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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Performer
Chris Dauray
Saxophone
George Vjestica
Background Vocals
Jessica Neilson
Bass Clarinet
Ryan Porter
Trombone
The Children of Ecole Saint Martin, Saint-Rémy-De-Provence
Background Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Nick Cave
Composer
Warren Ellis
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Producer
Nick Launay
Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Can't remember anything at all
Flame trees line the streets
Can't remember anything at all
But I'm driving my car down to Geneva
[Verse 2]
I been sitting in my basement patio, ah, it was hot
Up above, girls walk past, their roses all in bloom
Have you ever heard about the Higgs Boson Blues?
I'm going down to Geneva, baby, gonna teach it to you
[Verse 3]
Who cares, who cares what the future brings
Black road long and I drove and drove, I came upon a crossroad
The night was hot and black
I see Robert Johnson with a ten dollar guitar strapped to his back
Looking for a tune
[Verse 4]
Ah, well here comes Lucifer with his canon low
And a hundred black babies running from his genocidal jaw
He got the real killer groove, Robert Johnson and the Devil, man
Don't know who's gonna rip off who
[Verse 5]
Driving my car, flame trees on fire
Sitting and singing the Higgs Boson Blues
I'm tired, I'm looking for a spot to drop
But all the clocks have stopped in Memphis now
[Verse 6]
In the Lorraine Motel it's hot
It's hot, that's why they call it the hot spot
I take a room with a view
Hear a man preaching in a language that's completely new, yeah
[Verse 7]
Making the hot cots in the flop-house bleed
While the cleaning ladies sob into their mops
And a bellhop hops and bops
And a shot rings out to a spiritual groove
Everybody bleeding to that Higgs Boson Blues
[Verse 8]
And if I die tonight
Bury me in my favorite yellow patent leather shoes
With a mummified cat and a cone-like hat
That the Caliphate forced on the Jews
[Verse 9]
Can you feel my heart beat?
Can you feel my heart beat?
[Verse 10]
Hannah Montana does the African savannah
As the simulated rainy season begins
She curses the queue at the Zulu's
And moves on to Amazonia
Cries with the dolphins
[Verse 11]
The Mai-Mai ate the pygmy, the pygmy ate the monkey
The monkey has a gift that he is sending back to you
Look, here comes the missionary with his smallpox and flu
He's saving them savages with his Higgs Boson Blues
[Verse 12]
I'm driving my car down to Geneva
I'm driving my car down to Geneva
[Verse 13]
Oh, let the damn day break
The rainy days always make me sad
Miley Cyrus floats in a swimming pool in Toluca Lake
And you're the best girl I ever had
Can't remember anything at all
Written by: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis