Where The Action Is Lyrics - Singles - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

Where streets start getting wild 

Well you're moving on down on the other side of the tracks 

Would you cross that line baby, there ain't no turning back 

Some raise and I don't ever wanna see that place 

That's where the action is 

Listen, hear the stories hear the lies 

You hear the rooms they criticize 

They call you everything under the moon 

Then they try to buy you with diamonds and rings and rings 

Move over baby gonna help you out of this mess 

By the look of your face well you been here before I guess 

You're hanging around, like some kinda parasite on past 

And I just wanna tell you to come on let's go 

And I know a place where never cold 

And I know a place where the thing is sin 

And I'm gonna tell you where the action is 

Your momma's told you about whiskey and she's told you about beer 

...drink and hear... nothing 

It turns you into a monster it turns your mind insane 

It does things to you where you will never come back again 

I don't care what your disposition is I don't care what's your name 

I'm gonna tell you where the action is 

Look at you dressed in your debutante dress and your phoney eye-lashes 

Walking around like you just walked out of some fucking car crash 

You think that you're OK cause you're looking like you're gonna have a smash 

with the action 

I don't care where you're going, I don't care what you say, 

What your religion is 

Baby, I just wanna tell you where the action is, hey, hey, hey, hey 

Take off that wedding ring baby, you don't need it anymore 

Take off that dress girl and throw it out the door 

Take off those phoney make-up and those eye-lashes I saw 

Take off your shoes and your hat 

And throw the whole fucking lot right out the door 

Come over here and lend me your ear 

I'm gonna tell you where the action is 

I don't care if you can read a book or if you can write 

I don't care how long your hair is or how bright 

I don't care about much to tell you the truth but that's allright 

I only care is if you come on like you think you're with the action 

I've got only one thing to say: come here darling, kiss me, 

I'm gonna show you where the action is 

You spend a little dollar and you spend a little dime 

You get all funny and you laugh at your friends 

And you think you're having a good time 

You don't know nothing till you come around here and have some of mine 

Then you'll start to understand about the two sides of the line 

Come over here darling, lend me your ear, gonna educate you 

Gonna tell you where the action is