I FLED INTO THE NIGHT SKY
My husband has been playing the piano and singing a lot recently around the house. He is preparing for an oncoming solo tour of the States, and he is relearning a lot of the old songs. But he keeps coming back to a lesser-known song that did not make its way officially onto any Bad Seed album but is very beautiful just the same. It is called Euthanasia. When I hear it, it kind of stops me in my tracks. It has a weird but very beautiful repetitive lyric that builds meaning as it circles around upon itself that is inexplicably moving. And although I don’t make a regular habit of putting my husband’s songs up on The Stuff Page, I hope you’ll excuse me for doing so. There is a lovely piece of accompanying footage from the Idiot Prayer session. It’s a rather lovely thing! Love Susie. x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r55tjbmBQM
Euthanasia
I look for you underneath the damp earth
I look for you in the night sky
I look for you in underneath the thorn bush
I look for you in the humped cities
And in looking for you, I lost myself
In time
I lost myself under the damp earth
Lost myself in the night sky
I lost myself underneath the thorn bush
I lost myself in the humped cities
And in losing myself, I found myself
Found myself in time
You stepped out of the rest room
And attached yourself to my heart
It was a type of dying
It was a type of dying
In time
And I fled from the humped cities
I fled under the thorn bush
I fled into the night sky
Fled beneath the damp earth
Where I passed through a doorway
Found you sitting at the kitchen table
Listening to the radio and smiling
That smile, that smile that smiles
The smile that smiles
The smile that smiles
The smile that smiles
The smile that smiles in time
Words and music - Nick Cave