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 Send "Nick Cave" Ringtones to your Cell  A Box For Black Paul Who'll build a box for Black Paul? Ah'm enquirin on behalf of his soul Ah'd be beholdin to ya all For a lil information, yes .... Aint Gonna Rain Anymore Once there came a storm in the form of a girl It blew to pieces my snug little world Sometimes I swear I can still .... Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For? I've felt you coming girl, as you drew near I knew you'd find me, cause I longed you here Are you my desitiny Is this .... Babe, I Got You Bad Babe I got you bad Dreaming blood-wet dreams only madmen have Baby I got you bad I wish to God I never had And it .... Black Crow King Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm I am the black crow king Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm I am the black crow king Keeper of the nodding corn Bam! Bam! .... Black Hair Last night my kisses were banked in black hair And in my bed, my lover, her hair was midnight black And all her mystery dwelled .... Blind Lemon Jefferson Bline Lemon Jefferson is a-coming. Tap tap tappin with his cane. Bline Lemon Jefferson is a-coming. Tap tap tappin with his cane. His last ditch .... Breathless It's up in the morning and on the downs Little white clouds like gambolling lambs And I am breathless over you And the red-breasted robin .... Brompton Oratory Up those stone steps I climb Hail this joyful day's return Into its great shadowed vault I go Hail the Pentecostal morn The reading is .... Cabin Fever! The Captain's fore-arm like buncht-up rope with A-N-I-T-A wrigglin free onto skull'n'dagger and a portrait of Christ, nailed to an anchor etched into the upper... .... Christina The Astonishing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (l,m) Nick Cave (p) Nick Cave The Bad Seeds ( Henry's Dream [Mute, 1992] ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christina the Astonishing Lived a long time ago .... City Of Refuge You better run You better run and run and run You better run You better run You better run to the City of Refuge You .... Come Into My Sleep Now that mountains of meaningless words and oceans divide us And we each have our own set of stars to comfort and guide us Come .... Crow Jane Crow Jane Crow Jane Crow Jane Horrors in her head That her tongue dare not name She lives alone by the river The rolling rivers .... Deanna O DEANNA O Deanna! O DEANNA Sweet Deanna! O DEANNA You know you are my friend, yeah O DEANNA And I ain't down here for .... Death Is Not The End When you're sad and when you're lonely And you haven't got a friend Just remember that death is not the end And all that you .... Do You Love Me Onward! And Onward! And Onward I go Where no man before could be bothered to go Till the soles of my shoes are shot full .... Far From Me For you dear, I was born For you I was raised up For you I've lived and for you I will die For you I .... From Her To Eternity Ah wanna tell ya 'bout a girl You kno, she lives in Apt. 29 Why... that's the one right up top a mine Ah start .... Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass I can't raise my glass, without seeing her ass Through its telescopic bottom I can't raise my glass, without seeing her ass Through its telescopic .... Green Eyes Kiss me again, rekiss me and kiss me Slip your frigid hands beneath my shirt This useless old fucker with his twinkling cunt Doesn't care .... Hard On For Love It is for she that the cherry bleeds That the moon is steeped in mild nad blood Taht i steal like a robber From her .... Henry Lee (feat. PJ Harvey) Get down, get down, little Henry Lee And stay all night with me You won't find a girl in this damn world .... I Do Love Her So (Lime Tree Arbour) The boatman calls from the lake A lone loon dives upon the water I put my hand over her Down in the lime tree arbour .... I Had A Dream, Joe Get down, get down, little Henry Lee And stay all night with me You won't find a girl in this damn world That will compare .... I Let Love In Despair and Deception, Love's ugly little twins Came a-knocking on my door, I let them in Darling, you're the punishment for all of my former .... Idiot Prayer They're taking me down, my friend And as they uskher me off to my end Will I bid you adieu Or will I be seeing .... In The Ghetto Elvis Presley In The Ghetto (The Vicious Circle) ================================== As the snow flies On a cold and gray Chicago mornin' A poor little baby child .... Into My Arms I don't believe in an interventionist God But I know, darling, that you do But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him .... Jack The Ripper -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (l,m) Nick Cave (p) Nick Cave The Bad Seeds ( Henry's Dream [Mute, 1992] ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I got a woman SHe rules my house .... Jacks Shadow They dragged Jack and his shadow From the hole And the bulb that burned above him Did shine both day and night And his shadow .... Jangling Jack They dragged Jack and his shadow From the hole And the bulb that burned above him Did shine both day and night And his shadow .... John Finns Wife -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (l,m) Nick Cave (p) Nick Cave The Bad Seeds ( Henry's Dream [Mute, 1992] ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well the night was deep and the night .... King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O (Can you turn me up a bit) King kong kitchee kitchee ki-mi-o [4 times and throughout song] Well frog went a-courtin' and he did ride .... Knockin On Joe These chains of sorrow, they are heavy, it is true And these locks cannot be broken, no, not with one thousand keys O Jailer, you .... Knoxville Girl I met a little girl in Knoxville A town we all know well And every sunday evening In her home I'd dwell We went to .... Lay Me Low They're gonna lay me low (Lay me low) They're gonna sink me in the snow They're gonna throw back their heads and crow When I .... Lime Tree Arbour The Boatman calls from the lake A lone loon dives upon the water I put my hand over hers Down in the lime tree arbour .... Little Empty Boat You found me at some party You thought I'd understand You barreled over to me With a drink in each hand I respect your beliefs, .... Lovely Creature There she stands, this lovely creature There she stands, there she stands With her hair full of ribbons And green gloves on her hands So .... Mercy There's a devil