Eu sou a chuva que lança a areia do Saara Sobre os automóveis de Roma Eu sou a sereia que dança A destemida Iara Água e folha da Amazônia Eu sou a sombra da voz da matriarca da Roma Negra Você não me pega Você nem chega a me ver Meu som te cega, careta, quem é você? Que não sentiu o suingue de Henri Salvador Que não seguiu o Olodum balançando o Pelô E que não riu com a risada de Andy Warhol Que não, que não e nem disse que não
Eu sou um preto norte-americano forte Com um brinco de ouro na orelha Eu sou a flor da primeira música A mais velha A mais nova espada e seu corte Sou o cheiro dos livros desesperados Sou Gitá Gogóia Seu olho me olha mas não me pode alcançar Não tenho escolha, careta, vou descartar Quem não rezou a novena de Dona Canô Quem não seguiu o mendigo Joãozinho Beija-Flor Quem não amou a elegância sutil de Bobô Quem não é Recôncavo e nem pode ser reconvexo
I was always working steady But I never called it art I got my shit together Meeting Christ and reading Marx It failed my little fire But it’s bright the dying spark Go tell the young messiah What happens to the heart
There’s a mist of summer kisses Where I tried to double-park The rivalry was vicious The women were in charge It was nothing, it was business But it left an ugly mark I’ve come here to revisit What happens to the heart
I was selling holy trinkets I was dressing kind of sharp Had a pussy in the kitchen And a panther in the yard
In the prison of the gifted I was friendly with the guards So I never had to witness What happens to the heart
I should have seen it coming After all I knew the chart Just to look at her was trouble It was trouble from the start Sure we played a stunning couple But I never liked the part It ain't pretty, it ain't subtle What happens to the heart
Now the angel’s got a fiddle The devil’s got a harp Every soul is like a minnow Every mind is like a shark I’ve broken every window But the house, the house is dark I care but very little What happens to the heart
Then I studied with this beggar He was filthy, he was scarred By the claws of many women He had failed to disregard No fable here no lesson No singing meadowlark Just a filthy beggar guessing What happens to the heart
I was always working steady But I never called it art It was just some old convention Like the horse before the cart I had no trouble betting On the flood, against the ark You see, I knew about the ending What happens to the heart
I was handy with a rifle My father’s .303 I fought for something final Not the right to disagree
In Candy's room, there are pictures of her heroes on the wall But to get to Candy's room, you gotta walk the darkness of Candy's hall Strangers from the city call my baby's number and they bring her toys When I come knocking, she smiles pretty, she knows I wanna be Candy's boy
There's a sadness hidden in that pretty face A sadness all her own, from which no man can keep Candy safe We kiss, my heart's rushes to my brain And the blood rushes in my veins, the fire rushes towards the sky And then we go driving, driving deep into the night I go driving deep into the light, in Candy's eyes
She says, "baby if you wanna be wild, you got a lot to learn Close your eyes, let them melt, let them fire, let them burn" 'Cause in the darkness, there'll be hidden worlds that shine When I hold Candy close she makes these hidden worlds mine
She has fancy clothes and diamond rings She has men who give her anything she wants, but they don't see That what she wants is me Oh and I want her so, I'll never let her go, no no no She knows that I'd give all that I got to give All that I want, all that I live to make Candy mine Tonight
I want to hold the hand inside you I want to take a breath that's true I look to you and I see nothing I look to you to see the truth You live your life, you go in shadows You'll come apart and you'll go blind Some kind of night into your darkness Colors your eyes with what's not there
Fade into you Strange you never knew Fade into you I think it's strange you never knew
A stranger's light comes on slowly A stranger's heart without a home You put your hands into your head And then its smiles cover your heart
Fade into you Strange you never knew Fade into you I think it's strange you never knew Fade into you Strange you never knew Fade into you I think it's strange you never knew I think it's strange you never knew
Richard X feat. Jarvis Cocker - Into U
Light a cigarette, my baby (yea) Light another one for me And I will lay beside you Now I feel you in every molecule of me In every cell of my body You are running through me I can't resist you So watch me as I'm falling As I
Fade into you For the first time in my life Strange you never knew I ain't lying Fade into you This is the first night of my life
Of course there will still be mornings Mornings that burn our eyes with lights But as long as you're around me Well I can make it to the night When the lights go down and I I come to you Oh, please let me come to you Oh now my love Let me
Fade into you For the first time in my life Strange you never knew I ain't lying Fade into you This is the first night of my life
So catch me as I'm falling As I
Fade into you For the first time in my life Strange you never knew I ain't lying For the first time in my life Fade into you I ain't lying For the first time in my life
I came across a cache of old photos and invitations to teenage parties 'Dress in white' one said with quotations from someone's wife, a famous writer in the nineteen-twenties When you're young you find inspiration in anyone who's ever gone and opened up a closing door She said we were never feeling bored
'cause we were never being boring We had too much time to find for ourselves and we were never being boring We dressed up and fought then thought "make amends" And we were never holding back or worried that time would come to an end
When I went I left from the station with a haversack and some trepidation Someone said if you're not careful you'll have nothing left and nothing to care for in the nineteen-seventies But I sat back and looking forward my shoes were high and I had scored I'd bolted through a closing door and I would never find myself feeling bored
'cause we were never being boring We had too much time to find for ourselves and we were never being boring We dressed up and fought then thought "make amends" And we were never holding back or worried that time would come to an end We were always hoping that, looking back you could always rely on a friend
Now I sit with different faces in rented rooms and foreign places All the people I was kissing some are here and some are missing in the nineteen-nineties I never dreamt that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be but I thought in spite of dreams you'd be sitting somewhere here with me
'cause we were never being boring We had too much time to find for ourselves and we were never being boring We dressed up and fought then thought "make amends" and we were never holding back or worried that time would come to an end We were always hoping that, looking back you could always rely on a friend
And we were never being boring We were never being bored 'cause we were never being boring We were never being bored
A black/white video shot by Vincent Moon in 2005 in Paris, celebrating a wonderful song by his new-yorker friends THE NATIONAL, from their album 'Alligator' on Beggars Banquet Records.
