Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Hold On To Yourself lyrics

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I'm so far away from you<br>

Pacing up and down my room<br>

Does Jesus only love a man who loses?<br>

I turn on the radio<br>

There's some cat on the saxophone<br>

Laying down a litany of excuses<br>

There's madhouse longing in my baby's eyes<br>

She rubs the lamp between her thighs<br>

And hopes the genie comes out singing<br>

She lives in some forgotten song<br>

And moves like she is zombie-strong<br>

Breathes steady as the pendulum keeps swinging<br>

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You better hold on to yourself<br>

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Well, cities rust and fall to ruin<br>

Factories close and cars go cruising<br>

In around the borders of her vision<br>

She says ooh<br>

As Jesus makes the flowers grow<br>

All around the scene of her collision<br>

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You know I would, yes, I would<br>

I would hold on to yourself<br>

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In the middle of the night<br>

I try my best to chase outside<br>

The phantoms and the ghosts and fairy-girls<br>

On 1001 nights like these<br>

She mutters open sesame and Ali Baba and his forty thieves<br>

Launch her off the face of the world<br>

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You know one day I'll come back and I'd hold on to yourself<br>

To yourself, I'd hold on to yourself<br>

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Ooh baby, I'm a 1000 miles away<br>

And I just don't know what to say<br>

Cause Jesus only loves a man who bruises<br>

But darling, we can clearly see<br>

It's all life and fire and lunacy<br>

And excuses and excuses and excuses<br>

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Well, you know if I could, I would<br>

I'd lie right down and I'd hold on to yourself<br>

Yeah, I would lie right down and I would hold on to yourself<br>

One day I'll come back to you and I'd hold on to yourself<br>

Yeah, I'm gonna come back, gonna lie down<br>

And I would hold on to yourself<br>

Yeah, to yourself<br>

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<i>[Thanks to Chris Seeney (chrisseeney@hotmail.com) for these lyrics]</i><br>

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