The Weeping Song

I think a lot of people are reading too much into this - organized religion or war or whatever.

I think it's a lot more basic than that, though. If you want to live your life, have relationships, love other people, well it's inevitable that you will just end up weeping for your trouble at some point.

Everything ends sooner or later - relationships go sour, children grow up, friends lose touch, loved ones die, and then so do you.

"I won't be weeping long"

So I guess it's okay to weep, to mourn, but you have to stop eventually and live your life too, or you'll miss all the good bits in between the sad bits?

I dunno. I don't think this song is "depressing" just a... pleasant melancholy. :)

"We heard of you, Father, we heard of you. I have buried my little son, and I have come on a pilgrimage. I have been in three monasteries, but they told me, 'Go, Nastasya, go to them'- that is to you. I have come; I was yesterday at the service, and to-day I have come to you."

"What are you weeping for?"

"It's my little son I'm grieving for, Father. he was three years old- three years all but three months. For my little boy, Father, I'm in anguish, for my little boy. He was the last one left. We had four, my Nikita and I, and now we've no children, our dear ones have all gone I buried the first three without grieving overmuch, and now I have buried the last I can't forget him. He seems always standing before me. He never leaves me. He has withered my heart. I look at his little clothes, his little shirt, his little boots, and I wail. I lay out all that is left of him, all his little things. I look at them and wail. I say to Nikita, my husband, 'let me go on a pilgrimage, master.' He is a driver. We're not poor people, Father, not poor; he drives our own horse. It's all our own, the horse and the carriage. And what good is it all to us now? My Nikita has begun drinking while I am away. He's sure to."

• Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

Probably my favourite Nick Cave song. Simple, beautiful, powerful. All in one. One of the best songs ever heard.

Off one of his best album. But it doesn't get any recognition.

The song sounds incredibly sad, but when I look at the videoclip it always make me smile, it's very tragic-pathetic.

It simply is about life - if I stop laughing I only have weeping left.

Has someone messed with the lyrics? These are for The Ship Song.

The Weeping Song has the word weeping in it.

Probably my favourite Nick Cave song. Simple, beautiful, powerful. All in one. One of the best songs ever heard.

Probably my favourite Nick Cave song. Simple, beautiful, powerful. All in one. One of the best songs ever heard.

It's one of my favorites also. I actually find the live version from Royal Albert Hall (I think) way better that the studio one. It's got cellos playing the whole song and it beautiful! :)