Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree
Nick Cave

O say goodbye to the little girl tree.

O you know that I must say goodbye

To the little girl tree.

This wall I built around you

Is made out of stone-lies.

O little girl the truth would be

An axe in thee.

O father look to your daughter

Brick of grief and stricken morter.

With this ring

This silver hoop of wire

I bind your maiden mainstream

Just to keep you as a child.

O say goodbye to the little girl tree.

O you know that I must say goodbye

To my little girl tree.

How fast your candy bones

Reached out for me.

I must say goodbye to your brittle bones

Crying out for me.

O you know that I must say goodbye.

O goodbye.

Even though you will betray me

The very minute that I leave.

O say goodbye to the little girl tree.

O Lord you know that I must say goodbye

To that little girl tree.

I rise up her girl-child lumps and slipping knots

Into her laden boughs

And amongst her roping limbs

Like a swollen neck vein branching

Into smaller lesser veins

That must all just sing and say goodbye

And let her blossom veils fly.

Her velvet gown.

Down down down.

Down down down.

Down down down and goodbye.

For you know that I must say goodbye.

To a rhythm softly tortured

Of a motion back and forth.

That's a rhythm sweetly tortured

O that's the rhythm of the orchard.

And you know that I must say goodbye

To that little girl tree.

O goodbye.

Yes goodbye.

For you know that I must die.

Down down down.

Down down down.

Down down down and goodbye.

For you know that I must die.

Yes you know that I must die.

O-o you know that I must die.


  Purchase "Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree" Video   Play Spotify "Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree" Song   View Wikipedia "Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Nick Cave Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Nick Cave

