Papa Won`t Leave You, Henry lyrics

Artist  : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 
Song : Papa Won`t Leave You, Henry
 


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 passed 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