AND NO MORE SHALL WE PART

I know I have mentioned Nell and The Flaming Lips before but they have released an entire album of my husband’s songs called ‘Where the Viaduct Looms’ and this record has swept me away. It is superb. The song ‘And No More Shall We Part’, written around the time of our marriage—one of the strangest, most lovely wedding songs ever written—is so gorgeously performed, well, I find it difficult to hold it together. It is so light and raw and absolutely beautiful. I love this song. I love this girl. I love this band. Love Susie x 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoVJnhr-GYA

 

And No More Shall We Part

And no more shall we part
It will no longer be necessary
And no more will I say, dear heart
I am alone and she has left me

And no more shall we part
The contracts are drawn up
The ring is locked upon the finger
And never again will my letters start
Sadly, or in the depth of winter

And no more shall we part
All the hatchets have been buried now
And all of the birds will sing to your
Beautiful heart
Upon the bough

And no more shall we part
Your chain of command
Has been silenced now
And all of those birds
Would've sung to your beautiful heart
Anyhow

Lord, stay by me
Don't go down
I will never be free
If I'm not free now

Lord, stay by me
And don't go down
I never was free
What are you talking about?

For no more shall we part
And no more shall we part 

Written by Nick Cave

Nell Smith