From Her To Eternity

Album: From Her To Eternity (1984)
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  • Ah wanna tell ya 'bout a girl
    You know, she lives in room twenty-nine
    Why, why? That's the one right up top a mine
    I start to cry, I start to cry

    Oh, I hear her walking
    Walking barefoot cross the floorboards
    All through this lonesome night
    I hear her crying too
    Hot-tears come splashing down
    Leaking through the cracks
    Down upon my face
    I catch 'em in my mouth
    Catch 'em in my mouth
    Catch 'em in my mouth
    I catch 'em in my mouth
    Walk and cry, walk and cry
    Walk and cry, I'll walk and cry

    From her to eternity
    From her to eternity
    From her to eternity

    I read her diary on her sheets
    Scrutinizing every little bit of dirt
    Tore out a page and stuffed it inside my shirt
    I fled outta the window
    And shinning it down the vine
    Outta her nightmare
    And back into mine
    Mine, oh mine

    From her to eternity
    From her to eternity
    Cry, cry, cry
    Cry, cry, cry

    She's wearing those blue stockings, I bet
    And standing like this with my ear to the ceiling
    Listen I know it must sound absurd
    But I can hear the most melancholy sound I ever heard
    Walk and cry, walk and cry
    Kneel and cry, kneel and cry

    From her to eternity
    From her to eternity

    Oh tell me why?
    Oh tell me why? Why? Why? Why?
    Oh tell me why?
    Don't tell me a lie
    Why the ceiling still shakes? Shake, shake, shake
    And all the fixtures turn to serpents and snakes?
    This desire to possess her is a wound
    And it's nagging at me like a shrew
    But I know, that to possess her
    Is, therefore, not to desire her

    Oh, then that little girl would just have to go, go
    From her to eternity
    Oh, go, go, go
    From her to eternity
    From her to eternity
    From her to eternity
    From her to eternity
    From her to eternity
    From her to eternity
    From her to eternity
    From her to eternity
    From her to eternity
    From her to eternity Writer/s: Anita Lane, Barry Adamson, Blixa Bargeld, Hugo Race, Mick Harvey, Nick Cave
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Mute Song Limited
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