"Well, no I don't actually feel that. We knew the people wouldn't be in the houses and we used to eat their food, lie on their beds, and steal all sorts of stuff like letters, cutlery, clothes and money. "Stop acting like a child. The viewpoint of a wretch. Jack Barron's interview, originally published in NME, is from Rock's Backpages• Watch a trailer for a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' gig as part of our Live for 2014 series, Last modified on Wed 31 May 2017 17.51 BST. All I want is to get out of this damned city and never have to look at Cave and his dishrag limbs again. Jewish fans of late Canadian singer Leonard Cohen are pleading for his hit 'Hallelujah' to no longer be played at memorials and other somber events because it is riddled with sexual undertones. Your Funeral And My Trial lyrics performed by Sonny Boy Williamson: Please come home to your daddy, and explain yourself to me Because I and you are man and wife, tryin' to start a family I'm beggin' you baby, cut out that off the wall jive If you can't treat me no better, it gotta be your funeral and my trial I haven't really seen it mentioned (openly). "I'm sure you do," I reply, opening the hotel bedroom door. Lyrics to "Your Funeral And My Trial" by JOHN HAMMOND: Please come home to your daddy, and explain yourself to me / Because I and you are man and wife, tryin' to start a family / I'm beggin' you baby, cut out that off the wall jive / If you can't treat me no better, it gotta be your funeral and my trial … Two days and one country later, just before a glass comes whizzing by my head and smashes against a wall, Cave will insist that "people don't bring us drugs … all that happens backstage at our gigs is that people drink our alcohol". "I don't want to encourage people to take drugs or be an example of somebody who takes a lot of drugs and hasn't burnt out just because I don't feel burned out. The cramped parameters of his singing are his strength. His initial response to this was (a) I didn't have a girlfriend and (b) I'd made the story up. It bookends his anthology King Ink. It's wicked shadow over Our relationship was kept a secret from him because he frequently beat her. Or one of the reasons. But I always really worry before I make a record that it's just not going to be there. Presley. Is he happy with it? With Cave's own unique slant. Usually it's considered to be … There are reasons that I don't want you to write about it. The way my baby love is some solid sentiment She can love to heal the sick and she can love to raise the dead You think I'm jokin' but you better be- lieve what I say I'm beggin' you baby, cut out that off the wall jive Yeh you gotta treat me better, or it gotta be your funeral and my trial Barely moving, they're like hyenas attracted to carrion. "You're the person, it's your type that are responsible for those people dying for insisting on writing about it." Your Funeral... My Trial Transcribed by O.W. Aside from being a fine photographer, Butcher is a long time friend of Nick's who takes most of the shots for the Bad Seeds' record covers. "It isn't mentioned. And this is one of the prime reasons that I do continue to make records, to ward off this fear that grows in me after three or four months.". The only problem is not even Jesus could raise Bleddyn from his bed. "Smack. He'd have trouble pissing against a lamppost. The new record is coming back to a more conventional sort of lyric. Cave hardly has a mono-dimensional talent as should be clear. And I really regret ever having opened my mouth about it.". "There are a couple of moments that I'm really proud of but that's all. I wasn't given any of the coaching the other actors were given, it was just assumed I could walk on and be this particular character. And if we rise, my love Before the daylight comes A thousand galleon ships would sail Ghostly around the morning sun. Compassion. "His entire life is spent on the periphery of things. He looks ash-grey with exhaustion. Things like Deep in the Woods are diseased with grotesqueness.". "You scum-sucking shit!" he screams at me, aiming a scuffed cowboy boot at my groin. It misses. She was never any kind of threat. "Because I didn't realise what a fucking scumhill and what a filthy little prick you were," snorts Cave, shoving me out into the corridor and slamming the door behind me. "No, I've only tried. From what I've seen of you so far you seem quite the opposite of the character you portray in that you're quiet and considered offstage, despite the media image of you. Bird with crooked wing cast Delusions. That's what the book is basically about, a voyeur, someone who's chastised by the townsfolk or the general mass.". This is just a preview! Deanna had gone back to the home and shot the strange man and woman in