Slowly Goes The Night

Nick Cave and the bad seeds

Lover, lover, goodbye
 So slowly goes the night
 I trace the print of your body with my hand
 Like the map of some forbidden land
 I trace the ghosts of your bones
 With my trembling hand
 Dark is my night
 But darker is my day yeah
 I must've been blind
 Out of my mind
 Not to read the warning signs
 How goes it?
 It goes lonely
 Goes slowly

So slowly goes the night
 Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights
 I watch the moon get flayed anew
 Until the moom becomes the skinning tool
 I send the skins of my sins out to cover and comfort you
 I know of a Heaven
 And honey I know of a Hell yeah
 I hang my head
 In my bed
 And remember what you said
 "One evening, I'm leaving"
 And I laughed and checked her breathing
 And said darling

Go slowly through the knight
 O baby, I feel the heal of time
 I wake to find you sitting here
 Cutting tangels out of your hair
 Singing a song that's all wrong
 Hey, but that's alright, I don't care
 O darling forgive me
 For all the misery yeah
 I embrace an empty space
 And your laughing song it fades
 Where goes it?
 It goes some place
 Where it's lonely

And black as the night
 Come back, darling and put things right
 I hang my head and cry cry cry
 Darling, all night I try
 To cease on a reason for this mad mad season
 The nights, they are so long now
 I can't remember it being light
 Call it sleep, call it death, call it what you like
 But only sleep, dear
 Only sleep brings you back to life yeah
 I hang my head
 I toss and I sweat
 I never never can forget
 How goes it?
 I'm going, but slowly slowly going
 And we both know that it's gonna be alright

But it ain't you who has to cry cry cry
 Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights
 Since you left my side side side