Hate women? On the contrary – and I can’t see that my lyrics are in any way sexist – many of them are very deep love songs to women. “6 inch gold blade” was written, as it were, under the bedsprings of my unfaithful lover – whose head I can recall wanting to cleave apart with a large knife at the time – not that I’m the jealous type! But it doesn’t say I want to stick a 6” blade in the head of all women. A great many of my songs are about relationships that I’ve had, they’re very symbolic, very real. “Junkyard” is a love song, not in the Capital Radio sense but nevertheless it’s very real to me.
Nick Cave

At one point someone from the audience yelled out jokingly, "Play something happy!" to which Nick glibly responded, "I don't do happy songs. I do angry and I do sad. That's what I do."

When they find a cure for pain,

Thats the day I throw my drugs away.

This album is pretty different from what I usually listen to, the addition of a sax and sort of upbeat-tempos are not my thing, normally. It meshes well together with singer Mark Sandman's voice and is counterbalanced with fairly depressing lyrics. Its all good though, Its pretty easy to enjoy and I'd suggest them if you're a fan of the classic songwriters of modern music like Cohen, Cave, Costello, Dylan, and so on.

Morphine - Cure for Pain

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