Lavender Fields
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
I am travelling appallingly alone
On a singular road
Into the lavender fields
That reach high beyond the sky
People ask me how I’ve changed
I say it is a singular road
And the lavender has stained my skin
And made me strange
The lavender is tall and reaches
Beyond the heavenly cover
I plough through this furious world
Of which I’m truly over
And sometimes I hear my name
Oh where did you go?
But the lavender is broad
And it’s a singular road
Once I was running with my friends
All of them busy with their pens
But the lavender grew rare
What happened to them?
Sometimes I see a pale bird
Wheeling in the sky
But that is just a feeling
A feeling when you die
We don’t ask who
We don’t ask why
There is a kingdom in the sky
There is a kingdom in the sky
We walk and walk
Across the hills
We walk and walk
Through lavender hills
We don’t ask when
We don’t ask why
There is a kingdom in the sky
There is a kingdom in the sky
Where did they go?
Where did they hide?
We don’t ask who
We don’t ask why
There is a kingdom in the sky
There is a kingdom in the sky
