Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Do You Love Me?, Pt. 2 Lyrics

1st Verse: 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

Chorus: Do you love me? / Do you love me? / Do you love me? / Do you love me?

2nd Verse: 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-jingle

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3rd Verse: 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

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4th Verse: 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

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