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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Lyrics for Song: Sad Waters
 Lyrics for Album: Your Funeral, My Trail [1986]
 
 
 
 38768>Down the road I look and there runs Mary
 
 
 
 Hair of gold and lips like cherries
 
 
 
 We go down to the river where the willows weep
 
 
 
 Take a naked root for a lovers seat
 
 
 
 That rose out of the bitten soil
 
 
 
 Sound to the ground by creeping ivy coils
 
 
 
 O Mary you have seduced my soul
 
 
 
 Forever a hostage of your child's world
 
 
 
 And then I ran my tin-cup heart along, the prison of her ribs
 
 
 
 And then with a toss of her curls that little girl goes wading in
 
 
 
 Rollin' her dress up past her knee
 
 
 
 Turning these waters into wine, then she platted all the willow vines
 
 
 
 Mary in the shallows laughing
 
 
 
 Over where the carp dart
 
 
 
 Spooked by the new shadows that she cast
 
 
 
 Across these sad waters and across my heart
 
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