LyricMeaning

Mermaids
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

She was a catch,

We were a match

I was the match that would fire up her snatch

There was a catch

I was no match

I was fired from her crutch

Now I sit around and watch

The mermaids sun themselves out on the rocks

They are beyond our touch

I watch and watch

Wave at me

They wave at me

They wave and slip

Back into the sea

All the ones who come

All the ones who go

Down to the water

All the ones who come

All the ones who go

Down to the sea

I believe in God

I believe in mermaids too

I believe in seventy two virgins on a chain (why not, why not)

I believe in the rapture

For I've seen your face

On the floor of the ocean

At the bottom of the ray

I do drive a relentless course

I do husband alertness course

I do mermaid alertness course

Watch them out on the rocks

Wave at me

Wave at me

They wave and slip

Back into the sea

All the ones who come

All the ones who go

Down to the water

All the ones who come

And all the ones who go

Down to the sea

For all the ones who come

And all the ones who go

Down to the water

All the ones who come

And all the ones who go

Down to the sea


  Purchase "Mermaids"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "Mermaids" Video   Play Spotify "Mermaids" Song   View Wikipedia "Mermaids" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "Mermaids"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

  (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?   Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore   Albert Goes West   And No More Shall We Part   Anthrocene   As I Sat Sadly By Her Side   Black Hair   Breathless   Brompton Oratory   Crow Jane   Death Is Not The End   Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!   Distant Sky   Do You Love Me?   Do You Love Me? (Part 2)   Do You Love Me? Pt2   Everything Must Converge   Far From Me   Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow   Finishing Jubilee Street   Gates To The Garden   Girl in Amber   God Is In The House   Good Good Day   Green Eyes   Hallelujah   Henry Lee   Higgs Boson Blues   Hold On To Yourself   I Let Love In   I Need You   Idiot Prayer   Into My Arms   Jangling Jack   Jesus Alone   Jesus Of The Moon   Jubilee Street   Jubilee Street (Live from Sydney Opera House)   Lay Me Low   Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl)   Lime Tree Arbour   Little Ghost Song   Love Letter   Lovely Creature   Loverman   Magneto   Midnight Man   Moonland   More News From Nowhere   Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds   Night Of The Lotus Eaters   Nobody's Baby Now   O Children   O'Malley's Bar   Oh My Lord   Push The Sky Away   Red Right Hand   Rings of Saturn   Saint Huck   Ship Song   Shoot Me Down   Skeleton Tree   Song Of Joy   Stagger Lee   Sugar, Sugar, Sugar   Sweetheart Come   Swing Low   The Carny   The Curse Of Millhaven   The Kindness Of Strangers   The Sorrowful Wife   There Is A Kingdom   Thirsty Dog   Today's Lesson   Water's Edge   We Call Upon The Author   We Came Along This Road   We Know Who U R   We No Who U R   We Real Cool   West Counrty Girl   Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?   Where The Wild Roses Grow   Wide Lovely Eyes

