More News From Nowhere Lyrics - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

I walk into the corner of my room 

See my friends in high places 

I don't know which is which or who is whom 

They've stolen each other's faces 

Janet is there with her high head and hair 

And full of bedroom feathers 

Janet is known to make dead men groan 

In any kind of weather 

I crawl over to her 

I say, ?Hey baby?, I say, ?Hey, Janet 

You are the one, you are the sun 

And I'm your dutiful planet" 

But she ain't down with any of that 

'Cause she's heard that shit before 

And I say, ?Oh yeah, you're right? 

'Cause I see Betty X standing by the door 

With more news from nowhere 

Yeah, more news from nowhere 

And it's getting strange in here 

Yeah, it's getting stranger every year 

More news from nowhere 

Yeah, more news from nowhere, alright now 

Now Betty X is like Betty Y minus that fatal chromosome 

Her hair is like the wine dark sea in which sailors come home 

I say, ?Hey baby?, I say, ?Hey, Betty X? 

I lean close up to her throat 

"This light you are carrying is like a lamp hanging from a distant boat" 

"It is my light," says Betty, Betty X says, "This light ain't yours" 

And so much wind blew through her words 

That I went rolling down the hall 

For more news from nowhere 

More news from nowhere 

And it's strange in here 

Yeah, it gets stranger every year 

More news from nowhere 

Yeah, more news from nowhere 

I turn another corner 

I go down a corridor and I see this guy 

He must be about one hundred foot tall 

And he only has one eye 

He asks me for my autograph 

I write nobody and then 

I wrap myself up in my woolly coat 

And I blind him with my pen 

'Cause someone must have stuck something in my drink 

Every thing's getting strange looking 

Half the people have turned into squealing pigs 

The other half are cooking 

Well, let me out of here I cried 

And I went pushing past 

And I saw Miss Polly singing with some girls 

I cried, struck me to the mast 

For more news from nowhere 

Yeah, more news from nowhere 

It's getting strange in here 

And it gets stranger every year 

More news from nowhere 

Yeah, more news from nowhere 

Well, then a black girl with no clothes on 

She danced across the room 

We charted the progress of the planets 

Around that boogie woogie moon 

I called her my Nubian princess 

Gave her some sweet back fat ass jive 

Spent the next seven years between her legs 

A pining for my wife 

But then by and by it all went wrong 

I fell washed up on a shore 

She stared down at me from up in the storm 

And I sopped up on the floor 

For more news from nowhere 

Yeah, more news from nowhere 

And don't it make you feel alone 

Don't it make you wanna get right on home 

More news from nowhere 

More news from nowhere, let me hear it now 

Well, here comes Elena with two black eyes 

She's given herself a transfusion 

She's filled herself with panda blood 

To avoid all the confusion 

I say, "The sun rises and falls with you 

And various things about love" 

But a rising violence in me cuts all my circuits off 

Well, Elena she starts screaming 

Her cheeks are full of psychotropic leaves 

Her extinction was nearly absolute 

When she turned her back on me 

For more news from nowhere 

I said, more news from nowhere 

And it's getting strange in here 

Yeah, it gets stranger every year 

More news from nowhere 

Yeah, more news from nowhere, alright, alright 

I bump and crash into Deanna 

Hanging pretty in the door frame 

All the horrors that have befallen me 

Well, Deanna is to blame 

Every time I see you baby 

You make me feel so unalone 

And I wipe my face into her dress 

Long after she'd gone home 

With more news from nowhere 

Yeah, more news from nowhere 

And don't it make you feel alone 

Yeah, and don't it make you wanna get right back home 

More news from nowhere 

Yeah, more news from nowhere, alright 

And don't it make you feel so sad 

Don't the blood rush to your feet 

To think that everything you do today 

Tomorrow is obsolete 

Technology and women 

And little children, too 

Don't it make you feel blue 

Don't it make you feel blue 

For more news from nowhere 

With more news from nowhere 

Don't it make you feel alone 

Yeah, and don't it make you wanna get right back home 

More news from nowhere 

Yeah, more news from nowhere, one last time 

Well, I gotta say 

Yeah, I gotta say 

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye