Stranger Than Kindness Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

Stranger than kindness 

Bottled light from hotels 

Spilling everything 

Wet hand from the volcano sobers your skin 

Stranger than kindness 

You caress yourself and grind my soft cold bones below 

Your map of desire burned in your slavery 

Even a fool can come a strange lit stair and find a rope hanging there 

Stranger than kindness 

Keys rain like heaven's hair 

There is no home there is no bread, we sit at the gate and scratch 

The gaunt fruit of passion dies in the light 

Stranger than kindness 

Your sleeping hands, they journey the loiter 

Stranger than kindness 

You hold me so carelessly close, tell me I'm dirty