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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Midnight Man
Album: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
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6

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Total ratings: 120









Released: 2008
Length: 5:05
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Hold that chrysalis in your palm,
see it split and change.
It won't do you any harm,
it's just trying to rearrange.
It was born to live a day,
now it flies up from your hand.
It's beautiful,
it's the one they call your ever-loving man.

Wolves have carried your babies away,
oh, your kids drip from their teeth.
The nights are long and the day
is bitter cold beyond belief.
You spread yourself like a penitent
upon the mad vibrating sand,
and through your teeth
arrange to meet your midnight man.

Everybody's coming round to my place.
Everybody's coming round to my place.
Everybody's coming round.
Oh, baby, don't you see?
Everybody wants to be
your midnight man

Don't disturb me as I sleep,
treat me gentle when I wake.
Don't disturb me as I sleep,
even though your body aches
even though your body aches
to serve at his command.
Between the wars
she still adores her ever-loving man.

Close your eyes, sleep in him,
dream of your lost sons and daughters.
Me, I'll raise up the dorsal fin
and glide up and down the waters.
I'll glide up and down the waters
then I'll walk upon the land,
and call 'em out,
the ones who doubt your midnight man.

Everybody's coming round to my place.
Everybody's coming round to my place.
Everybody's coming round.
Oh, darling, don't you see?
Everybody wants to be
your midnight man

It's early in the morning
and I don't know what to do.
It's early in the morning
and I can't believe it's true.
It's early in the morning
and it's happening again;
I called you once, I called you twice.
Ain't I your midnight man?

Everybody's coming round to my place.
Everybody's coming round to my place.
Everybody's coming round.
They want you, they love you.
They need to be
your midnight man.

Everybody's coming round to be your midnight man.
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So it's 30 Jan 09 and I just watched Nick Cave on Letterman. I feel sick. What the hell was that? How did this guy get on TV? It sounded like 3 shitty songs being played at the same time. I'm just saying, he must have pictures of someone fucking an otter.
Posted 15 years ago by jacksonville021    [ Reply ]
Darn. Started out okay, but then it just fell apart! Nick needs to rewrite that one.
Posted 15 years ago by Kristi    [ Reply ]
Turning it off now. Yuk.
Posted 15 years ago by Welly    [ Reply ]
{#Neutral}  time for a different nick cave song now....  geez there are so many, this one's a hog....


Posted 15 years ago by nicolaluna    [ Reply ]
i dig. a solid 6.  
Posted 15 years ago by plight    [ Reply ]
A bad Nick Cave song doesn't even beat a pair.{#Snooty}
Posted 15 years ago by Govi    [ Reply ]
Not my favorite song off the album, but even a bad Nick Cave song beats the hell out of a lot of the stuff I hear these days.
Posted 15 years ago by nevar23    [ Reply ]
 Hannio wrote:
I don't get it. Seems like very forgettable stuff to me.

 
I guess you won't be going around to his place then?
Posted 15 years ago by rcurrier    [ Reply ]
A little Nick Cave sucks. A lot of Nick Cave, like one tune per hour practically in the past few weeks, is beyond bad. He's nothing but a poseur. Nick Cave, go away.
Posted 15 years ago by andrewimft    [ Reply ]
Oh my a love 'em or hate 'em, dichotomy has reared its ugly head. Can't we all just agree that this is; ... FREEKIN AWESOME MUSIC !!! ... whether or not you like it?
Posted 15 years ago by froggy    [ Reply ]
Posted 15 years ago by crazy    [ Reply ]
reason06 wrote:
Um, excuse me darlin', but we are all speaking for ourselves. Hey! I have an idea let's stop the personal attacks and just give our own opinions, about the music, and promise not to take it personally, and allow for our differences , as most of the artists played here would promote .
Well..um..darlin', you'll note in the post I was responding to, the words "us" and "we" were used. I just wanted it to let it be known that I'd rather not be included in the "us"--and to express MY opinion about the music. Not sure how that's a personal attack.
Posted 15 years ago by copymonkey    [ Reply ]
copymonkey wrote:
Speak for yourself--I'm diggin' everything I've heard off this album so far.
Um, excuse me darlin', but we are all speaking for ourselves. Hey! I have an idea let's stop the personal attacks and just give our own opinions, about the music, and promise not to take it personally, and allow for our differences , as most of the artists played here would promote .
Posted 15 years ago by reason06    [ Reply ]
JohnBauer wrote:
Track sounds horrible. Whole album sounds horrible. If there's a block of time during the day this noise plays, let us know, so we can avoid it, please.
Speak for yourself--I'm diggin' everything I've heard off this album so far.
Posted 15 years ago by copymonkey    [ Reply ]
I like giving new things a try, but have you heard the words he is using? Lyrics bad , tune bad, for the first time I think we need a zero on the rating scale
Posted 15 years ago by reason06    [ Reply ]
Yeah, couldn't ya just see him doing this way back in '91 when he was Freak Storm in that white suit and wacky 'do he sported in that ultra-hip flick, Johnny Suede?! Dig it, indeed!
Posted 15 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
All his songs sound the same to me because of his vocal stylings. And his vocals always make the songs sound so ponderous. I don't even like the music on this one; discordant.
Posted 15 years ago by steeler    [ Reply ]
I don't get it. Seems like very forgettable stuff to me.
Posted 15 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
How could I let a Nick Cave song go by, especially one from this horrible album, without puttin' out some serious hate?
Posted 15 years ago by FlatCat    [ Reply ]
Posted 15 years ago by oppositelock    [ Reply ]
I WAS IN NICK CAVE CONCERT ON FRIDAY EVENING. IT WAS FINE. 2.2 HOURS LIVE!
Posted 15 years ago by minister    [ Reply ]
I like it!
Posted 15 years ago by Krispian    [ Reply ]
Chazar wrote:
Has a 60s psychedelic feel to it.
Yeah. 7.
Posted 15 years ago by keller1    [ Reply ]
Diggin this tune. Like the guitar. Has a 60s psychedelic feel to it.
Posted 15 years ago by Chazar    [ Reply ]
sounds like Bruce Spring'jeans" and the E Street band went alternative. nevertheless a nice adjustment to the set. opens my mind to new sounds.
Posted 15 years ago by kayaksurf4fun    [ Reply ]