Nick Cave- Faraway So Close

Empty out your pockets,
toss the lot upon the floor.
All those treasures, my friend,
you don't need them anymore.
Your days are all through dying,
they gave all their ghosts away,
so kiss close all your wounds and call living life a day.
For the planets gravitate around you,
and the stars shower down around you,
and the angels in heaven adore you,
and the saints all stand and applaud you.

so faraway,
so faraway and yet so close.

Say farewell to the passing of the years,
though all your sweet goodbyes will fall upon deaf ears.
Kiss so softly the mouths of the ones you love,
beneath the September moon and the heavens above.
And the world will turn without you,
and history will soon forget about you,
but the heavens they will reward you,
and the saints will be there to escort you.

So faraway,
so faraway and yet so close.

Do not grieve at the passing of mortality,
for life's but a thing of terrible gravity.
And the planets gravitate around you,
and the stars shall dance about you,
and the angels in heaven adore you,
and the saints all stand and applaud you.

So faraway,
so faraway and yet so close.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Nick
• Cave
• Faraway
• So
• Close

[Alboid]

awesome!!!!! a secret masterpiece, I´m just 23 years old and I think there´s a few people who knows about this song and the movie, I´m glad. I wish the youth of my generation realize there´s a lot o good music than they think.

Thanks

[Cicero1988]

Thank you for uploading this.

[xelexpunx]

@thebiglebrownski is his side C or something, haha, i guess.

[thebiglebrownski]

they have a similar song on a b-sides album called ' what can i give you'

[maljak10]

Wim Wenders we salute you!

[NylaScotia3239]

This song came from HEAVEN, the Heaven that is this Man's writing genius. It's played very quietly ona jukebox in a diner -scene from Wim Wender's movie FARAWAY SO CLOSE! Get the Soundtrack from the Movie Studio's Soundtrack VARESE SARABAND, I think? Ignore anything else except the other Songe by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- CASSIEL'S SONG-that plays through the CLOSING credits, and then keep going follow Wim Wender's films' you'll find the NICK CAVE- goodies! Good-Luck You can do it!

[NylaScotia3239]

What made U2 even entertain the thought they could OUT WRITE, OUT SSING, & OUT PERFORM, Mr. Cave & The Bad Seeds (alone or combined)? When U2 descends into HELL it is my SINCEREST HOPE that throughout aeons in HELL, this is what they are forced to listen to, as they deserve NO LESS MISERY, than to hear WHAT THEY NEVER COULD ACHIEVE IN LIFE. Danke Schoen, for having this!

[ashtree50]

Where the hell did this come from? It's magnificent.

[LadyKiralin]

This is the song I'll have in my funeral

[siouxise82]

I love this song! perfect for a great masterpiece that is the Wenders film.

[cocobourgeois]

@dragonash1993 don't worry. i was the same way. move away when you can. go to college, and you'll meet enough other people with good taste to have a solid, if small amount of rad friends.

[Jubilee87]

i looooooooove this song