__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)
We Call Upon the Author
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__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________What we once thought we had we didn't, and what we have now will never be that way again
So we call upon the author to explain
Our myxomatoid kids spraddle the streets, we've shunned them from the greasy-grind
The poor little things, they look so sad and old as they mount us from behind
I ask them to desist and to refrain
And then we call upon the author to explain
Rosary clutched in his hand, he died with tubes up his nose
And a cabal of angels with finger cymbals chanted his name in code
We shook our fists at the punishing rain
And we call upon the author to explain
He said everything is messed up around here, everything is banal and jejune
There is a planetary conspiracy against the likes of you and me in this idiot constituency of the moon
Well, he knew exactly who to blame
And we call upon the author to explain
Prolix! Prolix! Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix!
Prolix! Prolix! Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix!
Well, I go guruing down the street, young people gather round my feet
Ask me things, but I don'r know where to start
They ignite the power-trail ssstraight to my father's heart
And once again I call upon the author to explain
We call upon the author to explain
Who is this great burdensome slavering dog-thing that mediocres my every thought?
I feel like a vacuum cleaner, a complete sucker, it's fucked up and he is a fucker
But what an enormous and encyclopaedic brain
I call upon the author to explain
Oh rampant discrimination, mass poverty, third world debt, infectious diseease
Global inequality and deepening socio-economic divisions
Well, it does in your brain
And we call upon the author to explain
Now hang on, my friend Doug is tapping on the window (Hey Doug, how you been?)
Brings me back a book on holocaust poetry complete with pictures
Then tells me to get ready for the rain
And we call upon the author to explain
I say prolix! Prolix! Something a pair of scissors can fix
Bukowski was a jerk! Berryman was best!
He wrote like wet papier mache, went the Heming-way weirdly on wings and with maximum pain
We call upon the author to explain
Down in my bolthole I see they've published another volume of unreconstructed rubbish
"The waves, the waves were soldiers moving". Well, thank you, thank you, thank you
And again I call upon the author to explain
Yeah, we call upon the author to explain
Prolix! Prolix! There's nothing a pair of scissors can't fix!
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)
12. Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart (3:44) • 13. Jesus Met the Woman at the Well (2:00) • 14. The Carnival Is Over (3:16)
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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) • 9. Scum (5:35)
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) • 9. Scum (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)
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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)
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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)
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Murder Ballads (1996)
5. Where the Wild Roses Grow (3:57) • 6. The Curse of Millhaven (6:55) • 7. The Kindness of Strangers (4:39)
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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)
5. There Is a Kingdom (4:52) • 6. (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? (4:05) • 7. Where Do We Go Now but Nowhere? (5:46)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
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)
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Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)
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)
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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) • x. Come Into My Sleep (3:52) • x. King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O (3:10) • x. Knoxville Girl (4:23)
x. Little Empty Boat (4:29) • x. Right Now I'm A-roaming (4:22) • x. The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane (3:35)
x. The Willow Garden (3:56)
x. Little Empty Boat (4:29) • x. Right Now I'm A-roaming (4:22) • x. The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane (3:35)
x. The Willow Garden (3:56)
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