Sad Waters Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

Down the road I look and there runs Mary 

Hair of gold and lips like cherries 

We go down to the river where the willows weep 

Take a naked root for a lovers seat 

That rose out of the bitten soil 

Sound to the ground by creeping ivy coils 

O Mary you have seduced my soul 

Forever a hostage of your child's world 

And then I ran my tin-cup heart along, the prison of her ribs 

And then with a toss of her curls that little girl goes wading in 

Rollin' her dress up past her knee 

Turning these waters into wine, then she platted all the willow vines 

Mary in the shallows laughing 

Over where the carp dart 

Spooked by the new shadows that she cast 

Across these sad waters and across my heart