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"The Carny" Videos
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And no-one saw the carny go
And the weeks flew by
Until they moved on the show
Leaving his caravan behind
It was parked out on the south east ridge
And as the company crossed the bridge
With the first rain filling the bone-dry river bed
It shone, just so, upon the edge
Away, away, we're sad, they said
Dog-boy, atlas, half-man, the geeks, the hired hands
There was not one among them that did not cast an eye behind
In the hope that the carny would return to his own kind
And the carny had a horse, all skin and bone
A bow-backed nag, that he named "Sorrow"
How it is buried in a shallow grave
In the then parched meadow
And the dwarves were given the task of digging the ditch
And laying the nag's carcass in the ground
And boss Bellini, waving his smoking pistol around
saying "The nag is dead meat"
"We caint afford to carry dead weight"
The whole company standing about
Not making a sound
And turning to dwarves perched on the enclosure gate
The boss says "Bury this lump of crow bait"
And then the rain came
Everybody running for their wagons
Tying all the canvas flaps down
The mangy cats crowling in ther cages
The bird-girl flapping and squawking around
The whole valley reeking of wet beast
Wet beast and rotten hay
Freak and brute creation
Packed up and on their way
The three dwarves peering from their wagon's hind
Moses says to Noah "We shoulda dugga deepa one"
Their grizzled faces like dying moons
Still dirty from the digging done
And as the company passed from the valley
Into a higher ground
The rain beat on the ridge and on the meadow
And on the mound
Until nothing was left, nothing at all
Except the body of Sorrow
That rose in time
To float upon the surface of the eaten soil
And a murder of crows did circle round
First one, then the others flapping blackly down
And the carny's van still sat upon the edge
Tilting slowly as the firm ground turned to sludge
And the rain it hammered down
And no-one saw the carny go
I say it's funny how things go
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Đăng lời dịchAlbums has song "The Carny"
Singles
20 songs
- Good Good Day 2008
- Shoot Me Down 2008
- Breathless 2011
- Everything Must Converge 2008
- We Know Who U R 2012
- Ship Song 2011
- Swing Low 2008
- Little Ghost Song 2008
- Water's Edge 2013
- The Mercy Seat 2014
- Animal X 2013
- Needle Boy 2013
- Stranger Than Kindness 2014
- O Children 2014
- The Carny 2012
- Saint Huck 2015
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2011
- Sugar, Sugar, Sugar 2013
- Red Right Hand (2011 Remastered Version) 2019
- Into My Arms (2011 Remastered Edition) 2017
Singles
19 songs
- Good Good Day 2008
- Shoot Me Down 2008
- Breathless 2011
- Everything Must Converge 2008
- We Know Who U R 2012
- Ship Song 2011
- Swing Low 2008
- Little Ghost Song 2008
- The Mercy Seat 2014
- Animal X 2013
- Needle Boy 2013
- Stranger Than Kindness 2014
- O Children 2014
- The Carny 2012
- Saint Huck 2015
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2011
- Sugar, Sugar, Sugar 2013
- Red Right Hand (2011 Remastered Version) 2019
- Into My Arms (2011 Remastered Edition) 2017
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