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Well last night she kissed me but than DEATH was upon
her.
Deep in the woods
Deep in the woods
Deep in the woods a funeral is swinging.
Now the killed waits for the killer
And the trees all nod their heads, they are agreed
This knife feels like a knife feels like a knife that
feels like it's feed.
Yeah I recognize that girl
I took her from rags right through to stitches (pray
for me now)
Oh baby, tonight we sleep in separate ditches.
Deep in the woods
Deep in the woods
Deep in the woods a funeral is swinging.
Love is for fools and all fools are lovers
It's raining on my house and none of the others
Love is for fools and God knows I'm still one
The sidewalks are filled with love's lonely children
The sidewalk regrets that we had to kill them.
Ah fed Vixo on ev'ry fear 'n' fret 'n' phobia
Til it nor ah could stand the strain no longer
Sucked a chicken bone, tossed it in the corner
Raisin up like Lazaurs, up, up from its cot
An making for the door, now...
Infant-prodigy creates a phantom-friend, yeag
Stickin' sack an ol' Jack-Jack into its itchin-ten
Oh! Don't ya linger! Ooh! Don't ya linger, now,
Mah monster-piect...mah perfect-murder-machine
Don't ya linger, for ah can feel mah youth slipping
outa me
Yeah, ah can feel mah youth slip outa me.
Call it, Call it Vixo. Call it Vee.
ah all it, an it comes to me.
Call it Vixo. Call it me
March headlong into the heart of fear
Ah will follow thee.
What kept ya? Whaa? What kept ya?
You get trouble? Sum'n go wrong?
Vixo grinning, climbs up into mah lil boy arms.
What you get?
Tell me, what ya gone 'n' brung me from the hollow?
Yeah! We're laughin'...but our laughter is shallow
Ain't it funny...my childhood name is Sorrow.
Vixo sighs, 'n' lays its head upon mah pillow.
Call it. Call it Vixo. Call it Vee.
Call it, an it comes to me.
Vee...ah...Hex...Oh-oh, come crawl with me.
Into the dark heart of despair
Ah will not forsake thee.
Listen...Instruction!
Ditch it, Pitch it. Now hitch it up along the ridge
Ya laughin b'neath the Sherriff's wheels
That go screamin cross Hooper Bridge
Skirt the out-skirts. Up mah back-stair. Ya sack all
undone.
Don't touch nothin! Water runnin in the tub
Get there! and scrub ev'ry one.
When ya STRUCK ya STRUCK!
Ya struck a thousand crickets dumb
Hooper-Hollow iced over then, all hush, hush
In the cool midday sun
Hush! Ah say Hush! Hu-u-u-ush!
Sittin on the roof, laugh at mahself
As they rope off the woods
Watchin' all the good-people
go beating the bush.
Transcribed by Lehn Fitzgerald...
Table of Contents:
* Zoo Music Girl
* Cry
* Capers
* Nick The Stripper
* Ho-Ho
* Figure Of Fun
* King Ink
* A Dead Song
* Yard
* Dull Day
* Just You And Me
* Blundertown
* Kathy's Kisses
Zoo-music girl, zoo-music girl
Our ligfe together is a hollow tooth,
spit out the shells, spit out the shells,
You know exactly what I'm talking about
Don't drag the orchestra into this thing
Rattle those sticks, rattle those sticks
The sound is beautiful, its perfect!
The sound of her young legs in stockings
the rhythem of her walk, it's beautiful
Just let it twist, let it break
let it buckle, let it bend
I wnat the noise of my zoo music girl
zoo-music girl zoo-music girl
My body is a monster driven insane
my heart is a fish toasted by flames I kiss the hem of
her skirt
We spend our lives in a box full of dirt
I murder her dress and she loves it
If there is one thing I desire in the world is to make
love to my zoo-muic girl
zoo-music girl, zoo-music girl
The sound is beautiful! It's perfect!
I call out her name in the night
Zoo-music girl zoo-music girl
I call her by her family name
zoo-music girl zoo-musivc girl
Oh God! Please let me die beneath her fists
Zoo-Music Girl Zoo-music girl
When ya walk out of here
when ya walk out
I gotta fill up that space
or fill up that no-space
I'll fill it up with tears [4 lines of this line
repeated]
Cry Cry Cry Cry
Where no-fish can swim [4 lines of this line]
Cry Cry Cry
When ya slam that door when that door slams
I gotta fill up that space
an' I'll pack my suitcase
I'll fill it up with clothes
or I'll fill it up with no clothes
I'll fill it up with tears
and I'll Pack it up with tears etc. [written in lyric
book, I think it returns to the chorus of CRy Cry Cry
Where no fish can swim]
When Ya say goodbye
when ya say goodbye
I'll dig my-self a hole
and fill up that space
I'll fill it up with flesh
an' I'll fill it up with no flesh
I'll fill it up with tears etc.
Fish Swim Cry Fish CRRRRYYYY
All words that look prounouncable are not typos, any that look
unpronouncable are probably typos. Each set of two lines is one
line in the lyric book. (ie. what has not got....sir names)(one
line)
What has not got my heart in it shall we be dubbed sir
names
wither million blither tongues mounting bristling guilt
frames
in the fake-ache of the gloomloom slippers slap me
alive!
The hours hands down a miracle to spend with ugly types
so we can catch and thread a minstrel bleed a tower
down to its ankles
so we can't go up or stay up find the thumb dumb' in
your ear brain
Get unfunny! Such as choirs do why the clocklock bought
up this one
Just when things seem so paperparrent like my
toothface? Like my out-do?
Oh a streak, O'treacly [not a typo] ink-inks tied my
knees all up in elbows
erase that lapsing smile tub lose the slip of the small
soap-fellows
Account the addups till Do-nots are we balanced? we're
in business!
Idle tidal, rush in, tried all with a limb's... all
legs and armour
I had a dreadful diehood diehard drunken sunken,
Monk-heart
Oh I had a Wonderful diehood thanks to my fa. fa.
family
Nick the stripper
hideous to the eye
hideous to the ee
he's a fat little insect
a fat little insect
and OOOOOOHHHH! Here we go again
Nick the stripper
dances on all fours
dances on all fours
He's in his birthday suit
he's in his birthday suit
and oooooohhhh! here we go again
Nick the stripper
hideous to the eye
hideous to the eye
he's a fat little insect
a fucked little insect
and OOOOOOOOHHHH! Here we go again
Insect insect insect insect
Worn and gnawn
a little hole
just a small hole
letting in a sick wind
in small puffs
yo-ho hole
yo-ho hole
through which blow
a small sick wind
yo-ho hole
yo-ho-hole
puff puff
the sick wind blows
slupping stitches leading to so slight a hole
slipping in a sick wind
slippery sickly wind
yo-ho-hole
yo-ho-hole
across the threshole
a little sick wind
yo-ho-hole
yo-ho-hole
yo-ho
the sick wind blows
Obsessive, deadpan
moribund seasick etc.
