That's how obsessive he is about the press …. Given that Cave's drug abuse has only been snidely insinuated in the press, and this is a chance to get the story from the horse's mouth, so-to-speak, and in the process deglamourise the sick junkie chic that surrounds him, I agree. An artist, who through such emotional blackmail tactics, expects a writer to snip off the barbs of their questions and place their tamed tongues in his rectum. She lived in a trailer on the outskirts of the town with her old man who was basically this drunken, wretch of a character. Cannot annotate a non-flat selection. As the Bad Seeds sow the cyclical rumble of City of Refuge, from the tentatively titled new album, Tender Prey, flagellated by the bullwhip guitars of Neubauten's Blixa Bargeld and Kid Congo (no Cramps solos here), I know Cave is a great. Photograph: Andy Hall, • Watch a trailer for a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' gig as part of our Live for 2014 series. The stars all winked at me. Cash. He's one of nature's organisers, with a Filofax in his head rather than his pocket, as well as a wicked wit. As the sun comes up like a pat of rancid butter over the canals, it feels like we're engaged on a one-way trip to purgatory. Are you a voyeur as opposed to a participant? "I'll fucking kill you, you bastard," he bellows, trying to tear out my left eye with filthy spatula nails. Idiocy. Deanna was a girl I knew when I was about eight. I've talked about it a lot, in fact. He lunges after it. I really care about what we do and I really care that the shows are good and try my hardest to make them that way and I'm always upset if they're not as good as they should be.". Though I'm satisfied with what I've got on tape already, a compromise is eventually reached. Something is sinking in. (I'll Love You) Till the End of the World. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Lyrics. "Because I didn't realise what a fucking scumhill and what a filthy little prick you were," snorts Cave, shoving me out into the corridor and slamming the door behind me. Complétez votre collection Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Look how young-looking I am," says Roland, who's 23 going on 99. Nick Cave is a journalist's nightmare. I am a crooked man. "Jesus Christ!" It's not hard. It's time to tear out the pages of his book and light a fire. Do you feel that you are grotesque like some of your characters? First Born Is Dead (Rm) , the excellent covers album, Kicking Against The Pricks , and Tender Prey (Rm) (Enhanced) are great companions to this one, as they are Nick's most important albums. I feel like I tend to forget about really significant aspects of what I do that people will generally take notice of. "Each song has a very distinctive kind of style to it, as if it is the Bad Seeds playing 60s garage band music, as in the case of Oh Deanna, or kind of Bacharach stuff like Slowly Goes the Night. A lot of this, obviously, hinges on Nick's voice itself. It would have cost millions to make. Now, apparently, he thinks I'm accusing him of killing young kids! "What you become is that which is taken up and aped by other people. I had no idea of the expense involved in creating a film that would have an entire town in it and aerial zoom shots that started at one end of the town and zoomed in to a person's eyeball.". And this is one of the prime reasons that I do continue to make records, to ward off this fear that grows in me after three or four months.". That was easy to do with such rich songs like 'Sad Waters', 'Stranger Than Kindness', 'Your Funeral My Trial' and 'She Fell Away.' Murder Ballads. I don't refuse the offer. "You're nothing but a shite-eater," he shrieks, taking a scythe with his fist at my head. He acknowledges this fact and spends the entire time recording what goes on in the town that he lives in. "You're the person, it's your type that are responsible for those people dying for insisting on writing about it." We fly on to Hamburg. Nick, meanwhile, is getting a psychotic head of steam up. I'm glad. Frenzy. Nick Cave's voice, late afternoon in the bar of Amsterdam's Museum hotel, is laced with humour. [A] If you can't treat me no better, it [G] gotta be your funeral and my [D] trial (Verse 2) When I and you [ D ] first got together, 't was on one Friday night In Ghosts, Cave plays a psychotic provocateur with a death wish. There still are stories, but they're a lot more disguised. Slowly, the band lower a coffin of scales and Cave, with a voice like freezing fog, groans, "I am the crooked man, I walked a crooked mile." "I don't want to encourage people to take drugs or be an example of somebody who takes a lot of drugs and hasn't burnt out just because I don't