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Nick Cave
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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 to say
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Dog-boy, Atlas, Man-drake, 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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The Carny left behind a horse so skin and bone that he'd named Sorrow
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And it was a shallow unmarked grave
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That that old nag was laid
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In the then parched meadow
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And it was the dwarves that 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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While boss Bellini, waved his smoking pistol 'round
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Saying ''The nag was dead meat''
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''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 the dwarves on the enclosured gate
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The boss says ''bury this lump of crow bait''
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And the rain came hammering down
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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 growling in their cages
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The bird-girl flapping and squawkening around
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The whole valley reeking of wet beast
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Wet beast and rotten, sodden hay
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Freak and brute creation all packed up and on their way
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The three dwarves peering through their wagon's hind
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Moses says to Noah ''We shoulda dugga deepa one''
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Their grissom faces like dying moons
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Still dirty from the digging done
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And Charlie the Atlas to 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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Wishing they'd done a better job at burrying Sorrow
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And the company'd passed from the valley into higher ground
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The rain beat on the ridge and on the meadow 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 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 its funny how things go
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