Jesus Alone
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS · Skeleton Tree 2016 · Track 01 of 08
Music: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis · Lyrics: Nick Cave
You fell from the sky Crash landed in a field Near the river Adur Flowers spring from the ground Lambs burst from the wombs of their mothers In a hole beneath the bridge She convalesce, she fashioned masks of clay and twigs You cried beneath the dripping trees Ghost song lodged in the throat of a mermaid
With my voice I am calling you
You're a young man waking Covered in blood that is not yours You're a woman in a yellow dress Surrounded by a charm of hummingbirds You're a young girl full of forbidden energy Flickering in the gloom You're a drug addict lying on your back In a Tijuana hotel room
With my voice I am calling you With my voice I am calling you
You're an African doctor harvesting tear ducts You believe in God, but you get no special dispensation for this belief now You're an old man sitting by a fire, hear the mist rolling off the sea You're a distant memory in the mind of your creator, don't you see?
With my voice I am calling you With my voice I am calling you
Let us sit together until the moment comes
With my voice I am calling you
Let us sit together in the dark until the moment comes
With my voice I am calling you With my voice I am calling you With my voice I am calling you With my voice I am calling you