This leaves out a lot of the repetions on this lyric sheet, and
I'm pretty sure a few sections are out of order compared with the
recorded song.
King Ink strolls into town
he sniffs around
King Ink kicks off his stink-boot
sand and soot and dust and dirt and
he's much bigger than you think
King Ink
King Ink, wake up, get up
Wake up, up, up, up, up, up
A bug crawls up the wall
King Ink feels like a bug
and he hates his rotten shell
Cha-cha-{10 cha's)
King Ink, get up, go forth
wake up-what's in that room
wake up- what's in that house?
Express thyself say something loudly
AAAAHHHH! What's in that room?
Sand and soot and dust and dirt
dirt dirt dirt dirt dirt dirt
King Ink feels like a bug
swimming in a soup-bowl
Oh yer! Yer! What a wonderful life
Fats Domino on the radio
This is True
Mister nothing said forever said
I can sing
Hit it! Make it a dead one
with words like
blood, soldier mother
O.K. O.k.
I want to sleep before the end
which is impolite
Hit It! Make it a dead one
If nothing crops up
I'll give you a ring
you can sing the end
o.k o.k.
then I could get
all the little animals out of my room
Hit it! With a broom
O.k O.k
Put them in a big white sack
no visitors came
hit it! With words like.....
Thou shalt not
The end
In our yard
How many chickens can we count
on our fingers and toes
on their toes
sitting on fathers hole
siting on his chest
crushing rocks of dirt
the earth is soft in our
yard yard
stones in my shoes
and feet
dragging them through museums
where
under glass
refridgerate
freeze
hands and feet
and knobbly knees
yard yard
The light from the window
falls on the floor
and after it breaks
I cut my feet
on the little bright pieces
I glow in the dark
But only when night falls
it's falling it's falling
it falls
My head is a night-club
club-clubbed to dull drums
beating to slow
to dance or to breathe or to dance
I insist that you cut in
I A La Flambe
i'm drinking i'm drinking
I'm drunk
First: I tried to kill it with a hammer
thought that I could lose
the head
sure! We've eaten off the silver
when even the food was against us
and then I tried to kill it in the bed
Second: I gagged it with a pillow
but awoke the nuns inside my head
they pound their goddy-goddy fists
from the inside-so from the outside
I got good: I stuck it. Dead
Thirdly: I put my lips upon it
And blew a frost across
its flat
I wrote upon its outside-surface
"Tonite we're on the outside surface"
Just you and me girl: You and me and the fat
Blundertown is drowned in no brainstorm
smothered in mud at the foot of the river
the color vague is slapped around stupid
blood dries to a very dull color
I'm drowning and there is no relief from
It's only 12,000 miles to heaven
but the car is broken and we're all well-spoken
I've met three people but I don't think they like me
and we all talk about the state of the weather
I'm drowning and there is no relief from
And everything I say are my own thoughts
Don't listen to my very dull brother
I'm drowning and there is no relief from
Kathy's kisses, They fall out of
her mouth onto the floor, collect dust
and sweep them under the door
Transcribed by LJ/JL Meijer, boy next door, Peter Barton, and
maurice.
Table of Contents:
* The Nightwatchman
* Brave Exhibitions
* Friends Of My World
* The Voice
* Roman Roman
* Somebody's Watching
* After A Fashion
* Dive Position
* I Mistake Myself
* Shivers
* Riddle House
* Scatterbrain
* Enemy Of State
* Ho Ho
* Masturbation Generation
* Boy Hero
(Howard)
I've been contemplating suicide,
but it really doesn't suit my style,
so I think I'll just act bored instead
who can take (alt: And Contain) the blood I would've
shed?
She makes me feel so ugly (alt: so weary) (alt: so ill
at ease)
my heart is really on it's knees
but I keep a poker face so well
that even mother couldn't tell
But my baby's so vain
she is almost a mirror
and the sound of her name
sends a permanent shiver down my
SPINE
I keep her photograph against my heart
for in my life she plays a starring part
all alcohol and cigarettes
there is no room for cheap regrets
But my baby's so vain
she is almost a mirror
and the sound of her name
sends a permanent shiver down my
SPINE
She makes me feel so ugly
my heart is really on it's knees
but I keep a poker face so well
that even mother couldn't tell
But my baby's so vain
she is almost a mirror
and the sound of her name
sends a perennial shiver down my
SPIII-YI-YIIII-YI-YIIII-YI-YIYIYI-INE
(Howard)
The street is very wide
and I can't see across it
my house isn't clear to me
the cars move in between
Chorus And I say: Question
when is a door not a door???
and I say: "That's not right!
answer when it's a jar
The numbers soft as soap
and tend to bend in addition
they're much too wan for me
I'd prefer some consistancy
Chorus
The windows open wide
but I can't see out of it
the view is not very there
some-times I look for it
Chorus
Thanks to Mark Brown for most of the lyrics.
Table of Contents:
From Burning the Ice
* Truck Love
* Stow-a-way
* Dumb Europe
* Pleasure Is The Boss
From Headless Body in Topless Bar
* I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
From Sweat
* Sad Dark Eyes
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"Dumb Europe" by Die Haut with Nick Cave (from "Burning The Ice", 1983)
Music by Jochen Arbeit, Christoph Dreher, Rainer Lingk, & Thomas Wydler
Lyrics by Nick Cave
Transcribed by Greg O'Beirne (gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au)
Tempo: 80bpm
Rhythm: triplets (like "Da, d-Da, d-Da, d-Da, d-" etc...)
1 2 3 4
Intro: (incredibly distorted noisy guitar)
[Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."]
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la la la la la.....
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la la la la la.....
Verse: (virtually the same as the intro, but
spaced so the words can fit underneath)
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This Euro - pean night on the brink
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The cafes & the bars still stink
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the mist is much too thick for seeing
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not thick e-nough for lean- -ing
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(leave this room in a)
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cata - - tonic crawl
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and if I die to-night don't fling me in
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some bleak teutonic hole
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six feet under with
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a snap frozen soul....
