She's Leaving You Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

You were planning to stay in, you had it carefully planned 

Your coat was hanging in the hall, your hat was in your hand 

You walked over to your woman, your pale distracted love 

Who was trying to put the wrong hand into the wrong glove 

Are you leaving, dear? Are you leaving, dear? 

Are you leaving, dear? Are you leaving, dear? 

So you start reading all her books, all her magazines 

Just to get a better understanding 

Your brain feels like it's dead 

Your eyes are hanging out your head 

You were hoping for something less demanding 

Well what you see staring out at you from a photo book 

A man with an eyepatch and a bent, bloody hook 

You wished to God that you never went and took a look 

Cause it's in that moment that you know that 

she's leaving you 

Yeah she's leaving you 

Well now she's taking you to bed 

Her legs wrapped round your head 

You're losing her to some crazy kind of motion 

You keep coming up for air 

You look around and stare 

Find you're swimming into completely different oceans 

You're wondering if she's thinking about some other man 

She says, "C'mon, baby, you know you are my loverman" 

You're going nuts you don't know exactly what to say 

She says, "Don't worry, baby, this is just my little way 

of leaving you" 

Oh, man, she's leaving you 

Guitar solo! 

She keeps saying, "Hey, don't hate me" 

She keeps saying, "Hate is just some kind of failure of the imagination" 

She keeps saying things like this 

Now she's giving you a kiss 

Now she's got you dragging her to the station 

The sun just slipped out of the sky, this is a black letter day 

Her train is moving down the platform, and is drawn away 

You're crying buckets, she gives her glove a wave 

She says "Oh c'mon, baby, that's no way to behave 

when I'm leaving you" 

Oh yeah, she's leaving you 

Oh yeah, she's leaving you 

Yeah, she's leaving you 

She's leaving you 

Yeah, she's leaving you 

Yeah, she's leaving you 

Yeah, she's leaving you