Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

We were called to the forest and we went down 

A wind blew warm and eloquent 

We were searching for the secrets of the universe 

And we rounded up demons and forced them to tell us, what it all meant? 

We tied them to trees and broke them down, one by one 

On a scrap of paper they wrote these words 

And as we read them, the sun broke through the trees 

"Dread the passage of Jesus, for he will not return" 

Then we headed back to our world and left the forest behind 

Our hearts singing with all the knowledge of love 

But somewhere, somehow, we lost the message along the way 

And when we got home, we bought ourselves a house 

And we bought a car that we did not use 

And we bought a cage and two singing birds 

And at night we'd sit and listen to the canary's song 

For we'd both run right out of words