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D ----7-------------------------------9------------------------------
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and really we could all just
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die of shame...
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yeah...
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die of shame...
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Dumb Europe!
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Dumb Eur- -ope....
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a laaaaaaaa laaaaaaaa laaaaaaa laaaaaaa
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laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....
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Dumb Europe!
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Dumb Eur- -ope....
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a laaaaaaaa laaaaaaaa laaaaaaa laaaaaaa
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laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....
Lyrics:
1st Verse
On this European night out on the brink
The cafes and the bars still stink
The mist is much too thick for seeing
But not thick enough for leaning
I leave in a catatonic crawl
And if I die tonight don't fling me in
Some bleak teutonic hole
Six feet under with a snap-frozen soul
And really we could all just die of shame...
Yeah... die of shame...
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, la la la la la.
2nd Verse
On this Utopian night on the brink
Mama's face staring up at me from the bottom of the sink
Witness my trail of destruction
Just trying to leave this drinking place
My feet are magnetized for furniture
The floor's attracted to my face
And if I die tonight
Sell me as a prehistoric bone
Authentic junk-souvenir to Jap
To fob off on his friends back home
The money-dance...[mumble] I find it hard to cope with days like this etc...
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, la la la la la.
[The third verse is completely undecipherable, but sounds like:]
And tonight steps into my beer in my poor '61,
I swear that statue's read the moons
Or my planets are all wrong
And if I die tonight ship my body way back home
[mumble]
[mumble]
Pulling the drip right out of the arm
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, la la la la la.
4th Verse
On this European night on the brink
Your cafes, your beer-halls and your bars still stink
And if I die tonight send my body way back home
And if I die tonight send my body way back home
And if I die tonight send my body way back home
And if I die tonight and if I die tonight...
Dumb Europe
Dumb Europe
Dumb Europe
Dumb Europe
This recording is reasonably rare, and it's unlikely anyone you play the
song to will have heard the original anyway, so just use the lyrics
above, or the ones from King Ink, and play the song in whatever way
sounds best to you ;) Have fun ;)
All Albums
Thanks to Mark Brown for most of the
lyrics.
Table of Contents:
From Burning the Ice
* Truck Love
* Stow-a-way
* Dumb Europe
* Pleasure Is The Boss
From Headless Body in Topless Bar
* I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My
Condition Was In)
From Sweat
* Sad Dark Eyes
From Burning the Ice
Truck love! Right here!
Truck love! Right now!
Bewitched by pure power. That's truck love!
In the gully of your choice. Truck love!
Jam-up on a leaping tree. Head on! Head first!
And God came down and talked to me
And I dammn nearly wept.
Tears rolling down the dash! Tears rolling down the
dash!
We can't stop the monster rolling
We can't stop the monster rolling
We can't stop the monster rolling
We can't stop the monster rolling
Rise to power! Rise to power!
Rise to power! Rise to power!
You stare bright like gold
Eye-spot interference all across the fucking road.
Burn my eyes! Burn my eyes! Baybeeeeee!
My hands are shaking when I'm touching ya
My hands are shaking when I'm touching ya
They keep shaking when I ain't
They keep shaking when I ain't
Truck love! Truck love!
Pit-stop lovers!
Right now and the now is right!
This higway is done bent on killing us
Testing every nerve that we possess between us.
The face of Christ is leaping from the storm
The face of Christ is leaping from the storm
You tend to get religious on these runs.
Rise to power! Rise to power!
Rise to power! Rise to power!
Divine power has gone crawled into this tank
Every metal muscle flexed and puping at the crank.
Pumping at my axis. Rendering me sexless.
Mega-tons of muscle kicking dust across Texas.
Truck love! Out on the city limits
Drive straight into the eye of the next town we hit
Gun it once for the hillbillys
Just to make them shit.
Fuck love! This is truck love!
Fuck love! This is truck love!
The dolls on the grill are caked in bloody bug guts
The dolls on the grill are caked in bloody bug guts
Truck love! Truck love!
Rise to power! Rise to power!
The dolls on the grill are caked in bloody bug guts
The dolls on the grill are caked in bloody bug guts
Truck love! Truck love!
There are things burning in the desert
Rise to power! Rise to power!
There are things burning in the desert
Rise to power! Rise to power!
There are things burning in the desert
Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
My girl turned blue as an iceberg do
And me I'm totally shipwrecked over her
Baby baby don't blow away
Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
I am the stow-a-way
This is your captain talking to ya
This is your captain talking to ya
This is your captain talking to ya
This is your captain talking to ya
Heartache
Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
I am the stow-a-way
My girl turned blue as an iceberg do
And me I'm totally shipwrecked over her
Hey baby don't blow away
Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
I am the stow-a-way
This your doctor talking to ya
This your doctor talking to ya
This your doctor talking to ya
This your doctor talking to ya
Heartache
On this European night out on the brink
The cafes and the bars still stink
The air is much too thick for seeing
But not thick enough for leaning
I leave in a catatonic crawl
And if I die tonight then throw me in
Some bleak teutonic hole
Six feet under with a snap-frozen soul
And really we could all just die of shame
And really we could all just die of shame
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe.
Oh the Utopian night on the brink
Mama's face staring up at me from the bottom of the
sink
Witness my trail of destruction
Trying to leave this drinking place
My feet are magnetised for furniture
The floor's attracted to my face
And if I die tonight
Sell me as some prehistoric bone
A lump of junk-souvenier for Jap
To fob off on his friends back home
The money dance....
I find it hard to cope with days like this. Pass the
bottle etcetera
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe.
On this European night out on the brink
The cafes and the bars still stink
The air is much too thick for seeing
But not thick enough for leaning
I leave in a catatonic crawl
And if I die tonight then throw me in
Some bleak teutonic hole
Six feet under with a snap-frozen soul
And really we could all just die of shame
And really we could all just die of shame
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe.
They're working us like dogs around here
'Cause pleasure is the boss
And I'm the happiest slave alive round here
'Cause pleasure is the boss
And nothing is safe that don't stand still
If it's O.K. with the boss
I'm gunna walk right up and take it yeah
If it's O.K. with the boss
Walk
What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
I woke up this morning the sun don't shine in
I found my broken mind in a brown paper bag but then
I tred on a cloud I fell eight miles high
Told my mind I'm gonna ...... sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition
was in
I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and I followed it
in
I met myself crawling out now, as I came crawling in
Then I woke up so tired I knew I'd never unwind
I saw so much, man it broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition
was in
Somebody painted April fool in big black letters on a
dead end sign
I had my foot on the gas when I left the road and blew
out my mind
I made miles out of Memphis and I got no spare
I made miles straight up downtown where
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition
was in
[As sung by Mick Harvey; Nick's live versions deviate from this.]
