Get ready for love! Praise Him! Get ready for love! (Get ready, get ready) Praise Him! Get ready for love! (Get ready, get ready) Get ready!
Well, most of all nothing much Ever really happens And God rides high up in the ordinary sky Until we find ourselves at our most distracted And the miracle that was promised Creeps quietly by
Calling every boy and girl Calling all around the world Calling every boy and girl And I'm calling 'round the world Get ready for love! (Get ready, get ready) Get ready! (Praise Him!) Get ready for love! (Get ready, get ready) Praise Him!
The mighty wave their hankies from the High-windowed palace Sending grief and joy down in supportable doses And we search high and low without Mercy or malice While the gate to the Kingdom swings Shut and closes
Calling every boy and girl Calling all around the world Calling every boy and girl Calling 'round the world Praise Him 'til you've gotten What you're praising Him for Praise Him 'til you've gotten What you're praising Him for Then praise Him a little bit more Yeah, praise Him a little bit more Praise Him 'til you've gotten What you're praising Him for Praise Him 'til you've gotten What you're praising Him for Praise Him a little bit more Yeah, praise Him a little bit more Get ready for love! Praise Him! Get ready for love! Get ready!
I searched the seven seas and I looked Under the carpet I browsed through the brochures That govern the skies Then I was just hanging around Doing nothing I looked up to see His face burned in the retina of your eyes
Calling every boy and girl Calling all around the world Calling every boy and girl Calling 'round the world Get ready for love! (Get ready, get ready) Yeah praise Him! (Get ready, get ready) Yeah get ready for love! (Get ready, get ready) Praise Him! (Praise him)
You have a heart and I have a key Lie back and let me unlock you Those heathens you hang with down by the sea All they want to do is defrock you I know a river, where we can dream It will swell up, burst it's banks, Babe, and rock you But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten But I'm glad you've come around Here with your animals And your heart that is bruised but unbeaten And beating like a drum
I will sit like a bird on a fence Sing you songs with a happy ending Swoop down and tell you that it don't make sense To attack the very thing you're defending Didn't I just buy that dress for you? That pink paper pinafore that you keep mending Well, if you're gonna dine with the cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten But I'm glad you've come around Here with your animals And your heart that is banging and beating And banging like a gong
I can see that they've hurt you, dear Here is some moonlight to cloak us And I will never desert you here Unpetaled among the crocus Allow me, my love, to allay your fear As I swim, in and out of focus But if you're gonna dine with the cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten But I'm glad you've come around Here with your animals And your heart that is bruised but bleating And bleeding like a lamb Banging like a gong Beating like a drum
You went looking for nur, dear, Down by the sea You found some Iittle silver fish But you didn't find me I was hiding, dear, hiding all way I was hiding, dear, hiding all way
You went to the museum You climbed a spiral stair You searched for me all among The knowledgeable air I was hidden, babe, hiding all away I was hidden, dear, hiding all away
You entered the cathedral When you heard the solemn knell I was not sitting with the gargoyles I was not swinging from the hell I was hiding, dear, I was hiding all away I was hiding, dear, I was hiding all away
You asked an electrician If he'd seen me round his place He touched you with his fingers Sent sparks zapping out your face I was hidden, dear, hiding all away I was not there, dear, hiding all away
You went and asked your doctor To get some advice He shot you full of Pethidine And then he billed you twice
But I was hiding, dear, hiding all away But I was hiding, dear, hiding all away
You approached a high court judge You thought he'd be on the level He wrapped a rag around your face And beat you with his gavel I was hiding, habe, hiding all away I was hidden, dem, hiding all away
You asked at the local constabulary They said, he's up to his same old tricks They leered at you with their baby blues And rubbed jelly on their sticks I had to get out of there, babe, hiding all away I had to get out of there, dear, hiding all away
You searched through all my poets From Sappho through to Auden I saw the book fall from your hands As you slowly died of boredom I had been there, dear, But I was not there anymore I had been there, now I'm hiding all way
You walked into the ball of fame And approached my imitators Some were stuffing their faces with caviar Some were eating cold potatoes I was hiding, dear, hiding all away I was hiding, dear, hiding all away
You asked a famous cook if he'd seen me He opened his oven wide He basted you with butter, babe And made you crawl inside I was not in there, dear, hiding all away I was not in there, dear, hiding all away
You asked the butcher Who lifted up his cleaver Stuck his fist up your dress Said he must've been mad to leave you But I had to get away, dear, hiding all away I had to get away, dear, I was hidden all away
