Kicking Against the Pricks
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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Muddy Water
05 : 15
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I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
03 : 44
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Sleeping Annaleah
03 : 18
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Long Black Veil
03 : 46
5
Hey Joe
03 : 56
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The Singer
03 : 09
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Black Betty
02 : 33
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Running Scared
02 : 07
9
All Tomorrow's Parties
05 : 52
10
By the Time I Get to Phoenix
03 : 39
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The Hammer Song
03 : 50
12
Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart
03 : 44
13
Jesus Met the Woman at the Well
02 : 00
14
The Carnival Is Over
03 : 16
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Track Lyrics
Sleeping Annaleah Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Yesterday the sun was shining
But you're finding the sun, it don't shine all the time
A winter day suddenly came your way
And you ran into your mind
[Chorus]
Sleepin' Annaleah
Weepin' Annaleah
Do you think you're ready for me?
[Verse 2]
Oh and yesterday is gone forever and ever
Never to be again
You looked for the sunshine that brought warmth to your mind
But find only rain
[Chorus]
Sleepin' Annaleah
Weepin' Annaleah
No, you're not ready for me
[Verse 3]
But when yesterday becomes a memory
A memory that we uncovered in time
If you still remember that cold September
I reigned in your mind
[Chorus]
Yeah, sleepin' Annaleah
Weepin' Annaleah
Then you'd be ready for me
[Outro]
Sleepin' Annaleah (Woah oh oh)
Weepin' Annaleah (Woah oh oh)
Sleepin' Annaleah (Yeah oh oh)
Weepin' Annaleah (Woah oh oh)
Sleepin' Annaleah (Woah oh oh)
Weepin' Annaleah (Woah oh oh)
Weepin' Annaleah
Hey Joe Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?
Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?
I'm gonna shoot my baby, I caught her messin' round with another man
[Verse 2]
Hey Joe, I heard you shot your baby down
Hey Joe, I heard you shot your baby down
Yes I did I shot her, I went and put her in the ground
[Verse 3]
Hey Joe, where you gonna run to now?
Hey Joe, where you gonna run to now?
I'm heading way down South where I can be free
I'm heading Mexico way, no hangman's about to put a noose around me
The Singer Lyrics
[Verse 1]
As I walk these narrow streets where a million passin feet have trod before me
With my guitar in my hand,, suddenly I realize nobody knows me
Where yesterday the multitude screamed and cried my name out for a song
Today the streets are empty and the crowds have all gone home
[Verse 2]
I pass a million houses but there is no place that I belong
All I knew to give you was song after song after song
All the truths I tried to tell you were as distant to you as the moon
Born two-hundred years too late and two-hundred years too soon
[Verse 3]
I'm a child of this age locked into the pages of your book
And when I am but dust and clay and all the children stop to take a look
Will they marvel at the miracles I did perform and the heights I did aspire
Or will they tear out the pages of the book to light a fire
[Outro]
With the rain on my face, there is no place where I belong
Did you forget this singer so soon? And did you forget my song?
By the Time I Get to Phoenix Lyrics
[Verse 1]
By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising
And she'll find that note that I left hanging on the door
And she'll laugh when she reads the part that says "I'm leaving"
'Cause I've left that girl so many times before
[Verse 2]
And by the time I get to Albuquerque, she'll be working
And she'll take off time just to give me a call
And she'll hear that phone keep right on ringing and ringing
On the wall, yeah oh, that's all
[Verse 3]
And by the time I make Oklahoma, she'll be sleepin'
She'll turn softly in her sleep and call my name out low
And then she'll cry just to think that I'd really leave her, I left her
But time after time after time I tried to tell her so
But she just didn't know that I would really go
That I would really go
Jesus Met the Woman at the Well Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Jesus met the woman at the well
Jesus met the woman at the well
And he told her everything that she'd done, that she'd done
[Verse 2]
He said, woman, look-a here woman, tell me where's your husband?
He said woman, tell me woman, tell me where is your husband?
She said woah, woah, woah, woah, I don't have one, I don't have one
[Verse 3]
He said, woman, look-a here woman, they tell me you have five husbands
He said, woman, he said woman, they tell me you have five husbands
And that man you have now sure ain't one, sure ain't one
[Verse 4]
She went running, crying
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, you must be the prophet
She said woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, you must be the prophet
Because you told me everything that I've done, that I've done