Thursday, July 24, 2014

Nick Cave and TBS - The Firstborn Is Dead - Say Goodbye to the Little Girl Tree

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From Her to Eternity (1985) 
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Say Goodbye to the Little Girl Tree
(5:10)
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O say goodbye to the little girl tree
O you know that I must say goodbye
To the little girl tree
This wall I built around you
Is made out of stone-lies
O little girl the truth would be
An axe in thee
O father look to your daughter
Brick of grief and stricken morter
With this ring
This silver hoop of wire
I bind your maiden mainstem
Just to keep you as a child

O say goodbye to the little girl tree
O you know that I must say goodbye
To my little girl tree
How fast your candy bones
Reached out for me
I must say goodbye to your brittle bones
Crying out for me
O you know that I must say goodbye
O goodbye
Even though you will betray me
The very minute that I leave

O say goodbye to the little girl tree
O Lord you know that I must say goodbye
To that little girl tree
I rise up her girl-child lumps and slipping knots
Into her laden boughs
And amongst her roping limbs
Like a swollen neck vein branching
Into smaller lesser veins
That must all just sing and say goodbye
And let her blossom veils fly
Her velvet gown
Down down down
Down down down
Down down down and goodbye
For you know that I must say goodbye

To a rhythm softly tortured
Of a motion back and forth
Thats a rhythm sweetly tortured
O that's the rhythm of the orchard
And you know that I must say goodbye
To that little girl tree
O goodbye
Yes goodbye
For you know that I must die
Down down down
Down down down
Down down down and goodbye
For you know that I must die
Yes you know that I must die
O-o you know that I must die 
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds studio albums
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From Her to Eternity (1984)
1. Avalanche (5:13)  •  2. Cabin Fever! (6:11)  •  3. Well of Misery (5:25)  •  4. From Her to Eternity (5:33)  •  5. In the Ghetto (4:06) 
6. The Moon is in the Gutter (2:36)  •  7. Saint Huck (7:22)  •  8. Wings off Flies (4:06)  •  9. A Box for Black Paul (9:42) 
10. From Her to Eternity (4:35) 
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The Firstborn Is Dead (1985)
1. Tupelo (7:17)  •  2. Say Goodbye to the Little Girl Tree (5:10)  •  3. Train Long-Suffering (3:49)  •  4. Black Crow King (5:05)
5. Knockin' on Joe (7:38)  •  6. Wanted Man (5:27)  •  7. Blind Lemon Jefferson (6:10)  •  8. The Six Strings That Drew Blood (4:50)
9. Tupelo (5:01)
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Kicking Against the Pricks (1986)
1. Muddy Water (5:15)  •  2. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman (3:44)  •  3. Sleeping Annaleah (3:18)  •  4. Long Black Veil (3:46)
5. Hey Joe (3:56)  •  6. The Singer (a.k.a. The Folksinger) (3:09)  •  7. Black Betty (2:33)  •  8. Running Scared (2:07)
9. All Tomorrow's Parties (5:52)  •  10. By the Time I Get to Phoenix (3:39)  •  11. The Hammer Song (3:50)
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Your Funeral... My Trial (1986)
1. Sad Waters (5:00)  •  2. The Carny (8:01)  •  3. Your Funeral, My Trial (3:56)  •  4. Stranger Than Kindness (4:47) 
5. Jack's Shadow (5:41)  •  6. Hard On for Love (5:19)  •  7. She Fell Away (4:30)  •  8. Long Time Man (5:35)  •  9Scum (5:35) 
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Tender Prey (1988)
1. The Mercy Seat (7:17)  •  2. Up Jumped the Devil (5:16)  •  3. Deanna (3:45)  •  4. Watching Alice (4:01)  •  5. Mercy (6:22)
6. City of Refuge (4:48)  •  7. Slowly Goes the Night (5:23)  •  8. Sunday's Slave (3:40)  •  9. Sugar Sugar Sugar (5:01)
10. New Morning (3:46)  •  11. The Mercy Seat (video mix) (5:05)
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The Good Son (1990)
1. Foi Na Cruz (5:39)  •  2. The Good Son (6:01)  •  3. Sorrow's Child (4:36)  •  4. The Weeping Song (4:21)  •  5. The Ship Song (5:14)
6. The Hammer Song (4:16)  •  7. Lament (4:51)  •  8. The Witness Song (5:57)  •  9. Lucy (4:17)  •  X. The Train Song (4:17) 
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Henry's Dream (1992)
1. Papa Won't Leave You, Henry (5:54)  •  2. I Had a Dream, Joe (3:43)  •  3. Straight to You (4:35)   •  4. Brother, My Cup Is Empty (3:02) 
5. Christina the Astonishing (4:51)  •  6. When I First Came to Town (5:22)  •  7. John Finn's Wife (5:13)
8. Loom of the Land (5:08)  •  9. Jack the Ripper (3:45)
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Let Love In (1994)
1. Do You Love Me? (5:56)  •  2. Nobody's Baby Now (3:52)  •  3. Loverman (6:21)  •  4. Jangling Jack (2:47)
5. Red Right Hand (6:10)  •  6. I Let Love In (4:14)  •  7. Thirsty Dog (3:48)  •  8. Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore (3:46)
9. Lay Me Low (5:08)  •  10. Do You Love Me? (Part 2) (6:12)
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Murder Ballads (1996)
1. Song of Joy (6:47)  •  2. Stagger Lee (5:15)  •  3. Henry Lee (3:58)  •  4. Lovely Creature (4:13)
5. Where the Wild Roses Grow (3:57)  •  6. The Curse of Millhaven (6:55)  •  7. The Kindness of Strangers (4:39)
8. Crow Jane (4:14)  •  9. O'Malley's Bar (14:28)  •  10. Death Is Not the End (4:26)
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The Boatman's Call (1997)
1. Into My Arms (4:15)  •  2. Lime Tree Arbour (2:56)  •  3. People Ain't No Good (5:42)  •  4. Brompton Oratory (4:06)
8. West Country Girl (2:45)  •  9. Black Hair (4:14)  •  10. Idiot Prayer (4:21)  •  11. Far from Me (5:33)
12. Green Eyes (3:32)
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No More Shall We Part (2001)
1. As I Sat Sadly by Her Side (6:15)  •  2. And No More Shall We Part (4:00)  •  3. Hallelujah (7:48)  •  4. Love Letter (4:08) 
5. Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow (5:36)  •  6. God Is in the House (5:44)  •  7. Oh My Lord (7:30)
8. Sweetheart Come (4:58)  •  9. The Sorrowful Wife (5:18)  •  10. We Came Along This Road (6:08) 
11. Gates to the Garden (4:09)  •  12. Darker with the Day (6:07)  •  Grief Came Riding (5:06)  •  Bless His Ever Loving Heart (5:06)
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Nocturama (2003)
1. Wonderful Life (6:49)  •  2. He Wants You (3:30)  •  3. Right Out of Your Hand (5:15)  •  4. Bring It On (5:22)
5. Dead Man in My Bed (4:40)  •  6. Still in Love (4:44)  •  7. There Is a Town (4:58)  •  8. Rock of Gibraltar (3:00)
9. She Passed by My Window (3:20)  •  10. Babe, I'm on Fire (14:45)
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Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)
Disc one: Abattoir Blues
1. Get Ready for Love (5:05)  •  2. Cannibal's Hymn (4:54)  •  3. Hiding All Away (6:31)  •  4. Messiah Ward (5:14)
5. There She Goes, My Beautiful World (5:17)  •  6. Nature Boy (4:54)  •  7. Abattoir Blues (3:58)  •  8. Let the Bells Ring (4:26) 
9. Fable of the Brown Ape (2:45)

