I went out walking the other day
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The wind hung wet around my neck
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My head it rung with screams and groans
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From the night I spent amongst her bones
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I passed beside the mission house
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Where that mad old buzzard, the reverend,
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Shrieked and flapped about life after your dead
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Well, I thought about my friend, Michel
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How they rolled him in linoleum
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And shot him in the neck
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A bloody halo, like a think-bubble
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Circling his head
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And I bellowed at the firmament
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Looks like the rains are hear to stay
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And the rain pissed down upon me
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And washed me all away
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Saying
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Well, the road is long
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And the road is hard
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And many fall by the side
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But Papa won't leave you, Henry
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So there ain't no need to cry
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And I went on down the road
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He went on down the road
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And I went on down the road
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He went on down the road
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Well, the moon it looked exhausted
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Like something you should pity
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Spent an age-spotted
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Above the sizzling wires of the city
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Well, it reminded me of her face
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Her bleached and hungry eyes
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Her hair was like a curtain
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Falling open with the laughter
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And closing with the lies
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But the ghost of her still lingers on
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Though she's passed through me
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And is gone
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The slum dogs, they are barking
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And the rain children on the streets
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And the tears that we will weep today
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Will all be washed away
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By the tears that we will weep again tomorrow
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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For the road is long
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And the road is hard
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And many fall by the side
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But Papa won't leave you, Henry
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So there ain't no need to cry
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And I went on down the road
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He went on down the road
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And I went on down the road
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He went on down the road
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And I came upon a little house
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A little house upon a hill
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And I entered through, the curtain hissed
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Into the house with its blood-red bowels
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Where wet-lipped women with greasy fists
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Crawled the ceilings and the walls
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They filled me full of drink
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And led me round the rooms
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Naked and cold and grinning
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Until everything went black
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And I came down spinning
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I awoke so drunk and full of rage
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That I could hardly speak
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A fag in a whale-bone corset
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Draping his dick across my cheek
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And its into the shame
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And its into a guilt
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And its into the fucking fray
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And the walls ran red around me
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A warm arterial spray
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Saying
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Well, the night is dark
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And the night is deep
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And its jaws are open wide
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But Papa won't leave you, Henry
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So there ain't no need to cry
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And I went on down the road
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He went on down the road
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And I went on down the road
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He went on down the road
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It's the rainy season where I'm living
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Death comes leaping out of every doorway
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Wasting you for money, for your clothes
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And for your nothing
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Entire towns being washed away
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Favelas exploding on inflammable spillways
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Lynch-mobs, death squads, babies being born without brains
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The mad heat and the relentless rains
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And if you stick your arm into that hole
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It comes out shit up to the bone
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And with her kisses bubbling on my lips
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I swiped the rain and nearly missed
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And I went on down the road
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He went on down the road
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Singing
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Well, the road is long
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And the road is hard
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And many fall by the side
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But Papa won't leave you, Henry
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So there ain't no need to cry
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And I went on down the road
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He went on down the road
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And I went on down the road
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He went on down the road
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Bent Beneath my heavy load
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Under his heavy load
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Yeah, I went on down the road
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Yeah, he went on down the road
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Woah, woah
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Woah, woah
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Woah, woah
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Woah, woah
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And I went on down that road
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Papa Won't Leave You Henry
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds |