"She's Leaving You" lyrics - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
You were planning to stay in, you had it carefully planned
Your coat was hanging in the hall, your hat was in your hand
You walked over to your woman, your pale distracted love
Who was trying to put the wrong hand into the wrong glove
[Hook:]
Are you leaving, dear? Are you leaving, dear?
Are you leaving, dear? Are you leaving, dear?
Are you leaving, dear?
(Are you leaving me behind?)
Are you leaving, dear?
(Leaving one kiss at a time)
So you start reading all her books, all her magazines
Just to get a better understanding
Your brain feels like it's dead
Your eyes are hanging out your head
You were hoping for something less demanding
Well what you see staring out at you from a photo book
A man with an eyepatch and a bent, bloody hook
You wished to God that you never went and took a look
'Cause it's in that moment that you know
[Hook:]
That she's leaving you
(She's leaving you behind)
Yeah she's leaving you
(She's leaving one kiss at a time)
Well now she's taking you to bed
Her legs wrapped round your head
You're losing her to some crazy kind of motion
You keep coming up for air
You look around and stare
Find you're swimming into completely different oceans
You're wondering if she's thinking about some other man
She says, "C'mon, baby, you know you are my loverman"
You're going nuts you don't know exactly what to say
She says, "Don't worry, baby, this is just my little way
[Hook:]
Of leaving you"
(She's leaving you behind)
Oh, man, she's leaving you
(She's leaving one kiss at a time)
[Guitar solo!]
She keeps saying, "Hey, don't hate me"
She keeps saying, "Hate is just some kind of failure of the imagination"
She keeps saying things like this
Now she's giving you a kiss
Now she's got you dragging her to the station
The sun just slipped out of the sky, this is a black letter day
Her train is moving down the platform, and is drawn away
You're crying buckets, she gives her glove a wave
She says "Oh c'mon, baby, that's no way to behave
[Hook:]
When I'm leaving you"
(She's leaving you behind)
Oh yeah, she's leaving you
(She's leaving one kiss at a time)
Oh yeah, she's leaving you
(She's leaving you behind)
Yeah, she's leaving you
(She's leaving one kiss at a time)
She's leaving you
(She's leaving you behind)
Yeah, she's leaving you
(She's leaving you behind)
Yeah, she's leaving you
(She's leaving you behind)
Yeah, she's leaving you
She's leaving one kiss at a time
B-Sides & Rarities (Part I) (2005)
- Deanna (Acoustic Version)
- The Mercy Seat (Acoustic Version)
- City Of Refuge (Acoustic Version)
- The Moon Is In The Gutter
- The Six Strings That Drew Blood
- Rye Whiskey
- Running Scared
- Black Betty
- Scum
- The Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass
- The Train Song
- Cocks N' Asses
- Blue Bird
- Helpless
- God's Hotel
- (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World
- Cassiel's Song
- Tower Of Song
- What Can I Give You
- What A Wonderful World
- Rainy Night In Soho
- Lucy (Version #2)
- Jack The Ripper (Acoustic Version)
- Sail Away
- There's No Night Out In The Jail
- That's What Jazz Is To Me
- The Willow Garden
- The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane
- King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O
- Knoxville Girl
- Where The Wild Roses Grow (Original Guide Vocal Version)
- O'Malley's Bar (Part 1)
- O'Malley's Bar (Part 2)
- O'Malley's Bar (Part 3)
- O'Malley's Bar (Reprise)
- Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum
- Red Right Hand (Scream 3 Version)
- Little Empty Boat
- Right Now I'm A-Roaming
- Come Into My Sleep
- Black Hair (Band Version)
- Babe, I Got You Bad
- Sheep May Safely Graze
- Opium Tea
- Grief Came Riding
- Bless His Ever Loving Heart
- Good Good Day
- Little Janey's Gone
- I Feel So Good
- Shoot Me Down
- Swing Low
- Little Ghost Song
- Everything Must Converge
- Nocturama
- She's Leaving You
- Under This Moon