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Nick Cave Quotes

Australian musician and singer

Nick Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, poet, author and actor.

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Birth Name: Nicholas Edward Cave

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One morn I awakened, a new sun was shining,
The sky was a kingdom, all covered in blood.
The moon and the stars, where the troops that lay conquered,
Like food left to wither, poor spirital food.

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The moon was turned toward me,
Like a platter made of gold,
My death, it almost bored me,
So often was it told.

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King Ink feels like a bug,
Swimming in a soup-bowl.

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The Captain's fore-arm like buncht-up rope,
With Anita wrigglin' free onto skull n' dagger,
And a portrait of Christ, nailed to an anchor,
Etched into the upper...

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My oh My,what a wretched Life.
I was born on the day that my poor mama died.
I was cut from Her belly with a stanley knife.
My daddy did a jig with the drunk midwife

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Blind Lemon Jefferson is a-comin', Tap tap tappin', with his cane.

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King Ink strolls into town...
He sniffs around.

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Who's that yonder all in flames?
Draggin' behind him a sack of chains
Who's that yonder all in flames?
Up jumped the Devil and staked his claim

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Death favours those that favour death.

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The song is heroic because the song confronts death. The song is immortal and bravely stares down our own extinction. The song emerges from the spirit world with a true message: Some day I will tell you how to slay the dragon.

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My body is a monster driven insane,
My heart is a fish toasted in flames.

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My baby is alright,
She doesn't mind a bit of dirt,
She says 'Horror vampire bat bite, sex vampire, how I wish those bats would bite',
Woooooah! Bite! Bite! Release the bats!

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Here is the hammer, that build the scaffold, and built the box...

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