  Bloody Cheche   Far From Men 2   Farewell At Tinguit   Mountain Scramble   No Class today   Setting Out   Teacheru2019s Farewell   The Teacher   (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World   (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World   500 Miles   A Box For Black Paul   A Dead Song   Abattoir Blues   Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore   Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore   All The Pretty Little Horses   All The Pretty Little Horsies   All Tomorrow's Parties   All Tomorrow's Parties   And No More Shall We Part   Anthrocene   Are You The One I've Been Waiting For?   Are You The One I've Been Waiting For?   Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For   Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?   As I Sat Sadly By Her Side   Avalanche   Babe, I am On Fire   Babe, I Got You Bad   Babe, I'm On Fire   Babe, I'm On Fire   Babe, You Turn Me On   Banks Of The Roses   Big Jesus - Trash Can   Big-Jesus-Trash-Can   Black Betty   Black Crow King   Black Hair   Blast Off   Bless His Ever Loving Heart   Blind Lemon Jefferson   Blood sweat and murder   Blue Bird   Blundertown   Breathless   Bring It On   Brompton Oratory   Brother, My Cup Is Empty   By The Time I Get To Phoenix   Cabin Fever   Cabin Fever!   Cannibal's Hymn   Cannibal's Hymn   Capers   Carny   Carry Me   Casino   Cassiel's Song   Cassiel's Song   Christina The Astonishing   Cindy   City Of Refuge   Comancheria   Comancheria ii   Come Into My Sleep   Crow Jane   Cry   Darker With The Day   Dead Joe   Dead Man In My Bed   Deanna   Death Is Not The End   Deep In The Woods   Disco 2000 - Pub Rock Version [Previously Unreleas...   Distant Sky   Do You Love Me   Do You Love Me (part 2)   Do You Love Me Like I Love You, Part 4   Do You Love Me?   Do You Love Me? (Part 2)   Dollar bill blues   Dull Day   Dumb Europe   Dust of the chase   Easy Money   Fable Of The Brown Ape   Far From Me   Faraway, So Close   Faraway, So Close!   Fears Of Gun   Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow   Finishing Jubilee Street   Foi Na Cruz   Foi Na Cruz Sorrows Child [DVD][Instrumental]   From Her To Eternity   From my cold dead hands   Gates To The Garden   Get Ready For Love   Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass   Girl in Amber   Give Us A Kiss   God Is In The House   God's Hotel   God's Hotel   Green Eyes   Grief Came Riding   Hallelujah   Hamlet   Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)   Happy Birthday   Hard On For Love   He Wants You   Helpless   Henry Lee   Henry Lee"(feat. PJ Harvey   Hey Joe   Hey, Joe   Hiding All Away   Higgs Boson Blues   Ho-Ho   How Long, How Long Blues   I Do Dear, I Do.   I Do Love Her So   I Do Love Her So (Lime Tree Arbour)   I Feel So Good   I Had A Dream Joe   I Had A Dream, Joe   I Just Dropped In   I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condit...   I Let Love In   I Need You   I Put A Spell On You   I Rowed A Little Boat   I'm Gonna Kill That Woman   I'm Your Man   I'm Gonna Kill That Woman   Idiot Prayer   In The Ghetto   Into My Arms   Intro   Jack The Ripper   Jack's Shadow   Jacks Shadow   Jangling Jack   Jennifer's Veil   Jennifer's Veil   Jesus Alone   Jesus Met The Woman At The Well   John Finn's Wife   John Finn's Wife   Jubilee Street   Junkyard   Just You and Me   Katy Cruel   Kewpie Doll   King Ink   King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O   Kiss Me Black   Knockin' On Joe   Knockin' On Joe   Knoxville Girl   Lament   Lay Me Low   Let It Be   Let The Bells Ring   Lime Tree Arbour   Little Empty Boat   Little Janey's Gone   Little Janey's Gone   Long Black Veil   Long Time Man   Lord of the plains   Love Henry   Love Letter   Lovely Creature   Loverman   Lucy   Mack The Knife   Magneto   Mama s room   Mama's Boy   Mama's Boy   Mars Theme   Mercy   Mermaids   Messiah Ward   Midnight Man   Mini Skirts [Instrumental]   Miss Perfect   Mister Frog Went A-Courting   Mojo   Mountain lion mean   Mr. Clarinet   Muddy Water   Mutiny In Heaven   Nature Boy   Needle Boy   New Morning   Nick The Stripper   Nobody's Baby Now   Nobody's Baby Now   O Children   O'Malley's Bar   O'malley's Bar   Oh Happy Day [DVD][Instrumental]   Oh My Lord   Oh, Happy Day   Opium Tea   Outlaw state of mind   Oxford Tragedy   Papa Won't Leave You, Henry   Papa Won't Leave You, Henry   PATRIPASSIAN   People Ain't No Good   People Ain't No Good   Plain Gold Ring   Pleasure Is The Boss   Push The Sky Away   Rainy Night In Soho   Red Right Hand   Release The Bats   Riddle House   Right Now I'm a - Roaming   Right Now I'm A Roamin'   Right Now I'm A-roaming   Right Now I'm A Roamin'   Right Out Of Your Hand   Rings of Saturn   Robbery   Rock Of Gibraltar   Running Scared   Rye Whiskey   Sad Dark Eyes   Sad Waters   Sail Away   Saint Huck   Scum   Several Sins   She Fell Away   She Passed By My Window   She's Hit   She's Leaving You   She's Hit   She's Leaving You   Shivers   Silent Scream   Six Inch Gold Blade   Skeleton Tree   Sleeping Analeah   Sleeping on the blacktop   Slowly Goes The Night   Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart   Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart   Song Of Joy   Sonny's Burning   Sorrow's Child   Sorrow's Child   Spell   Stagalee   Stagger Lee   Still In Love   Stow-A-Way   Straight To You   Stranger Than Kindness   Sugar Sugar Sugar   Sunday's Slave   Sunday's Slave   Supernaturally   Suzanne   Swampland   Sweetheart Come   Texas midlands   That's What Jazz Is To Me   That's What Jazz Is To Me   The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane   The Big Hurt   The Briddle Path   The Carnival Is Over   The Carny   The Curse Of Millhaven   The Dim Locator   The Friend Catcher   The Good Son   The Hammer Song   The Hammer Song (In Album Kicking Against The Pric...   The Kindness Of Strangers   The Loom Of The Land   The Lyre Of Orpheus   The Mercy Seat   The Moon Is In The Gutter   The Ship Song   The Singer   The Six Strings That Drew Blood   The Sorrowful Wife   The Train Song   The Weeping Song   The Willow Garden   The Witness Song   There Is A Kingdom   There Is A Light   There Is A Town   There She Goes   Thirsty Dog   Time Jesum Transeuntum et Non Riverentum   Time Jesum Transientum Et Non Riverentum   To Be By Your Side   Tower of Song   Train Long-suffering   Truck Love   Tupelo   Tupelo Blues   Up Jumped The Devil   Vixo   Wanted Man   Watching Alice   We Came Along This Road   Well Of Misery   West Country Girl   What a Wonderful World   What Can I Give You?   When I First Came To Town   Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere   Where The Action Is   Where The Wild Roses Grow   Where The Wild Roses Grow"(feat. Kylie Minogue   Wife   Wild Rose   Wild World   Wings Off Flies   Wonderful Life   Yard   You ask me to   Your Funeral My Trial   Your Funeral... My Trial   Zoo Music Girl