Disc two: The Lyre of Orpheus
1. The Lyre of Orpheus (5:36)  •  2. Breathless (3:13)  •  3. Babe, You Turn Me On (4:21)  •  4. Easy Money (6:43)
5. Supernaturally (4:37)  •  6. Spell (4:25)  •  7. Carry Me (3:37)  •  8. O Children (6:51) 
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Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)
1. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (4:10)  •  2. Today's Lesson (4:41)  •  3. Moonland (3:53)  •  4. Night of the Lotus Eaters (4:53)
5. Albert Goes West (3:32)  •  6. We Call Upon the Author (5:12)  •  7. Hold on to Yourself (5:51)  •  8. Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl) (4:58)
9. Jesus of the Moon (3:22)  •  10. Midnight Man (5:07)  •  11. More News from Nowhere (7:58)
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Push the Sky Away (2013)
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1. We No Who U R (4:04)  •  2. Wide Lovely Eyes (3:40)  •  3. Water's Edge (3:49)  •  4. Jubilee Street (6:35)  •  5. Mermaids  (3:49) 
6. We Real Cool (4:18)  •  7. Finishing Jubilee Street (4:28)  •  8. Higgs Boson Blues (7:50)  •  9. Push the Sky Away (4:07)
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Other songs
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x. Babe, I Got You Bad (3:52)  •  xCome Into My Sleep (3:52)  •  xKing Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O (3:10)  •  xKnoxville Girl (4:23)  
x. Little Empty Boat (4:29)  •  xRight Now I'm A-roaming (4:22)  •  xThe Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane (3:35)  
x. The Willow Garden (3:56)
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