Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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Magneto

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Canonical path: /nick-cave-e-the-bad-seeds/magneto Related lyric paths: 6
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Magneto

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Mostly I never knew which way was out

Once it was on, it was on and that was that

The umbilicus was a faucet

That fountained rabbit blood

And I spun on my wheel

Like a laboratory rat

I was an electrical storm on the bathroom floor, clutching the bowl

My blood was full of gags and other people's diseases

My monstrous little memory had swallowed me whole

It was the year I officially became the bride of Jesus

In love, in love, in love you laugh

In love you move, I move

And one more time with feeling

For love, you love, I laugh, you love

Saw you in half

And the stars are splashed across the ceiling

Oh, the urge to kill somebody was basically overwhelming

I had such hard blues down there in the supermarket queues

And I had a sudden urge to become someone, someone like you

Who started out with less than anyone I ever knew

In love, in love, I love, you love, I laugh, you laugh

I move, you move

And one more time with feeling

I love, you love, I laugh, you laugh

I'm sawn in half

And all the stars are splashed across the ceiling

Oh, I know you come shining

Softly to the hole to drink

Come as far as the edge of my blood, and then swim

And in the bathroom mirror I see me vomit in the sink

And all through the house we hear the hyena's hymns

Of love, I love, you love, I love, you love

I laugh, you laugh, I move, you move, you move

And one more time with feeling

I love, you love, I laugh, you laugh

We saw each other in half

And all the stars are splashed

And splattered across the ceiling

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