No More Shall We Part
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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As I Sat Sadly by Her Side
06 : 15
2
And No More Shall We Part
04 : 00
3
Hallelujah
07 : 48
4
Love Letter
04 : 08
5
Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow
05 : 36
6
God Is in the House
05 : 44
7
Oh My Lord
07 : 30
8
Sweetheart Come
04 : 58
9
The Sorrowful Wife
05 : 18
10
We Came Along This Road
06 : 08
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Gates to the Garden
04 : 09
12
Darker With the Day
06 : 07
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Track Lyrics
Hallelujah Lyrics
[Verse 1]
On the first day of May I took to the road
I'd been staring out the window most of the morning
I'd watched the rain claw at the glass
And a vicious wind blew hard and fast
I should have taken it as a warning
As a warning
As a warning
As a warning
I'd given my nurse the weekend off
My meals were ill prepared
My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb
And my piano crouched in the corner of my room
With all its teeth bared
All its teeth bared
All its teeth bared
All its teeth bared
[Chorus]
Hallelujah Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah
[Verse 2]
I left my house without my coat
Something my nurse would not have allowed
And I took the small roads out of town
And I passed a cow and the cow was brown
And my pyjamas clung to me like a shroud
Like a shroud
Like a shroud
Like a shroud
There rose before me a little house
With all hope and dreams kept within
A woman's voice close to my ear
Said, "Why don't you come in here?"
"You looked soaked to the skin"
Soaked to the skin
Soaked to the skin
Soaked to the skin
[Chorus]
Hallelujah Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah
[Verse 3]
I turned to the woman and the woman was young
I extended a hearty salutation
But I knew if my nurse had been here
She would never in a thousand years
Permit me to accept that invitation
Invitation
That invitation
That invitation
Now, you might think it wise to risk it all
Throw caution to the reckless wind
But with her hot cocoa and her medication
My nurse had been my one salvation
So I turned back home
I turned back home I turned back home
Singing my song
[Chorus]
Hallelujah
The tears are welling in my eyes again
Hallelujah
I need twenty big buckets to catch them in
Hallelujah
And twenty pretty girls to carry
Them down
Hallelujah
And twenty deep holes to bury them in
Hallelujah
The tears are welling in my eyes again
Hallelujah
I need twenty big buckets to catch them in
Hallelujah
And twenty pretty girls to carry them down
Hallelujah
And twenty deep holes to bury them in
Love Letter Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I hold this letter in my hand
A plea, a petition, a kind of prayer
I hope it does as I have planned
Losing her again is more than I can bear
I kiss the cold, white envelope
I press my lips against her name
Two hundred words. We live in hope
The sky hangs heavy with rain
[Chorus]
Love Letter Love Letter
Go get her Go get her
Love Letter Love Letter
Go tell her Go tell her
[Verse 2]
A wicked wind whips up the hill
A handful of hopeful words
I love her and I always will
The sky is ready to burst
Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
It all came out the wrong way
[Chorus]
Love Letter Love letter
Go get her Go get her
Love Letter Love letter
Go tell her Go tell her
[Verse 3]
Rain your kisses down upon me
Rain your kisses down in storms
And for all who'll come before me
In your slowly fading forms
I'm going out of my mind
Will leave me standing in
The rain with a letter and a prayer
Whispered on the wind
Come back to me
Come back to me
O baby please come back to me
Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Where is Mona?
She's long gone
Where is Mary?
She's taken her along
But they haven't put their mittens on
And there's fifteen feet of pure white snow
[Verse 2]
Where is Michael?
Where is Mark?
Where is Matthew?
Now it's getting dark
Where is John? They're all out back
Under fifteen feet of pure white snow
Would you please put down that telephone?
We're under fifteen feet of pure white snow
[Verse 3]
I waved to my neighbour
My neighbour waved to me
But my neighbour is my enemy
I kept waving my arms till I could not see
Under fifteen feet of pure white snow
[Pre-Chorus]
Is there anybody out there please?
It's too quiet in here and I'm beginning to freeze
I've got icicles hanging from my knees
Under fifteen feet of pure white snow
Is there anybody here who feels this low
Under fifteen feet of pure white snow
[Chorus]
Raise your hands up to the sky
Raise your hands up to the sky
Raise your hands up to the sky
Is it any wonder?
Oh, my Lord (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Oh, my Lord (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Oh, my Lord (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Oh, my Lord (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na)
[Verse 4]
Doctor, Doctor, I'm going mad
This is the worst day I've ever had
I can't remember ever feeling this bad
Under fifteen feet of pure white snow
[Pre-Chorus]
Where's my nurse? I need some healing
I've been paralyzed by this lack of feeling
I can't even find anything worth stealing
Under fifteen feet of pure white snow
Is there anyone here who doesn't know?
We're under fifteen feet of pure white snow
[Chorus]
Raise your hands up to the sky
Raise your hands up to the sky
Raise your hands up to the sky
Is it any wonder?
Oh, my Lord (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Oh, my Lord (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Oh, my Lord (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Oh, my Lord (Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee)
[Outro]
Save yourself! (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Save yourself! (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Help yourself! (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Save yourself! (Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee)
Save yourself! (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Save yourself! (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Help yourself! (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Save yourself! (Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee)
Save yourself! (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Help yourself! (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Help yourself! (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na)
Yeah, yeah, yeah (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
Darker With the Day Lyrics
[Verse 1]
So with that, I thought I'd take a final walk
The tide of public opinion had started to abate
The neighbors, bless them, had turned out to be all talk
I could see their frightened faces peering at me through the gate
I was looking for an end to this, for some kind of closure
Time moved so rapidly, I had no hope of keeping track of it
And I thought of my friends who had died of exposure
And I remembered other ones who had died from the lack of it
[Verse 2]
And in my best shoes, I started falling forward down the street
Stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd
Love followed just behind me, panting at my feet
As the steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud
Inside I sat, seeking the presence of a God
Searched through the pictures in a leather-bound book
And I found a woolly lamb dozing in an issue of blood
And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook
[Chorus]
And babe, it seems so long
Since you've been gone away
And I just got to say
That it grows darker with the day
[Verse 3]
Back on the street I saw a great big smiling sun
It was a good day and an evil day and all was bright and new
Seemed to me that most destruction was being done
By those who could not choose between the two
Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones
The streets groan with the little Caesars, Napoleons, and cunts
With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones
Counting on their fingers, with their crumbs down their fronts
[Verse 4]
I passed by your garden, saw you with your flowers
The Camellias, Magnolias, and Azaleas so sweet
You stood there invisible in the panicking crowds
You looked so beautiful in the rising heat
I smell smoke, see little fires bursting on the lawns
People carry on regardless, listening to their hands
Great cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns
Bored and disgusted, to do us down
[Chorus]
And babe, it seems so long
Since you've been gone
You went away
And I just got to say
That it grows darker with the day
[Verse 5]
All these streets are frozen now. I come and go
Full of a longing for something I do not know
My father sits slumped in the deepening snow
As I search, in and out, above, about, and below
[Chorus]
Babe, it seems so long
Since you've been gone
And you went away
And I hope and I pray
That it grows darker with the day