Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
Nick Cave

I went out walking the other day
The heat hung wet around my neck
My head it rung with screams and groans
From the night I spent amongst her bones

And I past beside the mission house
Where that mad old buzzard, the reverend
Shrieked and flapped
About life after you're dead

Well, I thought about my friend, Michel
How they rolled him in linoleum
And they shot him in the neck
A bloody halo, like a think-bubble

Circling his head and I bellowed at the firmament
Looks like the rains are hear to stay
And the rain pissed down upon me
And washed me all away, saying

“Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy”

“Well, the road is long and the road is hard
And many fall by the side
But Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry”

And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
And I went on down the road
He went on down the road

Well, the moon it looked exhausted
Like something you should pity
Spent an age-spotted
Above the sizzling wires of the city

Well, it reminded me of her face
And her bleached and hungry eyes
Her hair was like a curtain
Falling open with the laughter

And closing with the lies
And the ghost of her still lingers on
Though she's passed through me
And is gone

Well, the slum dogs, they are barking
The rain children on the streets
And the tears that we will weep today
Will all be washed away
By the tears that we will weep
We'll weep again tomorrow

“Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy

For the road is long and the road is hard
And many fall by the side, side
But Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry”

And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
Oh, yeah, I went on down the road
He went on down the road

And I came upon a little house
A little house upon a hill
And I entered through and the curtain hissed
Into the house with its blood-red bowels

Where wet-lipped women with greasy fists
Crawled the ceilings and the walls
And they filled me full of drink
And they led me round the rooms

Naked and cold and grinning
Until everything went black
And I came down spinning

I awoke so drunk and full of rage
That I could hardly speak
A fag in a whale-bone corset
Draping his dick across my cheek

Well it's into the shame
And it's into a guilt
And it's into the f**king fray
And the walls ran red around me
A warm arterial spray saying

“Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy”

“Well, the night is dark and the night is deep
And its jaws are open wide
Well Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry”

And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
Oh, yeah, I went on down the road
He went on down the road

It's the rainy season where I'm living
Death comes leaping out of every doorway
Wasting you for your money, for your clothes
And for your nothing

Entire towns being washed away
Favelas exploding on inflammable spillways
And the lynch-mobs, death squads, babies being born without brains
The mad heat and the relentless rains

Well, if you stick your arm into that hole
It comes out sheared off to the bone
And with her kisses bubbling on my lips
I swiped the rain and I nearly missed

And then I went on down the road
He went on down the road

Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy

Well, the road is long and the road is hard
And many fall by the side
But Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry

And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
Oh, yeah, I went on down the road
He went on down the road

Bent beneath my heavy load
Under his heavy load
Yeah, I went on down that road
He went on down the road

