As I Sat Sadly By Her Side Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

As I sat sadly by her side 

At the window, through the glass 

She stroked a kitten in her lap 

And we watched the world as it fell past 

Softly she spoke these words to me 

With brand new eyes, open wide 

We pressed our faces to the glass 

As I sat sadly by her side 

She said, father, mother, sister, brother 

Uncle, aunt and nephew, niece 

Soldier, sailor, physician, laborer 

Actor, scientist, mechanic, priest 

Earth and moon and sun and stars 

And planets and comets with tails blazin' 

All are there forever fallin' 

Fallin' lovely and amazin' 

Then she smiled and turned to me 

And waited for me to reply 

Her hair was fallin' down her shoulders 

As I sat sadly by her side 

As I sat sadly by her side 

The kitten she did gently pass 

Over to me and again we pressed 

Our different faces to the glass 

That may be very well, I said 

But watch the one fallin' in the street 

See him gesture to his neighbors 

And see him trampled beneath their feet 

All outward motion connects to nothin' 

For each is concerned with their immediate need 

Witness the man reachin' up from the gutter 

See the other one stumblin' on who can not see 

With tremblin' hand I turned toward her 

And pushed the hair out of her eyes 

The kitten jumped back to her lap 

As I sat sadly by her side 

Then she drew the curtains down 

And said, oh, when will you ever learn? 

That what happens there beyond the glass 

Is simply none of your concern 

God has given you but one heart 

You are not a home for the hearts of your brothers 

And God does not care for your benevolence 

Anymore than he cares for the lack of it in others 

Nor does he care for you to sit 

At windows in judgment of the world He created 

While sorrows pile up around you 

Ugly, useless and over inflated 

At which she turned her head away 

Great tears leapin' from her eyes 

I could not wipe the smile from my face 

As I sat sadly by her side 

As I sat sadly by her side 

As I sat sadly by her side 

As I sat sadly by her side