Sunday, October 1, 2023

Breathless - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Breathless - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
3:13
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus, 2004
Written by Nick Cave

When Cave writes a love song, he damn well makes everyone on Earth join in.  "The sky of daytime dies away / And all the earthly things they stop to play / For we are all breathless without you."  Over a blend of baroque pop and tunes from timeless English ballads comes a flow of images tumbling over one another and tumbling straight out of Romantic Age Christian hymns.  "The happy hooded bluebells bow / And bend their heads all a-down."  Come to think of it, is this song delivered to a woman or to a child or to God?  Maybe yes.

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