waiting outside your door (How much longer) There's a devil waiting outside your door It is bucking and braying and pawing at .... New Morning I stood in the water In the middle month of winter My camel skin was torture I was in a state of nature The wind, .... Nobodys Baby Now I've searched the holy books I tried to unravel the mystery of Jesus Christ, the saviour I've read the poets and the analysts Searched through .... O'Malley's Bar I am tall and I am thin Of an enviable hight And I've been known to be quite handsome In a certain angle and in .... Papa Wont Leave You, Henry -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (l,m) Nick Cave (p) Nick Cave The Bad Seeds ( Henry's Dream [Mute, 1992] ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I went out walking the other day The .... People Ain't No Good People just ain't no good I think that's well understood You can see it everywhere you look People just ain't no good We were married .... Red Right Hand Take a litle walk to the edge of town Go across the tracks Where the viaduct looms, like a bird of doom As it shifts .... Right Now I'm A-roaming When I get home, I'm gunna clean up my house When I get home, I'm gunna kick out that mouse When I get home, I'm .... Saint Huck Born of the river, Born of its never-changing, never-changing murky water Huck standing like a Saint, upon its deck If ya wanna catch a Saint, .... Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree O say goodbye to the little girl tree. O you know that I must say goodbye To the little girl tree. This wall I built .... She Fell Away Once she lay open like a road Carbed apart the madness that I stumbled from But she fell away She fell away Shed me like .... Shoot Me Down On those sentimental nights you hold me in your sights shoot me down Though there ain’t no enemy here you keep me very near .... Slowly Goes The Night Once she lay open like a road Carbed apart the madness that I stumbled from But she fell away She fell away Shed me like .... Song Of Joy Have mercy on me, sir Allow me to impose on you I have no place to stay And my bones are cold right through I .... Stagger Lee It was back in '32 when times were hard He had a Colt .45 and a deck of cards Stagger Lee He wore rat-drawn shoes .... Still Your Face (Comes Shining Through) I look at, I look at you, And you look at me too And deep in our hearts we know it I heard it on .... Straight To You All the towers of ivory are crumbling And the swallows have sharpened their beaks This is the time of our great undoing This is the .... Stranger Than Kindness Stranger than kindness Bottled light from hotels Spilling everything Wet hand from the volcano Sobers your skin Stranger than Kindness You caress yourself And grind .... Sugar Sugar Sugar Sugar Sugar Sugar That man is bad The road he drives you down O sugar its a drag That road it twists That road is .... Sundays Slave Sunday's got a slave Monday's got one too Sunday's got a slave Monday's got one too Our sufferings are countless Our pleasures are motley few .... The Carny And no-one saw the carny go And the weeks flew by Until they moved on the show Leaving his caravan behind It was parked out .... The Curse Of Millhaven I live in a town called Millhaven And it's small and it's mean and it's cold But if you come around just as the sun .... The Kindness Of Strangers They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head O poor Mary Bellows She'd .... The Loom Of The Land It was the dirty end of winter Along the loom of the land When I walked with sweet Henry Hand upon hand And the wind .... The Mercy Seat Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And the mercy seat is waiting And I think my head .... The Moon Is In The Gutter The moon is in the gutter And the stars wash down the sink I am the king of the blues I scape the clay off .... The Ship Song Come sail your ships around me And burn your bridges down We make a little history, baby Every time you come around Come loose your .... The Six Strings That Drew Blood Guitar thug blew into town. His eyes like wheels spinnin' round. Jerkin-off at every sound. Layin' all his crosses down. O yeah. He got Six .... The Weeping Song Go son, go down to the water And see the women weeping there Then go up into the mountains The men, they are weeping too .... The Willow Garden Down in the willow garden, me and my love did meet And as we sat a-courting, my love fell off to sleep I had a .... There Is a Kingdom Just like a bird that sings up the sun In a dawn so very dark Such is my faith for you Such is my faith .... Thirsty Dog I know you've heard it all before But I'm sorry for this three year war For the setting up of camps and wire and trenches .... Train Long Suffering Woo-wooooooo Woo! In the name of pain! (In the name of pain and suffering) In the name of pain! (In the name of pain and .... Tupelo Woo-wooooooo Woo! In the name of pain! (In the name of pain and suffering) In the name of pain! (In the name of pain and .... Up Jumped The Devil O My O My What a wretched life I was born on the day That my poor mother died I was cut from her belly .... Watching Alice Alice wakes It is morning She is yawning As she walks about the room Her hair falls down her breast She is naked and it .... Well Of Misery Along crags and sunless cracks I go Up rib of rock, donw spine of stone I dare not slumber where the right winds whistle Lest .... West Country Girl With a crooked smile and a heart-shaped face Comes from the West country where the birds sing bass She's got a house-big heart where we .... When I First Came To Town -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (l,m) Nick Cave (Inspired by the traditional song 'Katie Cruel') (p) Nick Cave The Bad Seeds ( Henry's Dream [Mute, 1992] ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When .... Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere I remember a girl so very well The carnival drums all mad in the air Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell O where .... Where The Wild Roses Grow (feat. Kylie Minogue) They call me The Wild Rose But my name was Elisa Day Why they call me it I do not know For .... Wings Off Flies She loves me, she loves me not She loves me, she loves me not We-e-ll, ah've spent seven days and seven nights tryin to get .... Your Funeral My Trial I am a crooked man And I've walked a crooked mile Night, the shameless widow Doffed her weeds, in a pile The stars all winked .... Send "Nick Cave" Ringtones to your Cell |