Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree lyrics

Artist  : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 
Song : Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree
 


O say goodbye to the little girl tree
O you
know that I must say goodbye
To the little
girl tree
This wall I built around you
Is
made out of stone-lies
O little girl the truth
would be
An axe in thee
O father look to
your daughter
Brick of grief and stricken
morter
With this ring
This silver hoop of
wire
I bind your maiden mainstem
Just to
keep you as a child


O say goodbye to
the little girl tree
O you know that I must
say goodbye
To my little girl tree
How fast
your candy bones
Reached out for me
I must
say goodbye to your brittle bones
Crying out
for me
O you know that I must say goodbye
O
goodbye
Even though you will betray me
The
very minute that I leave


O say goodbye
to the little girl tree
O Lord you know that I
must say goodbye
To that little girl tree
I
rise up her girl-child lumps and slipping
knots
Into her laden boughs
And amongst her
roping limbs
Like a swollen neck vein
branching
Into smaller lesser veins
That
must all just sing and say goodbye
And let her
blossom veils fly
Her velvet gown
Down down
down
Down down down
Down down down and
goodbye
For you know that I must say
goodbye


To a rhythm softly
tortured
Of a motion back and forth
Thats a
rhythm sweetly tortured
O that's the rhythm of
the orchard
And you know that I must say
goodbye
To that little girl tree
O
goodbye
Yes goodbye
For you know that I
must die
Down down down
Down down
down
Down down down and goodbye
For you
know that I must die
Yes you know that I must
die
O-o you know that I must die