I look at you in your sad dark eyes
And your gypsy face with your spanish grace
With your words like rhymes and your voice like chimes
Darling, I want to kiss your burning mouth
Your sad dark eys and your ghostlike soul
Darling baby say that you'll be mine
Put your ring on my finger
And comb your long red hair
Put on your sad eyes
And tell me that you care
That you'll be mine, you'll be mine
Until the end of time
Tower Of Song and 500 Miles chords transcribed by Blake
Table of Contents:
From Tribute Albums:
* Tower Of Song (L. Cohen)
* Helpless (N. Young)
* Mack The Knife (K. Wiel)
Only Performed Live
(some with limited offical releases):
* I Put A Spell On You (S.J. Hawkins)
* Rye Whiskey
* Plain Gold Ring
* Oh, Happy Day (Edwin R. Hawkins)
With Current 93:
* All The Pretty Little Horsies (Cave/Traditional)
* PATRIPASSIAN (Cave)
Radio Sessions, Extremely Limted Releases, and Bootlegs:
* God's Hotel (Cave)
* What Can I Give You? (Cave)
* 500 Miles (H. West) (KATP out-take)
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Leonard Cohen
[G]Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm[C] crazy for love but I'm not coming on [G]
I'm just[D] paying my rent every[C]day
In the Tower of So[G]ng
I said to Hank Williams: How lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.
But I h[C]ear him coughing all night lon[G]g
A hund[D]red floors above me [C]
In the Tower of So[G]ng
I was born like this, I had no choice.
I was born with the gift of a golden voice.
And twe[C]nty-seven angels from the Great beyon[G]d
They ti[D]ed me to this table right her[C]e
In the Tower of Son[G]g
So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
They don't let a woman kill you, not
In the Tower of Song
Now you can say that I've grown bitter, but of this you may be sure:
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgment coming But I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the Tower of Song
[Em]I see you standing on the other [D]side
[Em]I don't know how the river [D]got so wide
I lo[C]ved you, baby, way back when[G]
[Em]And all the bridges are burning that we[D] might have crossed
[Em]But I feel so close to everythi[D]ng that we lost
We'll[C] never have to lose it agai[D]n
I[G] bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But You'll be h[C]earing from me, baby. Long after I'm [G]gone
I'll be s[D]peaking to you sweetly from a w[C]indow
In the Tower [G]of Song
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I Put A Spell On You
I put a (A)spell on you
(D)cause you're (A)mine
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500 Miles
If you (F#)miss the train I'm (Bb)on
Then you (G#)know that I'll be (E)gone
Lord I'm (G#)500 miles (B)away from (C#)home
For the rest of the song, pretty much follow the same
pattern, I could be missing a chord between '500 miles'
and 'away', but it's pretty much there.
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title
Chords!!!
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Return to the Lyrics and Chords page.
The following are lyrics to Nick Cave songs
that have not been included on common Album
and Single releases or on soundtracks. This
page was developed from Maurice's document
of "Unpublished Lyrics to Nick Cave Songs".
From that document:
Many thanks to Paul Humphrey,
Robert Schmitz and Carmen Priebe!
"......" or (?) means we don't
know that part. Corrections
welcome!
Thanks too to Mark Brown for some of the
Die Haut lyrics.
Table of Contents:
From Tribute Albums:
* Tower Of Song (L. Cohen)
* Helpless (N. Young)
* Mack The Knife (K. Wiel)
Only Performed Live
(some with limited offical releases):
* I Put A Spell On You (S.J. Hawkins)
* Rye Whiskey
* Plain Gold Ring
* Oh, Happy Day (Edwin R. Hawkins)
* Viviane
With Barry Adamson:
* The Sweetest Embrace
With Current 93:
* All The Pretty Little Horsies
(Cave/Traditional)
* PATRIPASSIAN (Cave)
Radio Sessions, Extremely Limted Releases,
and Bootlegs:
* God's Hotel (Cave)
* What Can I Give You? (Cave)
* 500 Miles (H. West) (KATP out-take)
Tribute Albums:
Tower Of Song
From I'm Your Fan, a Leonard Cohen tribute album
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm paying my rent everyday in the Tower of Song
I said to Leonard Cohen: How lonely does it get?
Leonard Cohen hasn't answered me yet
But I can hear him coughing all night long,
A million floors above me in the Tower of Song
I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born like this, with a golden voice
Twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond,
Well they tied me to this table right here in the Tower of Song
You can stick your needles in a voodoo doll
I'm sorry baby, but it don't look like me at all
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
They don't let a woman kill you in the Tower of Song
I've grown bitter, bitter, of this you may be sure:
The rich, the rich have got channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement but it won't be long, but I may be
wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices in the Tower of Song - oh
yeah -
The guitar, the bass, the drums, so nice every hour in the Tower
of Song
I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
But I loved you, baby, way back when
All the bridges are burning that we might have crossed,
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
But I'll never have to lose you again, Tower of Song
I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'm back
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone
I'm speaking to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song
Now you can say that I've grown bitter, of this you can be sure:
The rich have got channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement but it won't take long, I may be
wrong
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Only Performed Live
(some with limited offical releases):
I Put A Spell On You
From Department of Enjoyment, NME compilation cassette; available on some
bootlegs.
I put a spell on you, 'cause you're mine
You'd better stop those things that you're doin'
Oh, honey, I ain't lyin', no
Wow, you better quit it, your messin' around
You better quit it, your foolin' around
I put a spell on you, wow, cause you're mine
It serves you right to suffer
It serves you right to be alone
Oh, you forever live the day I done packed and gone (?)
Oh you better kick it before it kicks you
Oh, you better quit it, it's true
I put a spell on you, wow, cause you're mine, mine, mine
You better quit it, your foolin' around
You better quit it, kick it, .... , oh you're messin' around
I put a spell on you, you, cause you're mine
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Rye Whiskey
Available on French promo CD, Good Songs
A traditional version is also available.
Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds, I know you most of all
You've robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold
And Whiskey, you villain, you've been my down-fall
You've cuffed and you've kicked me but I loved you of old
Oh Whiskey, Rye Whiskey, Whiskey I cried
If I don't get rye Whiskey I surely will die
Well I go yonder mountain and build me a still
And I send you a gallon for a five dollar bill
Well it's beefcake when I'm hungry, Whiskey when I'm dry
her.
Deep in the woods
Deep in the woods
Deep in the woods a funeral is swinging.
Now the killed waits for the killer
And the trees all nod their heads, they are agreed
This knife feels like a knife feels like a knife that
feels like it's feed.
Yeah I recognize that girl
I took her from rags right through to stitches (pray
for me now)
Oh baby, tonight we sleep in separate ditches.
Deep in the woods
Deep in the woods
Deep in the woods a funeral is swinging.
Love is for fools and all fools are lovers
It's raining on my house and none of the others
Love is for fools and God knows I'm still one
The sidewalks are filled with love's lonely children
The sidewalk regrets that we had to kill them.
Ah fed Vixo on ev'ry fear 'n' fret 'n' phobia
Til it nor ah could stand the strain no longer
Sucked a chicken bone, tossed it in the corner
Raisin up like Lazaurs, up, up from its cot
An making for the door, now...
Infant-prodigy creates a phantom-friend, yeag
Stickin' sack an ol' Jack-Jack into its itchin-ten
Oh! Don't ya linger! Ooh! Don't ya linger, now,
Mah monster-piect...mah perfect-murder-machine
Don't ya linger, for ah can feel mah youth slipping
outa me
Yeah, ah can feel mah youth slip outa me.
Call it, Call it Vixo. Call it Vee.
ah all it, an it comes to me.
Call it Vixo. Call it me
March headlong into the heart of fear
Ah will follow thee.
What kept ya? Whaa? What kept ya?
You get trouble? Sum'n go wrong?
Vixo grinning, climbs up into mah lil boy arms.
What you get?
Tell me, what ya gone 'n' brung me from the hollow?
Yeah! We're laughin'...but our laughter is shallow
Ain't it funny...my childhood name is Sorrow.
Vixo sighs, 'n' lays its head upon mah pillow.
Call it. Call it Vixo. Call it Vee.
Call it, an it comes to me.
Vee...ah...Hex...Oh-oh, come crawl with me.
Into the dark heart of despair
Ah will not forsake thee.
Listen...Instruction!
Ditch it, Pitch it. Now hitch it up along the ridge
Ya laughin b'neath the Sherriff's wheels
That go screamin cross Hooper Bridge
Skirt the out-skirts. Up mah back-stair. Ya sack all
undone.
Don't touch nothin! Water runnin in the tub
Get there! and scrub ev'ry one.
When ya STRUCK ya STRUCK!
Ya struck a thousand crickets dumb
Hooper-Hollow iced over then, all hush, hush
In the cool midday sun
Hush! Ah say Hush! Hu-u-u-ush!
Sittin on the roof, laugh at mahself
As they rope off the woods
Watchin' all the good-people
go beating the bush.
Transcribed by Lehn Fitzgerald...
Table of Contents:
* Zoo Music Girl
* Cry
* Capers
* Nick The Stripper
* Ho-Ho
* Figure Of Fun
* King Ink
* A Dead Song
* Yard
* Dull Day
* Just You And Me
* Blundertown
* Kathy's Kisses
Zoo-music girl, zoo-music girl
Our ligfe together is a hollow tooth,
spit out the shells, spit out the shells,
You know exactly what I'm talking about
Don't drag the orchestra into this thing
Rattle those sticks, rattle those sticks
The sound is beautiful, its perfect!
The sound of her young legs in stockings
the rhythem of her walk, it's beautiful
Just let it twist, let it break
let it buckle, let it bend
I wnat the noise of my zoo music girl
zoo-music girl zoo-music girl
My body is a monster driven insane
my heart is a fish toasted by flames I kiss the hem of
her skirt
We spend our lives in a box full of dirt
I murder her dress and she loves it
If there is one thing I desire in the world is to make
love to my zoo-muic girl
zoo-music girl, zoo-music girl
The sound is beautiful! It's perfect!
I call out her name in the night
Zoo-music girl zoo-music girl
I call her by her family name
zoo-music girl zoo-musivc girl
Oh God! Please let me die beneath her fists
Zoo-Music Girl Zoo-music girl
When ya walk out of here
when ya walk out
I gotta fill up that space
or fill up that no-space
I'll fill it up with tears [4 lines of this line
repeated]
Cry Cry Cry Cry
Where no-fish can swim [4 lines of this line]
Cry Cry Cry
When ya slam that door when that door slams
I gotta fill up that space
an' I'll pack my suitcase
I'll fill it up with clothes
or I'll fill it up with no clothes
I'll fill it up with tears
and I'll Pack it up with tears etc. [written in lyric
book, I think it returns to the chorus of CRy Cry Cry
Where no fish can swim]
When Ya say goodbye
when ya say goodbye
I'll dig my-self a hole
and fill up that space
I'll fill it up with flesh
an' I'll fill it up with no flesh
I'll fill it up with tears etc.
Fish Swim Cry Fish CRRRRYYYY
All words that look prounouncable are not typos, any that look
unpronouncable are probably typos. Each set of two lines is one
line in the lyric book. (ie. what has not got....sir names)(one
line)
What has not got my heart in it shall we be dubbed sir
names
wither million blither tongues mounting bristling guilt
frames
in the fake-ache of the gloomloom slippers slap me
alive!
The hours hands down a miracle to spend with ugly types
so we can catch and thread a minstrel bleed a tower
down to its ankles
so we can't go up or stay up find the thumb dumb' in
your ear brain
Get unfunny! Such as choirs do why the clocklock bought
up this one
Just when things seem so paperparrent like my
toothface? Like my out-do?
Oh a streak, O'treacly [not a typo] ink-inks tied my
knees all up in elbows
erase that lapsing smile tub lose the slip of the small
soap-fellows
Account the addups till Do-nots are we balanced? we're
in business!
