Slowly Goes The Night
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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 moon 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 night
O baby, I feel the heal of time
I wake to find you sitting there
Cutting tangles 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
