Sad Waters

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

From the album: The Abattoir Blues Tour

Track 18 of 45 on The Abattoir Blues Tour (2007).

Duration: 4:41

The Abattoir Blues Tour cover art

Lyrics for Sad Waters

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 Take a naked root for a lovers seat That rose out of the bitten soil But sound to the ground by creeping ivy coils O Mary you have seduced my soul And I don't know right from wrong Forever a hostage of your child's world 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 Then she platted all the willow vines Mary in the shallows laughing Over where the carp dart Spooked by the new shadows that she cast Across these sad waters and across my heart

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  5. The Lyre Of Orpheus
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  7. Nature Boy
  8. Get Ready For Love
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  15. Wonderful Life
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  17. Bring It On
  18. Sad Waters
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  20. Christina The Astonishing
  21. Wild World
  22. The "Bring It On" Shoot
  23. Bring It On
  24. Babe, I'm On Fire
  25. Nature Boy
  26. Breathless
  27. Get Ready For Love
  28. Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus, A Short Film
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  30. Hiding All Away
  31. Breathless
  32. Get Ready For Love
  33. Red Right Hand
  34. The Ship Song
  35. The Weeping Song
  36. Stagger Lee
  37. Carry Me
  38. Let The Bells Ring
  39. Easy Money
  40. Supernaturally
  41. Babe, You Turn Me On
  42. There She Goes, My Beautiful World
  43. God Is In The House
  44. Deanna
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