I have your good clothes in the car
So cut your hair so no one knows
I have your dreams and your teeth marks
All my fingernails are painted
I'm here to take you now
You were right about the end
It didn't make a difference
Everything I can remember
I remember wrong
How can anybody know
How they got to be this way
You must have known I'd do this someday
Break my arms around the one I love
And be forgiven by the time my lover comes
Break my arms around my love
Break my arms around the one I love
And be forgiven by the time my lover comes
Break my arms around my love
I don't have any questions
I don't think it's gonna rain
You were right about the end
It didn't make a difference
I'm here to take you now
Out among the missing sons and daughters of the SoHo riots
Out among the missing sons and daughters of the SoHo riots
I'm here to take you now
How can anybody know
How they got to be this way
You must have known I'd do this someday
Break my arms around the one I love
And be forgiven by the time my lover comes
Break my arms around my love
Break my arms around the one I love
And be forgiven by the time my lover comes
Break my arms around my love
Break my arms around the one I love
Songwriters: Bryce D. Dessner / Matthew D. Berninger / Scott D. Devendorf
I hope that our few remaining friends Give up on trying to save us I hope we come up with a failsafe plot To piss off the dumb few that forgave us I hope the fences we mended Fall down beneath their own weight And I hope we hang on past the last exit I hope it's already too late And I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here Someday burns down And I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away And I never come back to this town Again in my life I hope I lie And tell everyone you were a good wife And I hope you die I hope we both die
I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow I hope it bleeds all day long Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises We're pretty sure they're all wrong I hope it stays dark forever I hope the worst isn't over And I hope you blink before I do Yeah I hope I never get sober And I hope when you think of me years down the line You can't find one good thing to say And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out You'd stay the hell out of my way I am drowning There is no sign of land You are coming down with me Hand in unlovable hand And I hope you die I hope we both die
There is a man holding a megaphone So he must have been the voice of God The bystanders claimed they saw angels Flying up and down the block Well, they must have been attached to wires I saw one laying in the lawn with a broken arm So I called 911 So that's one less founded opinion One more cause for a dispute So the street filled like a basin Up with cameras and their crews And they washed away the rumors Leaving just the concrete truth It was a spectacle No, I, I mean a miracle So then I fell like that girl from a balance beam A gymnasium of eyes were all holding on to me I lifted one foot to cross the other and I felt myself slipping It was a small mistake Sometimes that's all it takes
Now I'm staring at my wrist Hoping that the timing is right When the planets will align There will be no planets to align Just the carcass of the sun And those little painted marbles Spinning senseless through an endless black sky
(And so it never started and it will never stop just like I am and you are)
It was in a foreign hotel's bathtub I baptized myself in change And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been I emerged to find the parallels were fewer I was cleansed I looked in the mirror and someone new was there Still I was as helpless as a chess piece When I was lifted up by someone's hand And delivered from the corner My enemies had got me in But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside That holding cell that is myself So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key As it turns in the lock and the guard will say to me "Oh, my patient prisoner, you have waited for this day and finally You are free! You are free! You are freezing"
Now I'm staring at the sun waiting for it to explode Because a day is gonna come Don't know when but it will come And then we will finally know the way out of here
And I will throw away this wrinkled map And my chart of stars and compass, cracked And I'll climb that tree all wet with sap To avoid the hungry beasts below I'll cut out my lover's tongue and sing Of a graveyard gray and a garden green And then we won't have worry no more No, we won't ever worry again About how this song or story ends About how this song and story will end
The new EP ‘Distant Sky’ from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will be released on 12” vinyl and digitally on 28 September.
Let us go now, my one true love Call the gasman, cut the power out We can set out, we can set out for the distant skies Watch the sun, watch it rising in your eyes
Let us go now, my darling companion Set out for the distant skies See the sun, see it rising See it rising, rising in your eyes
They told us our gods would outlive us They told us our dreams would outlive us They told us our gods would outlive us But they lied
Let us go now, my only companion Set out for the distant skies Soon the children will be rising, will be rising This is not for our eyes