Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Lyrics

7. Hold On To Yourself

I’m so far away from you 
I’m pacing up and down my room 
Does Jesus only love a man who loses? 
I turn on the radio 
There’s some cat on the saxophone 
Laying down a litany of excuses 

There’s madhouse longing in my baby’s eyes 
She rubs a lamp between her thighs 
And hopes the genie comes out singing 
And she lives in some forgotten song 
And moves like she is zombie-strong 
Breathes steady as the pendulum keeps swinging 

You better hold on to yourself 

Well, cities rust and fall to ruin 
Factories close and cars go cruising 
In and around the borders of her vision 
She says oh woah woah woah 
As Jesus makes the flowers grow 
All around the scene of her collision 

Oh you know, yes, I would 
I would hold on to yourself 

In the middle of the night 
I try my best to chase outside 
The phantoms and the ghosts and the fairy-girls 
On 1001 nights like this 
She mutters open sesame and Ali Baba and his forty thieves 
Launch her off the face of the world 

Well, you know 
Oh baby, I’ll come back 
And I’ll hold on to yourself 

Babe, I’m 1000 miles away 
And I just don’t know what to say 
‘Cause Jesus only loves a man who bruises 
But darling we can clearly see 
It’s all life and fire and lunacy 
And excuses and excuses and excuses 

Well, you know if I could I would 
Yeah, I would lie right down 
And I’d hold on to yourself 

Yeah, I would lie right down 
And I would hold on to yourself 

One day I’ll come back to you 
And I’ll hold on to yourself 

Yeah, I’m gonna come back 
Gonna lie down 
And I’ll hold on to yourself

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