And I went on down that road


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Lyrics by Nick Cave

  Bloody Cheche   Far From Men 2   Farewell At Tinguit   Mountain Scramble   No Class today   Setting Out   Teacheru2019s Farewell   The Teacher   (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World   (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World   500 Miles   A Box For Black Paul   A Dead Song   Abattoir Blues   Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore   Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore   All The Pretty Little Horses   All The Pretty Little Horsies   All Tomorrow's Parties   All Tomorrow's Parties   And No More Shall We Part   Anthrocene   Are You The One I've Been Waiting For?   Are You The One I've Been Waiting For?   Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For   Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?   As I Sat Sadly By Her Side   Avalanche   Babe, I am On Fire   Babe, I Got You Bad   Babe, I'm On Fire   Babe, I'm On Fire   Babe, You Turn Me On   Banks Of The Roses   Big Jesus - Trash Can   Big-Jesus-Trash-Can   Black Betty   Black Crow King   Black Hair   Blast Off   Bless His Ever Loving Heart   Blind Lemon Jefferson   Blood sweat and murder   Blue Bird   Blundertown   Breathless   Bring It On   Brompton Oratory   Brother, My Cup Is Empty   By The Time I Get To Phoenix   Cabin Fever   Cabin Fever!   Cannibal's Hymn   Cannibal's Hymn   Capers   Carny   Carry Me   Casino   Cassiel's Song   Cassiel's Song   Christina The Astonishing   Cindy   City Of Refuge   Comancheria   Comancheria ii   Come Into My Sleep   Crow Jane   Cry   Darker With The Day   Dead Joe   Dead Man In My Bed   Deanna   Death Is Not The End   Deep In The Woods   Disco 2000 - Pub Rock Version [Previously Unreleas...   Distant Sky   Do You Love Me   Do You Love Me (part 2)   Do You Love Me Like I Love You, Part 4   Do You Love Me?   Do You Love Me? (Part 2)   Dollar bill blues   Dull Day   Dumb Europe   Dust of the chase   Easy Money   Fable Of The Brown Ape   Far From Me   Faraway, So Close   Faraway, So Close!   Fears Of Gun   Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow   Finishing Jubilee Street   Foi Na Cruz   Foi Na Cruz Sorrows Child [DVD][Instrumental]   From Her To Eternity   From my cold dead hands   Gates To The Garden   Get Ready For Love   Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass   Girl in Amber   Give Us A Kiss   God Is In The House   God's Hotel   God's Hotel   Green Eyes   Grief Came Riding   Hallelujah   Hamlet   Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)   Happy Birthday   Hard On For Love   He Wants You   Helpless   Henry Lee   Henry Lee"(feat. PJ Harvey   Hey Joe   Hey, Joe   Hiding All Away   Higgs Boson Blues   Ho-Ho   How Long, How Long Blues   I Do Dear, I Do.   I Do Love Her So   I Do Love Her So (Lime Tree Arbour)   I Feel So Good   I Had A Dream Joe   I Had A Dream, Joe   I Just Dropped In   I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condit...   I Let Love In   I Need You   I Put A Spell On You   I Rowed A Little Boat   I'm Gonna Kill That Woman   I'm Your Man   I'm Gonna Kill That Woman   Idiot Prayer   In The Ghetto   Into My Arms   Intro   Jack The Ripper   Jack's Shadow   Jacks Shadow   Jangling Jack   Jennifer's Veil   Jennifer's Veil   Jesus Alone   Jesus Met The Woman At The Well   John Finn's Wife   John Finn's Wife   Jubilee Street   Junkyard   Just You and Me   Katy Cruel   Kewpie Doll   King Ink   King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O   Kiss Me Black   Knockin' On Joe   Knockin' On Joe   Knoxville Girl   Lament   Lay Me Low   Let It Be   Let The Bells Ring   Lime Tree Arbour   Little Empty Boat   Little Janey's Gone   Little Janey's Gone   Long Black Veil   Long Time Man   Lord of the plains   Love Henry   Love Letter   Lovely Creature   Loverman   Lucy   Mack The Knife   Magneto   Mama s room   Mama's Boy   Mama's Boy   Mars Theme   Mercy   Mermaids   Messiah Ward   Midnight Man   Mini Skirts [Instrumental]   Miss Perfect   Mister Frog Went A-Courting   Mojo   Mountain lion mean   Mr. Clarinet   Muddy Water   Mutiny In Heaven   Nature Boy   Needle Boy   New Morning   Nick The Stripper   Nobody's Baby Now   Nobody's Baby Now   O Children   O'Malley's Bar   O'malley's Bar   Oh Happy Day [DVD][Instrumental]   Oh My Lord   Oh, Happy Day   Opium Tea   Outlaw state of mind   Oxford Tragedy   Papa Won't Leave You, Henry   PATRIPASSIAN   People Ain't No Good   People Ain't No Good   Plain Gold Ring   Pleasure Is The Boss   Push The Sky Away   Rainy Night In Soho   Red Right Hand   Release The Bats   Riddle House   Right Now I'm a - Roaming   Right Now I'm A Roamin'   Right Now I'm A-roaming   Right Now I'm A Roamin'   Right Out Of Your Hand   Rings of Saturn   Robbery   Rock Of Gibraltar   Running Scared   Rye Whiskey   Sad Dark Eyes   Sad Waters   Sail Away   Saint Huck   Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree   Scum   Several Sins   She Fell Away   She Passed By My Window   She's Hit   She's Leaving You   She's Hit   She's Leaving You   Shivers   Silent Scream   Six Inch Gold Blade   Skeleton Tree   Sleeping Analeah   Sleeping on the blacktop   Slowly Goes The Night   Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart   Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart   Song Of Joy   Sonny's Burning   Sorrow's Child   Sorrow's Child   Spell   Stagalee   Stagger Lee   Still In Love   Stow-A-Way   Straight To You   Stranger Than Kindness   Sugar Sugar Sugar   Sunday's Slave   Sunday's Slave   Supernaturally   Suzanne   Swampland   Sweetheart Come   Texas midlands   That's What Jazz Is To Me   That's What Jazz Is To Me   The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane   The Big Hurt   The Briddle Path   The Carnival Is Over   The Carny   The Curse Of Millhaven   The Dim Locator   The Friend Catcher   The Good Son   The Hammer Song   The Hammer Song (In Album Kicking Against The Pric...   The Kindness Of Strangers   The Loom Of The Land   The Lyre Of Orpheus   The Mercy Seat   The Moon Is In The Gutter   The Ship Song   The Singer   The Six Strings That Drew Blood   The Sorrowful Wife   The Train Song   The Weeping Song   The Willow Garden   The Witness Song   There Is A Kingdom   There Is A Light   There Is A Town   There She Goes   Thirsty Dog   Time Jesum Transeuntum et Non Riverentum   Time Jesum Transientum Et Non Riverentum   To Be By Your Side   Tower of Song   Train Long-suffering   Truck Love   Tupelo   Tupelo Blues   Up Jumped The Devil   Vixo   Wanted Man   Watching Alice   We Came Along This Road   Well Of Misery   West Country Girl   What a Wonderful World   What Can I Give You?   When I First Came To Town   Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere   Where The Action Is   Where The Wild Roses Grow   Where The Wild Roses Grow"(feat. 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