feel burned out. So basically I just had to be in front of the camera and scream abuse out.". And so much for that. But not far enough. "Every record I feel like I've really wrung the sponge out this time and there isn't anything left of me to give and I've felt that way ever since Mutiny. Angry. Our response to the invitation was supposedly to tell the minion to "Fuck off!" Lazarus Dig!!! Cave has even written a song about two ex-NME writers called Scum. Many of his recent songs have been a collapsing of both. Yeah, well, let's just forget It. Things like Deep in the Woods are diseased with grotesqueness.". My galleon ship would will fly and fall Fall and fly and fly and fall Deep into your loveliness. His initial response to this was (a) I didn't have a girlfriend and (b) I'd made the story up. I really don't want to be responsible for that sort of thing at all. The Cave constituency tonight in Utrecht, and virtually every night elsewhere, couldn't change its underwear without help. I think trading my voice for Frank Sinatra's would be a pretty poor deal all round. ", "You're so numb through your occupation that you can sit there and say that I'm responsible for the deaths of young children – or that your girlfriend told you that.". "Well, I've always felt much more comfortable writing in the third person. The script I turned out was absolutely ridiculous. starts and ends within the same node. The wife of this teacher thrashed her and the guy did something to her, but I really don't know what it was. It destroys your body, fucks up your mind," says Roland. facebook twitter youtube. Together we head off to eat. "Evan English and his partners were video-makers called the Rich Kids who wanted to make their first feature film. To be honest I thought your acting was really over the top in Ghosts to the point of being funny. Cave's voice is snarling now. All the crooked bitches that she was Anybody who rues on about his "Hump of sorrow and sack of woe," as he does on the new tune, Up Jumped the Devil, can't be as deadpan as rigor mortis. It was impossible to get to because of the briar that surrounded it. Nick is bitterly concerned that I haven't yet given an undertaking not to write about his secret project, despite the fact that he has offered to tell me the whole story after its completion. The new record is coming back to a more conventional sort of lyric. Do you mean you've actually written a lot of songs about her then? Typically, in rehearsal, he describes in emotional terms – lechery, compassion, violence etc – the sort of atmosphere he wants the band to create. Your Funeral, My Trial is in session. I wondered, therefore, whether he has been totally happy with any of his recorded work? Your Funeral... My Trial Transcribed by O.W. We used to go on these day raids on the different houses around the town. The edge and depth of my voice is not a natural thing that great singers have, like Chris Bailey or Tom Jones or even Simon Bonney. Saw the moon The way my baby love is some solid sentiment She can love to heal the sick and she can love to raise the dead You think I'm jokin' but you better be- lieve what I say I'm beggin' you baby, cut out that off the wall jive Yeh you gotta treat me better, or it gotta be your funeral and my trial It's a joke, that's why I set up the tours. I'd hate to go down in history as the No 1 goth, the man who spawned a thousand goth bands with stacked hairstyles, no personality, pale sick people. How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live Lyrics 2017: Your Funeral My Trial Lyrics 2009: Asking Around For You Lyrics 2008: Prisoner Lyrics 2011: Riding With the Kings Lyrics 2016: Mountain Climbing Lyrics 2016: Nobody Loves Me But My Mother Lyrics 2016: Going Down Lyrics 2016: One Less Cross To Bear Lyrics 2015: So, What Would I Do Lyrics 2014 He'll never get a gardening job chopping down weeds, let alone collecting my skull. Bollocks. A couple of seconds later a glass comes hurtling past my skull and smashes against the wall. Eventually the press officer comes between Cave's gale-force windmill limbs and my passive resistance. Our conversation goes like this: We're dog-tired. I think there are a lot more interesting things about what I've done than what seems to have most affect on people.". Watch Video Comment Enlarge font. Your Funeral... My Trial was originally released as a double EP.The album was issued on CD with a different running order and the bonus track "Scum". He wants respect but doesn't seem to respect a journalist's freedom to inquire. Our second interview is closer to a war. Here I am, little lamb... "I remember the Paradiso. "Where's that fucking interview tape," he hisses, ripping the contents of the bag out into the