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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Lyrics for Song: She's Leaving You
 Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
 
 
 
 35113>You were planning to stay in, you had it carefully planned
 
 
 
 Your coat was hanging in the hall, your hat was in your hand
 
 
 
 You walked over to your woman, your pale distracted love
 
 
 
 Who was trying to put the wrong hand into the wrong glove
 
 
 
 Are you leaving, dear? Are you leaving, dear?
 
 
 
 Are you leaving, dear? Are you leaving, dear?
 
 
 
 So you start reading all her books, all her magazines
 
 
 
 Just to get a better understanding
 
 
 
 Your brain feels like it's dead
 
 
 
 Your eyes are hanging out your head
 
 
 
 You were hoping for something less demanding
 
 
 
 Well what you see staring out at you from a photo book
 
 
 
 A man with an eyepatch and a bent, bloody hook
 
 
 
 You wished to God that you never went and took a look
 
 
 
 Cause it's in that moment that you know that
 
 
 
 she's leaving you
 
 
 
 Yeah she's leaving you
 
 
 
 Well now she's taking you to bed
 
 
 
 Her legs wrapped round your head
 
 
 
 You're losing her to some crazy kind of motion
 
 
 
 You keep coming up for air
 
 
 
 You look around and stare
 
 
 
 Find you're swimming into completely different oceans
 
 
 
 You're wondering if she's thinking about some other man
 
 
 
 She says, "C'mon, baby, you know you are my loverman"
 
 
 
 You're going nuts you don't know exactly what to say
 
 
 
 She says, "Don't worry, baby, this is just my little way
 
 
 
 of leaving you"
 
 
 
 Oh, man, she's leaving you
 
 
 
 Guitar solo!
 
 
 
 She keeps saying, "Hey, don't hate me"
 
 
 
 She keeps saying, "Hate is just some kind of failure
 
 of the imagination"
 
 
 
 She keeps saying things like this
 
 
 
 Now she's giving you a kiss
 
 
 
 Now she's got you dragging her to the station
 
 
 
 The sun just slipped out of the sky, this is a black letter day
 
 
 
 Her train is moving down the platform, and is drawn away
 
 
 
 You're crying buckets, she gives her glove a wave
 
 
 
 She says "Oh c'mon, baby, that's no way to behave
 
 
 
 when I'm leaving you"
 
 
 
 Oh yeah, she's leaving you
 
 
 
 Oh yeah, she's leaving you
 
 
 
 Yeah, she's leaving you
 
 
 
 She's leaving you
 
 
 
 Yeah, she's leaving you
 
 
 
 Yeah, she's leaving you
 
 
 
 Yeah, she's leaving you
 
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