I remember a girl so very well
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The carnival drums all mad in the air
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Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell
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O where do we go now but nowhere
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In a colonial hotel we fucked up the sun
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And then we fucked it down again
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Well the sun comes up and the sun goes down
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Going round and round to nowhere
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The kitten that padded and purred on my lap
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Now swipes at my face with the paw of a bear
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I turn the other cheek and you lay into that
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O where do we go now but nowhere
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O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
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O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
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Across clinical benches with nothing to talk
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Breathing tea and biscuits and the Serenity Prayer
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While the bones of our child crumble like chalk
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O where do we go now but nowhere
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I remember a girl so bold and so bright
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Loose-limbed and laughing and brazen and bare
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Sits gnawing her knuckles in the chemical light
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O where do we go now but nowhere
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You come for me now with a cake that you've made
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Ravaged avenger with a clip in your hair
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Full of glass and bleach and my old razorblades
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O where do we go now but nowhere
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O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
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O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
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If they'd give me my clothes back then I could go home
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From this fresh, this clean, antiseptic air
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Behind the locked gates an old donkey moans
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O where do we go now but nowhere
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Around the duck pond we grimly mope
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Gloomily and mournfully we go rounds again
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And one more doomed time and without much hope
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Going round and around to nowhere
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From the balcony we watched the carnival band
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The crack of the drum a little child did scare
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I can still feel his tiny fingers pressed in my hand
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O where do we go now but nowhere
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If I could relive one day of my life
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If I could relive just a single one
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You on the balcony, my future wife
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O who could have known, but no one
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O wake up, my love, my lover make up
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O wake up, my love, my lover make up
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Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere
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| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds |
