As I Sat Sadly By Her Side-Nick Cave

[ti:As I Sat Sadly By Her Side] [ar:Nick Cave] [al:No More Shall We Part] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]As I Sat Sadly By Her Side - Nick Cave [00:39.77]As I sat sadly by her side [00:42.55] [00:43.94]At the window through the glass [00:48.10] [00:48.80]She stroked a kitten in her lap [00:52.02]And we watched the world as it fell past [00:56.75] [00:58.29]Softly she spoke these words to me [01:01.81] [01:02.47]And with brand new eyes open wide [01:06.39] [01:07.52]We pressed our faces to the glass [01:10.70] [01:11.22]As I sat sadly by her side [01:17.94] [01:24.61]She said father mother sister brother [01:29.46] [01:30.62]Uncle aunt nephew niece [01:34.11] [01:35.23]Soldier sailor physician labourer [01:39.37] [01:40.07]Actor scientist mechanic priest [01:43.12] [01:44.66]Earth and moon and sun and stars [01:48.83]Planets and comets with tails blazing [01:52.95] [01:54.02]All are there forever falling [01:57.37] [01:58.13]Falling lovely and amazing [02:04.14] [02:13.35]Then she smiled and turned to me [02:16.10] [02:17.30]And waited for me to reply [02:21.43] [02:22.37]Her hair was falling down her shoulders [02:26.18]As I sat sadly by her side [02:32.25] [02:41.21]As I sat sadly by her side [02:43.78] [02:45.76]The kitten she did gently pass [02:48.71] [02:50.02]Over to me and again we pressed [02:53.39] [02:54.60]Our different faces to the glass [02:58.66] [02:59.61]That may be very well I said [03:02.01] [03:02.76]But watch the one falling in the street [03:07.87] [03:08.56]See him gesture to his neighbours [03:12.28] [03:13.20]See him trampled beneath their feet [03:16.64] [03:17.75]All outward motion connects to nothing [03:21.48]For each is concerned with their immediate need [03:26.12] [03:27.03]Witness the man reaching up from the gutter [03:30.88]See the other one stumbling on who can not see [03:37.43] [03:46.58]With trembling hand I turned toward her [03:49.80] [03:50.43]And pushed the hair out of her eyes [03:54.22] [03:55.67]The kitten jumped back to her lap [03:58.57] [03:59.50]As I sat sadly by her side [04:05.45] [04:14.76]Then she drew the curtains down [04:17.40]And said when will you ever learn [04:22.29] [04:23.22]That what happens there beyond the glass [04:26.93] [04:27.98]Is simply none of your concern [04:31.06] [04:32.53]God has given you but one heart [04:36.17]You are not a home for the hearts of your brothers [04:40.92] [04:41.73]And god don't care for your benevolence [04:45.10]Anymore than he cares for the lack of it in others [04:50.05] [04:51.14]Nor does he care for you to sit [04:54.69]At windows in judgement of the world he created [05:00.61]While sorrows pile up around you [05:04.77]Ugly useless and over inflated [05:10.39] [05:19.97]At which she turned her head away [05:22.60] [05:23.92]Great tears leaping from her eyes [05:28.19] [05:29.13]I could not wipe the smile from my face [05:32.58]As I sat sadly by her side [05:39.27] [05:41.93]As I sat sadly by her side [05:48.46] [05:50.89]As I sat sadly by her side [05:58.20] [06:00.25]As I sat sadly by her side