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Album: Miscellaneous (1998)
Artists: Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

  1. Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?
  2. Babe, I Got You Bad
  3. Black Hair
  4. Blue Bird
  5. Brompton Oratory
  6. Cassiel’s Song
  7. Come Into My Sleep
  8. Crow Jane
  9. Death Is Not The End
  10. Far From Me
  11. Green Eyes
  12. Henry Lee
  13. I Do Love Her So (Lime Tree Arbour)
  14. Idiot Prayer
  15. Into My Arms
  16. King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O
  17. Knoxville Girl
  18. Little Empty Boat
  19. Love Letter
  20. Lovely Creature
  21. O'Malley's Bar
  22. Once A City
  23. Opium Tea
  24. People Ain't No Good
  25. Right Now I'm A-Roaming
  26. Rye Whiskey (Traditional Version)
  27. Sail Away
  28. Song Of Joy
  29. Stagger Lee
  30. Stagolee (Traditional Version 1)
  31. Stagolee (Traditional Version 2)
  32. Stagolee (Traditional Version 3)
  33. The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane
  34. The Briddle Path
  35. The Curse Of Millhaven
  36. The Kindness Of Strangers
  37. The Train Song
  38. The Willow Garden
  39. There Is A Kingdom
  40. West Country Girl
  41. Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere
  42. Where The Wild Roses Grow
  43. Wife


Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
Miscellaneous
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 will tell you a story
Of a man and his family
And I swear that it is true

Ten years ago I met a girl named Joy
She was a sweet and happy thing
Her eyes were bright blue jewels
And we were married in the spring
I had no idea what happiness and little love could bring
Or what life had in store
But all things move toward their end
All things move toward their their end
On that you can be sure

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Then one morning I awoke to find her weeping
And for many days to follow
She grew so sad and lonely
Became Joy in name only
Within her breast there launched an unnamed sorrow
And a dark and grim force set sail
* Farewell happy fields *
* Where joy forever dwells *
* Hail horrors hail *

Was it an act of contrition or some awful premonition
As if she saw into the heart of her final blood-soaked night
Those lunatic eyes, that hungry kitchen knife
Ah, I see sir, that I have your attention!
Well, could it be?
How often I've asked that question
Well, then in quick succession
We had babies, one, two, three

We called them Hilda, Hattie and Holly
They were their mother's children
Their eyes were bright blue jewels
And they were quiet as a mouse
There was no laughter in the house
No, not from Hilda, Hattie or Holly
"No wonder", people said, "poor mother Joy's so melancholy"
Well, one night there came a visitor to our little home
I was visiting a sick friend
I was a doctor then
Joy and the girls were on their own

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Joy had been bound with electrical tape
In her mouth a gag
She'd been stabbed repeatedly
And stuffed into a sleeping bag
In their very cots my girls were robbed of their lives
Method of murder much the same as my wife's
Method of murder much the same as my wife's
It was midnight when I arrived home
Said to the police on the telephone
Someone's taken four innocent lives

They never caught the man
He's still on the loose
It seems he has done many many more
Quotes John Milton on the walls in the victim's blood
The police are investigating at tremendous cost
In my house he wrote * "his red right hand" *
That, I'm told is from Paradise Lost
The wind round here gets wicked cold
But my story is nearly told
I fear the morning will bring quite a frost

And so I've left my home
I drift from land to land
I am upon your step and you are a family man
Outside the vultures wheel
The wolves howl, the serpents hiss
And to extend this small favour, friend
Would be the sum of earthly bliss
Do you reckon me a friend?
* The sun to me is dark *
* And silent as the moon *
Do you, sir, have a room?
Are you beckoning me in?

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