Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Slowly Goes the Night Lyrics

Lover, lover, goodbye
So slowly goes the night
Next to me lies you're bodyplan
Like the map of some forbidden land
I trace the ghosts of your bones
With my trembling hand
Dark is my night
But darker is my day
I must've been blind
Out of my mind
Not to read the warning signs
How goes it?
It goes lonely
It goes slowly

So slowly goes the night
Ten lonely days and ten lonely nights
I watch the moon get flayed each night
Until the moon becomes the skinning tool
The skins of my sins I send out to cover and comfort you
I know of a Heaven
But honey I know of a Hell yeah
I hang my head
I toss in my bed
I never never forget the words you said
"One evening, I'm leaving"
And I laughed and checked her breathing
And said darling

Go slowly through the knight
O baby, I feel the heal of time and it hurts
I wake to find you sitting here
Cutting tangels out of your hair
I sing a song that's all wrong
Hey, but that's alright, I don't care
I'm sorry
For all your misery yeah
I reach and embrace an empty s___e
A song that slowly slowly fades
Where goes it?
It goes some place
It goes somewhere where it's lonely

And black as the night
Come home, let's put things right, put things right
I hang my head and cry cry cry
Darling, all night I try
To cease on a reason for this mad mad season
The nights, they are so long now
I can't remember it being light
Call it sleep, call it death, call it what you like
But only sleep
Only sleep brings you back to life yeah
I hang my head
I toss and I sweat
I never never never can forget
How goes it?
Well I'm going, but slowly slowly going
And we both know that it's gonna be alright

But it ain't you who has to cry cry cry
Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights
Since you left my side side side