Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

O say goodbye to the little girl tree 

O you know that I must say goodbye 

To the little girl tree 

This wall I built around you 

Is made out of stone-lies 

O little girl the truth would be 

An axe in thee 

O father look to your daughter 

Brick of grief and stricken morter 

With this ring 

This silver hoop of wire 

I bind your maiden mainstem 

Just to keep you as a child 

O say goodbye to the little girl tree 

O you know that I must say goodbye 

To my little girl tree 

How fast your candy bones 

Reached out for me 

I must say goodbye to your brittle bones 

Crying out for me 

O you know that I must say goodbye 

O goodbye 

Even though you will betray me 

The very minute that I leave 

O say goodbye to the little girl tree 

O Lord you know that I must say goodbye 

To that little girl tree 

I rise up her girl-child lumps and slipping knots 

Into her laden boughs 

And amongst her roping limbs 

Like a swollen neck vein branching 

Into smaller lesser veins 

That must all just sing and say goodbye 

And let her blossom veils fly 

Her velvet gown 

Down down down 

Down down down 

Down down down and goodbye 

For you know that I must say goodbye 

To a rhythm softly tortured 

Of a motion back and forth 

Thats a rhythm sweetly tortured 

O that's the rhythm of the orchard 

And you know that I must say goodbye 

To that little girl tree 

O goodbye 

Yes goodbye 

For you know that I must die 

Down down down 

Down down down 

Down down down and goodbye 

For you know that I must die 

Yes you know that I must die 

O-o you know that I must die