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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
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And no-one saw the carny go
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And 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 said
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Dog-boy, atlas, half-man, the geeks, the hired hands
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There was not one among them 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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And the carny had a horse, all skin and bone
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A bow-backed nag, that he named "Sorrow"
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How it is buried in a shallow grave
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In the then parched meadow
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And the dwarves were given the task of digging the ditch
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And laying the nag's carcass in the ground
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And boss Bellini, waving his smoking pistol around
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saying "The nag is dead meat"
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"We caint 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 thean the rain came
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Everybody running for their wagons
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Tying all the canvas flaps down
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The mangy cats crowling in ther cages
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The bird-girl flapping and squawking around
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The whole valley reeking of wet beast
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Wet beast and rotten hay
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Freak and brute creation
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Packed up and on their way
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The three dwarves peering from their wagon's hind
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Moses says to Noah "We shoulda dugga deepa one"
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Their grizzled faces like dying moons
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Still dirty from the digging done
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And as 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 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 no-one saw the carny go
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I say it's funny how things go
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Se...
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