Knockin’ On Joe
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
These chains of sorrow, they are heavy, it is true
And these locks cannot be broken, no, not with one thousand keys
O Jailer, you wear a ball-n-chain you cannot see
You can lay your burden on me
You can lay your burden down on me
You can lay your burden down upon me
But you cannot lay down those memories.
Woooo wooo wooo
Woooo wooo wooo
Here I go!
Knockin’ on Joe!
This square foot of sky will be mine til I die
Knockin’ on Joe
Woooo wooo wooo
All down the row.
Knockin’ on Joe.
O Warden I surrender to you
Your fists can’t hurt me anymore
You know, these hands will never wash
These dirty Death Row floors
O Preacher, come closer, you don’t scare me anymore
Just tell Nancy not to come here
Just tell her not to come here anymore
Tell Nancy not to come
And let me die in the memory of her arms.
O wooo wooo wooo
Wooo wooo woooo
All down the row.
Knockin’ on Joe.
O You kings of halls and ends of halls
You will die within these walls
And I’ll go, all down the row
Knockin’ on Joe.
O Nancy’s body is a coffin, she wears my tombstone at her head
O Nancy’s body is a coffin, she wears my tombstone at her head
She wears her body like a coffin
She wears a dress of gold and red
She wears a dress of gold and red
She wears a dress of red and gold
Grave-looters at my coffin before my body’s even cold.
It’s a door for when I go
Knockin’ on Joe
These hands will never mop your dirty Death Row floors
No! You can hide! You can run!
O but your trial is yet to come
O you can run! You can hide!
But you have yet to be tried!
You can lay your burden down here
You can lay your burden down here
Knockin’ on Joe
You can lay your burden upon me
You can lay your burden down upon me
Knockin’ on Joe
You can’t hurt me anymore
Knockin’ on Joe
