People Ain't No Good Lyrics - The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave

People just ain't no good 

I think that's well understood 

You can see it everywhere you look 

People just ain't no good 

We were married under cherry trees 

Under blossom we made our vows 

All the blossoms come sailing down 

Through the streets and through the playgrounds 

The sun would stream on the sheets 

Awoken by the morning bird 

We'd buy the sunday newspapers 

And never read a single word 

People they ain't no good 

People they ain't no good 

People they ain't no good 

Seasons came, seasons went 

The winter stripped the blossoms bare 

A different tree now lines the streets 

Shaking it's fists in the air 

The winter slammed us like a fist 

The windows rattling in the gales 

To which she drew the curtains 

Made out of her wedding veils 

People they ain't no good 

People they ain't no good 

People they ain't no good at all 

To our love send a dozen white lilies 

To our love send a coffin of wood 

To our love let all the pink-eyed pigeons coo 

That people they just ain't no good 

To our love send back all the letters 

To our love a valentine of blood 

To our love let all the jilted lovers cry 

That people they just ain't no good 

It ain't that in their hearts they're bad 

They can comfort you, some even try 

They nurse you when you're ill of health 

They bury you when you go and die 

It ain't that in their hearts they're bad 

They'd stick by you if they could 

But that's just bullshit 

People just ain't no good 

People they ain't no good 

People they ain't no good 

People they ain't no good 

People they ain't no good at all