From her to eternity

Nick Cave and the bad seeds

Ah wanna tell ya 'bout a girl
 You know, she lives in room 29
 Why... Why... that's the one right up top a mine
 Ah start to cry, Ah start to cry

O Ah hear her walkin'
 Walkin' barefoot cross the floor-boards
 All thru this lonesome night
 Ah hear her crying too.
 Hot-tears come splashin on down
 Leaking thru the cracks,
 Down upon my face, Ah catch'em in my mouth!



Ah catch'em in my mouth!
 Ah catch'em in my mouth!
 Walk'n'cry Walk'n'cry-y!!!

From her to eternity!
 From her to eternity!
 From her to eternity!

Ah read her diary on her sheets
 Scrutinizin' every lil bit of dirt
 Tore out a page'n'stufft it inside my shirt
 Fled outa the window,
 And shinning it down the vine
 Outa her night-mare, and back into mine
 Mine! O Mine!

From her to eternity!
 From her to eternity!
 From her to eternity!
 Cry! Cry! CRY!

She's wearing them bloo-stockens, ah bet!
 and standin' like this with my ear to the ceiling
 Listen, Ah know it must sound absurd
 but Ah can hear the most melancholy sound
 Ah ever heard!
 Walk'n'cry! Kneel'n'cry-y!

From her to eternity!
 From her to eternity!

O tell me why? O tell me why?
 Oh Why? Why? Why?
 O tell me why and don't tell me a lie!
 Why the ceiling still shakes? Shakes! Shakes! Shakes!
 Why the fixtures turn to serpents and snakes?

This desire to possess her is a wound
 and its naggin at me like a shrew
 but, Ah know, that to possess her
 Is, therefore, not to desire her.

O o o then ya know, that lil girl would just have to go!
 Go! Go-o-o! From her to eternity!

From her to eternity