Some of us we hide away Some of us we don't Some will live to love another day And some of us won't But we all know there is a law And that law, it is love And we all know there's a war coming Coming from above
The wintergreen, the juniper The cornflower and the chicory Well all of the words you said to me Are still vibrating in the air The elm, the ash and the linden tree The dark and deep, enchanted sea The trembling moon and the stars unfurled Well there she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes again
John Wilmot penned his poetry Riddled with the pox And Nabokov wrote on index cards At a lectern, in his socks St. John of the Cross he did his best stuff Imprisoned in a box And Johnny Thunders was half alive When he wrote Chinese Rocks
Well, me, I'm lying here, with nothing in my ears Me, I'm lying here, with nothing in my ears Me, I'm lying here, for what seems years I'm just lying on my bed with nothing in my head
Send that stuff on down to me Send that stuff on down to me Send that stuff on down to me Send that stuff on down
There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes again
Karl Marx squeezed his carbuncles While writing Das Kapital And Gauguin, he buggered off, man And went all tropical And Philip Larkin, he stuck it out In a library in Hull And Dylan Thomas, he died drunk in St. Vincent's hospital
I will lie at your feet I will kneel at your door I will rock you to sleep I will roll on the floor And I'll ask for nothing Nothing in this life I'll will ask for nothing Give me everlasting life
I just want to move the world I just want to move the world I just want to move the world I just want to move
There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes again
So if you got a trumpet, get on your feet Brother, and blow it If you've got a field, that don't yield Well get up now and hoe it I look at you and you look at me and Deep in our hearts babe we know it That you weren't much of a muse But then I weren't much of a poet
I will be your slave I will peel you grapes Up on your pedestal with your ivory and apes With your book of ideas with your alchemy O come on send that stuff on down to me
Send that stuff on down to me Send that stuff on down to me Send that stuff on down to me Send that stuff on down to me Send it all around Send it all around the world 'Cause here she comes, my beautiful girl
There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes again
I was just a boy when I sat down To watch the news on TV I saw some ordinary slaughter I saw some routine atrocity My father said, don't look away You got to be strong, you got to be bold, now He said, that in the end it is beauty That is going to save the world, now
And she moves among the sparrows And she floats upon the breeze She moves among the flowers She moves something deep inside of me
I was walking around the flower show like a leper Coming down with some kind of nervous hysteria When I saw you standing there, green eyes, black hair Up against the pink and purple wisteria You said, "Hey, nature boy, are you looking at me With some unrighteous intention?" My knees went weak I couldn't speak, I was having thoughts That were not in my best interests to mention
And she moves among the flowers And she floats upon the smoke She moves among the shadows She moves me with just one little look
You took me back to your place And dressed me up in a deep sea diver's suit You played the patriot, you raised the flag And I stood at full salute Later on we smoked a pipe that struck me dumb And made it impossible to speak As you closed in, in slow motion Quoting Sappho, in the original Greek
She moves among the shadows She floats upon the breeze She moves among the candles And we moved through the days And through the years
Years passed by, we were walking by the sea Half delirious You smiled at me and said, babe I think this thing is getting kind of serious You pointed at something and said Have you ever seen such a beautiful thing? It was then that I broke down It was then that you lifted me up again
She moves among the sparrows And she walks across the sea She moves among the flowers And she moves something deep inside of me She moves among the sparrows And she floats upon the breeze She moves among the flowers And she moves right up close to me (something deep inside of me)
The sun is high up in the sky and I'm in my car Drifting down into the abattoir Do you see what I see, dear? The air grows heavy I listen to your breath Entwined together in this culture of death Do you see what I see, dear?
Slide on over here, let me give you a squeeze To avert this unholy evolutionary trajectory Can you hear what I hear, babe? Does it make you feel afraid?
Everything's dissolving, babe, according to plan (oh yeah) The sky is on fire, the dead are heaped across the land (oh yeah) I went to bed last night and my moral code got jammed (oh yeah) I woke up this morning with a frappucino in my hand (oh yeah)
I kissed you once I kissed you again My heart it tumbled like the stock exchange Do you feel what I feel, dear? Mass extinction, darling, hypocrisy These things are not good for me Do you see what I see, dear? The line the God throws down to you and me Makes a pleasing geometry Shall we leave this place now, dear? Is there some way out of here?
