Far From Me

Nick Cave

for you dear, i was born


for you i was raised up


for you i've lived and for you i will die


for you i am dying now


you were my mad little lover


in a world where everybody fucks everybody else over


you who are so far from me


far from me


so far from me


way across some cold neurotic sea


far from me





i would talk to you of all matter of things


with a smile you would reply


then the sun would leave your pretty face


and you'd retreat from the front of your eyes


i keep hearing that you're doing best


i hope your heart beats happy in your infant breast


you are so far from me


far from me


far from me





there is no knowledge but i know it


there's nothing to learn from that vacant voice


that sails to me across the line


>from the ridiculous to the sublime


it's good to hear you're doing so well


but really can't you find somebody else that you can ring and tell


did you ever


care for me?


were you ever


there for me?


so far from me





you told me you'd stick by me


through the thick and through the thin


those were your very words


my fair-weather friend


you were my brave-hearted lover


at the first taste of trouble went running back to mother


so far from me


far from me


suspended in your bleak and fishless sea


far from me


far from me