Nick Cave & The Bad seeds. Let Love in. (p)1994
CD/LP 1994 "Let Love In", new album to be released on April 18.
1. Do You Love Me?
2. Nobody's Baby Now
3. Loverman
4. Jangling Jack
5. Red Right Hand
6. I Let Love In
7. Thirsty Dog
8. Ain't Gonna Rain No More
9. Lay Me Low
10.Do You Love Me? - Part 2.
Mute, STUMM 123
I found her on a night of fire and noise
Wild bells rang in a wild sky
I knew from that moment on
I'd lover her till the day that i died
And i kissed away a thousand tears
My lady of the Various Sorrows
Some begged some borrowed some stolen
Some kept safe for tomorrow
On an endless night, silver star spangled
The bells from the chapel went jingle-jangle
Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me like I love you.
She was given to me to put things right
And I stacked all my accomplishments beside her
Still I seemed so obselete and small
I found God and all His devils inside her
In my bed she cast the blizzard out
A mock sun blazed upon her head
So completely filled with light she was
Her shadow fanged and hairy and mad
Our love-lines grew hopelessly tangled
And the bells from the chapel went jingle-jangle
Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me like I love you.
She had a heartful of love and devotion
She had a mindful of tyranny and terror
Well, I try, I do, I really try
But I just err, baby, I do, I error
So come find me, my darling one
I'm down to the grounds, the very dregs
Ah, here she comes, blocking the sun
Blood running down the inside of her legs
The moon in the sky is battered and mangled
And the bells from the chapel go jingle-jangle
Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me like I love you.
All things move toward their end
I knew before I met her that I would lose her
I swear I made every effort to be good to her
I swear I made every effort not to abuse her
Crazy bracelets on her wrists and her ankles
And the bells from the chapel went jingle-jangle
Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me like I love you.
Words: Cave Music: Cave/Casey
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I've searched the holy books
Tried to unravel the mystery of Jesus Christ, the saviour
I've read the poets and the analysts
Searched through the books on human behaviour
I travelled the whole world around
For an answer that refused to be found
I don't know why and I don't know how
But she's nobody's baby now
I lover her then and I guess I love her still
Hers is the face I see when a certain mood moves in
She lives in my blood and skin
Her wild feral stare, her dark hair
Her winter lips as cold as stone
Yeah, I was her man
But there are some things even love won't allow
I held her hand but I don't hold it now
I don't know why and I don't know how
But she's nobody's baby now
This is her dress that I loved best
With the blue quilted violets across the breast
And these are my many letters
Torn to pieces by her long-fingered hand
I was her cruel-hearted man
And though I've tried to lay her ghost down
She's movivg through me, even now
I don't know why and I don't know how
But she's nobody's baby now
Words and Music: Cave
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There's a devil waiting outside your door (How much longer)
Bucking and braying and pawing the floor
Well, he's howling with pain and crawling up the walls
There's a devil waiting outside your door
He's weak with evil and broken by the world
He's shouting your name and asking for more
There's a devil waiting outside your door
Loverman! Since the world began
Forever, Amen Till the end of time Take off that dress
I'm coming down I'm your loverman
Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
L is for Love, baby
O is for Only you that I do
V is for loving Virtually everything that you are
E is for loving almost Everything that you do
R is for Rape me
M is for Murder me
A is for Answering all of my prayers
N is for Knowing your loverman's going to be the answers to all of yours
I'll be your loverman! Till the bitter end
While empires burn down Forever and ever and ever and ever Amen
I'm your Loverman So help me, baby So help me
Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
I'm your Loverman!
There's a devil crawling along your floor
With a trembling heart, he's coming through your door
With his straining sex in his jumping paw
There's a devil crawling along your floor
And he's old and he's stupid and hes's hungry and he's sore
And he's blind and he's lame and he's dirty and he's poor
There's a devil crawling along your floor
Loverman! Here I stand Forever, Amen
Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
Forgive me , baby My hands are tied
And I got no choice No, I got no choice at all
I'll say it again
L is for Love, baby
O is for O yes I do
V is for Virtue, so I ain't gonna hurt you
E is for Even if you want me to
R is for Render unto me, baby
M is for that which is Mine
A is for Any old how, darling
N is for aNy old time
I'll be your Loverman! I got a masterplan
To take off your dress And be your man
Sieze the throne Sieze the mantle Sieze the crown
Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
I'm your Loverman!
