{I transcribed this as best I could from the recording.

feel free to correct any mistakes.

úúúMicah D. McConochie }







" (I'll Love You) Till the End of the World"



--Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds







It was a miracle I even got out of Longwood alive,

this town full of men with big mouths and no guts;

I mean if you can just picture it,

the whole third floor of the hotel gutted by the blast

and the street below showered in shards of broken glass,

and all the drunks pouring out of the dance halls

staring up at the smoke and the flames;

and the blind pencil seller waving his stick

shouting for his dog that lay dead on the side of the road;

and me, if you can believe this,

at the wheel of the of the car

closing my eyes and actually praying;

not to god above but to you,

saying:



help me, girl; help me, girl

I'll love you till the end of the world

with your black as coal

and your long dark curls



some things we plan,

we sit and we invent and we plot and cook up;

others are works of inspiration, of poetry;

and it was this genius hand that pushed me up the hotel stairs

to say my last goodbye

to a hair as white as snow and of pale blue eyes

saying:

I gotta go; I gotta go,

the bomb in the bread basket are ready to blow



in this town of men with big mouths and no guts,

the pencil seller's dog, spooked by the explosion, leaping under my wheels

as I careered out of Longwood on my way to you

waiting in your dress, in your dress of blue



I said:

thank you, girl; thank you, girl

I'll love you till the end of the world

with your eyes black as coal

and your long, dark curls



and with the horses prancing through the fields,

with my knife in my jeans and the rain on the shield;

I sang a song for the glory of the beauty of you

waiting for me

in your dress of blue



thank you, girl. thank you, girl

I'll love you till the end of the world

with your eyes black as coal

and your long, dark curls



I said:

thank you, girl; thank you, girl

I'll love you till the end of the world

with your eyes black as coal

and your long, dark curls



I said:

thank you, girl; thank you, girl

I'll love you till the end of the world

with your eyes black as coal

and your long, dark curls



I said:

thank you, girl; thank you, girl

I'll love you till the end of the world

with your eyes black as coal

and your long, dark curls



thank you, girl; thank you, girl

I'll love you till the end of the world

with your eyes black as coal

and your long, dark curls