Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Slowly Goes The Night" letra

Slowly Goes The Night

Lover, lover, goodbyeSo slowly goes the nightI trace the print of your body with my handLike the map of some forbidden landI trace the ghosts of your bonesWith my trembling handDark is my nightBut darker is my day yeahI must've been blindOut of my mindNot to read the warning signsHow goes it?It goes lonelyGoes slowly

So slowly goes the nightTen lonely days, ten lonely nightsI watch the moon get flayed anewUntil the moom becomes the skinning toolI send the skins of my sins out to cover and comfort youI know of a HeavenAnd honey I know of a Hell yeahI hang my headIn my bedAnd remember what you said"One evening, I'm leaving"And I laughed and checked her breathingAnd said darling

Go slowly through the knightO baby, I feel the heal of timeI wake to find you sitting hereCutting tangels out of your hairSinging a song that's all wrongHey, but that's alright, I don't careO darling forgive meFor all the misery yeahI embrace an empty spaceAnd your laughing song it fadesWhere goes it?It goes some placeWhere it's lonely

And black as the nightCome back, darling and put things rightI hang my head and cry cry cryDarling, all night I tryTo cease on a reason for this mad mad seasonThe nights, they are so long nowI can't remember it being lightCall it sleep, call it death, call it what you likeBut only sleep, dearOnly sleep brings you back to life yeahI hang my headI toss and I sweatI never never can forgetHow goes it?I'm going, but slowly slowly goingAnd we both know that it's gonna be alright

But it ain't you who has to cry cry cryTen lonely days, ten lonely nightsSince you left my side side side