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Album: Miscellaneous (2008)
Artists: Nick Cave & The Badseeds

  1. A Box For Black Paul
  2. A Dead Song
  3. Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore
  4. All The Pretty Little Horsies
  5. All Tomorrow's Parties
  6. Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For
  7. Avalanche
  8. Babe, I Got You Bad
  9. Black Betty
  10. Black Crow King
  11. Black Hair
  12. Blast Off
  13. Blind Lemon Jefferson
  14. Blue Bird
  15. Blundertown
  16. Brompton Oratory
  17. Brother, My Cup Is Empty
  18. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
  19. Cabin Fever!
  20. Can
  21. Capers
  22. Cassiel's Song
  23. Christina The Astonishing
  24. Cindy
  25. City Of Refuge
  26. Come Into My Sleep
  27. Crow Jane
  28. Cry
  29. Dead Joe
  30. Death Is Not The End
  31. Deep In The Woods
  32. Do You Love Me
  33. Do You Love Me (part 2)
  34. Dull Day
  35. Dumb Europe
  36. Far From Me
  37. The Big Parade


Nick Cave & The Badseeds
Miscellaneous
Avalanche
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Avalanche
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(Leonard Cohen)



I stepped into an avalanche
It covered up my soul
When I am not this hunchback that you see
I sleep beneath the golden hill
You who wish to conquer pain
You must learn to serve me well


You strike my side by accident
As you go down to your goal
This cripple here that you clothe and feed
Is neither starved nor cold
He does not ask for your company
Not at the centre, the centre of the world


I who am on a pedestal
You did not raise me there
Your laws do not compel me now
To kneel grotesque and bare
For I myself am the pedestal
For this ugly hump at which you stare


You who wish to conquer pain
You must learn what makes me kind
The crumbs of love that you offer me
Are the crumbs I've left behind
Your pain is no credential here
It's just a shadow of my wound


I have begun to ask for you
I who have no greed
I have begun to long for you
I who have no need
You say you've gone away from me
But I can feel you when you breathe


Do not dress in those rags for me
I know you are not poor
And do not love me quite so fiercely now
When you know that you are not sure
It is your turn, my beloved one
It is your flesh that I wear
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