NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
        Let Love In
        CD Stumm123


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        [ DO YOU LOVE ME? ]
        Words: Cave
        Music: Cave/Casey
        cave - vocals, piano, organ; harvey - guitar
        bargeld - guitar; casey - bass; wydler - drums
        tex perkins - backing vocal
        rowland s. howard - backing vocal
        bad seeds - backing vocals
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        I found her on a night of fire and noice
        Wild bells rang in a wild sky
        I knew from that moment on
        I'd love her till the day that I died
        And I kissed away a thousand tears
        My lady of the Various sorrows
        Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen
        Some kept safe for tomorrow
        On an endless night, silver star spagled
        The bells from the chapel went jingle-jangle

        She was given to me to put things right
        And I stacked all accomplishments beside her
        Still I seemed so obsolete and small
        I found God and all His devils inside her
        In my bed she cast the blizzard out
        A mock sun blazed upon her head
        So completely filled with light she was
        Her shadow fanged and hairy and mad
        Our love-lines grew hopelessly tangled
        And the bells from the chapel went jingle-jangle

        She had a heartful of love and devotion
        She had a mindful of tyranny and terror
        Well, I try, I really try
        But I just err, baby, I do, I error
        So come find me, my darling one
        I'm down to the grounds, the very dregs
        Ah, here she comes, blocking the sun
        Blood running down the inside of her legs
        The moon in the sky is battered and magled
        And the bells from the chapel go jingle-jangle

        All things move toward their end
        I knew before I met her that I would lose her
        I swear I made every effort to be good to her
        I swear I made every effort not to abuse her
        Crazy bracelets on her wrists and her ankles
        And the bells from the chapel went jingle-jangle


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        [ NOBODY'S BABY NOW ]
        Words and music: Cave
        cave - vocals; harvey - guitar, organ
        bargeld - guitar; casey - bass
        wydler - drums; savage - piano
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        I've searched the holy books
        Tried to unravel the mystery of Jesus Christ, the saviour
        I've read the poets and the analysts
        Searched through the books on human behaviour
        I travelled the whole world around
        For an answer that refused to be found
        I don't know why and I don't know how
        But she's nobody's baby now

        I loved loved her then and I guess I love her still
        Hers is the face I see when a certain mood moves in
        She lives in my blood and skin
        Her wild feral stare, her dark hair
        Her winter lips as cold as stone
        Yeah, I was her man
        But there are some things even love won't allow
        I held her hand but I don't hold it now
        I don't know why and I don't know how
        But she's nobody's baby now

        This is her dress that I loved best
        With the blue quilted violets across the breast
        And these are my many letters
        Torn to pieces by her long-fingered hands
        I was her cruel-hearted man
        And thought I've tried to lay her ghost down
        She's moving through me, even now
        I don't know why and I don't know how
        But she's nobody's baby now


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        [ LOVERMAN ]
        Words and music: Cave
        cave - vocals, organs, bells
        harvey - guitar, backing vocal; bargeld - guitar,
        backing vocal; savage - piano; casey - bass
        wydler - drums, shaker, triangle
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        There's a devil waiting outside your door
        (How much longer)
        Bucking and braying and pawing the floor
        Well, he's howling with pain and crawling up the walls
        There's a devil waiting outside your door
        He's weak with evil and broken by the world
        He's shouting your name and asking for more
        There's a devil waiting outside your door

        Loverman! Since the world began
        Forever, Amen till the end of time
        Take off that dress I'm coming down I'm your loverman
        Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
        L is for LOVE, baby
        O is for ONLY you that I do
        V is for VIRTUALLY everything that you are
        E is for almost EVERYTHING that you do
        R is for RAPE me
        M is for MURDER me
        A is for ANSWERING all of my prayers
        N is for KNOWING your loverman's going to be the answer to all of yours

        I'll be your loverman! Till the bitter end
        While empires burn down Forever and ever and ever and ever
        Amen I'm your loverman
        So help me, baby so help me
        Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
        I'm your Loverman!

        There's a devil crawlig along your floor
        With a trembling heart, he's coming through your door
        With his straining sex in his jumping paw

        There's a devil crawling along your floor
        And he's old and he's stupid and he's hungry and he's sore
        And he's blind and he's lame and he's dirty and he's poor
        There's a devil crawling along your floor

        Loverman! Here I stand Forever, Amen
        Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
        Forgive me baby, my hands are tied
        And I got no choice, no I got no choise at all

        I'll say it again

        L is for LOVE, baby
        O is for O yes I do
        V is for VIRTUE, so I ain't gonna hurt you
        E is for almost EVEN if you want me to
        R is for RENDER unto me, baby
        M is for that which is MINE
        A is for ANY old how, baby
        N is for ANY old time

        I'll be your Loverman! I got a masterplan
        To take off your dress and be your man
        Seize the throne seize the mantle
        Seize the throne Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
        I'm your Loverman!