There's a devil lying by your side
You might think he's sleep but take a look at his eyes
He wants you, darling, to be his bride
There's a devil lying by your side
Loverman! Loverman!
Words and Music: Cave
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Jangling Jack
Goes Yackety Yack
Visits the home of the brave
Hail a fat yellow cab
Jack wanna celebrate
Jack wanna big drink
Driver drops him at a bar
Called the Rinky Dink
Jack pushes through the door
And crosses the floor
Tips his hat to a man
Grinning in the corner
Going Do do do Do da do
Says, I'm Jangling Jack
I go Do da do
I wanna Rinky Dink Special
I wanna little umbrella too
Jack flops on his stool
Sees the grinning man laugh
So Jack laughs back
Jack raises his glass
Says, God bless this country
And everything in it
The losers and the winners
The good guys and the sinners
The grinning man says, Buddy
It's all Yackety Yack
Whips out a little black pistol
Shoots a bullit in Jack
Jangling Jack
Do Da Do Do Da Do
Jangling Jack
How do you do Do Da Do
Jangling Jack flies off his seat
Crashes through the door
Lands in a heap on the street
Hears his mother's voice
Going, Do da do
Jack is shouting, Mummy is it you?
He sees the berserk city
Sees the dead stacked in piles
Sees the screaming crowd
Screams, Where in hell am I?
Going Do da do Going Do da do
Well Jangling Jack
As a matter of fact
Crawls through the crowd
Back into the bar
Jack crawls to his stool
Jack drags himself up
Falls back down on his arse
In a puddle of blood
Going Goodbye Mummy
Goodbye Goodbye
Jack doubles over
And he vomits and dies
Going Do da do Going Do da do
Words and Music: Cave
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Take a little walk to the edge of town
Go across the tracks
Where the viaduct looms, like a bird of doom
As it shifts and cracks
Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires
Hey man, you know you're never coming back
Past the square, past the bridge, past the mills, past the stacks
On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat with a red right hand
He'll wrap you in his arms, tell you that you've been a good boy
He'll rekindle all those dreams it took you a lifetime to destroy
He'll reach deep into the hole, heal your shrinking soul
Hey buddy, you know you're never ever coming back
He's a ghost, he's a god, he's a man, he's a guru
They're whispering his name across this disappearing land
But hidden in his coat is a red right hand
You ain't got no money? He'll get you some
You ain't got no car? He'll get you one
You ain't got no self-respect, you fell like an insect
Well don't you worry buddy, cause here he comes
Through the ghetto and the barrio and the bowery and the slum
A shadow is cast wherever he stands
Stacks of green paper in his red right hand
You'll see him in you nightmares, you'll see him in your dreams
He'll appear out of nowhere but he ain't what he seems
You'll see him in your head, on the TV screen
And hey buddy, I'm warning you to turn it off
He's a ghost, he's a god, he's a man, he's a guru
You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by his red right hand
Words: Cave Music: Harvey/Wydler/Cave
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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 my former sins
I let love in I let love in
The door it opened just a crack, but Love was shrewd and bold
My life flashed before my eyes, it was a horror to behold
A life-sentence sweeping confetti from the floor of a concrete hole
I let love in I let love in
Well I've been bound and gagged and I've been terrorized
And I've been castrated and I've been lobotomized
But never has my formenter come in such a cunning disguise
I let love in I let love in
O Lord, tell me what I done
Please don't leave me here on my own
Where are my friends?
