Slowly Goes The Night Lyrics by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Slowly Goes The Night Lyrics

    Lover, lover, goodbye
    So slowly goes the night
    I trace the print of your body with my hand
    Like the map of some forbidden land
    I trace the ghosts of your bones
    With my trembling hand
    Dark is my night
    But darker is my day yeah
    I must've been blind
    Out of my mind
    Not to read the warning signs
    How goes it?
    It goes lonely
    Goes slowly

    So slowly goes the night
    Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights
    I watch the moon get flayed anew
    Until the moom becomes the skinning tool
    I send the skins of my sins out to cover and comfort you
    I know of a heaven
    And honey i know of a hell yeah
    I hang my head
    In my bed
    And remember what you said
    "one evening, i'm leaving"
    And i laughed and checked her breathing
    And said darling

    Go slowly through the knight
    O baby, i feel the heal of time
    I wake to find you sitting here
    Cutting tangels out of your hair
    Singing a song that's all wrong
    Hey, but that's alright, i don't care
    O darling forgive me
    For all the misery yeah
    I embrace an empty space
    And your laughing song it fades
    Where goes it?
    It goes some place
    Where it's lonely

    And black as the night
    Come back, darling and 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, they are so long now
    I can't remember it being 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 can forget
    How goes it?
    I'm going, but slowly slowly going
    And we both know that it's gonna be alright

    But it ain't you who has to cry cry cry
    Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights
    Since you left my side side side

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