Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Moon Is In The Gutter

From Her To Eternity / 1984-03-01 1. Wings Off Flies 2. Cabin Fever! 3. The Moon Is In The Gutter 4. Saint Huck 5. A Box For Black Paul 6. From Her To Eternity 7. Well Of Misery 8. In The Ghetto 9. Avalanche

The Moon Is In The Gutter

The moon is in the gutter
And the stars wash down the sink
I am the king of the blues
I scape the clay off my shoes
And wade down the gutter and the moon

The moon blinds my eye with opal cataracts
As I cut through the saw-mills and the stacks,
Leaping over the gully where I would one day take Lucy
Then wash up my hands in the gutter and the moon.

Such a long way from home, just me and
The moon is in the gutter
All my plans are flushed down the drain
I wander lonely as a cloud
Over memories at her mound
Then lie down in the bitter gutter moon.