Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Ship Song
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The wintergreen, the juniperThe cornflower and the chicoryAll the words you said to meStill vibrating in the airThe elm, the ash and the linden treeThe dark and deep, enchanted seaThe trembling moon and the stars unfurledThere she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes, my beautiful world
x3There she goes again
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John Wilmot penned his poetry
Riddled with the poxNabokov wrote on index cards,At a lectern, in his socksSt. John of the Cross did his best stuffImprisoned in a boxAnd JohnnyThunders was half aliveWhen he wrote Chinese Rocks
Well, me, I’m lying here, with nothing in my earsMe, I’m lying here, with nothing in my earsMe, I’m lying here, for what seems yearsI’m just lying on my bed with nothing in my head
Send that stuff on down to me
x4
There she goes, my beautiful worldx3There she goes again
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Karl Marx squeezed his carbunclesWhile writing Das KapitalAnd Gaugin, he buggered off, manAnd went all tropicalWhile Philip Larkin stuck it outIn a library in HullAnd Dylan Thomas died drunk inSt. Vincent’s hospital
I will kneel at your feet”    ”   lie at your door”    ”   rock you to sleepI will roll on the floorAnd I’ll ask for nothingNothing in this lifeI’ll ask for nothingGive me ever-lasting life
I just want to move the worldx3I just want to move
There she goes, my beautiful worldx3There she goes again
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So if you got a trumpet, get on your feet,Brother, and blow itIf you’ve got a field, that don’t yield,Well get up and hoe itI look at you and you look at me andDeep in our hearts know itThat you weren’t much of a muse,But then I weren’t much of a poet
I will be your slaveI will peel you grapesUp on your pedestalWith your ivory and apes   ”         ”    book of ideasWith your alchemyOh come onSend that stuff on down to me
Send that stuff on down to mex4
Send it all around the world‘Cause here she comes, my beautiful girl
There she goes, my beautiful worldx3There she goes again
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – There She Goes My Beautiful World
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