And no one saw the carny goThe weeks flew byUntil they moved on the showLeaving his caravan behindIt was parked out on the south east ridgeAnd as the company crossed the bridgeWith the first rain filling the bone dry river bedIt shone, just so, upon the edgeAway, away, we're sad, they sayDog boy, Atlas, Mandrake, the geeks, the hired handsThere was not one among themThat did not cast an eye behindIn the hope that the carny would return to his own kindThe carny left behind a horse, so skin and boneThat he named SorrowAnd it was a shallow unmarked graveThat the old nag was laidIn the then parched meadowAnd it was the dwarves who wereGiven the task of digging the ditchAnd laying the nag's carcass in the groundWhile boss Bellini, waved his smoking pistol aroundSaying The nag is dead meat, we can't afford to carry dead weightThe whole company standing aboutNot making a soundAnd turning to dwarves perched on the enclosure gateThe boss says Bury this lump of crow baitAnd then the rain came thundering downEverybody runnin' for their wagonsTyin' all the canvas flaps downThe mangy cats crawlin' in ther cagesThe bird-girl flappin' and squawkin' aroundThe whole valley reekin' of wet beastWet beast and rotten hayFreak and brute creationAll packed up and on their wayThe three dwarves peerin' from their wagon's hindMoses says to Noah, We shoulda dug a deeper oneTheir grizzled faces like dyin' moonsStill dirty from the diggin' doneAnd Charlie, the eldest of the three saidI guess the carny ain't gonna showAnd they were silent for a spellWishin' they had done a better job of burying SorrowAnd the company passed from the valleyInto a higher groundThe rain beat on the ridge and on the meadowAnd on the moundUntil nothing was left, nothing left at allExcept the body of SorrowThat rose in timeTo float upon the surface of the eaten soilAnd a murder of crows did circle roundFirst one, then the others flapping blackly downAnd the carny's van still sat upon the edgeTilting slowly as the firm ground turned to sludgeAnd the rain it hammered downAnd the rain it hammered downAnd the rain it hammered downAnd the rain it hammered downAnd no one saw the carny goAnd no one saw the carny goAnd no one saw the carny goI say it's funny how things go
Lyrics by Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
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