La vie selon Nick Cave

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"And God does not care for your benevolence
Anymore than he cares for the lack of it in others
Nor does he care for you to sit
At windows in judgment of the world he created
While sorrows pile up around you
Ugly, useless, and over-inflated"

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"What a wretched life
I was born on the day
That my poor mother died
I was cut from her belly
With a stanley knife
My daddy did a jig
With the drunk midwife"

ou "Les introductions qui mettent le tons"

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"He'll wrap you in his arms,
tell you that you've been a good boy
He'll rekindle all the dreams
it took you a lifetime to destroy
He'll reach deep into the hole,
heal your shrinking soul,
but there won't be a single thing
that you can do"

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"All things move toward their end
I knew before I met her that I would lose her
I swear I made every effort to be good to her
I made every effort not to abuse her
Crazy bracelets on her wrists and her ankles"

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"L is for Love, baby
O is for Only you that I do
V is for loving Virtually all that you are
E is for loving almost Everything that you do
R is for Rape me
M is for Murder me
A is for Answering all of my prayers
N is for KNowing your loverman's going to
be the answer to all of yours"

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"On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief
As I kissed her goodbye, I said, 'All beauty must die'
And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth "

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"This desire to possess her is a wound
and it's naggin at me like a shrew but,
I know, that to possess her is, therefore, not to desire her.
then you know, that lil' girl would just have to go!"