street. The way I'm portrayed I find particularly funny sometimes, this supposed pessimism I'm meant to harbour towards everything and anything. This is just a preview! You're involved in a lot of different projects, films, records, a novel. Never have I spoken about it in any other way.". castigates Nick's press officer as Cave fumbles with my zips – the one's on the bag, you understand. Only this time he isn't play-acting. Nick spies my travel bag nearby. Or one of the reasons. Jack Barron's interview, originally published in NME, is from Rock's Backpages• Watch a trailer for a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' gig as part of our Live for 2014 series, Last modified on Wed 31 May 2017 17.51 BST. "If it means that much to you, I'll give it to you," I offer. Do you think you're lyrically funny at all? Dead. "Quite possibly. Inside this place she had a collection like a magpie's nest. Night, the shameless widow One has to use what resources one has and live with these things. Pop. Then when members of the band come up to me and say, 'Hey, have you seen this or got that?' And I really regret ever having opened my mouth about it.". Meaning to "Your Funeral My Trial" song lyrics. Nick might feel sorry for himself beyond belief, but belief is often the problem, the search for or lack of it. As the provisional title implies, the record marks a continued shift in Cave's attitude to, and use of, biblical imagery, compared to say the Birthday Party's venomous Prayers on Fire, with songs like the almost redemptive tones of New Morning. A tired Antipodean snapper? Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS). Instead we bicker on, with the abuse level rising. Like Oh Deanna is a retelling of a true relationship that I had with somebody through the story of somebody else, even if it doesn't begin with 'Once upon a time'. The stars all winked at me Nightmares. "Your Funeral My Trial". "We started up a whole new interview while there are other people out there who've got to do interviews. After all, they're big boys now.". "Listen," says Cave as I make for the exit. Do you think that Jack hasn't got a memory?". Vulnerability, sentimentality, bitterness, abrasiveness, humour and morbidity – all peel from his stretched larynx like a snake shedding skins. A bauble moon did mock Do you know where to get any speed? I never had any reason to feel anything against this girl because she was really my best friend at this time. It misses. Only with the last couple of records I've realised that actually you do fill up again and can do it again. F Am I am a crooked man F Am And I've walked a crooked mile Em G Night, the shameless widow Am G Em Dm Doffed her weeds, in a pile Em F G The stars all winked at me Em F G They shamed a child F G Your funeral, my trial F Am One thousand Marys lured me F Am Into gulleys damp with clover Em G Bird with crooked wing cast Am G Em Dm Its wicked shadow over Em F G A bauble moon did mock Em F G … I think something like Your Funeral, My Trial has got its humorous side, because I'm reasonably aware of the reputation that I've got. One day she was caught by this guy who was in this religious-instruction teacher's house. I'm informed that Cave will quite happily talk about his use of heroin in detail so long as I draw a veil over his secret project. Become a fang I'm quite nervous and not a racist, which is the opposite of this character. I have this new system. Right this second, outside the VIP Hotel in Hamburg's Holstenstrasse, his larynx has the timbre of The Reaper. "Tour managers are parasites," he later explains. What a horrible thought! The kind of things I've written after this time have a different kind of bent to them altogether, although they might be the same kind of melodramatic fantasies. "I only trust somebody when I feel that they are genuinely on my side," he mentions pointedly. As the record evolved, we saw this happening and rather than rectify this disjointedness we decided we'd play on what would normally be a weak point within a record and make it its strength.". If you can't treat me no better, it gotta be your funeral and my trial When I and you first got together, 't was on one Friday night We spent two lovely hours together, and the world knows alright I'm just beggin' you baby, please cut out that off the wall jive You know you gotta treat me better, if you don't it gotta be your funeral and my trial "I can't help it that I take this particular drug," he continues. Night hangs like a lead shroud. Chordie is a search engine for finding guitar chords and guitar tabs. I wasn't given any of the coaching the other actors were given, it was just assumed I could walk on and be this particular character. "Only when I sing well. While