Idle tidal, rush in, tried all with a limb's... all
legs and armour
I had a dreadful diehood diehard drunken sunken,
Monk-heart
Oh I had a Wonderful diehood thanks to my fa. fa.
family
Nick the stripper
hideous to the eye
hideous to the ee
he's a fat little insect
a fat little insect
and OOOOOOHHHH! Here we go again
Nick the stripper
dances on all fours
dances on all fours
He's in his birthday suit
he's in his birthday suit
and oooooohhhh! here we go again
Nick the stripper
hideous to the eye
hideous to the eye
he's a fat little insect
a fucked little insect
and OOOOOOOOHHHH! Here we go again
Insect insect insect insect
Worn and gnawn
a little hole
just a small hole
letting in a sick wind
in small puffs
yo-ho hole
yo-ho hole
through which blow
a small sick wind
yo-ho hole
yo-ho-hole
puff puff
the sick wind blows
slupping stitches leading to so slight a hole
slipping in a sick wind
slippery sickly wind
yo-ho-hole
yo-ho-hole
across the threshole
a little sick wind
yo-ho-hole
yo-ho-hole
yo-ho
the sick wind blows
Obsessive, deadpan
moribund seasick etc.
This leaves out a lot of the repetions on this lyric sheet, and
I'm pretty sure a few sections are out of order compared with the
recorded song.
King Ink strolls into town
he sniffs around
King Ink kicks off his stink-boot
sand and soot and dust and dirt and
he's much bigger than you think
King Ink
King Ink, wake up, get up
Wake up, up, up, up, up, up
A bug crawls up the wall
King Ink feels like a bug
and he hates his rotten shell
Cha-cha-{10 cha's)
King Ink, get up, go forth
wake up-what's in that room
wake up- what's in that house?
Express thyself say something loudly
AAAAHHHH! What's in that room?
Sand and soot and dust and dirt
dirt dirt dirt dirt dirt dirt
King Ink feels like a bug
swimming in a soup-bowl
Oh yer! Yer! What a wonderful life
Fats Domino on the radio
This is True
Mister nothing said forever said
I can sing
Hit it! Make it a dead one
with words like
blood, soldier mother
O.K. O.k.
I want to sleep before the end
which is impolite
Hit It! Make it a dead one
If nothing crops up
I'll give you a ring
you can sing the end
o.k o.k.
then I could get
all the little animals out of my room
Hit it! With a broom
O.k O.k
Put them in a big white sack
no visitors came
hit it! With words like.....
Thou shalt not
The end
In our yard
How many chickens can we count
on our fingers and toes
on their toes
sitting on fathers hole
siting on his chest
crushing rocks of dirt
the earth is soft in our
yard yard
stones in my shoes
and feet
dragging them through museums
where
under glass
refridgerate
freeze
hands and feet
and knobbly knees
yard yard
The light from the window
falls on the floor
and after it breaks
I cut my feet
on the little bright pieces
I glow in the dark
But only when night falls
it's falling it's falling
it falls
My head is a night-club
club-clubbed to dull drums
beating to slow
to dance or to breathe or to dance
I insist that you cut in
I A La Flambe
i'm drinking i'm drinking
I'm drunk
First: I tried to kill it with a hammer
thought that I could lose
the head
sure! We've eaten off the silver
when even the food was against us
and then I tried to kill it in the bed
Second: I gagged it with a pillow
but awoke the nuns inside my head
they pound their goddy-goddy fists
from the inside-so from the outside
I got good: I stuck it. Dead
Thirdly: I put my lips upon it
And blew a frost across
its flat
I wrote upon its outside-surface
"Tonite we're on the outside surface"
Just you and me girl: You and me and the fat
Blundertown is drowned in no brainstorm
smothered in mud at the foot of the river
the color vague is slapped around stupid
blood dries to a very dull color
I'm drowning and there is no relief from
It's only 12,000 miles to heaven
but the car is broken and we're all well-spoken
I've met three people but I don't think they like me
and we all talk about the state of the weather
I'm drowning and there is no relief from
And everything I say are my own thoughts
Don't listen to my very dull brother
I'm drowning and there is no relief from
Kathy's kisses, They fall out of
her mouth onto the floor, collect dust
and sweep them under the door
Transcribed by LJ/JL Meijer, boy next door, Peter Barton, and
maurice.
Table of Contents:
* The Nightwatchman
* Brave Exhibitions
* Friends Of My World
* The Voice
* Roman Roman
* Somebody's Watching
* After A Fashion
* Dive Position
* I Mistake Myself
* Shivers
* Riddle House
* Scatterbrain
* Enemy Of State
* Ho Ho
* Masturbation Generation
* Boy Hero
(Howard)
I've been contemplating suicide,
but it really doesn't suit my style,
so I think I'll just act bored instead
who can take (alt: And Contain) the blood I would've
shed?
She makes me feel so ugly (alt: so weary) (alt: so ill
at ease)
my heart is really on it's knees
but I keep a poker face so well
that even mother couldn't tell
But my baby's so vain
she is almost a mirror
and the sound of her name
sends a permanent shiver down my
SPINE
I keep her photograph against my heart
for in my life she plays a starring part
all alcohol and cigarettes
there is no room for cheap regrets
But my baby's so vain
she is almost a mirror
and the sound of her name
sends a permanent shiver down my
SPINE
She makes me feel so ugly
my heart is really on it's knees
but I keep a poker face so well
that even mother couldn't tell
But my baby's so vain
she is almost a mirror
and the sound of her name
sends a perennial shiver down my
SPIII-YI-YIIII-YI-YIIII-YI-YIYIYI-INE
(Howard)
The street is very wide
and I can't see across it
my house isn't clear to me
the cars move in between
Chorus And I say: Question
when is a door not a door???
and I say: "That's not right!
answer when it's a jar
The numbers soft as soap
and tend to bend in addition
they're much too wan for me
I'd prefer some consistancy
Chorus
The windows open wide
but I can't see out of it
the view is not very there
some-times I look for it
Chorus
Thanks to Mark Brown for most of the lyrics.
Table of Contents:
From Burning the Ice
* Truck Love
* Stow-a-way
* Dumb Europe
* Pleasure Is The Boss
From Headless Body in Topless Bar
* I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
From Sweat
* Sad Dark Eyes
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"Dumb Europe" by Die Haut with Nick Cave (from "Burning The Ice", 1983)
Music by Jochen Arbeit, Christoph Dreher, Rainer Lingk, & Thomas Wydler
Lyrics by Nick Cave
Transcribed by Greg O'Beirne (gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au)
Tempo: 80bpm
Rhythm: triplets (like "Da, d-Da, d-Da, d-Da, d-" etc...)
1 2 3 4
Intro: (incredibly distorted noisy guitar)
[Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."]
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la la la la la.....
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la la la la la.....
