Slowly Goes The Night lyrics

Artist  : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 
Song : Slowly Goes The Night
 


Lover, lover, goodbye
So slowly goes the
night
I trace the print of your body with my
hand
Like the map of some forbidden land
I
trace the ghosts of your bones
With my
trembling hand
Dark is my night
But darker
is my day yeah
I must've been blind
Out of
my mind
Not to read the warning signs
How
goes it?
It goes lonely
Goes
slowly

So slowly goes the night
Ten
lonely days, ten lonely nights
I watch the
moon get flayed anew
Until the moom becomes
the skinning tool
I send the skins of my sins
out to cover and comfort you
I know of a
Heaven
And honey I know of a Hell yeah
I
hang my head
In my bed
And remember what
you said
"One evening, I'm leaving"
And I
laughed and checked her breathing
And said
darling

Go slowly through the knight
O
baby, I feel the heal of time
I wake to find
you sitting here
Cutting tangels out of your
hair
Singing a song that's all wrong
Hey,
but that's alright, I don't care
O darling
forgive me
For all the misery yeah
I
embrace an empty space
And your laughing song
it fades
Where goes it?
It goes some
place
Where it's lonely

And black as
the night
Come back, darling and put things
right
I hang my head and cry cry
cry
Darling, all night I try
To cease on a
reason for this mad mad season
The nights,
they are so long now
I can't remember it being
light
Call it sleep, call it death, call it
what you like
But only sleep, dear
Only
sleep brings you back to life yeah
I hang my
head
I toss and I sweat
I never never can
forget
How goes it?
I'm going, but slowly
slowly going
And we both know that it's gonna
be alright

But it ain't you who has to cry
cry cry
Ten lonely days, ten lonely
nights
Since you left my side side side