Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Carny

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Carny

Album: Your Funeral, My Trial (1986)

Lyrics:

And no-one saw the carny go
And the weeks flew by
Until they moved on the show
Leaving his caravan behind
It was parked out on the south east ridge
And as the company crossed the bridge
With the first rain filling the bone-dry river bed
It shone, just so, upon the edge
Away, away, we're sad, they said

Dog-boy, atlas, half-man, the geeks, the hired hands
There was not one among them that did not cast an eye behind
In the hope that the carny would return to his own kind

And the carny had a horse, all skin and bone
A bow-backed nag, that he named "Sorrow"
How it is buried in a shallow grave
In the then parched meadow

And the dwarves were given the task of digging the ditch
And laying the nag's carcass in the ground
And boss Bellini, waving his smoking pistol around
saying "The nag is dead meat"
"We caint afford to carry dead weight"
The whole company standing about
Not making a sound
And turning to dwarves perched on the enclosure gate
The boss says "Bury this lump of crow bait"

And then the rain came
Everybody running for their wagons
Tying all the canvas flaps down
The mangy cats crowling in ther cages
The bird-girl flapping and squawking around
The whole valley reeking of wet beast
Wet beast and rotten hay
Freak and brute creation
Packed up and on their way

The three dwarves peering from their wagon's hind
Moses says to Noah "We shoulda dugga deepa one"
Their grizzled faces like dying moons
Still dirty from the digging done

And as the company passed from the valley
Into a higher ground
The rain beat on the ridge and on the meadow
And on the mound

Until nothing was left, nothing at all
Except the body of Sorrow
That rose in time
To float upon the surface of the eaten soil

And a murder of crows did circle round
First one, then the others flapping blackly down

And the carny's van still sat upon the edge
Tilting slowly as the firm ground turned to sludge
And the rain it hammered down

And no-one saw the carny go
I say it's funny how things go

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Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Sweetheart Come:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd_N4Z6ilRw
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Green Eyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMbN8bUh3AQ
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - We Came Along This Road:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fd821NgM-Y
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhF8n-NgDaA
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Gates To The Garden:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM2TiqZ71G4
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Darker With The Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L9626_Nqm0
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - There Is a Kingdom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL7q79kFWQQ
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Idiot Prayer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw9It-VKcuE
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Crow Jane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czVjkD35w74
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Song of Joy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENnmG3B3tvI
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Kindness Of Strangers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXfNhHJRA9U
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gctmy_Eu1wo
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - There's No Night Out In The Jail:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKtPuMgVSq4

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• The
• Bad
• Seeds
• Carny
• Your
• Funeral
• My
• Trial
• Grinderman

[TheGrunge619]

A terrifying atmospheric song.There's nothing as innocent yet so sinister as a carnival that makes its way around the country.There was one that came to our local town and left a dead rhesus monkey buried behind it.Of course a friend and I dug it up and took it to school to show our horrified science class.It was smelling horrible by then! The monkey ended up in a bottle of alcohol to preserve it but it went a dirty brown colour.Its white face looking out over the class. It was like the carney.

[matttuck5]

Love this song. It paints a picture of insanity.

[CoolCoraline]

is that "it"

[StabboTheHappyClown]

Carnies are people, too!

[TheJake463]

where can i get that pic ?

[fwanel]

holy shit i pissed myself dahm now i got to go change undeese

[voxpop2000]

@TheGrunge619 great story brilliantly told!

[gibboj94]

I love the way he can write music like this and Red Right Hand; then come out with something as stunning as 'into my arms'! Really shows the different human emotions. He is a lyrical and musical genious. That is all.

<3

[359lillian]

This song is perfect for halloween!

[rendleshack]

@TheGrunge619 Best YouTube comment ever.

[bobby123456789902]

This song got me hooked on Nick Cave