Verse: (virtually the same as the intro, but
spaced so the words can fit underneath)
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This Euro - pean night on the brink
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The cafes & the bars still stink
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the mist is much too thick for seeing
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(leave this room in a)
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and if I die to-night don't fling me in
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some bleak teutonic hole
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six feet under with
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a snap frozen soul....
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and really we could all just
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die of shame...
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yeah...
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die of shame...
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Lyrics:
1st Verse
On this European night out on the brink
The cafes and the bars still stink
The mist is much too thick for seeing
But not thick enough for leaning
I leave in a catatonic crawl
And if I die tonight don't fling me in
Some bleak teutonic hole
Six feet under with a snap-frozen soul
And really we could all just die of shame...
Yeah... die of shame...
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, la la la la la.
2nd Verse
On this Utopian night on the brink
Mama's face staring up at me from the bottom of the sink
Witness my trail of destruction
Just trying to leave this drinking place
My feet are magnetized for furniture
The floor's attracted to my face
And if I die tonight
Sell me as a prehistoric bone
Authentic junk-souvenir to Jap
To fob off on his friends back home
The money-dance...[mumble] I find it hard to cope with days like this etc...
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, la la la la la.
[The third verse is completely undecipherable, but sounds like:]
And tonight steps into my beer in my poor '61,
I swear that statue's read the moons
Or my planets are all wrong
And if I die tonight ship my body way back home
[mumble]
[mumble]
Pulling the drip right out of the arm
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, la la la la la.
4th Verse
On this European night on the brink
Your cafes, your beer-halls and your bars still stink
And if I die tonight send my body way back home
And if I die tonight send my body way back home
And if I die tonight send my body way back home
And if I die tonight and if I die tonight...
Dumb Europe
Dumb Europe
Dumb Europe
Dumb Europe
This recording is reasonably rare, and it's unlikely anyone you play the
song to will have heard the original anyway, so just use the lyrics
above, or the ones from King Ink, and play the song in whatever way
sounds best to you ;) Have fun ;)
All Albums
Thanks to Mark Brown for most of the
lyrics.
Table of Contents:
From Burning the Ice
* Truck Love
* Stow-a-way
* Dumb Europe
* Pleasure Is The Boss
From Headless Body in Topless Bar
* I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My
Condition Was In)
From Sweat
* Sad Dark Eyes
From Burning the Ice
Truck love! Right here!
Truck love! Right now!
Bewitched by pure power. That's truck love!
In the gully of your choice. Truck love!
Jam-up on a leaping tree. Head on! Head first!
And God came down and talked to me
And I dammn nearly wept.
Tears rolling down the dash! Tears rolling down the
dash!
We can't stop the monster rolling
We can't stop the monster rolling
We can't stop the monster rolling
We can't stop the monster rolling
Rise to power! Rise to power!
Rise to power! Rise to power!
You stare bright like gold
Eye-spot interference all across the fucking road.
Burn my eyes! Burn my eyes! Baybeeeeee!
My hands are shaking when I'm touching ya
My hands are shaking when I'm touching ya
They keep shaking when I ain't
They keep shaking when I ain't
Truck love! Truck love!
Pit-stop lovers!
Right now and the now is right!
This higway is done bent on killing us
Testing every nerve that we possess between us.
The face of Christ is leaping from the storm
The face of Christ is leaping from the storm
You tend to get religious on these runs.
Rise to power! Rise to power!
Rise to power! Rise to power!
Divine power has gone crawled into this tank
Every metal muscle flexed and puping at the crank.
Pumping at my axis. Rendering me sexless.
Mega-tons of muscle kicking dust across Texas.
Truck love! Out on the city limits
Drive straight into the eye of the next town we hit
Gun it once for the hillbillys
Just to make them shit.
Fuck love! This is truck love!
Fuck love! This is truck love!
The dolls on the grill are caked in bloody bug guts
The dolls on the grill are caked in bloody bug guts
Truck love! Truck love!
Rise to power! Rise to power!
The dolls on the grill are caked in bloody bug guts
The dolls on the grill are caked in bloody bug guts
Truck love! Truck love!
There are things burning in the desert
Rise to power! Rise to power!
There are things burning in the desert
Rise to power! Rise to power!
There are things burning in the desert
Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
My girl turned blue as an iceberg do
And me I'm totally shipwrecked over her
Baby baby don't blow away
Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
I am the stow-a-way
This is your captain talking to ya
This is your captain talking to ya
This is your captain talking to ya
This is your captain talking to ya
Heartache
Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
I am the stow-a-way
My girl turned blue as an iceberg do
And me I'm totally shipwrecked over her
Hey baby don't blow away
Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
I am the stow-a-way
This your doctor talking to ya
This your doctor talking to ya
This your doctor talking to ya
This your doctor talking to ya
Heartache
On this European night out on the brink
The cafes and the bars still stink
The air is much too thick for seeing
But not thick enough for leaning
I leave in a catatonic crawl
And if I die tonight then throw me in
Some bleak teutonic hole
Six feet under with a snap-frozen soul
And really we could all just die of shame
And really we could all just die of shame
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe.
Oh the Utopian night on the brink
Mama's face staring up at me from the bottom of the
sink
Witness my trail of destruction
Trying to leave this drinking place
My feet are magnetised for furniture
The floor's attracted to my face
And if I die tonight
Sell me as some prehistoric bone
A lump of junk-souvenier for Jap
To fob off on his friends back home
The money dance....
I find it hard to cope with days like this. Pass the
bottle etcetera
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe.
On this European night out on the brink
The cafes and the bars still stink
The air is much too thick for seeing
But not thick enough for leaning
I leave in a catatonic crawl
And if I die tonight then throw me in
Some bleak teutonic hole
Six feet under with a snap-frozen soul
And really we could all just die of shame
And really we could all just die of shame
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe.
They're working us like dogs around here
'Cause pleasure is the boss
And I'm the happiest slave alive round here
'Cause pleasure is the boss
And nothing is safe that don't stand still
If it's O.K. with the boss
I'm gunna walk right up and take it yeah
If it's O.K. with the boss
Walk
What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
I woke up this morning the sun don't shine in
I found my broken mind in a brown paper bag but then
I tred on a cloud I fell eight miles high
Told my mind I'm gonna ...... sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition
was in
I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and I followed it
in
I met myself crawling out now, as I came crawling in
Then I woke up so tired I knew I'd never unwind
I saw so much, man it broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition
was in
Somebody painted April fool in big black letters on a
dead end sign
I had my foot on the gas when I left the road and blew
out my mind
I made miles out of Memphis and I got no spare
I made miles straight up downtown where
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition
was in
[As sung by Mick Harvey; Nick's live versions deviate from this.]
I look at you in your sad dark eyes
And your gypsy face with your spanish grace
With your words like rhymes and your voice like chimes
Darling, I want to kiss your burning mouth
Your sad dark eys and your ghostlike soul
Darling baby say that you'll be mine
Put your ring on my finger
And comb your long red hair
Put on your sad eyes
And tell me that you care
That you'll be mine, you'll be mine
Until the end of time
Tower Of Song and 500 Miles chords transcribed by Blake
Table of Contents:
From Tribute Albums:
* Tower Of Song (L. Cohen)
* Helpless (N. Young)
* Mack The Knife (K. Wiel)
Only Performed Live
(some with limited offical releases):
* I Put A Spell On You (S.J. Hawkins)
* Rye Whiskey
* Plain Gold Ring
* Oh, Happy Day (Edwin R. Hawkins)
With Current 93:
* All The Pretty Little Horsies (Cave/Traditional)
* PATRIPASSIAN (Cave)
Radio Sessions, Extremely Limted Releases, and Bootlegs:
* God's Hotel (Cave)
* What Can I Give You? (Cave)
* 500 Miles (H. West) (KATP out-take)
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Leonard Cohen
[G]Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm[C] crazy for love but I'm not coming on [G]
I'm just[D] paying my rent every[C]day
In the Tower of So[G]ng
I said to Hank Williams: How lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.
But I h[C]ear him coughing all night lon[G]g
A hund[D]red floors above me [C]
In the Tower of So[G]ng
I was born like this, I had no choice.
I was born with the gift of a golden voice.
And twe[C]nty-seven angels from the Great beyon[G]d
They ti[D]ed me to this table right her[C]e
In the Tower of Son[G]g
So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
They don't let a woman kill you, not
In the Tower of Song
Now you can say that I've grown bitter, but of this you may be sure:
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgment coming But I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the Tower of Song
[Em]I see you standing on the other [D]side
[Em]I don't know how the river [D]got so wide
I lo[C]ved you, baby, way back when[G]
[Em]And all the bridges are burning that we[D] might have crossed
[Em]But I feel so close to everythi[D]ng that we lost
We'll[C] never have to lose it agai[D]n
I[G] bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But You'll be h[C]earing from me, baby. Long after I'm [G]gone
I'll be s[D]peaking to you sweetly from a w[C]indow
In the Tower [G]of Song
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I Put A Spell On You
I put a (A)spell on you
(D)cause you're (A)mine
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500 Miles
If you (F#)miss the train I'm (Bb)on
Then you (G#)know that I'll be (E)gone
Lord I'm (G#)500 miles (B)away from (C#)home
For the rest of the song, pretty much follow the same
pattern, I could be missing a chord between '500 miles'
and 'away', but it's pretty much there.
Table of Contents
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title
Chords!!!
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Return to the Lyrics and Chords page.
The following are lyrics to Nick Cave songs
that have not been included on common Album
and Single releases or on soundtracks. This
page was developed from Maurice's document
of "Unpublished Lyrics to Nick Cave Songs".
From that document:
Many thanks to Paul Humphrey,
Robert Schmitz and Carmen Priebe!
"......" or (?) means we don't
know that part. Corrections
welcome!
Thanks too to Mark Brown for some of the
Die Haut lyrics.
Table of Contents:
From Tribute Albums:
* Tower Of Song (L. Cohen)
* Helpless (N. Young)
* Mack The Knife (K. Wiel)
Only Performed Live
(some with limited offical releases):
* I Put A Spell On You (S.J. Hawkins)
* Rye Whiskey
* Plain Gold Ring
* Oh, Happy Day (Edwin R. Hawkins)
* Viviane
With Barry Adamson:
* The Sweetest Embrace
With Current 93:
* All The Pretty Little Horsies
(Cave/Traditional)
* PATRIPASSIAN (Cave)
Radio Sessions, Extremely Limted Releases,
and Bootlegs:
* God's Hotel (Cave)
* What Can I Give You? (Cave)
* 500 Miles (H. West) (KATP out-take)
Tribute Albums:
Tower Of Song
From I'm Your Fan, a Leonard Cohen tribute album
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm paying my rent everyday in the Tower of Song
I said to Leonard Cohen: How lonely does it get?
Leonard Cohen hasn't answered me yet
But I can hear him coughing all night long,
A million floors above me in the Tower of Song
I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born like this, with a golden voice
Twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond,
Well they tied me to this table right here in the Tower of Song
You can stick your needles in a voodoo doll
I'm sorry baby, but it don't look like me at all
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
They don't let a woman kill you in the Tower of Song
I've grown bitter, bitter, of this you may be sure:
The rich, the rich have got channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement but it won't be long, but I may be
wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices in the Tower of Song - oh
yeah -
The guitar, the bass, the drums, so nice every hour in the Tower
of Song
I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
But I loved you, baby, way back when
All the bridges are burning that we might have crossed,
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
But I'll never have to lose you again, Tower of Song
I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'm back
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone
I'm speaking to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song
Now you can say that I've grown bitter, of this you can be sure:
The rich have got channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement but it won't take long, I may be
wrong
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Only Performed Live
(some with limited offical releases):
I Put A Spell On You
From Department of Enjoyment, NME compilation cassette; available on some
bootlegs.
I put a spell on you, 'cause you're mine
You'd better stop those things that you're doin'
Oh, honey, I ain't lyin', no
Wow, you better quit it, your messin' around
You better quit it, your foolin' around
I put a spell on you, wow, cause you're mine
It serves you right to suffer
It serves you right to be alone
Oh, you forever live the day I done packed and gone (?)
Oh you better kick it before it kicks you
Oh, you better quit it, it's true
I put a spell on you, wow, cause you're mine, mine, mine
You better quit it, your foolin' around
You better quit it, kick it, .... , oh you're messin' around
I put a spell on you, you, cause you're mine
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Rye Whiskey
Available on French promo CD, Good Songs
A traditional version is also available.
Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds, I know you most of all
You've robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold
And Whiskey, you villain, you've been my down-fall
You've cuffed and you've kicked me but I loved you of old
Oh Whiskey, Rye Whiskey, Whiskey I cried
If I don't get rye Whiskey I surely will die
Well I go yonder mountain and build me a still
And I send you a gallon for a five dollar bill
Well it's beefcake when I'm hungry, Whiskey when I'm dry