Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
04 : 11
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Today's Lesson
04 : 41
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Moonland
03 : 53
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Night of the Lotus Eaters
04 : 53
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Albert Goes West
03 : 32
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We Call Upon the Author
05 : 11
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Hold On to Yourself
05 : 50
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Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl)
04 : 57
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Jesus of the Moon
03 : 22
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Midnight Man
05 : 06
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More News From Nowhere
07 : 58
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Track Lyrics
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Lyrics
[Chorus]
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself back in that hole
[Verse 1]
Larry made his nest up in the autumn branches
Built from nothing but high hopes and thin air
He collected up some baby blasted mothers
They took their chances and for a while they lived quite happily up there
He came from New York City, man, but he couldn't take the pace
He thought it was like a dog eat dog world
But he went to San Francisco, spent a year in outer space
With a sweet little San Franciscan girl
I can hear my mother wailing
And a whole lot of scraping of chairs
[Pre-Chorus]
I don't know what it is
But there's definitely something going on upstairs
[Chorus]
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself back in that hole (I want you to dig)
(I want you to dig)
(I want you to dig)
[Verse 2]
Well, yeah, New York City, he had to get out of there
And San Francisco, well, I don't know
And then to LA, where he spent about a day
He thought even the pale sky-stars were smart enough to keep well away from LA
Meanwhile Larry made up names for the ladies
Like Ms. Boo and Ms. Quick
He stockpiled weapons and took pot shots in the air
He feasted on their lovely bodies like a lunatic
And wrapped himself up in their soft yellow hair
I can hear chants and incantations
And some guy is mentioning me in his prayers
[Pre-Chorus]
Well, I don't know what it is
But there's definitely something going on upstairs
[Chorus]
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself back in that hole (I want you to dig)
(I want you to dig)
(I want you to dig)
[Verse 3]
Well, New York City Man
San Francisco, LA, I don't know
But Larry grew increasingly neurotic and obscene
I mean, he, he never asked to be raised up from the tomb
I mean no one ever actually asked him to forsake his dreams
Anyway, to cut a long story short, fame finally found him
Mirrors became his torturers
Cameras snapped him at every chance
The women all went back to their homes and their husbands
With secret smiles in the corners of their mouths
He ended up like so many of them do
Back in the streets of New York City
In a soup queue
A dope fiend
A slave
Then prison
Then the mad house
Then the grave
Oh, poor Larry
But what do we really know of the dead
And who actually cares?
[Pre-Chorus]
Well, I don't know what it is
But there's definitely something going on upstairs
[Chorus]
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself back in that hole (I want you to dig)
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself back in that hole (I want you to dig)
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself back in that hole (I want you to dig)
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself back in that hole
Hold On to Yourself Lyrics
13 ContributorsHold on to Yourself LyricsI'm so far away from you
I'm pacing up and down my room
Does Jesus only love a man who loses?
I turn on the radio
There's some cat on the saxophone
Laying down a litany of excuses
There's madhouse longing in my baby's eyes
She rubs a lamp between her thighs
And hopes the genie comes out singing
And she lives in some forgotten song
And moves like she is zombie-strong
Breathes steady as the pendulum keeps swinging
You better hold on to yourself
Well, cities rust and fall to ruin
Factories close and cars go cruising
In and around the borders of her vision
She says oh woah woah woah
As Jesus makes the flowers grow
All around the scene of her collision
Oh you know, yes, I would
I would hold on to yourself
In the middle of the night
I try my best to chase outside
The phantoms and the ghosts and the fairy-girls
On 1001 nights like this
She mutters open sesame and Ali Baba and his forty thieves
Launch her off the face of the world
Well, you know
Oh baby, I'll come back
And I'll hold on to yourself
Babe, I'm 1000 miles away
And I just don't know what to say
Cause Jesus only loves a man who bruises
But darling we can clearly see
It's all life and fire and lunacy
And excuses and excuses and excuses
Well, you know if I could I would
Yeah, I would lie right down
And I'd hold on to yourself
Yeah, I would lie right down
And I would hold on to yourself
One day I'll come back to you
And I'll hold on to yourself
Yeah, I'm gonna come back
Gonna lie down
And I'll hold on to yourself
Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Well, you lost a foe
And you found a friend
(Lie down here and be my girl)
I'm back now, baby, that man
He won't be coming round here again
(Lie down here and be my girl)
I'm trying to tread careful, baby
You're as brittle as a wishbone of a bird
(Lie down here and be my girl)
We've been scribbled in the margins
Of a story that is patently absurd
(Lie down here and be my girl)
[Chorus]
Let it all come down
Yeah, tonight
Oh we can shine, shine
Let it all come down
Oh, be my girl, be my girl
Mmm
I want you to be
[Verse 2]
It's a matter of some urgency
O darling can't you see, I can't hold back the tide
(Lie down here and be my girl)
And stop your frantic little fingers trying to collect
The years that pour from the hole in my side
(Lie down here and be my girl)
Don't worry, baby, this old snake
Banging at your door
Has got a few skins left to shed
(Lie down here and be my girl)
You look so good, you look so good
And the rest is better left unsaid
(Lie down here and be my girl )
[Chorus]
Let it all come down
Yeah, tonight
Oh shine, oh we can shine
Let it all come down tonight
Be my girl, yeah, be my girl
You look so good, You look so good, You look so good
You look so good, You look so good
[Verse 3]
One day I'll buy a factory
I'll assemble you on a production line
(Lie down here and be my girl)
I'll build a million of you, baby
And every single one of them will be mine
(Lie down here and be my girl)
I will fill the house with you
Stack you up in every room
We'll have a real good time
(Lie down here and be my girl)
But right now I'm sitting here
On my own, going out of my mind
(Lie down here and be my girl)
[Chorus]
Let it all come down
Yeah, tonight
Oh we can shine, shine, shine
Tonight
You look so good, you look so good, you look so good (tonight)
You look so good, you look so good, you look so good (tonight)