As I Sat Sadly By Her Side-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

[ti:As I Sat Sadly By Her Side (2011 - Remaster)] [ar:Nick Cave & the bad seeds] [al:No More Shall We Part (2011 - Remaster)] [offset:0] [00:00.50]As I Sat Sadly By Her Side - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (尼克·凯夫和坏种乐队) [00:39.78]As I sat sadly by her side [00:43.02] [00:43.87]At the window, through the glass [00:48.13] [00:48.83]She stroked a kitten in her lap [00:52.14]And we watched the world as it fell past [00:57.48] [00:58.34]Softly she spoke these words to me [01:02.29]And with brand new eyes, open wide [01:06.61] [01:07.39]We pressed our faces to the glass [01:11.14]As I sat sadly by her side [01:17.77] [01:24.50]She said, "Father, mother, sister, brother, [01:29.55] [01:30.59]Uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, [01:34.23] [01:35.16]Soldier, sailor, physician, labourer, [01:39.36] [01:39.98]Actor, scientist, mechanic, priest [01:43.76] [01:44.50]Earth and moon and sun and stars [01:48.61]Planets and comets with tails blazing [01:53.95]All are there forever falling [01:58.19]Falling lovely and amazing" [02:04.96] [02:13.13]Then she smiled and turned to me [02:16.42] [02:17.16]And waited for me to reply [02:21.37] [02:22.32]Her hair was falling down her shoulders [02:25.99]As I sat sadly by her side [02:32.38] [02:41.32]As I sat sadly by her side [02:44.25] [02:45.60]The kitten she did gently pass [02:49.86]Over to me and again we pressed [02:53.88] [02:54.47]Our different faces to the glass [02:58.83] [02:59.52]"That may be very well", I said [03:02.57]"But watch the one falling in the street [03:07.87] [03:08.39]See him gesture to his neighbours [03:12.91]See him trampled beneath their feet [03:17.71]All outward motion connects to nothing [03:21.33]For each is concerned with their immediate need [03:27.02]Witness the man reaching up from the gutter [03:30.65]See the other one stumbling on who can not see" [03:38.36] [03:46.37]With trembling hand I turned toward her [03:50.43]And pushed the hair out of her eyes [03:54.91] [03:55.60]The kitten jumped back to her lap [03:58.50]As I sat sadly by her side [04:06.67] [04:14.51]Then she drew the curtains down [04:17.57]And said, "When will you ever learn [04:22.65] [04:23.15]That what happens there beyond the glass [04:26.58]Is simply none of your concern? [04:32.03] [04:32.75]God has given you but one heart [04:36.00]You are not a home for the hearts of your brothers [04:41.65]And God does not care for your benevolence [04:45.22]Anymore than he cares for the lack of it in others [04:51.06]Nor does he care for you to sit [04:54.43]At windows in judgement of the world He created [05:00.29]While sorrows pile up around you [05:04.70]Ugly, useless and over-inflated" [05:11.75] [05:19.91]At which she turned her head away [05:23.04] [05:23.90]Great tears leaping from her eyes [05:28.41] [05:28.95]I could not wipe the smile from my face [05:32.57]As I sat sadly by her side [05:39.40] [05:41.93]As I sat sadly by her side [05:48.71] [05:50.69]As I sat sadly by her side