Nick Cave : Push The Sky Away

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Tree don't care what the little bird sings

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We go down with the dew in the morning light

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The tree don't know what the little bird brings

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We go down with the dew in the morning

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And we breathe, it in

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There is no need to forgive

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Breathe, it in

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There is no need to forgive The trees will stand like pleading hands We go down with the dew in the morning light The trees all stand like pleading hands We go down with the dew in the morning light And we breathe, it in There is no need to forgive Breathe, it in there is no need to forgive (again) The trees will burn with blackened hands We return with the light of the evening The trees will burn blackened hands Nowhere to rest, with nowhere to land

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And we know who you are

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And we know where you live

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And we know there's no need to forgive And we know who you are And we know where you live And we know there's no need to forgive

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You wave at the sky with wide lovely eyes Waves and waves of love go by And through the garden with your secret key Down the tunnel that leads to the sea

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Step on the beach beneath the iron skies You wave and wave your wide lovely eyes Crystal waves and waves of love You wave and say goodbye |

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Your dress sides with your wide lovely strides And all along the street lately the stories are bound They've dismantled the fun fair and they've shut down the rides They've hung the mermaids from the streetlights by their hair

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And with wide lovely eyes you wave at the sky And near the high window watching the ride The waves of blue and the waves of love You wave and say goodbye |

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The night expands, I am expanding I watch your hands like butterflies landing All among the myths and the legends we create And all the laughing stories we tell our friends

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Close the windows, clear up the mess, it's getting late

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It's darker and closer to the end

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Through the tunnel and down the sea And on the pebble beach releases you entire And arrange your shoes side by side You wave and wave with wide lovely eyes Distant waves and waves of distant love You wave and say goodbye

They take apart their bodies like toys for the local boys Because they're always there at the edge of the water They come from the capital these city girls Go way down where the stones meet the sea And all you young girls, where do you hide? Down by the water and the restless tide And the local boys hide on the mound and watch Reaching for the speech and the word to be heard And the boys grow hard, hard to be heard Hard to be heard as they reach for the speech And search for the word on the water's edge But you grow old and you grow cold Yeah you grow old and you grow cold And they would come in their hoards these city girls With white strings flowing from their ears As the local boys behind the mound think long and hard About the girls from the capital Who dance at the water's edge, shaking their asses And all you young lovers, where do you hide? Down by the water and the restless tide With a bible of tricks they do with their legs The girls reach for the speech and the speech to be heard To be hard the local boys teem down the mound And seize the girls from the capital Who shriek at the edge of the water Shriek to speak and reach for the speech Yeah reach for the speech and be heard But you grow old and you grow cold Yeah you grow old and you grow cold You grow old Their legs wide to the world like bibles open To be speared and taking their bodies apart like toys They dismantle themselves by the waters edge And reach for the speech and the wide wide world And, God knows, the local boys It's the will of love It's the thrill of love Ah but the chill of love Is comin' on It's the will of love It's the thrill of love Ah but the chill of love Is comin' on It's the will of love It's the thrill of love Ah but the chill of love Is comin' down, people

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Single riff throughout. Note there are only two beats in the third bar.

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On Jubilee Street there was a girl named Bee She had a history, but she had no past When they shut her down the Russians moved in Now I am to scared, I'm too scared, to even walk on past She used to say, all those good people down on Jubilee Street They ought to practice what they preach Yeah, they ought to practice just what they preach Those good people on Jubilee Street And here I come, up the hill, I'm pushing my wheel of love I got love in my tummy and a tiny little pain And a ten ton catastrophe on a sixty pound chain And I'm pushing my wheel of love up Jubilee Street Ah, look at me! |

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The problem was she had a little black book And my name was written on every page Well, a girl's gotta make ends meet, even down on Jubilee Street I was out of place and time And over the hill and out of my mind on Jubilee Street I oughta practice what I preach These days I go downtown in my tie and tails I got a fetus on a leash I am alone now, I am beyond recriminations Curtains are shut, the furniture is gone I am transforming, I am vibrating, I am glowing I am flying, look at me now! I'm flying, look at me now! |

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She was a catch, we were a match I was the match that would fire up her snatch But there was a catch, I was no match I was fired from her crotch, now I'll sit around and watch The mermaids sun themselves out on the rocks They are beyond our touch, I watch and watch them Wave at me, they wave at me

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They wave and slip back into the sea

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All the ones who come

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All the ones who go

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Down to the water And all the ones who come All the ones who go Down to the sea

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I believe in God, I believe in mermaids too I believe in 72 virgins on a chain - Why not? Why not? I believe in the rapture, for I've seen your face

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On the floor of the ocean at the bottom of the rain

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I do Driver Alertness Course, I do Husband Alertness Course I do Mermaid Alertness Course, I watch them out on the rocks They wave at me, they wave at me

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They wave and slip back into the sea

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All the ones who come

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All the ones who go

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Down to the water And all the ones who come All the ones who go Down to the sea

