| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Hiding All Away Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"You asked the butcher, Lifted up his cleaver,Stuck his fist up your dress,Said he must've been mad to leave you." The latter "must've been mad to leave you", it is ambiguous as to whether he or she lifts the cleaver, but i am taking it that SHE does (Which means she is getting angry by this part of the song...perhaps enough to visit an old lover, unless it means she is saying it to the butcher ;). His view point, she "died of boredom" in relation to the content of his intellectual 'milestones'. I think it's that she doesn't get him (Nick...the character...whatever) in some way (We as an audience don't either....just picking at Auden and Sappho...picking through his past ). At the end a simple message of 'goodness' that has otherwise officially been bastardized in alot of ways (His view of an americanised god...far removed from the baseline message in relevance to the 'laws of love'. There is a war, or what i think might also involve a holy war, perhaps personally within a relationship yet i get the feeling much more, encapsulating the world?) He is almost mocking himself saying even though he has looked into all the 'intellectual' figureheads he has kind of abandoned it anyway because he believes something else He is playful and apathetic somehow, whilst still saying that "Love is the law". Ironically 'Hiding all away' in the tracklisting is after 'Cannibals Hymn'...so i don't know anymore. I give up! . |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Hiding All Away Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Sorry i got Nick Cave excited today ;s "Knowledge of the air" Auden? “We must love one another or die” ― W.H. Auden “Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.” ― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter "In the past, Cave identified as a Christian. In his recorded lectures on music and songwriting, he has claimed that any true love song is a song for God and has ascribed the mellowing of his music to a shift in focus from the Old to the New Testaments. He does not belong to a particular denomination and has distanced himself from "religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked".[63] He said in a Los Angeles Times article: "I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god. It's kind of defending the indefensible, though; I'm critical of what religions are becoming, the more destructive they're becoming. But I think as an artist, particularly, it's a necessary part of what I do, that there is some divine element going on within my songs."[64] When asked in 2009 about whether he believed in a personal God, Cave's reply was: "No".[65] When interviewed by Jarvis Cocker on 12 September 2010, for his BBC Radio 6 show "Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service", Cave stated: "I believe in God in spite of religion, not because of it."[66]" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Cave) wiki lol...it's the wrong side of 6am give me a break! :) "2013 conference keynote Q&A session, Cave explained: "I am Nick Cave and there is no going back to what I was. And on some level, I see that as being successful in my job and on the other hand sometimes it's fucking exhausting." |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Hiding All Away Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"Some of us we hide away Some of us we don't Some will live to love another day And some of us won't But we all know there is a law And that law, it is love And we all know there's a war coming Coming from above"....the descriptions are like what he is describing, atleast to me. Like he is busy spinning me a yarn while telling me the truth....erh...hiding LOL. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Hiding All Away Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"You searched through all my poets From Sappho through to Auden I saw the book fall from your hands As you slowly died of boredom I had been there, dear, and I was not there anymore I had been there, dear, now I'm hiding all away You walked into the Hall of Fame And approached my imitators Some were stuffin' their faces with caviar Some were eatin' cold potatoes Well I was hidin', dear, I was hiding all away I was hidin', dear, I was hiding all away" It's all right there..... |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Hiding All Away Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| "There is a war coming".....Nick is private | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Hiding All Away Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"I opened my eyes, Joe, (Jesus/Joseph) The night had been a giant, dribbling and pacing the boards All your letters and cards stacked up against the door The morning light came slowly tumbling through the crack In the window, Joe And I thought of you and I felt like I was lugging A body on my back" N.CAVE FOREVER what a poetic genius!!!! <3 (However how did it go from this and other examples to 'God is in the house'? Perhaps Nick has always wrestled with his religion??) Just my interpretation ofC ;) Nick Cave in 1998 FHM magazine: http://www.nick-cave.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=29 "Q: You've just had a Best of... album released. What's the last song you'd have included? A: Fuck, I don't know. I Had A Dream, Joe (from the 1992 album, Henry's Dream), perhaps - that's a pile of crap. Lyrically, it's just a string of images put together without much meaning behind it. I'd like it to be quietly forgotten." I JUST BET HE DOES.................................................................................................. BECAUSE I REALLY DON'T THINK SO. In a biography i read it said when he was in Berlin he spent alot of time reading biblical texts...and also for the book 'ass saw the angel' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Ass_Saw_the_Angel) ...are these the nights Nick speaks of i wonder? ;) Nick should now put his name in this song...(Someone debated it here) instead of 'hiding all way' (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Hiding All Away (London 2004, Pro-Shot)) (2004!) because really.......Peace X |
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| My Ruin – TERROR Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Yet she ironically uses atleast once, someone elses words. Respect to Tarrie for the Nick Cave. | |
| My Ruin – TERROR Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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It's 'fucker' |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – I Had a Dream, Joe Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"I had a dream Joe, that you were standing in the middle of an open road I had a dream Joe that your hands were raised up to the sky and your mouth was covered in foam" My Ruin (2009) 'Speak & Destroy' http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/65264/ Hope it got credited because: (Nick Cave & The Badseeds 'I had a dream, Joe' 'Henry's Dream' 1992) |
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| My Ruin – TERROR Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858501598/?specific_com=73016256511#comments "I had a dream Joe, that you were standing in the middle of an open road I had a dream Joe that your hands were raised up to the sky and your mouth was covered in foam" |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – I Had a Dream, Joe Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Shamelessly was the right word...... | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – I Had a Dream, Joe Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Nick Cave is a juxtaposition in that i think Nick here is refering to Jesus..literally through out.....erh yeah obviously......"I had a dream....JOE???" then later 'God is in the house'??!! Perhaps describes inri....arms to the sky...foam...mouth.....? He also says he keeps getting alot of mail after nights of consideration, yet he feels as if jesus is a body on his back. The mail is the literature that piles up behind his door. He is saying he lost his faith. "All dressed up in your ridiculous seersucker suit" "With that strew of wreckage......Forever at the heel of your boot"............."A pimp (jesus) in seersucker suit sucked a toothpick, And pointed his finger at me" ...judged him? Yeah that's all i've got but f**k it no one else tried, however amusing. | |
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