Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere Lyrics - The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave

I remember a girl so very well 

The carnival drums all mad in the air 

Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell 

O where do we go now but nowhere 

In a colonial hotel we fucked up the sun 

And then we fucked it down again 

Well the sun comes up and the sun goes down 

Going round and round to nowhere 

The kitten that padded and purred on my lap 

Now swipes at my face with the paw of a bear 

I turn the other cheek and you lay into that 

O where do we go now but nowhere 

O wake up, my love, my lover wake up 

O wake up, my love, my lover wake up 

Across clinical benches with nothing to talk 

Breathing tea and biscuits and the serenity prayer 

While the bones of our child crumble like chalk 

O where do we go now but nowhere 

I remember a girl so bold and so bright 

Loose-limbed and laughing and brazen and bare 

Sits gnawing her knuckles in the chemical light 

O where do we go now but nowhere 

You come for me now with a cake that you've made 

Ravaged avenger with a clip in your hair 

Full of glass and bleach and my old razorblades 

O where do we go now but nowhere 

O wake up, my love, my lover wake up 

O wake up, my love, my lover wake up 

If they'd give me my clothes back then I could go home 

From this fresh, this clean, antiseptic air 

Behind the locked gates an old donkey moans 

O where do we go now but nowhere 

Around the duck pond we grimly moped 

Gloomily and mournfully we go rounds again 

And one more doomed time and without much hope 

Going round and around to nowhere 

From the balcony we watched the carnival band 

The crack of the drum a little child did scare 

I can still feel his tiny fingers pressed in my hand 

O where do we go now but nowhere 

If I could relive one day of my life 

If I could relive just a single one 

You on the balcony, my future wife 

O who could have known, but no one 

O wake up, my love, my lover make up 

O wake up, my love, my lover make up