Avalanche Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

I stepped into an avalanche 

It covered up my soul 

When I am not this hunchback that you see 

I sleep beneath the golden hill 

You who wish to conquer pain 

Must learn to serve me well 

You strike my side by accident 

As you go down to your goal 

This cripple here that you clothe and feed 

Is neither starved nor cold 

He does not ask for your company 

Not at the center, the center of the world 

I who am on a pedestal 

You did not raise me there 

Your laws do not compel me now 

To kneel grotesque and bare 

For I myself am the pedestal 

This ugly hump at which you stare 

You who wish to conquer pain 

You must learn what makes me kind 

The crumbs of love that you offer me 

Are the crumbs I've left behind 

Your pain is no credential here 

It's just a shadow of my wound 

I have begun to ask for you 

I who have no greed 

I have begun to long for you 

I who have no need 

You say you've gone away from me 

But I can feel you when you breathe 

Do not dress in those rags for me 

I know you are not poor 

And do not love me quite so fiercely now 

When you know that you are not sure 

It is your turn, my beloved one 

It is your flesh that I wear