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As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
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As I sat sadly by her side
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At the window, through the glass
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She stroked a kitten in her lap
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And we watched the world as it fell past
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Softly she spoke these words to me
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With brand new eyes, open wide
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We pressed our faces to the glass
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As I sat sadly by her side
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She said, father, mother, sister, brother
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Uncle, aunt and nephew, niece
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Soldier, sailor, physician, laborer
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Actor, scientist, mechanic, priest
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Earth and moon and sun and stars
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And planets and comets with tails blazin'
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All are there forever fallin'
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Fallin' lovely and amazin'
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Then she smiled and turned to me
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And waited for me to reply
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Her hair was fallin' down her shoulders
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As I sat sadly by her side
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As I sat sadly by her side
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The kitten she did gently pass
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Over to me and again we pressed
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Our different faces to the glass
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That may be very well, I said
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But watch the one fallin' in the street
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See him gesture to his neighbors
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And see him trampled beneath their feet
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All outward motion connects to nothin'
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For each is concerned with their immediate need
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Witness the man reachin' up from the gutter
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See the other one stumblin' on who can not see
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With tremblin' hand I turned toward her
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And pushed the hair out of her eyes
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The kitten jumped back to her lap
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As I sat sadly by her side
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Then she drew the curtains down
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And said, oh, when will you ever learn?
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That what happens there beyond the glass
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Is simply none of your concern
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God has given you but one heart
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You are not a home for the hearts of your brothers
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And God does not care for your benevolence
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Anymore than he cares for the lack of it in others
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Nor does he care for you to sit
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At windows in judgment of the world He created
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While sorrows pile up around you
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Ugly, useless and over inflated
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At which she turned her head away
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Great tears leapin' from her eyes
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I could not wipe the smile from my face
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As I sat sadly by her side
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As I sat sadly by her side
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As I sat sadly by her side
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As I sat sadly by her side
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry Lee ft...
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