Heart That Kills You

Album: B-Sides & Rarities (Part II) (2021)
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  • Adam watches his little Eve sleeping in a grief of snow
    Not knowing what to do or where to go
    He packed his bags for the big city
    Oh, what else, lie around lying there
    Coughing up her dreams
    Serpents sink inside her with their fangs
    And bite her deep, so deep she loved it
    "Oh, Adam" she said "Oh, Adam, don't stop"
    She said don't stop "Oh, oh, oh, oh"
    He said "No, we cannot stay, like apples we will drop"
    And stepped from the garden into L.A

    In the end it is your heart that kills you
    And I know that you won't be coming here today
    In the end it is your heart that kills you
    It's all wrong, but it's alright in its way

    We are beginning our descent, said the tannoy on the way to L.A
    Adam leaned across to little Eve and explained what that meant
    And handed her the oxygen mask as she looked out the window
    And watched the babies riding in the clouds, turning into clouds
    She said "Oh, no, no, no, no, no don't stop
    Oh Adam, don't stop, don't stop, don't stop"
    But the tin can turned down and like a little apple dropped
    And into old and angry age

    'Cause in the end it is your heart that kills you
    I know that you won't come now, stay
    'Cause in the end it is your heart that kills you
    I know that you won't come now, stay Writer/s: Nicholas Cave, Warren Ellis
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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