Related Songs

  That's What Love Is Made Of...  That's What Love Is Made Of - Michael Jackson  That's What Love Is Made Of - Michael Jackson  That´s What Love Is Made Of - The Jackson 5  That´s What Love Is Made Of - Jackson 5  That\u00c2\u00b4s What Love Is Made Of - Jackson 5  Say Goodbye Little Girl - Monte And The Machine  Just Came Back - Colin James  Blood Tears Little Girl - Alice in Chains  Money Tree - Merle Haggard  Little Hands - Matt the Electrician  Little Girl [*] - Ritchie Valens  The Ghost Of You And Me - Soulsavers  Ghosts Of You And Me - Soulsavers  Woman Killed By Falling Tree - Ian McNabb  Moon Over Alabama - Nina Simone  The Girl With The Holiday Smile - Lyle Lovett  Under Your Tree - Sonata Arctica  Girl In A Tree - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti  Little Girl - Ritchie Valens  Say Goodbye to Little Jo - Steve Forbert  January April And Me - Roy Clark  Bye Bye Bird - Moody Blues  Custody - Hank Williams, Jr.  All I Want for Christmas Is My Daddy...  Bye Bye Ocean And Sky - Marissa Nadler  Alabama song - Doors, The  Alabama Song (whiskey Bar) - Doors, The  Whiskey Bar (Alabama Song) - Doors  Runway Runaway - Duran Duran  Alabama Song - The Young Gods  ALABAMA SONG (Whiskey Bar) - The Doors  Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) [New York] - The Doors  Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) [#] - The Doors  Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) [DVD] - The Doors  Alabama Song - The Doors  Alabama Song - Doors  Whiskey Bar - The Doors  Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) - The Doors  Alabama Song - (Whiskey Bar) - Doors  Makin Me Say Goodbye - K-CI & JoJo  Makin\' Me Say Goodbye - K-Ci & JoJo  Makin\' Me Say Goodbye - K-CI & JOJO  Ci & JoJo - Makin Me Say Goodbye - K-Ci % JoJo  Makin' Me Say Goodbye - K-Ci & JoJo  Makin Me Say Goodbye - K-ci & Jojo  Custody - Hank Williams Jr.  Machibouke No Kouen De (English) - Gazette  Jig Of Life - Kate Bush  Angel Dust - AaRON  Fig Tree - Bunny Wailer  Friends Never Say Goodbye - Backstreet Boys  Goodbye - Alien Ant Farm  Say Goodbye - The Sun  Green Grass Grows All Around - George Jones  Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Live) - Soft Cell  Hold Off the Earth - Festival  Never Can Say Goodbye [Single Version]...  Strange Angels - Elmore James  Nothing Left to Be Desired - Johnny Guitar Watson  Say Hello Wave Goodbye '91 - Soft Cell  Two Faces - Indochine  Say Goodbye - Triumph  One Little Christmas Tree [*] - Stevie Wonder  One Little Christmas Tree - Stevie Wonder  Don't Say Goodbye - Rick Astley  Forever Lonely - Muddy Waters  La La Lie - Jack's Mannequin  Fifteen - Nevershoutnever!  One Little Christmas Tree - Arena Tina  One Little Christmas Tree - Tina Arena  The 21St - Blue October  I Still Do - The Browns  Say Hello Wave Goodbye - Marc Almond  Something to Hold on To - Vigilantes Of Love  To Say Goodbye - Joey & Rory  To Say Goodbye - Badfinger  To Say Goodbye - Emerson  To Say Goodbye - Joey + Rory  If You've Got Time (To Say Goodbye)...  Little Girl - Van Morrison  Goodbye - Chris Young  One Little Christmas Tree - Sister Hazel  Drift Away - Smokie  Daddy's Little Girl - Mills Brothers  Daddy's Little Girl - Elvis Presley  Goodbye Girl - Go West  Never Can Say Goodbye - Various Artists  How You've Grown - 10,000 Maniacs  Back Home - Owl City  The Big Green Tree - The Essex Green  I Don't Want To Play House - Lynn Anderson  Wallflower - The Monochrome Set  Something For The Girl With Everything - Sparks  Don't Say Goodbye Girl - Tevin Campbell  I Beg Of You - The Allman Brothers Band  Fifteen - Never Shout Never  Say Hello Wave Goodbye - David Gray  Runway Runaway\u2028 - Duran Duran  The Spine Song - Cake Bake Betty  Goodbye - Plankeye  Mine Tonight - Randy Houser  Never Can Say Goodbye - Clifton Davis  Ho Down - Paula Abdul  Ho-Down - Paula Abdul  Little Girl (alternate version) - Van Morrison  Every Little Thing - Hawk Nelson  God's Mistake - Sylver  Goodbye - D&D  That's The Way The Wind Blows - Claude King  Two Faces - Bruce Springsteen  Lately - Macy Gray  Never Can Say Goodbye - Isaac Hayes  Never Can Say Goodbye - Jackson 5  Never Say Goodbye - Vanessa Williams  Never Can Say Goodbye - Gaynor Gloria  Xmas Tree - Deerhoof  Bye Bye Love - Backstreet Boys  Never Can Say Goodbye (Single Version) - Jackson 5  Never Can Say Goodbye - American Idol  Never Can Say Goodbye - X Factor (UK)  Never Can Say Goodbye - X Factor (US)  Last Goodbye - Rage  I Beg Of You - Allman Brothers Band, The  The One That Got Away - Edwin  I Beg Of You - Allman Brothers Band  Goodbye To The Girl - David Cook  Flower - Charlatans  LATE - Roxanne Emery  I Just Came Back to Say Goodbye - Bernard Allison  Forever My Surfer Girl - Brian Wilson  Treehouse - The Clarks  Treehouse - Clarks  Never Can Say Goodbye (The Neptunes Remix)...  Will You Return? - Avett Brothers  All I Want for Christmas Is My Daddy - Buck Owens  Something For The Girl With Everything...  SEE You in a Little While - Steven Curtis Chapman  Goodbye Girl - The Civil Wars  I Don't Want To Play House - Tammy Wynette  Hard Woman (Video Version) - Mick Jagger  Say Hello Wave Goodbye - Nouvelle Vague  Goodbye - Bandit Gang Marco  Thorn Tree In The Garden (by Bobby Whitlock)...  THORN TREE IN THE GARDEN - Eric Clapton  January, April and Me - Roy Clark  Hey Girl (I Like Your Style) - The Temptations  Law of the Land [Alternate Mix][#]...  Hey Girl - The Temptations  Hey Girl (I Like Your Style) - Temptations  I Wanna Kiss A Girl - Keith Urban  Never Can Say Goodbye - Westlife  This Is Not An Apology - Bea Miller  Little Girl - Country Love Songs  Light In The Hall - Fred Small  I Don't Wanna Play House - Kitty Wells  I Don't Wanna Play House - Skeeter Davis  Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (The Long Goodbye)...  Beyond the Sun - Nashville Cast  Say Hello, Wave Goodbye [Extended Version]...  Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (The Long Goodbye) [Extend...  Say Hello, Wave Goodbye [almighty radio edit]...  Say Hello - Soft Cell  Will You Return? - The Avett Brothers  Hang Myself From The Tree - Caesar  How You've Grown - 10000 Maniacs  How You've Grown - 10000 Maniacs  How You\'ve Grown - 10,000 Maniacs  How You've Grown - Natalie Merchant  How You've Grown - Natalie Merchant  Long Goodbye (Ft. Dwight Yoakam) - Michelle Branch  So Little Love In The World - Kenny Rogers  Hello Little Girl Goodbye - Chuck Berry  Hello Little Girl Goodbye - Berry Chuck  One Sweet Hello - Merle Haggard  That Ain\'t No Way To Go - Brooks And Dunn  Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye - Carly Simon  Little Girl - Reba McEntire  Little Girl - Reba  Everytime We Say Goodbye - Betty Carter  Say Hello Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell  Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell  Stay - Mac Miller  Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl - Brian Wilson  That Ain't No Way To Go - Brooks & Dunn  That Ain't No Way To Go - Brooks & Dunn  Little Girl - Them  Little Girl - Them  Daddy's Little Girl - Ferlin Husky  Fireflies (Light Messengers) - Saosin  EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE - Carly Simon  Father's Grave - Auf Der Maur  Goodbye Girl [Album Version] - Luke Bryan  Goodbye Girl - Luke Bryan  Never Say Goodbye - Jacob Gann  Hello & Goodbye - MYName  Daddy's Little Girl - Eddy Arnold  Goodbye Girl - Tarkio  Every Time We Say Goodbye - Various Artists  Every Time We Say Goodbye - Eddy Arnold