Abattoir Blues

Nick Cave and the bad seeds

The sun is high up in the sky and I'm in my car
 Drifting down into the abattoir
 Do you see what I see, dear?

The air grows heavy. I listen to your breath
 Entwined together in this culture of death
 Do you see what I see, dear?

Slide on over here, let me give you a squeeze
 To avert this unholy evolutionary trajectory
 Can you hear what I hear, babe?
 Does it make you feel afraid?

Everything's dissolving, babe, according to plan
 The sky is on fire, the dead are heaped across the land
 I went to bed last night and my
 moral code got jammed
 I woke up this morning with a Frappucino in my hand

I kissed you once. I kissed you again
 My heart it tumbled like the stock exchange
 Do you feel what I feel, dear?

Mass extinction, darling, hypocrisy
 These things are not good for me
 Do you see what I see, dear?

The line the God throws down to you and me
 Makes a pleasing geometry
 Shall we leave this place now, dear?
 Is there someway out of here?

I wake with the sparrows and I hurry off to work
 The need for validation, babe, gone completely
 berserk
 I wanted to be your Superman but I turned out such a
 jerk
 I got the abattoir blues
 I got the abattoir blues
 I got the abattoir blues
 Right down to my shoes

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