Slowly Goes the Night
Nick Cave
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Darling, that morning you chose to go I awoke in my boots and clothes You dig in my cards, stole all my cash Even my five-hundred dollar suit was slashed And I just lay there watching the sun fall down from the sky Not wanting to open the letter But opening it anyway And seeing those two words Lover, lover, goodbye So slowly goes the night Next to me lies your body Laying like the map of some forbidden land I trace the ghosts of your bones With my trembling hand Dark is my night And darker is my day yeah I must've been blind Out of my mind I never, never saw the warning signs How goes it? It goes lonely It goes slowly So slowly goes the night Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights Come on I watch the moon get flayed each night Until the moon becomes the skinning knife The skins of my sins I send to cover and comfort you I know of a Heaven Oh, but honey I know of a Hell, yeah I hang my head I toss in my bed I never, never forget the words you said "One evening, I'm leaving" And I laughed and checked her breathing And said darling Oh, go slowly through the night Oh baby, I feel the heal of time And it hurts I wake to find you sitting right there Cutting tangles out of your hair Singing a song that's all wrong Hey, but that's alright, I don't care Oh, I'm sorry For all the misery, yeah I reach out and embrace an empty space A song that slowly slowly fades Where goes it? It goes some place It goes somewhere, where it's lonely And black as the night Come on home, baby Let's put things right, put things right I hang my head and cry cry cry Darling, all night I try To cease on a reason for this mad mad season The nights, the nights they are so long now I can't remember being in light Call it sleep, call it death, call it what you like But only sleep, dear Only sleep brings you back to life, yeah I hang my head I toss and I sweat I never, never, never can forget How goes it? Well I'm going, baby, slowly slowly going And we both know that it's gonna be alright But it ain't you that has to cry cry cry Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights Since you left my side, side, side
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Written by: Nicholas Cave
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