Related Songs

  When Mermaids Cry - Eagle Eye Cherry  Senses Capture [Non-Album Track] - Leaves' Eyes  Senses Capture - Leaves' Eyes  Mermaids - Dirty Fist!  Mermaids - Slow Runner  Mermaids - Forest City Lovers  Mermaids - Jinja Safari  Mermaids - Paul Weller  Mermaids - Qkumba Zoo  Mermaids - Xandria  Mermaids - I Am Kloot  Mermaid Song - Various Artists  Sunset Studies - Augie March  Mermaids feat. Lizbet Sempa - Blue Daisy  The Mermaids of Extended Technique...  Water Woman - Spirit  You Said You'd Meet Me (In California)...  Mermaids [Live] - Paul Weller  Mermaid Song - Bubblegum Octopus  Never Ending Tide...  Never Ending Tide - Damien Jurado  Mermaid - Lily Holbrook  Mist - Disembarked  Vincent O\'Brien - M. Ward  Vincent O'Brien - M. Ward  Wave of Mutilation - Grant Lee Phillips  Wave Of Mutilation - Scarling  Wave of Mutilation [Live] - Pixies  Frond - Pond  La Moora - Donovan  Wave of Mutilation - Pixies  Cash Money - Tyga  Wave of Mutilation [UK Surf] - Pixies  Wave of Mutilation [U.K Surf mix][Version]...  Wave of Mutilation - Frank Black  Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf) - Pixies  Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf Mix) - Pixies  Wave of Mutilation [From Wakeboarding Unleashed]...  Mermaids are Seasluts - Sage Francis  Mermaids and Slaves - Paul Heaton  Dear Jessie (Remix) - Emma Liana  Frontside Rock 'n' Roll - Bigbang  Kodak Moment - Self  An Interlude - Church  Sideshow By The Seashore - Luna  Wing Ding - Leatherface  Pushing Oars - Whispertown2000  Stay - Joe Jackson  Don't Change The Word - Balthazar  Rock Lobster - Botch  Dear Jessi - Rollergirl  Fire Snakes - Laura Veirs  Beloved Elysium - Dew-Scented  Mermaid - Shel Silverstein  The Mermaid - Shel Silverstein  Far Sub Dominant - Jon Langford  Beautiful Dreamer - Hank Snow  Beautiful Dreamer - Bing Crosby  Dear Jessie - Madonna  Beautiful Dreamer - Don Gibson  Salamandrina (English translation)...  Beautiful Dreamer [*] - Roy Orbison  Unrock - Gabriel Rios  Cerdes - Procol Harum  Cerdes (outside The Gates Of) - Procol Harum  Cerdes (Outside The Gates Of) (Alternate Mono Mix)...  Cerdes (Outside The Gates Of) (Stereo Mix)...  Before the Law - Dils  Mermaid - Amorphis  Avec tOi - Lengsel  Of The Sea - A. A. Bondy  Might I Deserve to Have a Dream - Arc Iris  Turn Loose The Mermaids - Nightwish  Giant Mantis VS TURT Nip - Heavy Heavy Low Low  Lullabys Legends And Lies - Bobby Bare  Lullabys, Legends and Lies - Bobby Bare  Pretty Girls Everywhere - Eugene Church  Dubai - Avias  Tales Of Brave Ulysses - Cream  In My Dreams - Des'ree  The Moon Asked the Crow - CocoRosie  Loneliest City - Ah Holly Fam'ly  Of the Sea - A. A. Bondy  Low Life Kingdom - Ben Gibbard & Jay Farrar  Lullabys, Legends And Lies - Shel Silverstein  Prisoners - Regina Spektor  Aquanaut - Steve Kilbey  Mermaid Blues - Tom Mcrae  Atlantis Part II: \ - Highlord  Ocean, The - Alela Diane  Two Guitars - Danny Schmidt  St. Michael - CocoRosie  Music - Kaleidoscope  Sour Ground - Asrai  Coming To Your Town - Art Paul Schlosser  Vampires of the West Coast - Ghost Bees  Unicorns and Kittenz - Vyncent Flaw  Three Steps - Paris Motel  Brooklyn - Woodkid  The Innocent Dance - Princess Izzy  The Shepherd - Genesis  Rock Lobster - B-52's  What's Become of the Baby - Grateful Dead  He's the Brat - Adam Green  Bear's Gone Fishin' - Widespread Panic  Spirit Of The Air - Angra  Bear Gone Fishin' - Widespread Panic  Tales of Brave Ulysses (Live) - Cream  Shepherd [BBC-Radio] - Genesis  The Shepherd - Genesis (1970) - Genesis  Bear Gone Fishin' - Widespread Panic  Tales Of Brave Ulysees - Cream  Nothing but the Whole - Emptiness  Rock Lobster - B-52's  Turn Loose the Mermaids [Instrumental] - Nightwish  Crap Hands - Beck  Murmaider - Deathklok  Tales of Brave Ulysses [Live] - Cream  Welcome to the Human Race - Timbuk 3  Tales of Brave Ulysses - Algebra Suicide  Charlotte - Rosie Thomas  Whats Become Of The Baby - Grateful Dead  Tales of Brave Ulysses - Eric Clapton  Clap Hands - Beck  Tales of Brave Ulysses [Stereo Version] - Cream  Tales of Brave Ulysses [BBC Recording] - Cream  Tales of Brave Ulysses [Mono Version] - Cream  Imperfect Tense - Frank Turner  I Run By Rosie Thomas - Alanis Morissette  Tales of Brave Ulysses [#] - Cream  Imperfect Tense - A. Turner  Imperfect Tense [Truck Session] - Frank Turner  Tales of Brave Ulysses - Minnie Riperton  Tales Of Brave Ulysses (San Francisco, CA, Winterl...  Tales Of Brave Ulysses By Eric Clapton And Martin...  Subconscious Life - Self  Sad Parade - Jaguar Love  Coping - Blur  Calling All Goddesses [Explicit] - Adore Delano  The Ocean - Alela Diane  Suddenly - Unicorn  The Sea - Dark Moor  Salamandrina - Einstuerzende Neubauten  Suddenly - Unicorns  Live Brightly - Andrew Sisneros  Shipwrecks - Songdog  Heavenly Boat - Pete Francis  Blue Velvet Sea - Justin Nozuka  Peep-Hole - System of a Down  Peephole - System Of A Down  Oretown - Pogues  Horrors Of The Deep - Shriekback  Fish On - Lindemann  I Feel Better Than James Brown - Was Not Was  I Feel Better Than James Brown - Was (not Was)  The Galley - Accept  Infernal Mask Ceremony - Asgaard  Carlos Slim - Riff Raff  Hole - System of a Down  Shorley Wall - Ooberman  4 Small Hands - Jill Hennessy  Tides - Jimmy Buffett  Gotta Be - Orange Blue  Getaway - Avias  Dawntreader - Joni Mitchell  The Sea Still Sings - Marc Almond  Houses - Judy Collins  The Dawntreader - Joni Mitchell  A Clean Song - Oscar Brand  Oo-Ee-Diddley-Bop! - Peter Wolf  Mermaid's Avenue - Woody Guthrie  The Galley - Accept  Mermaid's Avenue - Woody Guthrie  Fully Loaded - Curren$y  The Nudes Lift Shields For War - Current 93  You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!...  Never Neverland - Stephanie J. Block  Underwater - Ghostface Killah  Second Star To The Right and Straight On Till Morn...  Cuckoo - Tar...feathers  The Amazing Willy Wanker - Adam Sandler  Will You Come To The Bower - Dubliners  Mist and Sea Spray, Mermaids Singing Far Away...  Green Hell - Pepper  The Ballad of El Justin - Mattress Sale  LITERAL Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranged Tide...  Underwater - Ghostface Killah  Aquababe - Azealia Banks  Aquababe - Azealia Banks  Inanimate Sensation - Death Grips  Fathoms Below - Alan Menken  Murmaider II: The Water Gog - Dethklok  Splendid - Professor Elemental  Tacticas De Guerra - Lucero  Good Things Die - Ugly Heroes  Nikes - Frank Ocean  Nikes (Pop Up Shop Version) - Frank Ocean  And Everything Like That - Shriekback  Low On Air - 77 Bombay Street  November Skies - Carnage
  Please consider supporting this site by Clicking Here and Bookmarking whenever you search and shop Amazon. It costs you nothing but it supports us and gives us credit and we appreciate it greatly.