That's What Jazz Is To Me Lyrics - Singles - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

Jazz 

[Incomprehensible] 

Fire eating drag queens dressed as society whores 

Crazy two timing bitches running round [Incomprehensible] 

Ghetto blasting blasters, blasting magnificently 

Blossoms falling from the cherry trees 

That's what jazz is to me 

High buildings with crippled backs 

Circle around my dreams 

I clutch at the greasy tails of my dreams 

White blossom falling from the cherry trees 

That's what jazz is to me 

Ten bottles standing in a row military style 

With hats pulled low over their brows 

A thousand wasted hours 

Skeletons entwined fucking and braying 

[Incomprehensible] 

Blossoms falling from the cherry tree 

That's what jazz is to me 

History repeating itself like a thing aloof 

All the great cars of the world in one massive collision 

All the doctors swallowed up by one incompetence 

All the great theorists and teachers eaten alive 

[Incomprehensible] 

Religious ecstasy and a blossom falling from a cherry tree 

That's what jazz is to me 

Blind fish being used as musical scales 

Sharks puffed for fish and whales 

I long to be by the sea 

Where a blossom falls from a cherry tree 

That's what jazz is to me 

Three forms, four forms, five forms, six forms 

Seven forms, eight forms, nine forms, yeah 

A blossom falling from the cherry tree 

That's what jazz is to me 

As Einstein said about his theory 

I love it, I love it, I love jazz 

It's in your heart 

It's in your soul 

It's in your mind 

The color of death, sweet vanilla essence 

Richard Harris and Donald Pleasance 

And a cherry blossom falling from a cherry tree 

That's what jazz is to me