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Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
Miscellaneous
The Witness Song
Yeah, yeah
Well, well
I took a walk down to the port
Where strangers meet and do consort
All blinkered with desire
And a winter fog moved thickly on
A winter fog moved thickly on
A winter fog moved thickly on
Now, who will be the witness
When the fog's too thick to see
And I saw a friend beside a wall
Her hands were raised in supplication
And her face I could not see at all
And I raised my hands in rage
And brought them down again
And we entered through the eastern door
And I entered through the eastern door
And she entered through the eastern door
Now, who will be the witness
When you're all to blind to see
O yes, yes, yes
And time gets somewhat muddled here
But no matter, no matter
Here come the events all tumbling down
Now, beyond the wall was a great garden
Into which we passed
Me and my friend
And the place was all overgrown with weeds
And behold from its centre there rose a great fountain
The fountain with the healing waters
And we knelt down by the rim
And I dipped my hand in
And she dipped her hand in too
And I said Are
you
healed?
And she said Well
are
you
healed?
And I said Yes,
Im healed"
And she said "Well, yes Im
healed
then
too
And I said Babe,
you
are
a
liar
Babe,
you
are
a
liar
Babe,
you
are
a
liar,
too
Now, who will be the witness
When you're all to healed to see
And I kissed her once, I kissed her twice
And made my way to leave her
And she raised her hand up to her face
And brought it down again
I said That
gesture,
it
will
haunt
me
That
gesture
it
will
haunt
me
And I left there by the eastern door
She left there by the western door
Now, who will be the witness there
When you're blind and you can't see
Who will be the witness there
When you're all so clean and you cannot see
Who will be the witness there
When your friends are everywhere
Who will be the witness there
And your enemies have ceased to care
(Ad lib)
- Album:
- CARNEGIE HALL 1971
- Songs From The Road
- Boogie 2000
- Living The Blues
- Miscellaneous
- Boogie With Canned Heat
- Non-Album Releases
- Illinois Blues 1973 (Live)
- Historical Figures And Ancient Heads/The New Age
- Boogie up the Country, (Original Recording Remastered)...
- Going Up the Country
- Parr Meadows, Brookhaven, NY SEP 7, 1979 (Live)
- Top of the Pops: 1970
- Top Of The Pops - Rock
- Pure Soft Rock
- Very Best Of Canned Heat
- El Mejor Álbum De Gold Music Volumen 1
- Taking Woodstock [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
- 100 Years Of The Blues
- Canned Heat Selected Favorites