 The Carny lyrics ( Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds )   
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Artist : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Song : The Carny
And no-one saw the carny go
And the weeks flew
by
Until they moved on the show
Leaving his
caravan behind
It was parked out on the south
east ridge
And as the company crossed the
bridge
With the first rain filling the
bone-dry river bed
It shone, just so, upon the
edge
Away, away, we're sad, they
said
Dog-boy, atlas, half-man, the geeks,
the hired hands
There was not one among them
that did not cast an eye behind
In the hope
that the carny would return to his own
kind
And the carny had a horse, all skin
and bone
A bow-backed nag, that he named
"Sorrow"
How it is buried in a shallow
grave
In the then parched meadow
And
the dwarves were given the task of digging the
ditch
And laying the nag's carcass in the
ground
And boss Bellini, waving his smoking
pistol around
saying "The nag is dead
meat"
"We caint afford to carry dead
weight"
The whole company standing
about
Not making a sound
And turning to
dwarves perched on the enclosure gate
The boss
says "Bury this lump of crow bait"
And
thean the rain came
Everybody running for
their wagons
Tying all the canvas flaps
down
The mangy cats crowling in ther
cages
The bird-girl flapping and squawking
around
The whole valley reeking of wet
beast
Wet beast and rotten hay
Freak and
brute creation
Packed up and on their
way
The three dwarves peering from their
wagon's hind
Moses says to Noah "We shoulda
dugga deepa one"
Their grizzled faces like
dying moons
Still dirty from the digging
done
And as the company passed from the
valley
Into a higher ground
The rain beat
on the ridge and on the meadow
And on the
mound
Until nothing was left, nothing at
all
Except the body of Sorrow
That rose in
time
To float upon the surface of the eaten
soil
And a murder of crows did circle
round
First one, then the others flapping
blackly down
And the carny's van still sat
upon the edge
Tilting slowly as the firm
ground turned to sludge
And the rain it
hammered down
And no-one saw the carny
go
I say it's funny how things go
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