5 Poetic Lines from NICK CAVE

5 Poetic Lines from NICK CAVE

#1." All the towers of ivory are crumbling
And the swallows have sharpened their beaks
This is the time of our great undoing
This is the time that I'll come running
Straight to you..."

taken from 'Straight to you'
( Henry's Dream )

#2." We watched our friends grow up together
and we saw them as they fell,some fell into heaven
and some fell into hell."

(from ' Rainy Night in Soho ' )

#3." In a clap-board shack with a roof of tin
Where the rain came down and leaked within
A young Mother frozen on a concrete floor
With a bottle and a box and a candle
of straw Tupelo ! O Tupelo !!
With a bundle and a box and a candle of straw "

( 'Tupelo' from " The First Born Is Dead )

#4." We talk about it all night long
We define our moral ground
But when I crawl into your arms
Everything comes tumbling down "

( taken from ' The Ship Song ')
on the album The Good Son

#5." Her bleached and hungry eyes
Her hair was like a curtain
Falling open with the laughter
And closing with the lies."

Taken from ' Papa Won't Leave You,Henry 'from
Henry's Dream - on Mute Records.