From Her To Eternity Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

I wanna tell ya 'bout a girl 

You know, she lives in room 29 

Why, why that's the one right up top a mine 

I start to cry, I start to cry 

Oh I hear her walkin' 

Walkin' barefoot cross the boards 

All through this lonesome night 

I hear her cryin' too 

Hot-tears come splashin' on down 

Leaking through the cracks 

Down upon my face, I catch 'em in my mouth 

I catch 'em in my mouth 

I catch 'em in my mouth 

I catch 'em in my mouth 

Walk n' cry, walk n' cry 

Walk n' cry, walk n' cry 

From her to eternity 

From her to eternity 

From her to eternity 

I read her diary on her sheets 

Scrutinizin' every lil' bit of dirt 

Tore out a page n' stufft it inside my shirt 

I fled outa the window 

And shinning it down the vine 

Outa her nightmare, and back into mine 

Mine, O mine 

From her to eternity 

From her to eternity 

Cry, cry, cry 

Cry, cry, cry 

She's wearing them bloo-stockens, I bet! 

And standin' 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 n' cry, walk n' cry 

Kneel n' cry, kneel n' cry 

From her to eternity 

From her to eternity 

Oh tell me why? Oh tell me why? 

Oh Why? Why? Why? 

Oh tell me why and 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 naggin' at me like a shrew 

But, I know, that to possess her 

Is, therefore, not to desire her 

Oh then, that lil' girl would just have to go 

Go! Go! From her to eternity 

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 

Cry, cry, cry 

Cry, cry, cry, cry