Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum Lyrics - Nick Cave

We were called to the forest 

And we went down 

A wind wind blew warm and eloquent 

We were searching for the secrets of the universe 

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 song 

For we'd both run right out of words 

Now the stars they are all angled wrong 

And the sun and the moon refuse to burn 

But I remember a message 

In a demon's hand 

Dread the passage of jesus, for he does not return 

He does not return 

He does not return