Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

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2005-11-28 – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

[song: “Mercy Seat” (Johnny Cash version may be better known)]

Into the mercy seat I climb
My head is shaved, my head is wired
And like a moth that tries
To enter the bright eye
I go shuffling out of life
Just to hide in death awhile
And anyway I never lied.