I kneel down in the street and gather up the gear Cave cocks his boot at my head. Cave part-scripted Ghosts for producer Evan English. Sensing the interview is winding down, I decide to put a final shot to Cave. We, I should add, robbed by ourselves, separately also. Your Funeral... My Trial It's all fairly stylised and each song is very stylised within itself. I remember smashing somebody's teeth in with my microphone stand." "I mean, it is that evil and insidious and it does worm its way into your life and it's very difficult to get it out again. snaps Cave … "You're insulting me so much and you don't even realise it. Your Funeral My Trial Songtext von Joe Bonamassa mit Lyrics, deutscher Übersetzung, Musik-Videos und Liedtexten kostenlos auf Songtexte.com And scared. An annotation cannot contain another annotation. Let all the bells in whoredom ring Neither of us would fulfil our potential.". He misses. Our relationship was kept a secret from him because he frequently beat her. How the stranger fitted into their lives was a bit of a scandal. I am quite aware that my voice is basically unlikable. With Cave's own unique slant. That would be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. That or Cupid's eyes poked out blind. Nick Cave, before we split for bed after our four-hour interview, summed up his feelings about his heroin addiction in the following way: "I've always wanted to hone my music, writing and lyrics down, so they are as pure as possible. "I couldn't believe it," he laughs, "they wanted me to go on one of those pedalos to do it. Luckily he'll never play football for Australia, even the junior squad. "The next day I was woken up by my mother and had to answer all these questions from the police. I haven't really seen it mentioned (openly). Nick says he often comes over as retarded in interviews because he can't trust journalists, especially English ones, who nod in agreement to his halting answers and then ridicule him in print. He couldn't drive in a tack with a mallet. Lyrics to "Your Funeral And My Trial" by JOHN HAMMOND: Please come home to your daddy, and explain yourself to me / Because I and you are man and wife, tryin' to start a family / I'm beggin' you baby, cut out that off the wall jive / If you can't treat me no better, it gotta be your funeral and my trial … A man trying to exorcise the ghosts inside his head through limited means. Nick's lyrical concerns might sometimes rattle like skeletons in shallow graves, but his current band set his prayers on fire like no other. Between us we hoped to map the definitive guide to Cave's creativity. He doesn't want to talk about heroin any more and we're well on the way to a head-to-head collision. The songs on the upcoming album seem to have less narrative form than before. Cave, meanwhile, is slumped in his chair. Compassion. All I want is to get out of this damned city and never have to look at Cave and his dishrag limbs again. It misses. Is that what you mean? I'm stunned. Listen to Your Funeral And My Trial by Sonny Boy Williamson, 5,290 Shazams, featuring on Electric Blues Essentials, and Chicago Blues Essentials Apple Music playlists. Miscellaneous And I've walked a crooked mile. Become A Better Singer In Only 30 Days, With Easy Video Lessons! Yes. Your Funeral, My Trial: 13: Zanstra: 0: To The Top; Contribute to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. So one day we robbed a house and found a handgun which we took back to our little grotto. Packed and waiting to catch the next plane home, the sound of perhaps Cave's most possessed performance, an obscene song partly about kicking heroin, Mutiny in Heaven, replays itself in my mind. I dunno.". He looks ash-grey with exhaustion. Earlier on I'd telephoned my girlfriend who said a couple of friends of hers had become addicts in part because they dumbly wanted to ape the kind of lifestyle Cave exhudes. Mick Harvey is continually telling me the way I've responded to a situation or what I've felt coming off an audience has not been really realistic … I think our group is capable of supreme disappointment, far more than other groups. Doffed her weeds, in a pile Notes in indicate single notes, not chords. Night, the shameless widow. "No. Ironically, though the surface vibe may be different, the clothes cut from another loom, the uniform of personal as opposed to social alienation that Cave deals in is the oldest cliche in the book. Nick Cave is the voice of desperation onstage. We're too far into this ugly scene for him to quit or back down now. Above all he's hypnotic. In a Dutch club whose corridors remind me of the entrance to the gas ovens in Auschwitz – not a flippant comment, since I've been there – this lanky piece of literate shit, in his waistcoat and bow tie, holds the audience around the neck by the hangman's noose of his sheer showmanship of inadequacy. It's August 1988 and the Bad Seeds frontman and 'journalist's nightmare' is in ferocious, fighting form. The story is important because I've tried to write a lot of songs about it.". Delusions. The song has two chords basically, and revolves around the change from G7 to Amin. Nick is mortified when I broach the question, but leaves the tape recorder running while he talks extensively about the subject. The body they're feeding off is a mirror of their own emotional turmoil. I mean, can you see me on one of those contraptions?". It's no big deal. Découvrez des références, des avis, des tracklist, des recommandations, et bien plus encore à propos de Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral ... My Trial sur Discogs. This is really a song for piano, but can be played on guitar. The blood they're sucking is clotted. The only problem is not even Jesus could raise Bleddyn from his bed. "Well I never said I was serious all the time. Picks it up and runs like an ostrich with its head still buried. Last updated on 02.04.2014 The new record is coming back to a more conventional sort of lyric. Hey, but mention writers … because, as Nick is the first to admit, he's technically a lousy singer. Despite what he calls "the monumental task" of editing his novel, Nick says he will still be unsatisfied with it when it is published. How much of an effort is it to keep recording? You know, I don't write endless songs about it, for example.". Back in the dressing room, Cave has been cornered by a piece of rotting flesh called Moan. Choose and determine which version of Your Funeral And My Trial chords and tabs by Sonny Boy Williamson you can play. Dig!!! Lyrics to Your Funeral My Trial by Joe Bonamassa from the Live from the Royal Albert Hall album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more! We try to do it again and all you can ask me is questions related to heroin. "There are a couple of moments that I'm really proud of but that's all. The viewpoint of a wretch. I am a crooked man People whose voices automatically give you a nice feeling.". Jewish fans of late Canadian singer Leonard Cohen are pleading for his hit 'Hallelujah' to no longer be played at memorials and other somber events because it is riddled with sexual undertones. Cave happily admits a lot of the musical tendons that lift his work are provided by the Bad Seeds, especially the arrangement and interpretation that Mick Harvey brings to bear on the embryos of Nick's ideas. Why? Drugs can do strange things to people. We're all fatigued. And I was taken out of (the local) high school and sent to the big smoke to a strict all boys boarding school to have a bit of sense knocked into me. I was just one day older than her. "I'm sure you do," I reply, opening the hotel bedroom door. Your funeral, my trial Presley. The world seems like a fine place, full of people to bore senseless with our speed-babble. Whether it be biblical morality or unrequited love. You know you gotta treat me better, if you don't it gotta be your funeral and my trial Alright The good Lord made the world and everything was in it The way my baby love is some solid sentiment She can love to heal the sick and she can love to raise the dead You think I'm jokin' but you better believe what I say But I always really worry before I make a record that it's just not going to be there. They shamed a child Unfortunately all the worst sides of my output in my creative life seem to have been adopted by people as the most influential ones. Log in to add lyrics, add aliases, add genres, follow this artist & more. The latter is the story of prison authorities deliberately making inmates' lives hell in order to instigate an insurrection which they then violently squash, thereby gaining legitimacy for increased penal powers. Nick Cave is a man of many voices. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" I really think drugs are quite an evil thing and I really wish I hadn't become involved with them myself because I'm in a situation now where it will take quite a concentrated effort to live without them and it will require quite a major life's fight to stop taking them.". Nick has had his revenge. Again … I talked to you the other night about heroin. Two days and one country later, just before a glass comes whizzing by my head and smashes against a wall, Cave will insist that "people don't bring us drugs … all that happens backstage at our gigs is that people drink our alcohol". So they got me to write the script. Your Funeral... My Trial is the fourth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 3 November 1986 by