Cassiel`s Song — текст песни (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds)

We`ve come to bring you home
Haven`t we, Cassiel?

To cast aside your loss and all your sadness
And shuffle off that mortal coil and mortal madness
For we`re here to pick you up and bring you home
Aren`t we, Cassiel?

It`s a place where you did not belong
Were time itself was mad and far too strong
Where life leapt up laughing and hit you head on
and hurt you, didn`t it hurt you, Cassiel?

While time outran you and trouble flew toward you,
and you were there to greet it,
weren`t you, foolish Cassiel?

But here we are, we`ve come to call you home
and here you`ll stay never more to stray
Where you can kick off your boots of clay
can`t you, Cassiel?

For death and you did recklessly collide
and time ran out of you
and you ran out of time,
didn`t you, Cassiel?

and all the clocks, in all the world
may this once just skip a beat in memory of you
then again those damn clocks, they probably won`t
will they, Cassiel?

One moment you are there and then strangely you are gone,
but on behalf of all of us here we are glad to have you home
Aren`t we, dear Cassiel?