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