Nick Cave - Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere Lyrics
I remember a girl so very wellThe carnival drums all mad in the airGrim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bellO where do we go now but nowhereIn a colonial hotel we *****ed up the sunAnd then we *****ed it down againWell the sun comes up and the sun goes downGoing round and round to nowhereThe kitten that padded and purred on my lapNow swipes at my face with the paw of a bearI turn the other cheek and you lay into thatO where do we go now but nowhereO wake up, my love, my lover wake upO wake up, my love, my lover wake upAcross clinical benches with nothing to talkBreathing tea and biscuits and the serenity prayerWhile the bones of our child crumble like chalkO where do we go now but nowhereI remember a girl so bold and so brightLoose-limbed and laughing and brazen and bareSits gnawing her knuckles in the chemical lightO where do we go now but nowhereYou come for me now with a cake that youve madeRavaged avenger with a clip in your hairFull of glass and bleach and my old razorbladesO where do we go now but nowhereO wake up, my love, my lover wake upO wake up, my love, my lover wake upIf theyd give me my clothes back then I could go homeFrom this fresh, this clean, antiseptic airBehind the locked gates an old donkey moansO where do we go now but nowhereAround the duck pond we grimly mopedGloomily and mournfully we go rounds againAnd one more doomed time and without much hopeGoing round and around to nowhereFrom the balcony we watched the carnival bandThe crack of the drum a little child did scareI can still feel his tiny fingers pressed in my handO where do we go now but nowhereIf I could relive one day of my lifeIf I could relive just a single oneYou on the balcony, my future wifeO who could have known, but no oneO wake up, my love, my lover make upO wake up, my love, my lover make up
