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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Carny

 

 

 

What a song!

 

 

 

[hide=lyrcs]And no-one saw the carny go

 

And the weeks flew by

 

Until they moved on the show

 

Leaving his caravan behind

 

It was parked out on the south east ridge

 

And as the company crossed the bridge

 

With the first rain filling the bone-dry river bed

 

It shone, just so, upon the edge

 

 

 

Dog-boy, atlas, half-man, the geeks, the hired hands

 

There was not one among them that did not cas an eye behind

 

In the hope that the carny would return to his own kind

 

 

 

And the carny had a horse, all skin and bone

 

A bow-backed nag, that he named "Sorrow"

 

How it is buried in a shallow grave

 

In the then parched meadow

 

 

 

And the dwarves were given the task of digging the ditch

 

And laying the nag's carcass in the ground

 

And boss Bellini, waving his smoking pistol around

 

saying "The nag is dead meat"

 

"We caint afford to carry dead weight"

 

The whole company standing about

 

Not making a sound

 

And turning to dwarves perched on the enclosure gate

 

The boss says "Bury this lump of crow bait"

 

 

 

And thean the rain came

 

Everybody running for their wagons

 

Tying all the canvas flaps down

 

The mangy cats crowling in ther cages

 

The bird-girl flapping and squawking around

 

The whole valley reeking of wet beast

 

Wet beast and rotten hay

 

Freak and brute creation

 

Packed up and on their way

 

 

 

The three dwarves peering from their wagon's hind

 

Moses says to Noah "We shoulda dugga deepa one"

 

Their grizzled faces like dying moons

 

Still dirty from the digging done

 

 

 

And as the company passed from the valley

 

Into a higher ground

 

The rain beat on the ridge and on the meadow

 

And on the mound

 

 

 

Until nothing was left, nothing at all

 

Except the body of Sorrow

 

That rose in time

 

To float upon the surface of the eaten soil

 

 

 

And a murder of crows did circle round

 

First one, then the others flapping blackly down

 

 

 

And the carny's van still sat upon the edge

 

Tilting slowly as the firm ground turned to sludge

 

And the rain it hammered down

 

 

 

And no-one saw the carny go

 

I say it's funny how things go [/hide]

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Signature by Maurice Sendak

When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool, that's amore!

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Astral Sleep - Angel

J'adore aussi le sexe et les snuff movies

Je trouve que ce sont des purs moments de vie

Je ne me reconnais plus dans les gens

Je suis juste un cas désespérant

Et comme personne ne viendra me réclamer

Je terminerai comme un objet retrouvé

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Foo Fighters - The Pretender

Bon Jovi: The best concert ever, 19/Jan/2008 Melbourne

Foo Fighters: Awesome concert, 24/Apr/2008 Adelaide

AC/DC: Great Concert, 02/Mar/2010 Adelaide

Slash: Amazingly Good Concert, 11/Aug/2010 Melbourne

Bon Jovi: Should be another good concert, 11/Dec/2010 Melbourne

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