Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus / 2004-10-26 1. Supernaturally 2. Let The Bells Ring 3. Spell 4. Carry Me 5. Hiding All Away 6. Cannibal's Hymn 7. Breathless 8. O Children 9. Messiah Ward 10. Babe, You Turn Me On 11. Get Ready For Love 12. Nature Boy 13. Abattoir Blues 14. There She Goes, My Beautiful World 15. Easy Money 16. The Lyre Of Orpheus 17. Fable Of The Brown Ape

Abattoir Blues

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
The sky is on fire, the dead are heaped across the land
I went to bed last night and my
moral code got jammed
I woke up this morning with a Frappucino in my hand

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 someway out of here?

I wake with the sparrows and I hurry off to work
The need for validation, babe, gone completely
berserk
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