Abbatoir Blues

Song Abbatoir Blues
Artist Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus

Lyrics

[00:12.910] The sun is high up in the sky and I'm in my car
[00:19.120] Drifting down into the abattoir
[00:22.430]
[00:24.700] Do you see what I see, dear
[00:27.960] The air grows heavy
[00:30.460] I listen to your breath
[00:33.780] Entwined together in this culture of death
[00:38.220]
[00:39.100] Do you see what I see, dear
[00:43.230] Slide on over here, let me give you a squeeze
[00:48.930] To avert this unholy evolutionary trajectory
[00:54.310] Can you hear what I hear, babe
[00:58.440] Does it make you feel afraid
[01:00.700]
[01:07.390] Everything's dissolving, babe
[01:09.570] according to plan
[01:11.840]
[01:13.280] The sky is on fire
[01:15.150] the dead are heaped across the land
[01:17.840]
[01:19.220] I went to bed last night and my
[01:22.410] moral code got jammed
[01:23.850]
[01:25.360] I woke up this morning with a Frappucino in my hand
[01:29.980]
[01:44.130] I kissed you once. I kissed you again
[01:47.870]
[01:49.750] My heart it tumbled like the stock exchange
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[01:55.240] Do you feel what I feel, dear
[01:59.230] Mass extinction, darling, hypocrisy
[02:05.100] These things are not good for me
[02:09.040]
[02:11.240] Do you see what I see, dear
[02:13.740]
[02:14.430] The line the God throws down to you and me
[02:18.430]
[02:20.510] Makes a pleasing geometry
[02:25.000] Shall we leave this place now, dear
[02:30.240] Is there someway out of here
[02:35.680]
[02:39.520] I wake with the sparrows and I hurry off to work
[02:44.880] The need for validation, babe
[02:46.950] gone completely
[02:48.650] berserk
[02:50.770] I wanted to be your Superman
[02:52.760] but I turned out such a jerk
[02:55.210] I got the abattoir blues
[02:59.100]
[03:01.090] I got the abattoir blues
[03:04.420]
[03:07.100] I got the abattoir blues
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[03:12.500] Right down to my shoes