        There's a devil lying by your side
        You might think he's asleep but take a look at his eyes
        He wants you, darling, to be his bride
        There's a devil lying by your side

        Loverman! Loverman!


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        [ JANGLING JACK ]
        Words and music: Cave
        cave - vocals; harvey - guitar, organ, drums
        bargeld - guitar, extra voices; savage - piano
        casey - bass; wydler - tamborine
        mick geyer - backing vocal
        nick seferi - backing vocal
        bad seeds - backing vocals
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        Jangling Jack
        Goes Yackety Yack
        Visits the home of the brave
        Hails a fat yellow cab
        Jack wanna celebrate
        Jack wanna big drink
        Driver drops him at a bar
        Called the Rinky Dink
        Jack pushes through the door
        And crosses the floor
        Tips his hat to a man
        Grinning in the corner
        Going Do da do Do da do

        Says, I'm Jangling Jack
        I go Do do do
        I wanna Rinky Dink special
        I wanna little umbrella too
        Jack flops on his stool
        Sees the grinning man laugh
        So Jack laughs back
        Jack raises his glass
        Says, God bless this country
        And everything in it
        The losers and the winners
        The good guys and the sinners
        The grinning man says, buddy
        It's all Yackety Yack
        Whips out a little black pistol
        Shoots a bullet in Jack

        Jangling Jack
        Do Da Do Do Da Do
        Jangling Jack
        How do you Do Da Do

        Jangling Jack Flies off his seat
        Crashes through the door
        Lands in a heap on the street
        Hears his mother's voice
        Going Do do do
        Jack is shouting
        Mummy is that you?
        He sees the berserk city
        Sees the dead stacked in piles
        Sees the screaming crowd
        Screams, Where the hell am I?
        Going Do da do Going Do da do

        Well Jangling Jack
        As a matter of fact
        Crawls through the crowd
        Back into the bar
        Jack crawls to his stool
        Jack drags himself up
        Falls back down on his ass
        In a puddle of blood
        Going Goodbye Mummy
        Goodbye Goodbye
        Jack doubles over
        And he vomits and dies
        Going Do da do Going Do da do


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        [ RED RIGHT HAND ]
        Words: Cave
        Music: Harvey/Wydler/Cave
        cave - vocals, organ, oscillator
        harvey - guitar, shaker, bell
        bargeld - guitar; casey - bass
        wydler - drums, timpani, fish
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        Take a little walk to the edge of town
        Go across the tracks
        Where the viaduct looms,
        like a bird of doom
        As it shifts and cracks
        Where secrets lie in the border fires,
        in the humming wires
        Hey man, you know
        you're never coming back
        Past the square, past the bridge,
        past the mills, past the stacks
        On a gathering storm comes
        a tall handsome man
        In a dusty black coat with
        a red right hand

        He'll wrap you in he's arms,
        tell you that you've been a good boy
        He'll rekindle all those dreams
        it took you a lifetime to destroy
        He'll reach deep into the hole
        heal your shrinking soul
        Hey buddy, you know you're
        never ever coming back
        He's a ghost, he's a god,
        he's a man, he's a guru
        They're whispering his name
        across this disappearing land
        But hidden in his coat
        is a red right hand

        You ain't got no money?
        He'll get you some
        You ain't got no car? He'll get you one
        You ain't got no self-respect,
        you feel like an insect
        Well don't you worry buddy,
        cause here he comes
        Through the getto and the barrio
        and the bowery and the slum
        A shadow is cast wherever he stands
        Stacks of green paper in his
        red right hand

        (Organ solo)

        You'll see him in your nightmares,
        you'll see him in your dreams
        He'll appear out of nowhere but
        he ain't what he seems
        You'll see him in your head,
        on the TV screen
        And hey buddy, I'm warning
        you to turn it off
        He's a ghost, he's a god,
        he's a man, he's a guru
        You're one microscopic cog
        in his catastrophic plan
        Designed and directed by
        his red right hand

        (Organ solo)


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        [ LET LOVE IN ]
        Words and music: Cave
        cave - vocals
        harvey - guitars, tamborine, organ
        bargeld - guitar; casey - bass
        savage - piano, backing vocal; wydler - drums
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        Despair and Deception, Love's ugly little twins
        Came a-knocking on my door, I let them in
        Darling, you're the punishment for all my former sins

