Where streets start getting wildWell you're moving on down on the other side of the tracksWould you cross that line baby, there ain't no turning backSome raise and I don't ever wanna see that placeThat's where the action isListen, hear the stories hear the liesYou hear the rooms they criticizeThey call you everything under the moonThen they try to buy you with diamonds and rings and ringsMove over baby gonna help you out of this messBy the look of your face well you been here before I guessYou're hanging around, like some kinda parasite on pastAnd I just wanna tell you to come on let's goAnd I know a place where never coldAnd I know a place where the thing is sinAnd I'm gonna tell you where the action isYour momma's told you about whiskey and she's told you about beer...drink and hear... nothingIt turns you into a monster it turns your mind insaneIt does things to you where you will never come back againI don't care what your disposition is I don't care what's your nameI'm gonna tell you where the action isLook at you dressed in your debutante dress and your phoney eye-lashesWalking around like you just walked out of some fucking car crashYou think that you're OK cause you're looking like you're gonna have a smashwith the actionI don't care where you're going, I don't care what you say,What your religion isBaby, I just wanna tell you where the action is, hey, hey, hey, heyTake off that wedding ring baby, you don't need it anymoreTake off that dress girl and throw it out the doorTake off those phoney make-up and those eye-lashes I sawTake off your shoes and your hatAnd throw the whole fucking lot right out the doorCome over here and lend me your earI'm gonna tell you where the action isI don't care if you can read a book or if you can writeI don't care how long your hair is or how brightI don't care about much to tell you the truth but that's allrightI only care is if you come on like you think you're with the actionI've got only one thing to say: come here darling, kiss me,I'm gonna show you where the action isYou spend a little dollar and you spend a little dimeYou get all funny and you laugh at your friendsAnd you think you're having a good timeYou don't know nothing till you come around here and have some of mineThen you'll start to understand about the two sides of the lineCome over here darling, lend me your ear, gonna educate youGonna tell you where the action is
Lyrics by Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
500 Miles A Box For Black Paul A Dead Song Abattoir Blues Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore Albert Goes West All The Pretty Little Horses All The Pretty Little Horses (Traditional Version) All The Pretty Little Horsies All Tomorrow's Parties And No More Shall We Part Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For? As I Sat Sadly By Her Side Avalanche Babe, I Got You Bad Babe, I'm on Fire Babe, You Turn Me On Big-Jesus-Trash-Can Black Betty Black Betty (Nick Cave Version) Black Betty (Traditional Version) Black Crow King Black Hair Blast Off Bless His Ever Loving Heart Blind Lemon Jefferson Blue Bird Blundertown Breathless Bring It On Brompton Oratory Brother, My Cup Is Empty By The Time I Get To Phoenix Cabin Fever! Cannibal's Hymn Capers Carry Me Cassiel's Song Christina The Astonishing Cindy Cindy (Traditional Version) City Of Refuge City Of Refuge - Ciudad Protectora (spanish Versio... Come Into My Sleep Crow Jane Cry Darker With the Day Dead Joe Dead Man in My Bed Deanna Deanna - Diana (spanish Version) Death Is Not The End Deep in the Woods Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Do You Love Me? Do You Love Me? (part 2) Down in a Willow Garden Down In A Willow Garden (Traditional Version) Dull Day Dumb Europe Easy Money Fable Of The Brown Ape Far From Me Faraway, So Close! Fears of Gun Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow Foi Na Cruz From Her To Eternity Gates to the Garden Get Ready For Love Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass - Mujer Al Fondo De... God Is in