I wake with the sparrows and I hurry off to work (oh yeah) The need for validation, babe, gone completely berserk (oh yeah) I wanted to be your Superman but I turned out such a jerk I got the abattoir blues I got the abattoir blues I got the abattoir blues Right down to my shoes (abbatoir blues) Down to my shoes (abbatoir blues) (Abbatoir blues) (Abbatoir blues) (Abbatoir blues) (Abbatoir blues)
C'mon, kind sir, let's walk outside And breathe the autumn air See the many that have lived and died See the unending golden stair See all of us that have come behind Clutching at your hem All the way from Arkansas To your sweet and last amen
Let the bells ring He is the real thing Let the bells ring He is the real, real thing
Take this deafening thunder down Take this bread and take this wine Your passing is not what we mourn But the world you left behind Well, do not breathe, nor make a sound And behold your mighty work That towers over the uncaring ground Of a lesser, darker world
Let the bells ring He is the real thing Let the bells ring He is the real, real thing
There are those of us not fit to tie The laces of your shoes Must remain behind to testify What an elementary blues So, let's walk outside, the hour is late Through your crumbs and scattered shells Where the awed and the mediocre wait You're barely fit to ring the bells
Let the bells ring He is the real thing Let the bells ring He is the real, real thing
Farmer Emmerich went into his barn And found a cow suckling a serpent And a brown ape clanking a heavy chain Said Farmer Emmerich to the ape Never ask me to come into this barn again So Long Farewell So Long
Farmer Emmerich caught the serpent And the brown ape in a cage And took them into his house He fed the snake a vat of milk And when the ape rattled its chain He tossed the ape a mouse So Long Goodbye Farewell
The villagers found out that Farmer Emmerich Was nurturing a serpent And descended upon his farm All rabid in their blindness They dragged the snake outside Chopped it open with an axe And the ground soaked In the milk of human kindness So Long Farewell So Long
But the brown ape escaped And was heard to roam the ranges Clanking its heavy chain Down in the valley it sang to its friend Whom he may never see again
Orpheus sat gloomy in his garden shed Wondering what to do With a lump of wood, and a piece of wire And a little pot of glue Oh mama, oh mama
He sawed at the wood with half a heart And glued it top to bottom He strung a wire in between He was feeling something rotten Oh mama, oh mama
Orpheus looked at his instrument And he gave the wire a pluck He heard a sound so beautiful He gasped and said "Oh my God" Oh mama, oh mama
He rushed inside to tell his wife He went racing down the halls Eurydice was still asleep in bed Like a sack of cannonballs Oh mama, oh mama
Look what I've made, cried Orpheus And he plucked a gentle note Eurydice's eyes popped from their sockets And her tongue burst through her throat Oh mama, oh mama
"Oh God, what have I done," he said As her blood pooled in the sheets But in his heart he felt a bliss Which nothing could compete Oh mama, oh mama
Orpheus went leaping through the fields Strumming as hard as he did please Birdies detonated in the sky Bunnies dashed their brains out on the trees Oh mama, oh mama (oh mama, oh mama)
Orpheus strummed 'til his fingers bled He hit a G minor 7 He woke up God from a deep, deep sleep God was a major player in heaven Oh mama, oh mama
God picked up a giant hammer And He threw it with a thunderous yell It smashed down hard on Orpheus' head And it knocked him down a well Oh mama, oh mama (oh mama, oh mama)
Well, the well went down very deep Very deep went down the well Well, the well went down so very deep Well, the well went down to hell Oh mama, oh mama
Poor Orpheus woke up with a start All amongst the rotting dead His lyre tucked safe under his arm His brains all down his head Oh mama, oh mama
Eurydice appeared brindled in blood She said to Orpheus "If you play that f*cking thing down here I'll stick it up your orifice!" Oh mama, oh mama
"This lyre lark is for the birds," said Orpheus "It's enough to send you bats Let's stay down here, Eurydice, dear We'll have a bunch of screaming brats" Oh mama, oh mama
Orpheus picked up his lyre for the last time He was on a real low down bummer He stared deep into the abyss and said This one is for Mama Oh mama, oh mama Oh mama, oh mama Oh mama, oh mama (oh mama, oh mama) Oh mama, oh mama (oh mama, oh mama) Oh mama, oh mama (oh mama, oh mama) Oh mama, oh mama (oh mama, oh mama) Oh mama, oh mama (oh mama, oh mama) Oh mama, oh mama (oh mama, oh mama)
