[ti:Brompton Oratory]
[ar:NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS]
[al:The Boatman's Call]
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[00:38.18]Up those stone steps I climb
[00:44.80]Hail this joyful day's return
[00:51.82]Into its great shadowed vault I go
[00:58.39]Hail the Pentecostal morn
[01:07.86]The reading is from Luke 24
[01:14.20]Where Christ returns to his loved ones
[01:21.59]I look at the stone apostles
[01:28.46]Think that it's alright for some
[01:36.32]And I wish that I was made of stone
[01:44.40]So that I would not have to see
[01:52.39]A beauty impossible to define
[01:58.08]A beauty impossible to believe
[02:05.81]A beauty impossible to endure
[02:14.49]The blood imparted in little sips
[02:21.36]The smell of you still on my hands
[02:27.02]As I bring the cup up to my lips
[02:36.93]No God up in the sky
[02:44.43]No devil beneath the sea
[02:52.06]Could do the job that you did, baby
[02:58.72]Of bringing me to my knees
[03:07.52]Outside I sit on the stone steps
[03:14.86]With nothing much to do
[03:21.96]Forlorn and exhausted, baby
[03:28.40]By the absence of you