Nick Cave (born in the late 1950s in central Missouri, USA) is an American fabric sculptor, dancer, and performance artist. He is best known for his Soundsuits: wearable fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical, and other-worldly. He also trained as a dancer with Alvin Ailey. He resides in Chicago and is director of the graduate fashion program at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [read more] - All The Pretty Little Horses
Hushaby, don' you cryGo to sleepy little babyWhen you awake you shall have cakeAnd all the pretty little horses.Blacks and Bays, Dapples and GraysCoach, and a six a little horses.So hushaby, etc.Way down yonda', down...
- To Be By Your Side
Across the oceans across the seas,Over forests of blackened trees.Through valleys so still we dare not breathe,To be by your side.Over the shifting desert plains,Across mountains all in flames.Through howling winds...
- Shoot Me Down
On those sentimental nights You hold me in your sights Shoot me down And though there ain't no enemy here You keep me very near And shoot me down Shoot me down Your hands, they flutter up Armed and dangerous, my...
- Night Of The Lotus Eaters
Sapped and stupid I lie upon the stones and I swoonsThe darlig little dandelions have done their thing and changed from suns into moonsThe dragons roam the shopping malls, I hear they're gonna eat our gutsIf I had the...
- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
[Dig yourself][Lazâ??rus dig yourself][Lazâ??rus dig yourself][Lazâ??rus dig yourself][Back in that hole.]Larry made his nest up in the autumn branchesBuilt from nothing but high hopes and thin airHe...
- Moonland
When I came up from out of the meat lockerThe city was goneThe sky was full of lightsThe snow provided a silent coverIn moonlandUnder the starsUnder the snowAnd I followed this carAnd I followed that carThrough the...
- Today's Lesson
Little Janie, she wakes up from a dreamA gun like a jawbone down the waistband of her jeansMr Sandman, he can recite today's lesson in his sleepHe says there oughta be some kind of law against me going down on the...
- Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl)
Well, you lost a foeAnd you found a friend(Lie down here & be my girl)I'm back now, baby, that manHe won't be coming round here again(Lie down here & be my girl)I'm trying to tread careful, babyYou're as brittle as...
- Jesus Of The Moon
I stepped out of the St. James Hotel, I'd left you behind curled up like a childA change is gonna come, and as the door whispered shutI walked on down the high-windowed hallYou lay sleeping on the unmade bed, the...
- More News From Nowhere
I walk into the corner of my room, see my friends in high placesI don't know which is which and whom is whom, they've stolen each other's facesJanet is there with her high-hatting hair full of bedroom feathersJanet is...
- Midnight Man
Hold that chrysalis in your palm, see it split and changeIt won't do you any harm, it's just trying to rearrangeIt was born to live a day, now it flies up from your handIt's beautiful, it's the one they call your...
- Albert Goes West
Albert goes west, he crossed the vast indifferent deserts of Arizona, oh yeahHe had a psychotic episode on a dude ranch that involved a bottle of ammoniaHenry, he went south and lost his way deep in the weeping...
- Hold On To Yourself
I'm so far away from youPacing up and down my roomDoes Jesus only love a man who loses?I turn on the radioThere's some cat on the saxophone Laying down a litany of excusesThere's madhouse longing in my baby's eyesShe...
- We Call Upon The Author
What we once thought we had we didn't, and what we have now will never be that way againSo we call upon the author to explain(Doop doop doop doop dooop)Our myxomatoid kids spraddle the streets, we've shunned them from...
- Abattoir Blues
The sun is high up in the sky and I'm in my carDrifting down into the abattoirDo you see what I see, dear?The air grows heavy. I listen to your breathEntwined together in this culture of deathDo you see what I see,...
- The Lyre Of Orpheus
Orpheus sat gloomy in his garden shedWondering what to doWith a lump of wood, a piece of wireAnd a little pot of glueO Mamma O MammaHe sawed at the wood with half a heartAnd glued it top to bottomHe strung a wire in...
- Hiding All Away
You went looking for nur, dear,Down by the seaYou found some Iittle silver fishBut you didn't find meI was hiding, dear, hiding all wayI was hiding, dear, hiding all wayYou went to the museumYou climbed a spiral...
- Messiah Ward
I hope you're sitting comfortablyI saved you the best seat in the houseRight up in the front rowThe stars have been torn downThe moon is locked awayAnd the land is banked in frozen snowYou are a forte of nature,...
- Get Ready For Love
Get ready for love! Praise Him!Get ready tot love! Praise Him!Get ready for love! Get readylWell, most of all nothing muchever really happensAnd God rides high up in the ordinary skyUntil we find ourselves at out most...
- Fable Of The Brown Ape
Farmer Emmerich went into his barnAnd found a cow suckling a serpentAnd a brown ape clanking a heavy chainSaid Farmer Emmerich to the apeNever ask me to come into this barn againSo LongFarewellSo LongFarmer Emmerich...
- Babe, I'm On Fire
Father says it, mother says itSister says it, brother says itUncle says it, Auntie says itEveryone at the party saysBabe, I'm on fireBabe, I'm on fireThe horse says it, the pig says itThe judge in his wig says itThe...
- Let Love In
Despair and Deception, Love's ugly little twinsCame a-knocking on my door, I let them inDarling, you're the punishment for all my former sinsI let love inThe door it opened just a crack, but love was shrewd and boldMy...
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