Hold On To Yourself Lyrics - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

I?m so far away from you 

Pacing up and down my room 

Does Jesus only love a man who loses? 

Turn on my radio 

There's some cat on the saxophone 

Laying down a litany of excuses 

The madhouse longing in my baby's eyes 

She rubs a lamp between her thighs 

And hopes the genie comes out singing 

And she lives in some forgotten song 

And moves like she is zombie strong 

Breathes steady as the pendulum keeps swinging 

You better hold on to yourself 

Well, cities rust and fall to ruin 

Factories close and cars go cruising 

In and around the borders of her vision 

And she says, oh woah, woah, woah, woah 

As Jesus makes the flowers grow 

All around the scene of her collision 

Oh you know I would, yes, I would 

I would hold on to yourself 

'Cause in the middle of the night 

I try my best to chase outside 

The phantoms and the ghosts and the fairy girls 

'1001 Nights' like this she mutters, ?Open sesame? 

And 'Ali Baba And His Forty Thieves' 

Launch her off the face of the world 

Well, you know one day I'll come back 

And I?ll hold on to yourself, to yourself 

Oh yeah, hold on to yourself 

Oh babe, I?m a thousand miles away 

And I just don?t know what to say 

?Cause Jesus only loves a man who bruises 

But darling we can clearly see 

It?s all life and fire and lunacy 

And excuses and excuses and excuses 

Well, you know if I could I would 

Yeah, I would lie right down 

And I?d hold on to yourself 

Yeah, I would lie right down 

And I would hold on to yourself 

One day I?ll come back to you 

And I?ll hold on to yourself 

Yeah, I?m gonna come back 

Gonna lie down 

And I?ll hold on to yourself 

Yeah, to yourself, self, to yourself