moon

Hang on to me people

We're going down

Down among the fishes in an absence of sound

It's the presence of distance and it's floating in time

It's lack and it's longing and it's not very kind

Sitting here scratching in this rented room

Scratching and a-tapping to the man in the moon

That all the things that I've been told

My daddy was an astronaut

When My Love Comes Down

When my love comes down to meet you When my love comes down to meet you again When my love comes down to meet you When my love comes down to meet you again Your mouth is a hologram made of spiders bones Your fingers little soldiers drumming on their way back home I thought I saw a thundercloud on the avenue Lightning rattled though the streets, yeah, that little storm was you When my love comes down to meet you When my love comes down to meet you again Your skin is like the falling snow, your hair is like the rising sun Your tongue is like Kalashnikov or some other foreign gun I see you standing there way down upon the street You're marching victorious with your banners of defeat Oh, when my love comes down to meet you Oh, when my love comes down to meet you again Oh, when my love comes down to meet you Oh, when my love comes down to meet you again When my love comes down to meet you When my love comes down to meet you again Oh, when my love comes down to meet you Oh, when my love comes down to meet you again

Love Bomb

I read the book from back to front It made a deep impression Twenty thousand pages baby I hoped for some direction I stood before the mirror I stared at my reflection I'd almost disappeared And I made no impression I went down to my baby's house And I sat down on the step Said 2000 years of Christian history baby And you ain't learned to love me yet My baby looked me in the eye My nails were bitten to the quick She said you used to love me all night long But you've gotten so thin and sick I'm gonna send you a love bomb I'm gonna send you a love bomb I read that book from back to front Looking for some inspiration I'd been listening to the radio Trying to find some self expression I been listening to the woman's hour I been listening to Gardeners Question Time But every thing I try to grow I can't even grow a dandelion I've been watching the MTV I've been watching the BBC And I've been searching on the Internet And I'm getting so thin and sick