When I First Came To Town lyrics

Artist  : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 
Song : When I First Came To Town
 


When I first came to town
All the people
gathered round
They bought me drinks
Lord,
how they quickly changed their
tune


When I first came to
town
People took me round from end to
end
Like someone may take round a friend
O
how quickly they changed their
tune


Suspicion and dark murmurs
surround me
Everywhere I go they confound
me
As though the blood on my hands
Is there
for every citizen to see


O sweet
Jesus
There is no turning back
There is
always one more town
A little further down the
track


And from my window, across the
tracks
I watch the juicers burn their
fires
And in that light
Their faces leer at
me
How I wish they'd just let me
be


When I first came to town
Their
favours were for free
Now even the doors of
the whores of this town
Are closed to
me


I search the mirror
And I try to
see
Why the people of this town
Have washed
their hands of me


O sweet
Jesus
There is no turning back
There is
always one more town
A little further down the
track


O lord, every god-damn turn I
take
I fear the noose, I fear the stake
For
there is no bone
They did not break
In all
the towns I've been before


Well those
that sin against me are snuffed out
I know
from every day that I live
God-damn the day
that I was born
The night that forced me from
the womb
And god-damn this town
For I am
leaving now
But one day I will return
And
the people of this town will surely see
Just
how quickly the tables turn


O sweet
Jesus
This really is the end
There is
always one more town
A little further round
the end