Nick Cave Until The End Of The World Lyrics

it was a miracle i even got out of longwood alive - this town full of men with big mouths and no guts. i mean, if you can picture it, the whole third floor of the hotel gutted by the blast. and the street below showered in shards of broken glass. and all the drunks pouring out of the dance halls staring up at the smoke and the flames. and the blind pencil-seller waving his stick, shouting for his dog that lay dead on the side of the road. and me, if you can believe this, at the whell of the car, closing my eyes and actually praying. not to god above, but to you. saying,
"help me girl, help me girl
i'll love you till the end of the world
with your eyes black as coal and your long dark curls"
some things we plan, we sit and we invent and we plot and cook up. others are works of inspiration, of poetry. and it was this genius hand that pushed me up the hotel stairs to say my last goodbye to her hair white as snow and her pale blue eyes, saying, "i gotta go, i gotta go, the bomb and the breadbasket are ready to blow." in this town of men with big mouths and no guts, the pencil-seller's dog, spooked by the explosion, leaping under my wheels, as i careened out of longwood on my way to you, waiting in your dress, in your dress of blue.
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and with the horses prancing through the fields, with my knife in my jeans and the rain on the shield, i sang a song for the glory of the beauty of you, waiting for me in your dress of blue.
"thank you girl, thank you girl
i'll love you till the end of the world
with your eyes black as coal and your long dark curls"