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Sad Waters - Live at Alexandra Palace, 2020
Nick Cave
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Down the road I look and there runs Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
We go down to the river where the willows weep
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Take a naked root for a lovers seat
That rose out of the bitten soil
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Bound to the ground by creeping ivy coils
Oh Mary you have seduced my soul
Forever a hostage of your child's world
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And then I ran my tin-cup heart along
The prison of her ribs
And with a toss of her curls
That little girl goes wading in
Rollin her dress up past her knee
Turning these waters into wine
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Then she platted all the willow vines
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Mary in the shallows laughing
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Over where the carp dart
Spooked by the new shadows that she cast
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Across these sad waters and across my heart
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