Slowly Goes The Night
Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

Darlin', let mornin' to chose to go

Awoke in my [incomprehensible] and groves

You're diggin' my car, stolen my cash

Even my 500 dollar super sledge

And I just laid there

Watchin' the sun fall down from the sky

Not wantin' to open the letter

But opened it anyway and seein' those two words

Lover, lover, goodbye

So slowly goes the night

Next to me lies your body playin'

Like the map of some forbidden land

I trace the ghosts of your bones

With my trembling hand

Dark is my night

And darker is my day, yeah

I must've been blind, out of my mind

I never, never saw the warning signs

How goes it? It goes lonely

It goes slowly

So slowly goes the night

Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights

And watch the moon get flayed each night

Until the moon becomes the skin in night

Other skins of my sins

I send to cover and comfort you

I know of a Heaven

But honey, I know of a Hell, yeah

I hang my head, I toss in my bed

I never, never forget the words you said

One evenin', I'm leavin' and I laughed and checked her breathin'

And said darlin', go slowly through the night

O, baby, I feel the heal of time

I wake to find you sittin' out there

Cuttin' tangels out of your hair

Singin' a song, that's all wrong

Hey, but that's alright, I don't care

O, darling, forgive me

For all the misery, yeah

I reach out and embrace an empty space

A song that slowly, slowly fades

Where goes it?

It goes some place, it goes somewhere

Where it's lonely

And black as the night

Come on darling', let's put things right, put things right

I hang my head and cry cry cry

Darling, all night I try

To cease on a reason for this mad, mad season

The nights, they are so long, I can't remember being in light

Call it sleep, call it death, call it what you like

But only sleep, only sleep brings you back to life, yeah

I hang my head, I toss and I sweat

I never, never, never can't forget

How goes it? I'm going, but slowly slowly going

And we both know that it's gonna be alright

But it ain't you who has to cry, cry, cry

Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights

Since you left my side, side, side


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