Mute Records. Are you aware that you've got this myth that you carry with you that could be held responsible for the launching of a thousand goth bands? I told you everything there was to know about it in relation to me. As the city rises up As the city rises up As the city rises up As the city rises up. The "fight" is over. Nick Cave's voice speaks in quiet, measured tones in the hotel lounge. "I work from the time I get up to the time I have … I have to go to the sound-check and do the concert. Anyhow, I really did enjoy doing the acting, though I admit it was very kind of caricaturish. Cave, on this appearance, doesn't seem to have the makings of a great thespian. Ironically enough, Nick's first script for him, put together in LA several years back, was completely unfeasible and has now turned up as the basis of his novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel. Overnight it seems Nick has changed the game-plan. He looks sharp, dressed in an immaculate black evening suit topped off by a belt with a massive gaudy buckle depicting Christ. The soundtrack parts provided by Bargeld, Harvey and Cave, are, however, fine. "Smack. Guitar chords and guitar tablature made easy. And I think what I've managed to achieve with it has been quite a feat in itself. Your funeral, my trial As the Bad Seeds' rhythm section of Harvey and drummer Thomas Wydler deliver the uppercut of another new song, Oh Deanna, Cave jack-knives around the stage. "They want 10 or 15 per cent of your money and then drink all your booze. "That's the basis for the song. A pretty neat trick since we were both asleep. A tab of recommended voicings follows the chord part. Despite popular myth, Cave isn't always deadly serious. "Anyway, we used to play truant from school and go to this little hideaway that she had fashioned under this bridge over a dry river creek. Make sure your selection Down the road I look and there runs Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherries We go down to the river where the willows weep Take a naked root for a lover’s seat That rose out of the bitten soil But bound to the ground by creeping ivy coils O Mary you have seduced […] It bookends his anthology King Ink. "No, I've only tried. He's just been doing television interviews. A talented multi-instrumentalist, Harvey is the musical arranger for both the Bad Seeds and Crime & the City Solution. Upstairs in the Museum Hotel, meanwhile, Cave is freaking out. This simply involves a lot of swearing, rolling of eyeballs, gouging of flesh and spitting. Nowhere far. But it does distress me that I have an influence over people in that way. The fact that he can rope in some of the most gifted musicians of the era, be it Kid Congo or Bargeld, is testament to the esteem he is held in popular music's more fractious quarters. And trinket stars did smile It's only in the last two years of his life that he swings into action and creates situations with consequences. Sonny Boy Williamson Your Funeral And My Trial Lyrics. "Well I think Your Funeral, My Trial was particularly narrative. Publicist, photographer, Seeds piano player Roland and I crack up at the thought. Riding on the wave of energy, with typical perversity Nick rasps. Any hesitation is due, not to inarticulacy, but to wanting to frame precise answers. Williams. She was never any kind of threat. This is, of course, true. (Mongers of pain) I find I do that quite often.". Tracks of particular note are Sad Waters, The Carny, Your Funeral My Trial, Stranger Than Kindness, Hard On For Love and, especially, Long Time Man. The cramped parameters of his singing are his strength. Would you like to have a voice like Frank Sinatra's? Popular albums by this artist. Your Funeral... My Trial I am a crooked man And I've walked a crooked mile Night, the shameless widow Doffed her weeds, in a pile The stars all winked at me They shamed a child Your funeral, my trial A thousand Marys lured me To feathered beds and fields of glover Bird with crooked wing cast It's wicked shadow over A bauble moon did mock Because of an agreement settled upon the following day, that particular subject matter has been left out of this article. Like Mutiny, that particular song, and Sad Waters. Kid Congo, now with a moustache, diligently packs his guitars while Mick Harvey picks up the takings and the rest of the band flop out. Your Funeral And My Trial lyrics performed by Sonny Boy Williamson: Please come home to your daddy, and explain yourself to me Because I and you are man and wife, tryin' to start a family I'm beggin' you baby, cut out that off the wall jive If you can't treat me no better, it gotta be your funeral and my trial Your Funeral... My Trial. 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