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Nick Cave – Nobody's Baby Now lyrics
I've searched the holy books
I tried to unravel the mystery of Jesus Christ, the saviour
I've read the poets and the analysts
Searched through the books on human behaviour
I travelled this world around
For an answer that refused to be found
I don't know why and I don't know how
But she's nobody's baby now

I loved her then and I guess I love her still
Hers is the face I see when a certain mood moves in
She lives in my blood and skin
Her wild feral stare, her dark hair
Her winter lips as cold as stone
Yeah, I was her man
But there are some things love won't allow
I held her hand but I don't hold it now
I don't know why and I don't know how
But she's nobody's baby now

This is her dress that I loved best
With the blue quilted violets across the breast
And these are my many letters
Torn to pieces by her long-fingered hand
I was her cruel-hearted man
And though I've tried to lay her ghost down
She's moving through me, even now
I don't know why and I don't know how
But she's nobody's baby now
She's nobody's baby now
Nobody's baby now
She's nobody's baby now
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    Knowing Cave this girl is dead ('nobody's baby', 'winter lips as cold as stone', 'her ghost') because the psychologically disturbed (insinuated in the first stanza: tries to explain his mad deed by reading books) singer killed her (insinuated by 'there are some things love won't allow', 'i was her cruel-hearted man') with a knife in the chest ('blue quilted violets across the breast' - blood stains?).
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      Knowing Cave this girl is dead ('nobody's baby', 'winter lips as cold as stone', 'her ghost')... Read more →

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