[ti:Where do we go Now But Nowhere]
[ar:Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds ]
[al:The Boatman's Call]
[00:00.00]I remember a girl so very well
[00:07.46]The carnival drums all mad in the air
[00:13.32]Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell
[00:19.34]Oh, where do we go now but nowhere
[00:25.22]In a colonial hotel we fucked up the sun
[00:31.76]And then we fucked it down again
[00:37.56]Well the sun comes up and the sun goes down
[00:43.32]Going round and round to nowhere
[00:49.19]The kitten that padded and purred on my lap
[00:55.21]Now swipes at my face with the paw of a bear
[01:01.15]I turn the other cheek and you lay into that
[01:06.97]Oh, where do we go now but nowhere
[01:15.32]Oh, wake up, my love, my lover, wake up
[01:27.53]Oh, wake up, my love, my lover, wake up
[01:39.48]Across clinical benches with nothing to talk
[01:45.52]Breathing tea and biscuits and the Serenity Prayer
[01:51.46]While the bones of our child crumble like chalk
[01:57.67]Oh, where do we go now but nowhere
[02:02.71]I remember a girl so bold and so bright
[02:09.56]Loose-limbed and laughing and brazen and bare
[02:14.85]Sits gnawing her knuckles in the chemical light
[02:21.44]Oh, where do we go now but nowhere
[02:26.96]You come for me now with a cake that you've made
[02:32.79]Ravaged avenger with a clip in your hair
[02:38.39]Full of glass and bleach and my old razorblades
[02:44.69]Oh, where do we go now but nowhere
[02:52.05]Oh, wake up, my love, my lover, wake up
[03:04.02]Oh, wake up, my love, my lover, wake up
[03:16.16]If they'd give me my clothes back then I could go home
[03:22.60]From this fresh, this clean, antiseptic air
[03:28.29]Behind the locked gates an old donkey moans
[03:34.85]Oh, where do we go now but nowhere
[03:40.36]Around the duck pond we grimly mope
[03:46.36]Gloomily and mournfully we go rounds again
[03:52.28]And one more doomed time and without much hope
[03:58.81]Going round and around to nowhere
[04:04.26]From the balcony we watched the carnival band
[04:10.00]The crack of the drum a little child did scare
[04:15.94]I can still feel his tiny fingers pressed in my hand
[04:22.42]Oh, where do we go now but nowhere
[04:27.95]If I could relive one day of my life
[04:33.92]If I could relive just a single one
[04:39.79]You on the balcony, my future wife
[04:46.34]Oh who could have known, but no one
[04:54.23]Oh, wake up, my love, my lover, wake up
[05:05.54]Oh, wake up, my love, my lover, wake up
[05:17.21]Oh, wake up, my love, my lover, wake up
[05:29.04]Oh, wake up, my love, my lover, wake up