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Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
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And no one saw the carny go
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The weeks flew by
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Until they moved on the show
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Leaving his caravan behind
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It was parked out on the south east ridge
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And as the company crossed the bridge
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With the first rain filling the bone dry river bed
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It shone, just so, upon the edge
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Away, away, we're sad, they say
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Dog boy, Atlas, Mandrake, the geeks, the hired hands
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There was not one among them
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That did not cast an eye behind
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In the hope that the carny would return to his own kind
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The carny left behind a horse, so skin and bone
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That he named Sorrow
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And it was a shallow unmarked grave
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That the old nag was laid
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In the then parched meadow
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And it was the dwarves who were
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Given the task of digging the ditch
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And laying the nag's carcass in the ground
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While boss Bellini, waved his smoking pistol around
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Saying "The nag is dead meat, we can't afford to carry dead weight"
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The whole company standing about
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Not making a sound
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And turning to dwarves perched on the enclosure gate
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The boss says "Bury this lump of crow bait"
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And then the rain came thundering down
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Everybody runnin' for their wagons
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Tyin' all the canvas flaps down
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The mangy cats crawlin' in ther cages
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The bird-girl flappin' and squawkin' around
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The whole valley reekin' of wet beast
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Wet beast and rotten hay
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Freak and brute creation
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All packed up and on their way
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The three dwarves peerin' from their wagon's hind
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Moses says to Noah, "We shoulda dug a deeper one"
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Their grizzled faces like dyin' moons
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Still dirty from the diggin' done
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And Charlie, the eldest of the three said
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"I guess the carny ain't gonna show"
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And they were silent for a spell
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Wishin' they had done a better job of burying Sorrow
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And the company passed from the valley
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Into a higher ground
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The rain beat on the ridge and on the meadow
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And on the mound
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Until nothing was left, nothing left at all
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Except the body of Sorrow
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That rose in time
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To float upon the surface of the eaten soil
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And a murder of crows did circle round
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First one, then the others flapping blackly down
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And the carny's van still sat upon the edge
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Tilting slowly as the firm ground turned to sludge
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And the rain it hammered down
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And the rain it hammered down
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And the rain it hammered down
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And the rain it hammered down
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And no one saw the carny go
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And no one saw the carny go
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And no one saw the carny go
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I say it's funny how things go
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