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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity - Live in Copenhagen
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Blixa Bargeld
Blixa Bargeld
Composer
Barry Adamson
Barry Adamson
Composer
Mick Harvey
Mick Harvey
Composer
Hugo Race
Hugo Race
Composer
Nick Cave
Nick Cave
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Anita Lane
Anita Lane
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Lyrics

I wanna tell ya 'bout a girl
You know, she lives in 29
Why, why? That's the one right up top a mine
I start to cry, I start to cry
Oh, I hear her walkin'
Walkin' barefoot 'cross the floorboards
All through this lonesome night
I hear her crying too, hot tears come splashin' down
Leaking through the cracks, down upon my face
I catch 'em in my mouth
Catch 'em in my mouth
Catch 'em in my mouth
I catch 'em in my mouth
Walk an' cry, walk an' cry, walk an' cry
I walk an' cry
From her to eternity
From her to eternity
From her to eternity
I read her diary on her sheets
Scrutinizing every little bit of dirt
Tore out a page and stuffed it inside my shirt
I fled outta the window and shinning it down the vine
Outta her nightmare and back inside mine
Mine, oh mine
From her to eternity
From her to eternity
Oh, cry cry cry
Oh, cry cry cry
She's wearing them bloo-stockens, I bet
And standin' like this with my ear to the ceiling
Listen I know it must sound absurd
But I can hear the most melancholy sound I ever heard
Walk and cry, walk and cry
Kneel and cry, kneel and cry
From her to eternity
From her to eternity
Oh tell me why? Oh tell me why?
I wanna know why? Oh tell me why?
Don't tell me a lie
Why the ceiling still shakes?
And all the fixtures turn to serpents and snakes?
This desire to possess her is a wound
And it's naggin' at me like a shrew
But I know that to possess her is, therefore, not to desire her
Well that little girl will just have to go, go
From her to eternity
I go from her to eternity
From her to eternity (Cry, cry, cry)
From her to eternity (Cry, cry, cry)
From her to eternity (Why did I cry? Why did I cry? Why did I cry?)
From her to eternity (Cry, cry, cry, cry)
From her to eternity (Why did I cry? Why did I cry? Why did I cry?)
From her to eternity (Cry, cry)
From her to eternity (Cry, cry)
From her to eternity (Cry, cry, eternity)
(Cry, cry, eternity)
(Cry)
Written by: Anita Lane, Barry Adamson, Blixa Bargeld, Hugo Race, Mick Harvey, Nick Cave

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