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A Box For Black Paul
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
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Who'll build a box for Black Paul?
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I'm enquirin' on behalf of his soul
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I'd be beholdin' to ya all for a little information
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Just a little indication, just who will dig the hole?
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When ya done ransackin' his room, grabbin' anythin' that shines
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I throw the scraps down on a street like all his books and his notes
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All his books and his notes and all the junk that he wrote
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The whole fuckin' lot right up in smoke
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Ain't there nothin' sacred anymore?
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Won't someone will build a box for Black Paul?
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They're shootin' off his guns, they're shootin' off their mouths
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Sayin' 'Fuck with us and die', fuck with us and die
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Let's see that rat of fear go scuttle in their skulls
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Cover that eye, cover that frozen eye
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Black puppet in a heap up against the stonin' wall
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Black puppet go to sleep, mama won't scold you anymore
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Armies of ants wade up the little red streams
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Are headin' for the mother pool
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Oh Lord it's cruel, oh man it's hot
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Oh man, it's hot and some of those ants they just clap to the spot
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Who threw the first stone at Black Paul?
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Don't ask us say the critics and the hacks
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The pen pushers and the quacks
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We just come to get the facts
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Oh we just come to get the facts
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Here is the hammer that build the scaffold and built the box
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Here is the shovel that dug a hole in this ground of rocks
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And here is the pile of stones and for each one planted
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God only knows, a blood rose grown and listen
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These are the true demon flowers
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These are the true demon flowers
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Stand back everyone, blood black everyone
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Blood black, stand back
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Who'll build a box for Black Paul?
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And who'll carry it up the hill?
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Not I said the widow, adjusting her veil
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I will not drive the nail or cart his puppet body home
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For I done that one hundred times before
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Yes, one hundred times or more
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And why should I dress his wounds?
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When he has wounded my dress
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Nightly, right across the floor
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Who'll build a box for Black Paul?
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And who'll, who'll carry it up the hill?
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Now who'll bury him in the black soil?
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From the woods and the thickets
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Come the ghosts of his victims
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We love you, I love you
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And this will not hurt a bit
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'Outta my eyes we shall rise to fall, to fall to glory
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Spring up from the [Incomprehensible]
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Spring up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up into death
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Up, up, up, up, up, up, up inhale its breath
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Yes, death favours those that favor death
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Here is the stone and this is the inscription at bare
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Below lies Black Paul under the upper
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But above and beyond the surface flat fall there
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And, and, and, and all the angels come on down
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And all you men and women crowd around
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And all the old widows weeping into their skites
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And all the little gals and the little boys
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And the scribes with their pens poised
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All the hullabaloo, all the noise
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All the hullabaloo, all the noise
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All the hullabaloo, all of the noise
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Clears his throat of Black Blood
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And Black Paul singin' like a lonely boy
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Well, I have cried one thousand tears
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And I've cried a thousand tears, it's true
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And the next stormy night you know
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That I'm still cryin' them for you
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Well, I had, I had a gal, she was so sweet
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Red dress, long and red hair hangin' down
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And heaven just ain't heaven
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Without that little girl hangin' around
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Well, am I laughin' about bein' a bad man?
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The Lord knows I done some good things too
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But I confess my soul will never rest until you, until you've built
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Until you build a box for my gal too, my gal too, my gal too
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