        I let love in

        The door it opened just a crack, but Love was shrewd and bold
        My life flashed before my eyes, it was a horror to behold
        A life-sentence sweeping confetti from the floor of a concrete hole

        I let love in

        Well I've been bound and gagged and I've been terrorized
        And I've been castrated and I've been lobotimized
        But never has my tormenter come in such a cunning disguise

        I let love in

        O Lord, tell me what I done
        Please don't leave me here on my own
        Where are my friends?
        My friends are gone

        So if you're sitting all alone and hear a-knocking at your door
        And the air is full of promises, well buddy, you've been warned
        Far worse to be Love's lover than the lover that Love has scorned

        I let love in


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        [ THIRSTY DOG ]
        Words and music: Cave
        cave - vocals, organ; harvey - guitar
        bargeld - guitar; casey - bass; wydler - drums
        bad seeds - backing vocals
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        I know you've heard it all before
        But I'm sorry for this three year war
        For the setting up of camps
        and wire and trenches
        I'm sorry for the other night
        I know sorry it don't make it right
        I'm sorry for things I can't even mention

        I'm sorry sorry sorry, sorry
        I'm sitting feeling sorry in the Thirsty Dog
        I'm sorry sorry sorry, sorry
        I'm feeling very sorry in the Thirsty Dog

        (Organ solo)

        You keep nailing me back into my box
        I'm sorry I keep popping back up
        With my crazy mouth
        and jangling jester's cap
        I'm sorry I ever wrote that book
        I'm sorry about the way I look
        But that ain't a lot that
        I can do about that

        (Guitar solo)

        I'm sorry about the hospital
        Some things are unforgiveable
        Some things simply cannot be forgiven
        I was not equipped to know how to care
        And on the occasions I came up for air
        I saw my life and wondered
        what the hell I had been living

        (Organ solo)

        I'm sorry about all your friends
        I hope they'll speak to me again
        I said before I'd pay for all the damage
        I'm sorry it's just rotten luck
        I'm sorry I've forgotten how to fuck
        It's just that I think my heart
        and sole are kind of famished

        (Organ and Guitar solo)

        Forgive me, darling but don't worry
        Love is always having to
        say you're sorry
        And I am, from my head
        down to my shoes

        I'm sorry that I'm always pissed
        I'm sorry that I exist
        And when I look into your eyes
        I can see you're sorry too

        I'm sorry sorry sorry, sorry
        I'm sitting feeling sorry in the Thirsty Dog
        I'm sorry sorry sorry, sorry
        I'm feeling very sorry in the Thirsty Dog


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        [ AIN'T GONNA RAIN ANYMORE ]
        Words and music: Cave
        cave - vocals, piano, organ
        harvey - guitar, string arrangement
        bargeld - guitar, backing vocal
        savage - backing vocal; casey - bass
        wydler - drums, tambourine
        spencer p. jones - backing vocal
        robin casinader - violin; warren ellis - violin
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        Once there came a storm in the form of a girl
        It blew to pieces my snug little world
        And sometimes I swear I can still hear her howl
        Down through the wreckage and the ruins

        And it ain't gonna rain anymore
        Now my baby's gone
        And it ain't gonna rain anymore
        Now my baby's gone

        Now the storm has passed over me
        I'm left to drift on a dead calm sea
        And watch her forever in the cracks in the beams
        Nailed across the doorways of the bedrooms of my dreams

        Now I have no one to hold
        Now I am all alone again
        It ain't too hot and it ain't to cold
        And there is no sign of rain

        And it ain't gonna rain anymore
        Now my baby's gone, yeah
        And it ain't gonna rain anymore
        Now my baby's gone, yeah
        And I'm on my own

        She ain't coming back no more
        She ain't coming back no more
        She ain't coming back no more
        Say what you will, I don't care


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        [ LAY ME LOW ]
        Words and music: Cave
        cave - vocals, organ
        harvey - guitar, extra drums; bargeld - guitar
        casey - bass; savage - piano; wydler - drums
        david mccomb - backing vocal
        bad seeds - backing vocals
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        They're gonna lay me low (Lay me low)
        They're gonna sink me in the snow
        They're gonna throw back
        their heads and crow
        When I go

        They're gonna jump and shout (Lay me low)
        They're gonna wave their arms about
        All the stories will come out
        When I go

        All the stars will glow bright (Lay me low)
        My friends will give up the fight
        They'll see my work in a different light
        When I go

        They'll try telephoning my
        mother (Lay me low)
        They'll end up getting my brother
        Who'll spill the story on some
        long-gone lover
        That I hardly know