It's up in the morning and on the downs Little white clouds like gambolling lambs And I am breathless over you And the red-breasted robin beats his wings His throat it trembles when he sings For he is helpless before you The happy hooded bluebells bow And bend their heads all a-down Heavied by the early morning dew At the whispering stream, at the bubbling brook The fishes leap up to take a look For they are breathless over you
Still your hands And still your heart For still your face comes shining through And all the morning glows anew Still your mind Still your soul For still, the fire of love is true And I am breathless without you
The wind circles among the trees And it bangs about the new-made leaves For it is breathless without you The fox chases the rabbit around The rabbit hides beneath the ground For he is defenceless without you The sky of daytime dies away And all the earthly things they stop to play For we are all breathless without you I listen to my juddering bones And the blood in my veins, the wind in my lungs And I am breathless without you
Still your hands And still your heart For still your face comes shining through And all the morning glows anew Still your soul Still your mind Still, the fire of love is true And I am breathless without you
Stay by me, stay by me You are the one, my only true love The butcherbird makes its noise And it asks you to agree With its brutal nesting habits And its pointless savagery Now, the nightingale sings to you And it raises up the ante I put one hand on your round ripe heart And the other down your panties
Everything is falling, dear Everything is wrong It's just history repeating itself And babe, you turn me on
Like a light bulb, babe Like a song
Well you race naked through the wilderness And you torment the birds and the bees You leapt into the abyss, but find It only goes up to your knees I move stealthily from tree to tree And I shadow you for hours I make like I'm a little deer Grazing on the flowers
Everything is collapsing, dear All moral sense has gone It's just history repeating itself And babe, you turn me on
Like an idea, babe Like an atom bomb
We stand awed inside a clearing We do not make a sound The crimson snow falls all about Carpeting the ground
Everything is falling, dear All rhyme and reason gone It's just history repeating itself And, babe, you turn me on
It's difficult It's very tough I said to the man who'd been sleeping rough To sit within a fragrant breeze All among the nodding trees That hang heavy with the stuff
He threw his arms around my neck He brushed the tear from my cheek And held my soft white hand He was an understanding man He did not even barely hardly speak
Easy money Rain it down on the wife and the kids Rain it down on the house where we live Rain until you got nothing left to give And rain that ever-loving stuff down on me
All the things for which my heart yearns Gives joy in diminishing returns He kissed me on the mouth His hands they headed south And my cheek it burned
Money, man, it is a bitch The poor, they spoil it for the rich With my face pressed in the clover I wondered when this would be over And at home we are all so guilty-sad
Easy money Pour it down the open drain Pour it all through my veins Pour it down, yeah, let it rain And pour that ever-loving stuff down on me
Now, I'm sitting pretty down on the bank Life shuffles past at a low interest rate In the money-coloured meadows And all the interesting shadows They leap up, then dissipate
Easy money Easy money Easy money Rain it down on the wife and the kids Rain it down on the house where we live Rain it down until you got nothing left to give And rain that ever-loving stuff down on me Easy money Easy money Easy money Easy money Easy money Easy money Easy money Easy money
Through the windswept coastal trees Where the dead come rising from the sea With a teddy-bear clamped between her knees She says, where can my loverman be? Well, I'm down here, babe, with the Eskimos With the polar bears and the Arctic snow With a party of penguins who do not know How I can get back to thee Well I'm gonna ask you, babe
Hey! Ho! Oh baby don't you go Hey! Ho! Oh no no no Hey! Ho! Oh baby, don't you go All supernatural on me Supernaturally
Once I was your hearts desire Now I am the ape hunkered by the fire With my knuckles dragging through the mire You float by so majestically You're my north, my south, my east, my west Well you are the girl that I love best With an army of tanks bursting from your chest I wave my little white flag at thee Well can you see it, babe?
