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As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

As I sat sadly by her side

At the window, through the glass

She stroked a kitten in her lap

And we watched the world as it fell past

Softly she spoke these words to me

With brand new eyes, open wide

We pressed our faces to the glass

As I sat sadly by her side

She said, father, mother, sister, brother

Uncle, aunt and nephew, niece

Soldier, sailor, physician, laborer

Actor, scientist, mechanic, priest

Earth and moon and sun and stars

And planets and comets with tails blazin'

All are there forever fallin'

Fallin' lovely and amazin'

Then she smiled and turned to me

And waited for me to reply

Her hair was fallin' down her shoulders

As I sat sadly by her side

As I sat sadly by her side

The kitten she did gently pass

Over to me and again we pressed

Our different faces to the glass

That may be very well, I said

But watch the one fallin' in the street

See him gesture to his neighbors

And see him trampled beneath their feet

All outward motion connects to nothin'

For each is concerned with their immediate need

Witness the man reachin' up from the gutter

See the other one stumblin' on who can not see

With tremblin' hand I turned toward her

And pushed the hair out of her eyes

The kitten jumped back to her lap

As I sat sadly by her side

Then she drew the curtains down

And said, oh, when will you ever learn?

That what happens there beyond the glass

Is simply none of your concern

God has given you but one heart

You are not a home for the hearts of your brothers

And God does not care for your benevolence

Anymore than he cares for the lack of it in others

Nor does he care for you to sit

At windows in judgment of the world He created

While sorrows pile up around you

Ugly, useless and over inflated

At which she turned her head away

Great tears leapin' from her eyes

I could not wipe the smile from my face

As I sat sadly by her side

As I sat sadly by her side

As I sat sadly by her side

As I sat sadly by her side


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