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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Needle Boy Lyrics	12 years ago
I think this pretty obviously alludes to Nick Cave's previous struggle with drugs, more specifically his experience with heroin. With this in mind it doesn't really take much to decipher this song.

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The Birthday Party – Kathy's Kisses Lyrics

14 years ago

This is one of my favorite The Birthday Party songs. Three lines of lyrics sung over and over again, gradually merging into complete and utter insanity. Love the horrid saxophone and that crocky piano. The lyrics deal pretty obviously with a guy obsessing over a girl, who seems might she like be a cock-tease, but maybe she never had any real romantic feelings for the narrator and her "kisses" are just imagined by him.

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The Birthday Party – Just You and Me Lyrics	14 years ago
Probably a lot of drugs and/or alcohol. I remember reading an interview with Nick where he said he has no recollection of writing this song; it just was in his notebook one day. So yeah, probably written under strong influence of some kind of substance.

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The Birthday Party – Yard Lyrics	14 years ago
I don't know; I get associations to Nick Cave's book "And The Ass Saw The Angel" when listening to this song, tough I do not know if he had even started thinking about that book at this point. The yard where Euchrid lives with his father and mother: the chickens, "fathers hole".

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Grinderman – Worm Tamer Lyrics	14 years ago
I think this song is about a (middle-aged) man who feels sexually inadequate. While his woman is a great lover (Snake charmer, worm tamer, serpent wrangler, mambo rider - all pretty sexual images when put in this context), the man cannot keep up with her - which becomes clear in the last verse: "Well my baby calls me the Loch Ness Monster/Two great big humps and then I'm gone"

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