A Box For Black Paul-Nick Cave

[ti:A Box For Black Paul (2009 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Nick Cave & the bad seeds] [al:From Her To Eternity (2009 Digital Remaster)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Box For Black Paul - Nick Cave [00:15.81]Who'll build a box for Black Paul [00:25.82] [00:31.97]Ah'm enquirin on behalf of his soul [00:35.94] [00:36.85]Ah'd be beholdin to ya all [00:39.36] [00:40.52]For a lil information just some lil kindation [00:48.66] [00:49.47]Just who will dig the hole [01:00.21]When ya done ransackin his room [01:02.95] [01:04.68]Grabbin anything that shines [01:07.57] [01:08.18]Throw the scrap down on the street [01:10.37] [01:12.14]Like all his books and his notes [01:13.72] [01:15.69]All all his books and his notes the junk that he wrote [01:18.98] [01:19.75]The whole f**ken lot right up in smoke [01:23.10] [01:24.44]Aint there nuthin sacred anymore [01:34.51] [01:37.14]Someone will build a box for Black Paul [01:46.90]And they're shootin off his guns [01:48.58] [01:50.26]And they're shootin off their mouths [01:52.89] [01:54.14]Saying 'F**k with us and die ' [01:56.15] [01:57.19]'F**k with us and die ' [01:59.02]Let's see that rat of fear go scuttle in their skulls [02:02.09] [02:02.99]'Cover that eye Cover that frozen eye ' [02:07.48] [02:13.50]Black-puppet in a heap up against the stoning-wall [02:24.39] [02:25.45]Blood-puppet go to sleep ma-ma won't scold ya anymore [02:36.84] [02:39.52]Armies of ants wade up the lil red streams [02:44.30] [02:44.87]They're headin for the mother-pool [02:46.89] [02:48.55]O lord it's cruel O man it's hot [02:53.89] [02:55.84]O man it's hot [02:57.32]And some of them ants they just ilot to the spot [03:01.06] [03:03.19]Who threw the first stone at Black Paul [03:13.12] [03:14.24]'Don't ack us' say the critics and the hacks [03:17.42] [03:18.40]The pen-pushers and the quacks [03:20.76] [03:21.50]'We just come to git dah facks ' [03:24.04]'We just come to git dah facks ' [03:26.31] [03:28.19]Hey hey hey hey [03:32.14] [03:36.52]Here is the hammer that build the scaffold [03:42.48]And built the box [03:44.67] [03:51.81]Here is the shovel that dug the hole [03:56.59] [03:57.35]In this ground of rocks [04:00.78] [04:04.80]And here is the pile of stones [04:10.45]And for each one planted God only knows [04:13.67]A blood-rose grown [04:15.74] [04:17.17]These are the true Demon-Flowers [04:19.23] [04:19.77]These are the true Demon-Flowers [04:21.72] [04:22.23]Stand back everyone Blood-black everyone [04:28.72] [04:42.73]Who'll build a box for Black Paul [04:52.96] [04:58.34]Who'll carry it up the hill [05:05.53] [05:07.54]'Not I' said the widow adjusting her veil [05:10.82]'Ah will not drive the nail [05:13.80]Or cart his puppet-body home [05:16.39] [05:17.02]For ah done that one hundred times before [05:20.64]Yeah ah done that one hundred times or more [05:23.83]And why should ah dress his wounds [05:26.40] [05:27.70]When he has wounded my dress nightly [05:31.09]Right across the floor' [05:33.93] [05:37.86]Who'll build a box for Black Paul [05:48.37] [05:53.26]And who'll carry it up the hill [06:03.90] [06:08.41]Now who'll bury it in the black-soil [06:19.54]And from the woods and the thickets [06:20.93] [06:21.48]Come the ghosts of his victims [06:23.96]'We love you ' [06:25.79]'I love you ' [06:27.16]'And this will not hurt a bit [06:29.36] [06:35.32]We'll go up up up up up into Death [06:41.47]Up up up up inhale its breath [06:45.96] [06:47.56]O yeah Death favours those that favor Death' [06:57.96] [07:04.78]Here is the stone and here is the inscription at bare [07:11.66] [07:19.99]'Below Lies Black Paul Under The Upper [07:23.83]But Above and Beyond The Surface-Flat-Fall There ' [07:28.66] [07:32.70]And all the angels come on down [07:38.77]And all you men and women crowd around [07:42.47]And all the widows weeping into their skirts [07:45.54] [07:46.13]And all the lil gals and the lil boys [07:48.91] [07:49.49]And the scribes with their pens poised [07:52.54] [07:53.19]All the hullaballoo all the noise [07:56.87] [07:57.91]All the hullaballoo all the noise [08:01.23]All the hullaballoo all of the noise [08:04.13] [08:06.18]Clears his throat of black blood [08:08.52] [08:11.97]Black Paul singin like a lonely boy [08:16.31] [08:19.12]We-e-e-ll ah have cryed one thousand tears [08:22.29] [08:22.84]Ah've cryed a thousand tears its true [08:26.22]And the next stormy night ya know [08:29.52]That ah'm still cryin them for you [08:32.74] [08:34.55]Well ah had a girl she was so sweet [08:38.17]Red dress and long red hair hangin down [08:42.01]And heaven jus' ain't heaven [08:44.60]Without that lil girl hangin around [08:48.39] [08:49.63]Well ya know ah've been a bad-man [08:53.23]But Lord knows ah dun some good things too [08:57.18]But ah confess my soul will never rest [09:01.31]Until you until you build [09:06.99] [09:08.54]Until ya build a box for my gal too [09:15.27] [09:19.79]My gal too