NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Let Love In CD Stumm123 ----------------------------------- [ 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 ----------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------- [ NOBODY'S BABY NOW ] Words and music: Cave cave - vocals; harvey - guitar, organ bargeld - guitar; casey - bass wydler - drums; savage - piano ----------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------- [ 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 ----------------------------------- 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! ----------------------------------- [ 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 ----------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------- [ 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 ----------------------------------- 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) ----------------------------------- [ LET LOVE IN ] Words and music: Cave cave - vocals harvey - guitars, tamborine, organ bargeld - guitar; casey - bass savage - piano, backing vocal; wydler - drums ----------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------- [ THIRSTY DOG ] Words and music: Cave cave - vocals, organ; harvey - guitar bargeld - guitar; casey - bass; wydler - drums bad seeds - backing vocals ----------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------- [ 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 ----------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------- [ 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 ----------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------- [ 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 ----------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------- 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 429 HARROW ROAD, LONDON W10 4RE. 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