Nick Cave Dumb Europe Lyrics

Dumb Europe Lyrics

On this European night out on the brink

 The cafes and the bars still stink

 The air is much too thick for seeing

 But not thick enough for leaning

 I leave in a catatonic crawl

 And if I die tonight then throw me in

 Some bleak teutonic hole

 Six feet under with a snap-frozen soul

 And really we could all just die of shame

 And really we could all just die of shame

 Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe.

 

 

 Oh the Utopian night on the brink

 Mama's face staring up at me from the bottom of the sink

 Witness my trail of destruction

 Trying to leave this drinking place

 My feet are magnetised for furniture

 The floor's attracted to my face

 And if I die tonight

 Sell me as some prehistoric bone

 A lump of junk-souvenier for Jap

 To fob off on his friends back home

 The money dance....

 I find it hard to cope with days like this. Pass the bottle etcetera

 Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe.

 

 

 On this European night out on the brink

 The cafes and the bars still stink

 The air is much too thick for seeing

 But not thick enough for leaning

 I leave in a catatonic crawl

 And if I die tonight then throw me in

 Some bleak teutonic hole

 Six feet under with a snap-frozen soul

 And really we could all just die of shame

 And really we could all just die of shame

 Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe.