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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Lyrics for Song: Lay Me Low
 Lyrics for Album: Let Love In [1994]
 
 
 
 17937>They're gonna lay me low (Lay me low)
 
 They're gonna sink me in the snow
 
 They're gonna throw back their heads and crow
 
 When I go
 
 
 
 They're gonna jump and shout (Lay me low)
 
 They're gonna wave their arms about
 
 All the stories will come out
 
 When I go
 
 
 
 All the stars will glow bright (Lay me low)
 
 And my friends will give up the fight
 
 They'll see my work in a different light
 
 When I go
 
 
 
 They'll try telephoning my mother (Lay me low)
 
 But they'll end up getting my brother
 
 Who'll spill the story on some long-gone lover
 
 That I hardly know
 
 
 
 Hats off to the man
 
 On top of the world
 
 Come crawl up here, baby
 
 And I'll show you how it works
 
 
 
 If you wanna be my friend
 
 And you wanna repent
 
 And you want it all to end
 
 And you wanna know when
 
 Well, do it now. don't care how
 
 Take your final bow
 
 Make a stand, take my hand
 
 And blow it all to hell
 
 
 
 They gonna inform the police chief (Lay me low)
 
 Who'll breathe a sigh of relief
 
 He'll say I was a malanderer, a badlander and a thief
 
 When I go
 
 
 
 They will interview my teachers (Lay me low)
 
 Who'll say I was one of God's sorrier creatures
 
 There'll print informative six-page features
 
 When I go
 
 
 
 They'll bang a big old gong (Lay me low)
 
 The motorcade will be ten miles long
 
 The world will join together for a farewell song
 
 When they put me down below
 
 
 
 They'll sound a fluegelhorn (Lay me low)
 
 And the sea will rage, and the sky will storm
 
 All man and beast will mourn
 
 When I go
 
 
 
 Hats off to the man
 
 On top of the world
 
 Come crawl up here, baby
 
 And we can watch this damn thing turn
 
 If you wanna be my friend
 
 And you wanna repent
 
 And you want it all to end
 
 And you wanna know when
 
 Well do it now, do it now
 
 Take a long last bow
 
 Take my hand, make a stand
 
 And blow it all to hell
 
 
 
 Lay me low ...
 
 Lay me low, lay me low ...
 
 When I go ...
 
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