        Hats off to the man
        On top of the world
        Come crawl up here, baby
        And I'll show you how it works
        If you wanna be my friend
        And you wanna repent
        And you want it all to end
        And you wanna know when
        Then take a bow
        Do it now Do it any old how
        Make a stand Take my hand
        And blow it all to hell

        They'll inform the police chief (Lay me low)
        Who will breathe a sigh of relief
        He'll say I was a malanderer,
        a badlander, and a thief
        When I go

        They will interview my teachers (Lay me low)
        Who'll say I was one of God's
        sorrier creatures
        There'll be informative six-page features
        When I go

        They'll bang a big old gong (Lay me low)
        The motorcade will be ten miles long
        The world will join together for a
        farewell song
        When they put me down below

        They'll sound a fuegelhorn (Lay me low)
        The sea will rage, the sky will storm
        All man and beast will mourn
        When I go

        Hats off to the man
        On top of the world
        Crawl over here, darling
        And we can watch this damn thing turn
        If you wanna be my friend
        and you wanna repent
        And you want it all to end
        And you wanna know when
        Then do it now
        Don't care how Do it any old how
        Take my hand Make a stand
        And blow it all to hell


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        [ DO YOU LOVE ME? (PART 2) ]
        Words and music: Cave
        cave - vocals, electric piano
        harvey - string arrangement, backing vocal
        bargeld - guitar, backing vocal; casey - bass
        wydler - drums; donna mcevitt - backing vocal
        katherine blake - backing vocal
        robin casinader - violin; warren ellis - violin
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        Onward! And Onward! And Onward! I go
        Where no man before could be bothered to go
        Till the soles of my shoes are shot full of holes
        And it's all downhill with a bullet
        This ramblin' and rovin' has taken it's course
        I'm grazing with the dinosaurs and the dear old horses
        And the city streets crack and a great hole forces
        me down with my soapbox, my pulpit
        The theatre ceiling is silver star-spagled
        And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle

        Thers's a man in the theatre with girlish eyes
        Who's holding my childhood to ransom
        On the screen there's a death, there's a rustle of cloth
        And a sickly voice calling me handsome
        There's a man in the theatre  with sly girlish eyes
        On the screen there's an ape, a gorilla
        There's a groan, there's a cough, there's a rustle of cloth
        And a voice that stinks of death and vanilla
        This is a secret, mauled and mangled
        And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle

        The walls of the ceiling are painted in blood
        The lights go down, the red curtains come apart
        The room is full of smoke and dialogue I know by heart
        And the coins in my pocket jingle-jangle
        As the great screen crackled and popped
        The clock of my boyhood was wound down and stopped
        And my handsome little body oddly propped
        And my trousers right down to my ankles
        Yes, It's on onward! And upward!
        And I'm off to find love
        Do you love me? If you do, I'm thankful

        This city is an ogre squatting by the river
        It gives life but it takes it away, my youth
        There comes a time when you just cannot deliver
        This is a fact. This is a stone cold truth.
        Do you love me?
        I love you, handsome
        But do you love me?
        Yes, I love you, you are handsome
        Amongst the cogs and the wires, my youth
        Vanilla breath and handsome apes with girlish eyes
        Dreams that roam between truth and untruth

        Memories that become monstrous lies
        So onward! And Onward! And Onward I go!
        Onward! And Upward! And I'm off to find love
        With blue-black bracelets on my wrists and ankles
        And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle


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        PRODUCED BY TONY COHEN & THE BAD SEEDS
        assistant engineers robin mai and tim johnston
        at metropolis and giles cowley at townhouse III
        recorded at townhouse III, ondon, september '93
        and metropolis, melbourne, december '93
        and mixed at metropolis by tony cohen
        mastered by don bartley & david macquarrie at 301,
        sydney. demos done with dave mccluney & craig
        at atlantis, melbourne; patrick at vielklang,
        berlin; and victor van vugt at g t eden, london
        sleeves produced at assorted images
        design by nick cave and robert hales
        photography by polly borland

        thanks to mandy, kerry minchin, mick geyer, nick s,
        polly, james johnston, rowland s. howard, rayner,
        mac mckenzie, bleddyn butcher, ian johnston, jeffrey
        'the horror' lee pierce, matthew hayden & owen smythe

        the following guest musicians appear courtesy of their
        record companies; robin casinader - id/phonogram
        tex perkins and spencer p.jones - red eye/polydor
        david mccomb - white label/mushroom

        for further information send s.a.e to: tender prey managment
        unit 4 ivebury court, 325 latimer rd, W10 6RA

        (P) & (C) 1994
        MUTE RECORDS
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        LONDON W10 4RE.
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