the religious teacher's house. We turn from the fantastic to the relatively mundane, the stylistic beggar's banquet to be heard on the upcoming album, Tender Prey. Your Funeral and My Trial This song is by Sonny Boy Williamson II and appears… on the album Down And Out Blues (1959) on the album Bummer Road (1969) on the album This Is My Story (1972) on the album Bring It on Home (1972) on the compilation Chess Blues (1992) on the compilation Murder: Songs from the Dark Side of the Soul (2010) "No. Given that Cave's drug abuse has only been snidely insinuated in the press, and this is a chance to get the story from the horse's mouth, so-to-speak, and in the process deglamourise the sick junkie chic that surrounds him, I agree. "They want 10 or 15 per cent of your money and then drink all your booze. From the Boys Next Door, through the Birthday Party, to the present day Bad Seeds, Cave has often striven for things that can't be resolved: salvation and unrequited love. Thirty minutes later he's onstage at the Paradiso Club. We, I should add, robbed by ourselves, separately also. I really think drugs are quite an evil thing and I really wish I hadn't become involved with them myself because I'm in a situation now where it will take quite a concentrated effort to live without them and it will require quite a major life's fight to stop taking them.". Now, apparently, he thinks I'm accusing him of killing young kids! He'll make up what you want to hear. Either that or they all need a meal ticket. I have to spend hours talking to fucking idiots like you who have no kind of notion about anything.". Découvrez des références, des avis, des tracklist, des recommandations, et bien plus encore à propos de Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral ... My Trial sur Discogs. Are you a voyeur as opposed to a participant? It's only in the last two years of his life that he swings into action and creates situations with consequences. Nick Cave's voice, late afternoon in the bar of Amsterdam's Museum hotel, is laced with humour. Aside from writing and recording the exercise in musical styles that form the forthcoming album, he's virtually finished editing his novel And the Ass Saw the Angel, and had King Ink – a collection of lyrics, snippets of prose and short plays – published by Black Spring Press. The world seems like a fine place, full of people to bore senseless with our speed-babble. Your Funeral... My Trial "I'll fucking kill you, you bastard," he bellows, trying to tear out my left eye with filthy spatula nails. She lived in a trailer on the outskirts of the town with her old man who was basically this drunken, wretch of a character. The hate in Cave's eyes burns more fiercely than a funeral pyre. I'm quite nervous and not a racist, which is the opposite of this character. I feel like I tend to forget about really significant aspects of what I do that people will generally take notice of. Your Funeral... My Trial is the fourth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 3 November 1986 by Mute Records. I would find it impossible to write a book that was written from the author's point of view about myself. Down the road I look and there runs Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherries We go down to the river where the willows weep Take a naked root for a lover’s seat That rose out of the bitten soil But bound to the ground by creeping ivy coils O Mary you have seduced […] Nick might feel sorry for himself beyond belief, but belief is often the problem, the search for or lack of it. Then when members of the band come up to me and say, 'Hey, have you seen this or got that?' A thousand Marys lured me That would be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. The shitstorm begins. "I mean, it is that evil and insidious and it does worm its way into your life and it's very difficult to get it out again. Because of an agreement settled upon the following day, that particular subject matter has been left out of this article. I think trading my voice for Frank Sinatra's would be a pretty poor deal all round. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" Complétez votre collection Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Do you mean you've actually written a lot of songs about her then? Sonny Boy Williamson Your Funeral And My Trial Lyrics. Dig!!! Why? Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus. I find it curious to think certain people would find songs I write so continually harping on the same themes to be irritating, pathetic and so on. He couldn't drive in a tack with a mallet. But when the things that people take from you are the most repulsive misconceptions about you – the way the goths do, for instance – that's all pretty frightening. All the crooked bitches that she was Nick spies my travel bag nearby. The kind of things I've written after this time have a different kind of bent to them altogether, although they might be the same kind of melodramatic fantasies. Nick escorts us to a Surinamese cafe. "Well I never said I was serious all the time. They shamed a child. This is really a song for piano, but can be played on guitar. snaps Cave … "You're insulting me so much and you don't even realise it. Murder Ballads. Listen to Your Funeral And My Trial by Sonny Boy Williamson, 5,290 Shazams, featuring on Electric Blues Essentials, and Chicago Blues Essentials Apple Music playlists. Instead we bicker on, with the abuse level rising. I remember smashing somebody's teeth in with my microphone stand." That was easy to do with such rich songs like 'Sad Waters', 'Stranger Than Kindness', 'Your Funeral My Trial' and 'She Fell Away.' I dunno but I suppose that's what acting is supposed to be about, playing a character opposite to your own. One day she was caught by this guy who was in this religious-instruction teacher's house. Is that what you mean? Night hangs like a lead shroud. So they got me to write the script. "I can't help it that I take this particular drug," he continues. Let all the bells in whoredom ring Dead. Yes. "Well I think Your Funeral, My Trial was particularly narrative. They shamed a child Cannot annotate a non-flat selection. How much of an effort is it to keep recording? About now, I start collecting my belongings from Cave's room, since the whole scene is getting beyond pathetic. Never have I spoken about it in any other way.". As the Bad Seeds' rhythm section of Harvey and drummer Thomas Wydler deliver the uppercut of another new song, Oh Deanna, Cave jack-knives around the stage. He lunges after it. Like Oh Deanna is a retelling of a true relationship that I had with somebody through the story of somebody else, even if it doesn't begin with 'Once upon a time'. He's one of nature's organisers, with a Filofax in his head rather than his pocket, as well as a wicked wit. More than the first three releases, 'Your Funeral' contains personal, confessional and landmark themes that have become haunted tales of lust, despair, and tragedy. What a horrible thought! Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS). And I've walked a crooked mile As the record evolved, we saw this happening and rather than rectify this disjointedness we decided we'd play on what would normally be a weak point within a record and make it its strength.". Despite what he calls "the monumental task" of editing his novel, Nick says he will still be unsatisfied with it when it is published. Eventually the press officer comes between Cave's gale-force windmill limbs and my passive resistance. It's time to tear out the pages of his book and light a fire. Vulnerability, sentimentality, bitterness, abrasiveness, humour and morbidity – all peel from his stretched larynx like a snake shedding skins. Drugs can do strange things to people. It's no big deal. Typically, in rehearsal, he describes in emotional terms – lechery, compassion, violence etc – the sort of atmosphere he wants the band to create. Neither do I. Cave is an epic storyteller of Grimm proportions. Between us we hoped to map the definitive guide to Cave's creativity. I told you everything there was to know about it in relation to me. To be honest I thought your acting was really over the top in Ghosts to the point of being funny. The latter is the story of prison authorities deliberately making inmates' lives hell in order to instigate an insurrection which they then violently squash, thereby gaining legitimacy for increased penal powers. People whose voices automatically give you a nice feeling.". And I've walked a crooked mile. Despite popular myth, Cave isn't always deadly serious. Lazarus Dig!!! Well miracles take a little longer. Though I'm satisfied with what I've got on tape already, a compromise is eventually reached. "Every record I feel like I've really wrung the sponge out this time and there isn't anything left of me to give and I've felt that way ever since Mutiny. The stars all winked at me. I find I do that quite often.". He misses. Stranger than kindness, the singer returns and takes us back to sample his go-faster vitamins at the hotel. They also retard other things like your physical development. "Tour managers are parasites," he later explains. "Anyway, we used to play truant from school and go to this little hideaway that she had fashioned under this bridge over a dry river creek. "I couldn't believe it," he laughs, "they wanted me to go on one of those pedalos to do it. Nick has been going through perhaps the most productive year of his life so far. Doffed her weeds, in a pile. 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