She's Leaving You

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · Other Songs - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

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