Do You Love Me? Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

Onward and onward and onward I go 

Where no man before be bothered to go 

Till the soles of my shoes are shot full of holes 

And it's all downhill with a bullet 

This ramblin' and rovin' has taken it's course 

I'm grazing with the dinosaurs and the dear old horses 

And the city streets crack and a great hole forces 

Me down, my soapbox, my pulpit 

The theater ceiling is silver star spangled 

And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle 

Do you love me? Do you love me? 

Do you love me? Do you love me? 

There's a man in the theater with girlish eyes 

Who's holdin' my childhood to ransom 

On the screen there's a death 

There's a rustle of cloth and a sickly voice callin' me handsome 

There's a man in the theater with sly girlish eyes 

On the screen there's an ape, a gorilla 

There's a groan, there's a cough, there's a rustle of cloth 

And a voice that stinks of death and vanilla 

This is a secret, mauled and mangled 

And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle 

Do you love me? Do you love me? 

Do you love me? Do you love me? 

The walls in the ceiling are painted in blood 

The lights go down, the red curtains come apart 

This air is full of smoke and dialog I know by heart 

And the coins in my pocket jingle-jangle 

As the great screen crackled and popped 

And the clock of my boyhood was wound down and stopped 

And my handsome little body oddly propped 

And my trousers right down to my ankles 

Yes, onward and upward 

And I'm off to find love 

Do you love me? 

If you do, I'm thankful 

Do you love me? Do you love me? 

Do you love me? Do you love me? 

This city is an ogre squattin' by the river 

It gives life but it takes it away, my youth 

There comes a time when you just cannot deliver 

This is a fact, this is a stone cold truth 

Do you love me? I love you, handsome 

Do you love me? Yes, I love you, you are handsome 

Amongst the cogs and the wires, my youth 

Vanilla breath and handsome apes with girlish eyes 

Dreams that roam between truth and untruth 

Memories that become monstrous lies 

So onward and onward and onward I go 

Onward and upward and I'm off to find love 

With blue-black bracelets on my wrists and my ankles 

And the coins in my pocket goin' jingle-jangle 

Do you love me? Do you love me? 

Do you love me? Do you love me? 

Do you love me? Do you love me? 

Do you love me? Do you love me?