And no-one saw the carny go
And the weeks flew by
Until they moved on the show
Leaving his caravan behind
It was parked out on the south east ridge
And as the company crossed the bridge
With the first rain filling the bone-dry river bed
It shone, just so, upon the edge
Away, away, we're sad, they said
Dog-boy, atlas, half-man, the geeks, the hired hands
There was not one among them that did not cast an eye behind
In the hope that the carny would return to his own kind
And the carny had a horse, all skin and bone
A bow-backed nag, that he named Sorrow
How it is buried in a shallow grave
In the then parched meadow
And the dwarves were given the task of digging the ditch
And laying the nag's carcass in the ground
And boss Bellini, waving his smoking pistol around
saying The nag is dead meat
We caint afford to carry dead weight
The whole company standing about
Not making a sound
And turning to dwarves perched on the enclosure gate
The boss says Bury this lump of crow bait
And then the rain came
Everybody running for their wagons
Tying all the canvas flaps down
The mangy cats crowling in ther cages
The bird-girl flapping and squawking around
The whole valley reeking of wet beast
Wet beast and rotten hay
Freak and brute creation
Packed up and on their way
The three dwarves peering from their wagon's hind
Moses says to Noah We shoulda dugga deepa one
Their grizzled faces like dying moons
Still dirty from the digging done
And as the company passed from the valley
Into a higher ground
The rain beat on the ridge and on the meadow
And on the mound
Until nothing was left, nothing at all
Except the body of Sorrow
That rose in time
To float upon the surface of the eaten soil
And a murder of crows did circle round
First one, then the others flapping blackly down
And the carny's van still sat upon the edge
Tilting slowly as the firm ground turned to sludge
And the rain it hammered down
And no-one saw the carny go
I say it's funny how things go
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(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore Albert Goes West And No More Shall We Part Anthrocene As I Sat Sadly By Her Side Black Hair Breathless Brompton Oratory Crow Jane Death Is Not The End Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Distant Sky Do You Love Me? Do You Love Me? (Part 2) Do You Love Me? Pt2 Everything Must Converge Far From Me Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow Finishing Jubilee Street Gates To The Garden Girl in Amber God Is In The House Good Good Day Green Eyes Hallelujah Henry Lee Higgs Boson Blues Hold On To Yourself I Let Love In I Need You Idiot Prayer Into My Arms Jangling Jack Jesus Alone Jesus Of The Moon Jubilee Street Jubilee Street (Live from Sydney Opera House) Lay Me Low Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl) Lime Tree Arbour Little Ghost Song Love Letter Lovely Creature Loverman Magneto Mermaids Midnight Man Moonland More News From Nowhere Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Night Of The Lotus Eaters Nobody's Baby Now O Children O'Malley's Bar Oh My Lord Push The Sky Away Red Right Hand Rings of Saturn Saint Huck Ship Song Shoot Me Down Skeleton Tree Song Of Joy Stagger Lee Sugar, Sugar, Sugar Sweetheart Come Swing Low The Curse Of Millhaven The Kindness Of Strangers The Sorrowful Wife There Is A Kingdom Thirsty Dog Today's Lesson Water's Edge We Call Upon The Author We Came Along This Road We Know Who U R We No Who U R We Real Cool West Counrty Girl Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere? Where The Wild Roses Grow Wide Lovely Eyes
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