Hey! Ho! Oh baby don't you go Hey! Ho! Oh no no no Hey! Ho! Oh baby, don't you go All supernatural on me Supernaturally
Now I've turned the mirrors to wall And I've emptied out the peopled halls And I've nailed shut the windows and locked the doors There is no escape, you see And I chase you up and down the stairs Well, under tables and over chairs Well I reach out and I touch your hair And it cuts me like a knife For there is always some little thing you gotta do
Hey! Ho! Oh baby don't go Hey! Ho! Well baby, no no no Hey! Ho! Oh don't you go All supernatural on me Supernaturally
Through the woods, and frosted moors Past the snow-caked hedgerows I Bed down upon the drifting snow Sleep beneath the melting sky I whisper all your names I know not where you are But somewhere, somewhere, somewhere here Upon this wild abandoned star
And I'm full of love And I'm full of wonder And I'm full of love And I'm falling under your spell
I have no abiding memory No awakening, no flaming dart No word of consolation No arrow through my heart Only a feeble notion A glimmer from afar That I cling to with my fingers As we go spinning wildly through the stars
And I'm full of love And I'm full of wonder And I'm full of love And I'm falling under your spell
The wind lifts me to my senses I rise up with the dew The snow turns to streams of light The purple heather grows anew I call you by your name I know not where you are But somehow, somewhere, sometime soon Upon this wild abandoned star
And I'm full of love And I'm full of wonder And I'm full of love And I'm falling under your spell
I lay down by the river The shadows moved across me, inch by inch And all that I heard Was the war between the water and the bridge Turn to me (turn to me) Turn to me (turn to me) Turn to me (turn to me) Turn and drink of me (Look away) look away (Look away) look away (Look away) look away And never more think of me
Carry me Carry me
I heard the many voices Speaking to me from the depths below This ancient wound This catacomb Beneath the whited snow Come to me (come to me) Come to me (come to me) Come to me (come to me) Come and drink of me (Turn away) turn away (Turn away) turn away (Turn away) turn away And never more think of me
(Carry me) carry me (Carry me) away
Who will lay down their hammer? Who will put up their sword? (turn to me) And pause to see (turn to me) The mystery (turn to me) Oh the mystery of the Word
(Carry me) carry me (Carry me) (Carry me) carry me (Carry me) away (Carry me) carry me (Carry me) (Carry me) carry me (Carry me) away (Carry me) carry me (Carry me)
Pass me that lovely little gun My dear, my darling one The cleaners are coming, one by one You don't even want to let them start
They're knocking now upon your door They measure the room, they know the score They're mopping up the butcher's floor Of your broken little hearts
(Oh, children) Forgive us now for what we've done It started out as a bit of fun Here, take these before we run away The keys to the gulag
(Oh, children) (Lift up your voice, lift up your voice) (Children) (Rejoice, rejoice)
Come on Come on Come on Come on Here comes Frank and poor old Jim They're gathering round with all my friends We're older now, and the light is dim And you are only just beginning
Oh, children We have the answer to all your fears It's short, it's simple, it's crystal-clear It's roundabout and it's somewhere here Lost amongst our winnings
(Oh, children) (Lift up your voice, lift up your voice) (Children) (Rejoice, rejoice)
The cleaners have done their job on you They're hip to it, man, they're in the groove They've hosed you down, you're good as new And they're lining up to inspect you
Oh children Poor old Jim's white as a ghost He's found the answer that we lost We're all weeping now, weeping because There ain't nothing we can do to protect you
(Oh, children) (Lift up your voice, lift up your voice) (Children) (Rejoice, rejoice)
(Hey little train, we're jumping on) (The train that goes to the Kingdom) We're happy, Ma, we're having fun And the train ain't even left the station
(Hey, little train, wait for me) (I once was blind but now I see) And have you left a seat for me? Is that such a stretch of the imagination?
(Hey little train, wait for me) (I was held in chains but now I'm free) I'm hanging in there, don't you see? In this process of elimination
(Hey little train, we're jumping on) (The train that goes to the Kingdom) We're happy, Ma, we're having fun (children) It's beyond my wildest expectation (oh, children)
(Hey little train, we're jumping on) (The train that goes to the Kingdom) We're happy, Ma, we're having fun The train ain't even left the station (oh, children) (Hey, little train, wait for me) (I once was blind but now I see)
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus is the thirteenth studio album by the Australian alternative rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 20 September 2004 on Mute Records. It is a double album of seventeen songs.
The album was produced by Nick Launay at Studio Ferber in Paris in March-April 2004 and Nick Cave used The Bad Seeds line up of Mick Harvey, Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos, Warren Ellis, and James Johnston. It was the first album by the group for which Blixa Bargeld did not perform - English guitarist and organist Johnston, of the group Gallon Drunk, replaced Bargeld. Cave decided to split drumming duties for the two parts, with Sclavunos on Abattoir Blues and Wydler on The Lyre of Orpheus. According to Launay, the whole album was completed in twelve days.
The album's release was supported by the Abattoir Blues Tour, which travelled through Europe from 2 November to 5 December. In January 2007 a double live album and DVD was issued as The Abattoir Blues Tour. Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus's last track, "O Children", was featured in the 2010 film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1, and the song is referenced as an achievement in Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7.
In March 2005, to complement the success of the double album, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released B-Sides & Rarities, a three-disc, 56-track collection of B-sides, rarities, and tracks that had appeared on film soundtracks.