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(l,m) Cave

(p) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

< Nick Cave: vocals, piano, hammond, harmonica;

Mick Harvey: bass, guitars, vibraphone, percussion,

backing vocals;

Blixa Bargeld: guitar, backing vocals;

Kid Congo Powers: guitar;

Thomas Wydler: drums, percussion;

Alexandre Ramirez, Altamir Tea Bueno Salinas, Helena Akiku Imasato,

Lea Kalil Sadi: violins

Akira Terazaki, Glaucho Masahiru Imasato: violas

Braulio Marques Lima, Cristina Manescu: cellos >

( The Good Son [Mute, 1990] )

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I set out on monday

The night was cold and vast

And my brother slept



And though I left quite quietly

My father raged and raged

And my mother wept



Now, my life was like a river

All sucked into the ground

And then the hammer came down

Lord, the hammer came down



Many miles did I roam

Through the ice and through the snow

My horse died on the seventh day



I stumbled into a city

Where the people tried to kill me

And I ran in shame



Then I came upon a river

And I laid my saddle down

And then the hammer came down

Lord, the hammer came down

It knocked me to the ground

And I said, "Please, please

Take me back to my home town"

Lord, the hammer came down



Now I've been made weak by visions

Many visions did I see

All through the night



On the seventh hour an angel came

With many snakes in all his hands

And I fled in fright



I pushed off into the river

And the water came around

And then the hammer came down

Lord, the hammer came down

And it did not make a sound

And I said, "Please, please

Take me back to my home ground"

Lord, the hammer came down



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