'Murder Ballads' is an equal opportunities album! Altho' most of the murderers are male (as in life), the women get a fair go, too. Old ballads are full of jealous & murderous women, & some of those ballads are far more extreme than anything Nick Cave has done. That last verse is chilling - "the girl you have in that merry green land/ can wait forever for you to come home". That line sends a shiver down my spine.
'Murder Ballads' is an equal opportunities album! Altho' most of the murderers are male (as in life), the women get a fair go, too. Old ballads are full of jealous & murderous women, & some of those ballads are far more extreme than anything Nick Cave has done. That last verse is chilling - "the girl you have in that merry green land/ can wait forever for you to come home". That line sends a shiver down my spine.