Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Hammer Song lyrics
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(l,m) Cave (p) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds < Nick Cave: vocals, piano, hammond, harmonica; Mick Harvey: bass, guitars, vibraphone, percussion, backing vocals; Blixa Bargeld: guitar, backing vocals; Kid Congo Powers: guitar; Thomas Wydler: drums, percussion; Alexandre Ramirez, Altamir Tea Bueno Salinas, Helena Akiku Imasato, Lea Kalil Sadi: violins Akira Terazaki, Glaucho Masahiru Imasato: violas Braulio Marques Lima, Cristina Manescu: cellos > ( The Good Son [Mute, 1990] ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I set out on monday The night was cold and vast And my brother slept And though I left quite quietly My father raged and raged And my mother wept Now, my life was like a river All sucked into the ground And then the hammer came down Lord, the hammer came down Many miles did I roam Through the ice and through the snow My horse died on the seventh day I stumbled into a city Where the people tried to kill me And I ran in shame Then I came upon a river And I laid my saddle down And then the hammer came down Lord, the hammer came down It knocked me to the ground And I said, "Please, please Take me back to my home town" Lord, the hammer came down Now I've been made weak by visions Many visions did I see All through the night On the seventh hour an angel came With many snakes in all his hands And I fled in fright I pushed off into the river And the water came around And then the hammer came down Lord, the hammer came down And it did not make a sound And I said, "Please, please Take me back to my home ground" Lord, the hammer came down ----------------------------------------------------------------------------