Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere lyrics

Artist  : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 
Song : Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere
 


I remember a girl so very well
The carnival
drums all mad in the air
Grim reapers and
skeletons and a missionary bell
O where do we
go now but nowhere
In a colonial hotel we
fucked up the sun
And then we fucked it down
again
Well the sun comes up and the sun goes
down
Going round and round to nowhere
The
kitten that padded and purred on my lap
Now
swipes at my face with the paw of a bear
I
turn the other cheek and you lay into that
O
where do we go now but nowhere
O wake up, my
love, my lover wake up
O wake up, my love, my
lover wake up
Across clinical benches with
nothing to talk
Breathing tea and biscuits and
the Serenity Prayer
While the bones of our
child crumble like chalk
O where do we go now
but nowhere
I remember a girl so bold and so
bright
Loose-limbed and laughing and brazen
and bare
Sits gnawing her knuckles in the
chemical light
O where do we go now but
nowhere
You come for me now with a cake that
you've made
Ravaged avenger with a clip in
your hair
Full of glass and bleach and my old
razorblades
O where do we go now but
nowhere
O wake up, my love, my lover wake
up
O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
If
they'd give me my clothes back then I could go
home
From this fresh, this clean, antiseptic
air
Behind the locked gates an old donkey
moans
O where do we go now but
nowhere
Around the duck pond we grimly
moped
Gloomily and mournfully we go rounds
again
And one more doomed time and without
much hope
Going round and around to
nowhere
From the balcony we watched the
carnival band
The crack of the drum a little
child did scare
I can still feel his tiny
fingers pressed in my hand
O where do we go
now but nowhere
If I could relive one day of
my life
If I could relive just a single
one
You on the balcony, my future wife
O
who could have known, but no one
O wake up, my
love, my lover make up
O wake up, my love, my
lover make up