Nick Cave | Lyrics | Tupelo

Looka yonder! Looka yonder!
Looka yonder! a big black cloud come
A big black cloud come
Yeah come to Tupelo, come to Tupelo

Yonder on the horizon
Yonder on the horizon
Stopped at the mighty river
Stopped at the mighty river
Sucked the damn thing dry
Sucked the damn thing dry

Oh Tupelo, in a valley hides a town called Tupelo
Well distant thunder rumble, distant thunder rumble
Rumble hungry like the beast

The beast it cometh, cometh down
The beast it cometh, cometh down
The beast it cometh, cometh down

Tupelo bound
Yeah oh Tupelo
The beast it cometh, Tupelo bound

Why the hen won't lay no egg?
Can't get that c*** to crow
The nag is spooked and crazy

Oh God help Tupelo! Oh God help Tupelo
Oh God help Tupelo! Oh God help Tupelo

You can say these streets are rivers
You can call these rivers streets
You can tell yourself ya dreaming buddy
But no sleep runs this deep, no, no sleep runs this deep
No, no sleep runs this deep

All women at their windows
Rain crashing on the pane
Writing in the frost
Tupelo's' shame, Tupelo's shame
Tupelo's shame, Tupelo's shame

Oh God help Tupelo! Oh God help Tupelo
Oh God help Tupelo! Oh God help Tupelo

Oh go to sleep little children
The sandman's on his way
Oh go to sleep little children
The sandman's on his way

But the little children know
But the little children know
They listen to the beating of their blood
Listen to the beating of their blood
Listen to the beating of their blood
Listen to the beating of their blood

The sandman's mud
The sandman's mud
The sandman's mud
The sandman's mud

And the black rain come down
The black rain come down
The black rain come down
Oh water, water everywhere
Water, water everywhere

Where no bird can fly no fish can swim
No bird can fly no fish can swim
No fish can swim
Until the king is born, until the king is born

In Tupelo!
Till the king is born in Tupelo

In a clap board shack with a roof of tin
Where the rain flush down and leaked within
A young mother frozen on a concrete floor
And a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw

Oh Tupelo
With a bottle and a box
And a cradle of straw

Well Saturday gives what Sunday steals
And a child is born on a brothers heels
Sunday morning the first born dead
In a shoe box tied with a ribbon of red

Oh Tupelo
In a shoe box buried
With a ribbon of red

Oh mama rock you little one slow
Mama rock your baby
Mama rock your little one slow
God help Tupelo! God help Tupelo!

Mama rock your little one slow
Mama rock your little one slow
The little one will walk on Tupelo
The little one will walk on Tupelo

Black rain come down
Black rain come down
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And the king will walk on Tupelo
The king will walk on Tupelo

He carried the burden outta Tupelo
And carried the burden outta Tupelo
And carried the burden outta Tupelo
And carried the burden outta Tupelo

Oh Tupelo
Yeah the king will walk on Tupelo
Tupelo, Tupelo
Yeah the king will walk on Tupelo
Oh Tupelo, oh Tupelo
Yeah the king will walk on Tupelo

Yeah oh Tupelo
He carried the burden outta Tupelo
Yeah, yeah Tupelo
He carried the burden Tupelo
Hey, hey, hey Tupelo

He carried the burden Tupelo
Yeah, yeah, yeah Tupelo
Yeah you will reap just what you sow
Yeah Tupelo