| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Mercy Seat Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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(Taken from a 1990 interview by Simon Reynolds called "Blissed Out: The Raptures Of Rock") "It's the throne of God, in the Bible, where he sits and throws his lightning bolts and so forth. But it's also about this guy sitting on Death Row, waiting to be electrocuted or whatever. It's juxtaposing those two things. A person in his final days, thinking about good and evil and all the usual fare." [...] 'The Mercy Seat' is about this person in solitary confinement, becoming more sensitive to inanimate objects, and as he sits thinking about human and Divine Justice, finding himself judging these things as Good or Evil." |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Jack's Shadow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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(Taken from a 1988 interview called "Knocking on Nick's Door") "Based on the story of Norman Mailer's friend Jack Henry Abbott, who wrote 'In the Belly of the Beast'." |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Carny Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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(Taken from 'In Search of Nick Cave', published in Hypno in December of 1994) "It's only a story of a horse dying, but, thanks, that's nice to hear. 'The Carny' is just a straight story. When I recorded that, basically everyone had gone home. There was a bit of piano music that was written, and when it came to the singing, I just had myself an armchair, a table, a typewriter, various sorts of paraphernalia around me, hundreds of lyrics, a microphone, ashtrays, lots of alcohol, and just sort of sat down there in the armchair the whole night and just made up the story and sang it into the microphone. It was an enjoyable song to create." |
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