New X Road (Johnson)
Don’t need a shot of heroin to kill my disease
Don’t need a shot of turpentine, to bring me to my knees
Don’t need a shot of codeine to help me to repent
Don’t need a shot of whiskey, help me to be president
I need a shot of love
Doctor, can you hear me? I need some Medicaid
I seen the kingdoms of the world and it’s making me feel afraid
What I got ain’t painful, it’s just bound to kill me dead
Like the men that followed Jesus, they put a price upon His head
I need a shot of love
I don’t need no alibi when I’m spending time with you
I’ve heard all of them rumors and you have heard em too
Don’t show me no picture show or give me no book to read
It don’t satisfy the hurt inside nor the habit that it feeds
I need a shot of love
Why would I want to take your life?
You’ve only murdered my father, raped his wife
Tattooed my babies with a poison pen
Mocked my god, humiliated my friends
I don’t wanna be with nobody tonight, Veronica ain’t nowhere, Mavis just ain’t right
There’s a man that hates me, he’s swift, smooth and near
Am I supposed to set back and wait until he’s here?
For the Sake of the Song - Azure Ray (via BermudaMuzic)
by Townes Van Zandt
Proofread and authorized by Jeanene Van Zandt
Why does she sing her sad songs for me, I’m not the one
To tenderly bring her soft sympathy, I’ve just begun
To see my way clear and it’s plain if I stop I will fall
I can lay down a tear for her pain, just a tear and that’s all
What does she want me to do
She says that she knows that moments are rare
I suppose that it’s true
Then on she goes to say I don’t care and she knows that I do
Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song
Who do I think that I am to decide that she’s wrong
She’d like to think that I’m cruel but she knows that’s a lie for I would be
No more than a tool if I allowed her to cry all over me
My sorrow is real even though I can’t change my plans
If she could see how I feel then I know that she’d understand
Does she actually think I’m to blame
Does she really believe that some word of mine
Could relieve all her pain
Can’t she see that she grieves just because she’s been blindly deceived
By her shame
Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song
Who do I think that I am to decide that she’s wrong
Nothin’s what it seems, maybe she’ll start someday to realize
If she abandons her dreams then all the words she can say are only lies
When will she see that to gain is only to lose
All that she offers me are her chains, I got to refuse
It’s only to herself that she’s lied
She likes to pretend there’s something that she should defend with her pride
I don’t intend to stand her and be the friend from whom she must hide
Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song
Who do I think that I am to decide that she’s wrong
Nick Cave, UNKLE, Pinocchio
Before Nick Cave begins his next string of tour dates with Grinderman this summer, he’ll be sharing a few other projects with us: a piece of new material, music consulting on Guillermo del Toro’s 3D stop-motion Pinocchio adaptation, and four double-disc reissues of his Bad Seeds-backed records Let Love In, Murder Ballads, The Boatman’s Call, and No More Shall We Part.
First up, London trip-hop outfit UNKLE announced that their forthcoming EP, Only The Lonely, features all brand new songs, opening with the Nick Cave-led track “Money and Run.” That 5-track effort, which also includes guest performances by the Duke Spirit’s Liela Moss, Gavin Clark, and ex-Sleepy Sun singer Rachel Fannan, arrives on April 4, one week ahead of an extended re-release of last year’s Where Did The Night Fall – Another Night Out. (The Cave, Moss, and Fannan tracks are included on the Another Night bonus disc.)
One month later, Cave and the Bad Seeds will reissue the aforementioned albums with bonus tracks, videos, and the latest installment of Lain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s interview-based making-of documentary. You can check out the full tracklisting for each reissue over at Slicing Up Eyeballs, and watch 13 minutes of footage from the doc, Do You Love Me Like I Love You, which includes Q&As with Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle, Interpol’s Paul Banks, photographer Autumn de Wilde, Bad Seeds members such as Blixa Bargeld, and more, here or below.
Last but not least, Deadline reports that Cave has signed on as the music consultant for a forthcoming Pinocchio adaptation co-produced by Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro. After setting the project aside for a number of years, del Toro and co. kick-started the project again in 2008: “[W]e added some great ideas that made it funnier and livelier, and we enlisted the aid of Nick Cave,” he said. “For me, it was most important to find that voice and a big part of that is the music of the movie.” Check out more details alongside frames from the project (note the creepy model to the left), which will begin production later this year, here.