the House God's Hotel Green Eyes Grief Came Riding Hallelujah Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow) Happy Birthday Hard On For Love He Wants You Helpless Henry Lee Henry Lee (Nick Cave version) Hey Joe Hiding All Away Ho-ho Hold On To Yourself How Long, How Long Blues How Long, How Long Blues (Traditional Version) I Do Dear, I Do. I Do Love Her So (Lime Tree Arbour) I Feel So Good I Had A Dream, Joe I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condit... I Let Love In I Put A Spell On You I Rowed a Little Boat I Rowed A Little Boat (Traditional Version) I'll Love You Till The End Of The World I'm Gonna Kill That Woman Idiot Prayer In The Ghetto Into My Arms Jack The Ripper Jack's Shadow Jangling Jack Jennifer's Veil Jesus Met The Woman At The Well Jesus Of The Moon John Finn's Wife Junkyard Just You and Me Katy Cruel (Traditional Version) Kewpie Doll King Ink King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O Kiss Me Black Knockin' On Joe Knoxville Girl Lament Lay Me Low Let The Bells Ring Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl) Little Empty Boat Little Janey's Gone Little Water Song Long Black Veil Long Time Fan Long Time Man Long Time Man (Nick Cave version) Love Henry Love Henry (Traditional Version) Love Letter Lovely Creature Loverman Lucy Mack The Knife Mama's Boy Mercy - Misericordia (spanish Version) Messiah Ward Midnight Man Mister Frog Went A-Courting Mister Frog Went A-Courting (Traditional Version) Mojo Moonland More News From Nowhere Mr. Clarinet Muddy Water Mutiny in Heaven Nature Boy New Morning New Morning - Nuevo Amanecer (spanish Version) Nick the Stripper Night Of The Lotus Eaters Nobody's Baby Now O Children O'Malley's Bar Oh My Lord Oh, Happy Day Oh, Happy Day (Traditional Version) Opium Tea Oxford Tragedy (Traditional Version) Papa Won't Leave You, Henry Patripassian Peace In the Valley Peace In the Valley (Traditional Version) People Ain't No Good Plain Gold Ring Pleasure Is The Boss Rainy Night In Soho Rainy Night In Soho (traditional Version) Red Right Hand Release the Bats Riddle House (Howard) Right Now I'm A-Roaming Right Out of Your Hand Rock of Gibraltar Running Scared Rye Whiskey Rye Whiskey (Traditional Version) Rye Whiskey (tranditonal version) 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 Shivers (Howard) Six Inch Gold Blade Sleeping Analeah Slowly Goes The Night Slowly Goes The Night - Despacio Pasa La Noche (sp... Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart Song Of Joy Sonny's Burning Sorrow's Child Spell Stagalee Stagger Lee Stagolee (Traditional Version 1) Stagolee (Traditional Version 2) Stagolee (Traditional Version 3) Still in Love Stow-a-way Straight To You Stranger Than Kindness Sugar Sugar Sugar Sugar Sugar Sugar - Dulce Dulce Dulce (spanish Ver... Sunday's Slave Sunday's Slave - Esclavos Del Domingo (spanish Ver... Supernaturally Swampland Sweetheart Come 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 Hun The Good Son The Good Son (Nick Cave Version) The Hammer Song The Kindness Of Strangers The Loom Of The Land The Lyre Of Orpheus The Mercy Seat The Mercy Seat - Santuario (spanish Version) The Moon Is In The Gutter The Ship Song The Singer The Six Strings That Drew Blood The Sorrowful Wife The Sweetest Embrace 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, My Beautiful World Thirsty Dog Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum To Be By Your Side Today's Lesson Tower Of Song Train Long-suffering Truck Love Tupelo Tupelo Blues Tupelo Blues (Traditional Version) Up Jumped The Devil Up Jumped The Devil - Saltado El Demonio (spanish ... Viviane Vixo Wade In The Water Wade In The Water (Traditional Version) Wanted Man Watching Alice Watching Alice - Mirando A Alicia (spanish Version... We Call Upon The Author 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 Wild Roses Grow Wife Wild World Wings Off Flies Wonderful Life Yard Young Hunting (Traditional Version) Young Hunting (tranditional version) Your Funeral... My Trial Zoo Music Girl