 Avalanche lyrics ( Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds )   
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Artist : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Song : Avalanche
(Leonard Cohen)
I stepped into an
avalanche
It covered up my soul
When I am
not this hunchback that you see
I sleep
beneath the golden hill
You who wish to
conquer pain
You must learn to serve me
well
You strike my side by
accident
As you go down to your goal
This
cripple here that you clothe and feed
Is
neither starved nor cold
He does not ask for
your company
Not at the centre, the centre of
the world
I who am on a
pedestal
You did not raise me there
Your
laws do not compel me now
To kneel grotesque
and bare
For I myself am the pedestal
For
this ugly hump at which you stare
You
who wish to conquer pain
You must learn what
makes me kind
The crumbs of love that you
offer me
Are the crumbs I've left
behind
Your pain is no credential here
It's
just a shadow of my wound
I have begun
to ask for you
I who have no greed
I have
begun to long for you
I who have no
need
You say you've gone away from me
But I
can feel you when you breathe
Do not
dress in those rags for me
I know you are not
poor
And do not love me quite so fiercely
now
When you know that you are not sure
It
is your turn, my beloved one
It is your flesh
that I wear
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