Lyric discussion by gement 

Cover art for Up Jumped the Devil lyrics by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

"younder" should be "yonder" "villains" = "villain's" "Than the of a dead nun's heart" = "Than the chambers of a dead nun's heart" (missed word) "cathouse" should be plural: "cathouses" "And sampled their whares" = "And we sampled their wares" (missed word, and "wares") "One night I spat out / My lucky stars" = "That night I swallowed / My lucky star" (One=That, spat out=swallowed, stars=star) "got a proof" = "got proof" "I straight" = "Is straight" "eyes are hollow" = "eyes are puffed"? (Puffed or popped, but definitely not "hollow")

Lyric Correction

Actually one of my favorite bits in this song is the word "whares".

It's seem to me to be a deliberate portmanteau of the words "whores" and "wares", I suppose because the "wares" of a cathouse would be whores. All this just to rhyme it up with Czar :P