Who took your measurements From your toes to the top of your head? Who bought you clothes and new shoes And wrote you a book you never read? Yeah, you know Who was it? Yeah, you know we real cool On the far side of the morning Who was it? Yeah, you know yeah we real cool Now I hope you're listening Are you? Who was it you called the good shepherd Rounding up the kids for their meal? Who chased your shadow Running out behind? Clinging to your high flying heels Your high flying, high flying, high flying heels Who was it? Yeah, you know we real cool On the far side of the morning Who was it? Yeah, you know we real cool And I hope you're listening Are you? Who measured the distance from the planets Right down to your big blue spinning world? In heartbeats and tears and nervous laughter Spilling down all over you, girl Who was it? Yeah, you know we real cool And the world keeps on turning Who was it? Yeah, you know we real cool And I hope you're listening Are you? Sirius is eight-point-six light years away Arcturus is thirty seven The past is the past And it's here to stay Wikipedia is heaven When you don't want to remember no more On the far side of the morning Who was it? Yeah, you know we real cool I hope you hear me And you'll call

I just finished writing Jubilee Street I lay down on my bed and fell into a deep sleep And when I awoke I believed I had taken a bride called Mary Stanford And I flew into a frenzy searching high and low Because in my dream the girl was very young I said hey little girl, where do you hide? You draw lightning from the sky All of this in her dark hair All of this in her dark hair oh Lord See that girl comin' on down See that girl comin' on down Last night your shadow scampered up the wall it fly And leaped like a black spider between your legs And cried My children! My children! They are lost to us All of this in her dark hair All of this in her dark hair oh Lord See that girl comin' on down See that girl comin' on down

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Can't remember anything at all, flame trees line the streets

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Can't remember anything at all, but I'm driving my car down to Geneva

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I been sitting in my basement patio, aye it was hot

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Up above, girls walk past, their roses all in bloom

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Have you ever heard about the Higgs Boson Blues?

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I'm going down to Geneva, baby, gonna teach it to you

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Who cares? Who cares what the future brings?

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Black road long and I drove and drove and came upon a crossroad, the night was hot and black

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I see Robert Johnson with a ten dollar guitar strapped to his back looking for a tune

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Well here comes Lucifer with his canon law

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And a hundred black babies running from his genocidal jaw

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He got the real killer groove, Robert Johnson and the devil, man

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Don't know who's gonna rip off who

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Driving my car, flame trees on fire, sitting and singing the Higgs Boson Blues

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I'm tired, I'm looking for a spot to drop, all the clocks have stopped

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In Memphis now in the Lorraine Motel it's hot, it's hot, that's why they call it the Hot Spot

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I'll take a room with a view, hear a man preaching in a language that's completely new

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Making the hot cocks in the flophouse bleed

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While the cleaning ladies sob into their mops and a bellhop hops and bops

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A shot rings out to a spiritual groove

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Everybody bleeding to that Higgs Boson Blues

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If I die tonight, bury me in my favorite yellow patent leather shoes

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With a mummified cat and a cone-like hat that the caliphate forced on the Jews

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Can you feel my heartbeat? Can you feel my heartbeat?

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Hannah Montana does the African Savannah as the simulated rainy season begins

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She curses the queue at the Zulus and moves on to Amazonia and cries with the dolphins

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The mama ate the pygmy, the pygmy ate the monkey

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The monkey has a gift that he is sending back to you

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Look here comes the missionary with his smallpox and flu

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He's saving them, the savages, with his Higgs Boson Blues

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I'm driving my car down to Geneva

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I'm driving my car down to Geneva

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Oh let the damn day break, the rainy days always make me sad

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Miley Cyrus floats in a swimming pool in Toluca Lake

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And you're the best girl I've ever had

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Can't remember anything at all

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I was right, I was right

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Oh, the sun, the sun, the sun was rising from the field |

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I've got a feeling I just can't shake

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I've got a feeling that just won't go away

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You've got to just

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Keep on pushing

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Keep on pushing

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Push the sky away And if your friends think that you should do it different And if they think that you should do it the same You've gotta just Keep on pushing Keep on pushing Push the sky away And if you feel you've got everything you came for If you got everything and you don't want no more You've gotta just Keep on pushing Keep on pushing Push the sky away And some people say it's just rock and roll Oh, but it gets right down to your soul You've gotta just Keep on pushing Keep on pushing Push the sky away

Nick Cave : Push The Sky Away
2013

We Know Who You Are

Wide Lovely Eyes

Water's Edge

Jubilee Street

Mermaids

We Real Cool

Finishing Jubilee Street

Higgs Boson Blues

Push The Sky Away

Nick Cave : Push The Sky Away 2013

We Know Who You Are

Wide Lovely Eyes

Water's Edge

Jubilee Street

Mermaids

We Real Cool

Finishing Jubilee Street

Higgs Boson Blues

Push The Sky Away

Nick Cave : Push The Sky Away
2013