--------------------------------------------------------------------------------  (l,m) Nick Cave  (p) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds   < Nick Cave: vocals; Mick Harvey: rhythm guitar;   Blixa Bargeld: guitar; Conway Savage: piano;   Martyn Casey: bass; Thomas Wydler: drums;   The Bad Seeds: backing vocals;   Mick Harvey & David Blumberg: string arrangements;   Dennis Karmazyn: cello; Bruce Dukov, Barbara Porter: violins >   ( Henry's Dream [Mute, 1992] )  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I went out walking the other day  The wind hung wet around my neck  My head it rung with screams and groans  From the night I spent amongst her bones  I past beside the mission house  Where that mad old buzzard, the reverend,  Shrieked and flapped about life after your dead  Well, I thought about my friend, Michel  How they rolled him in linoleum  And shot him in the neck  A bloody halo, like a think-bubble  Circling his head  And I bellowed at the firmament  Looks like the rains are hear to stay  And the rain pissed down upon me  And washed me all away  Saying  Papa won't leave you, Henry  Papa won't leave you, Boy  Papa won't leave you, Henry  Papa won't leave you, Boy  Well, the road is long  And the road is hard  And many fall by the side  But Papa won't leave you, Henry  So there ain't no need to cry  And I went on down the road  He went on down the road  And I went on down the road  He went on down the road  Well, the moon it looked exhausted  Like something you should pity  Spent an age-spotted  Above the sizzling wires of the city  Well, it reminded me of her face  Her bleached and hungry eyes  Her hair was like a curtain  Falling open with the laughter  And closing with the lies  But the ghost of her still lingers on  Though she's passed through me  And is gone  The slum dogs, they are barking  And the rain children on the streets  And the tears that we will weep today  Will all be washed away  By the tears that we will weep again tomorrow  Papa won't leave you, Henry  Papa won't leave you, Boy  Papa won't leave you, Henry  Papa won't leave you, Boy  For the road is long  And the road is hard  And many fall by the side  But Papa won't leave you, Henry  So there ain't no need to cry  And I went on down the road  He went on down the road  And I went on down the road  He went on down the road  And I came upon a little house  A little house upon a hill  And I entered through, the curtain hissed  Into the house with its blood-red bowels  Where wet-lipped women with greasy fists  Crawled the ceilings and the walls  They filled me full of drink  And led me round the rooms  Naked and cold and grinning  Until everything went black  And I came down spinning  I awoke so drunk and full of rage  That I could hardly speak  A fag in a whale-bone corset  Draping his dick across my cheek  And its into the shame  And its into a guilt  And its into the fucking fray  And the walls ran red around me  A warm arterial spray  Saying  Papa won't leave you, Henry  Papa won't leave you, Boy  Papa won't leave you, Henry  Papa won't leave you, Boy  Well, the night is dark  And the night is deep  And its jaws are open wide  But Papa won't leave you, Henry  So there ain't no need to cry  And I went on down the road  He went on down the road  And I went on down the road  He went on down the road  It's the rainy season where I'm living  Death comes leaping out of every doorway  Wasting you for money, for your clothes  And for your nothing  Entire towns being washed away  Favelas exploding on inflammable spillways  Lynch-mobs, death squads, babies being born without brains  The mad heat and the relentless rains  And if you stick your arm into that hole  It comes out sheared off to the bone  And with her kisses bubbling on my lips  I swiped the rain and nearly missed  And I went on down the road  He went on down the road  Singing  Papa won't leave you, Henry  Papa won't leave you, Boy  Papa won't leave you, Henry  Papa won't leave you, Boy  Well, the road is long  And the road is hard  And many fall by the side  But Papa won't leave you, Henry  So there ain't no need to cry  And I went on down the road  He went on down the road  And I went on down the road  He went on down the road  Bent Beneath my heavy load  Under his heavy load  Yeah, I went on down the road  Yeah, he went on down the road  Woah, woah  Woah, woah  Woah, woah  Woah, woah  And I went on down that road  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------