Interpret:

Nick Cave

Album:

Let Love In

Onward! And Onward! And Onward I go 
Where no man before could be bothered to go 
Till the soles of my shoes are shot full of holes 
And it's all downhill with a bullet 
This ramblin' and rovin' has taken it's course 
I'm grazing with the dinosaurs and the dear old horses 
And the city streets crack and a great hole forces 
Me down with my soapbox, my pulpit 
The theatre ceiling is silver star spangled 
And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle 


Do you love me? 
Do you love me? 
Do you love me? 
Do you love me? 


There's a man in the theatre with girlish eyes 
Who's holding my childhood to ransom 
On the screen there's a death, 
there's a rustle of cloth 
And a sickly voice calling me handsome 
There's a man in the theatre with sly girlish eyes 
On the screen there's an ape, a gorilla 
There's a groan, there's a cough, there's a rustle of cloth 
And a voice that stinks of death and vanilla 
This is a secret, mauled and mangled 
And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle 


Do you love me? 
Do you love me? 
Do you love me? 
Do you love me? 


The walls in the ceiling are painted in blood 
The lights go down, the red curtains come apart 
The room is full of smoke and dialogue I know by heart 
And the coins in my pocket jingle-jangle 
As the great screen crackled and popped 
And the clock of my boyhood was wound down and stopped 
And my handsome little body oddly propped 
And my trousers ride down to my ankles 
Yes, onward! And upward! 
And I'm off to find love 
Do you love me? If you do, I'm thankful 


Do you love me? 
Do you love me? 
Do you love me? 
Do you love me? 


This city is an ogre squatting by the river 
It gives life but it takes it away, my youth 
There comes a time when you just cannot deliver 
This is a fact. This is a stone cold truth. 
Do you love me? I love you, handsome. 
But do you love me? Yes, I love you, you are handsome 
Amongst the cogs and the wires, my youth 
Vanilla breath and handsome apes with girlish eyes 
Dreams that roam between truth and untruth 
Memories that become monstrous lies 
So onward! And Onward! And Onward I go! 
Onward! And Upward! And I'm off to find love 
With blue-black bracelets on my wrists and my ankles 
And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle 


Do you love me? 
Do you love me? 
Do you love me? 
Do you love me? 
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