My friends are gone
So if you're sitting all alone and hear a-knocking at your door
And the air is full of promises, well buddy, you've been warned
Far worse to be Love's lover than the lover that Love has scorned
I let love in I let love in
Words and Music: Cave
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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
I'm sorry for the other night
I know sorry it don't make it right
I'm sorry for things I can't even mention
I'm sorry sorry sorry sorry
I'm sitting feeling sorry in the Thirsty Dog
I'm sorry sorry sorry sorry
I'm feeling very sorry in the Thirsty Dog
You keep nailing me back into my box
I'm sorry I keep popping back up
With my crazy mouth and jangling jester's cap
I'm sorry I ever wrote that book
I'm sorry about the way I look
But there ain't a lot that i can do about that
I'm sorry about the hospital
Some things are unforgivable
Some things simply cannot be forgiven
I was not equipped to know how to care
And on the accasions I came up for air
I saw my life and wondered what the hell i had been living
I'm sorry about all your friends
I hope they'll speak to me again
I said before I'd pay for all the damage
I'm sorry it's just rotten luck
I'm sorry I've forgotten how to fuck
It's just that I think my heart and soul are kind of famished
Forgive me, darling but don't worry
Love is always having to say you're sorry
And I am, from my head down to my shoes
I'm sorry that I'm always pissed
I'm sorry that I exist
And when I look into your eyes
I can see you're sorry too
Words and Music: Cave
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Once there came a storm in the form of a girl
It blew to pieces my snug little world
And sometimes I swear I can still hear her howl
Down through the wreckage and the ruins
And it ain't gonna rain anymore
Now my baby's gone
And it ain't gonna rain anymore
Now my baby's gone
Now the storm has passed over me
I'm left to drift on a dead calm sea
And watch her forever through the cracks in the beams
Nailed across the doorways of the bedrooms of my dreams
Now I have no one to hold
Now I am all alone again
It ain't too hot and it ain't too cold
And there is no sign of rain
And it ain't gonna rain anymore
Now my baby's gone, yeah
And it ain't gonna rain anymore
Now my baby's gone, yeah
And I'm on my own
She ain't coming back no more...
Say what you will, I don't care
Words and Music: Cave
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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 go
They're gonna jump and shout
They're gonna wave their arms about
All the stories will come out
When I go
All the stars will glow bright
My friends will give up the fight
They'll see my work in a different light
When I go
They'll try telephoning my mother
They'll end up getting my brother
Who'll spill the story on some long-gone lover
That I hardly know
Hats off to the man
On top of the world
Come crawl up here, baby
And I'll show you how it works
If you wanna be my friend
And you wanna repent
And you want it all to end
And you wanna know when
Then take a bow
Do it now Do it any old how
Make a stand Take my hand
And blow it all to hell
They'll inform the police chief
Who will breathe a sigh of relief
He'll say I was a malanderer, a badlanderer, and a thief
When I go
They will interview my teachers
Who'll say I was one of God's sorrier creatures
There'll be informative six-page features
When I go
They'll bang a big old gong
The motorcade will be ten miles long
The world will join together for a farewell song
When they put me down below
They'll sound a fluegelhorn
The sea will rage, the sky will storm
All man and beast will mourn
When I go
Hats off to the man
On top of the world
Come crawl up here, baby
And we can watch this damn thing turn
If you wanna be my friend
And you wanna repent
And you want it all to end
And you wanna know when
Then do it now
Don't care how Do it any old how
Take my hand Make a stand
And blow it all to hell
Words and Music: Cave
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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 of holes
And it's all downhill with a bullet
This ramnling and roving has take it's course
I'm grazing with the dinosaurs and the dear old horses
And the city streets crack and a great hole forces
Me down with my soapbox, my pulpit
The theatre ceiling is silver star-spangled
And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle
Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me?
There's a man in the theatre with girlish eyes
Who's holding my childhood to ransom
On the screen there's a death, there's a rustle of cloth
And a sickly voice calling me handsome
There's a man in the theatre with sly girlish eyes
On the screen there's an ape, a gorilla
There's a groun, there's a cough, there's a rustle of cloth
And a voice that stinks of death and vanilla
This is a secret, mauled and mangled
And the coins in my pocker go jingle-jandle
Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me?
The walls of the ceiling are painted in blood
The lights go down, the red curtains come apart
The room is full of smoke and dialogue I know by heart
And the coins in my pocker go jingle-jandle
As the great screen crackled and popped
The clock of my boyhood was wound down and stopped
And my handsome little body oddly propped
And my trousers right down to my ankles
Yes, its on onward! And upward!
And I'm off to find love
Do you love me? If you do, I'm thankful
Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me?
This city is an ogre squatting by the river
It gives life but it takes it away, my youth
There comes a time when you just connot deliver
This is a fact This is a stone cold truth
Do you love me?
I love you, handsome
But do you love me?
Yes, I love you, you are handsome
Amongst the cogs and the wires, my youth
Vanilla breath and handsome apes with girlish eyes
Dreams that roam between truth and untruth
Memories that become monstrous lies
So onward! And onward! And onward I go!
Onward! And onward! And I'm off to find love
With blue-black bracelets on my wrists and ankles
And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle
Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me?
Words and Music: Cave
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Last-modified: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 23:19:11 GMT