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A Box For Black Paul
Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

Who'll build a box for Black Paul?

I'm enquirin' on behalf of his soul

I'd be beholdin' to ya all for a little information

Just a little indication, just who will dig the hole?

When ya done ransackin' his room, grabbin' anythin' that shines

I throw the scraps down on a street like all his books and his notes

All his books and his notes and all the junk that he wrote

The whole fuckin' lot right up in smoke

Ain't there nothin' sacred anymore?

Won't someone will build a box for Black Paul?

They're shootin' off his guns, they're shootin' off their mouths

Sayin' 'Fuck with us and die', fuck with us and die

Let's see that rat of fear go scuttle in their skulls

Cover that eye, cover that frozen eye

Black puppet in a heap up against the stonin' wall

Black puppet go to sleep, mama won't scold you anymore

Armies of ants wade up the little red streams

Are headin' for the mother pool

Oh Lord it's cruel, oh man it's hot

Oh man, it's hot and some of those ants they just clap to the spot

Who threw the first stone at Black Paul?

Don't ask us say the critics and the hacks

The pen pushers and the quacks

We just come to get the facts

Oh we just come to get the facts

Here is the hammer that build the scaffold and built the box

Here is the shovel that dug a hole in this ground of rocks

And here is the pile of stones and for each one planted

God only knows, a blood rose grown and listen

These are the true demon flowers

These are the true demon flowers

Stand back everyone, blood black everyone

Blood black, stand back

Who'll build a box for Black Paul?

And who'll carry it up the hill?

Not I said the widow, adjusting her veil

I will not drive the nail or cart his puppet body home

For I done that one hundred times before

Yes, one hundred times or more

And why should I dress his wounds?

When he has wounded my dress

Nightly, right across the floor

Who'll build a box for Black Paul?

And who'll, who'll carry it up the hill?

Now who'll bury him in the black soil?

From the woods and the thickets

Come the ghosts of his victims

We love you, I love you

And this will not hurt a bit

'Outta my eyes we shall rise to fall, to fall to glory

Spring up from the [Incomprehensible]

Spring up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up into death

Up, up, up, up, up, up, up inhale its breath

Yes, death favours those that favor death

Here is the stone and this is the inscription at bare

Below lies Black Paul under the upper

But above and beyond the surface flat fall there

And, and, and, and all the angels come on down

And all you men and women crowd around

And all the old widows weeping into their skites

And all the little gals and the little boys

And the scribes with their pens poised

All the hullabaloo, all the noise

All the hullabaloo, all the noise

All the hullabaloo, all of the noise

Clears his throat of Black Blood

And Black Paul singin' like a lonely boy

Well, I have cried one thousand tears

And I've cried a thousand tears, it's true

And the next stormy night you know

That I'm still cryin' them for you

Well, I had, I had a gal, she was so sweet

Red dress, long and red hair hangin' down

And heaven just ain't heaven

Without that little girl hangin' around

Well, am I laughin' about bein' a bad man?

The Lord knows I done some good things too

But I confess my soul will never rest until you, until you've built

Until you build a box for my gal too, my gal too, my gal too


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