Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Opium Tea Lyrics

Lyrics Opium Tea - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds




Here I sleep the morning through
'Til the wail of the call to prayer awakes me
And there ain't nothing at all to do but rise and follow
The day wherever it takes me
I stand at the window and I look at the sea
And I am what I am, and what will be will be
I stand at the window and I look at the sea
And I make me a pot of opium tea
Down at the port I watch the boats come in
Watch the boats come in can do something to you
And the kids gather around with an outstretched hand
And I toss them a diram or two
Well, I wonder if my children are thinking of me
Cause I am what I am, and what will be will be
I wonder if my kids are thinking of me
And I smile and I sip my opium tea
At night the sea lashes the rust red ramparts
And the shapes of hooded men who pass me
And the moan of the wind laughs and laughs and laughs
The strange luck that fate has cast me
Well, the cats on the rampart sing merrily
That he is what he is and what will be will be
Yeah, the cats on the rampart sing merrily
And I sit and I drink of my opium tea
I'm a prisoner here, I can never go home
There is nothing here to win or lose
There are no choices needed to be made at all
Not even the choice of having to choose
Well, I'm a prisoner here, yes, but I'm also free
Cause I am what I am and what will be will be
I'm a prisoner here, yeah, but I'm also free
And I smile and I sip my opium tea.



Writer(s): NICHOLAS EDWARD CAVE, CONWAY SAVAGE


Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - B-Sides and Rarities
Album B-Sides and Rarities
date of release
22-03-2005

1 Deanna (Acoustic Version)
2 O'Malley's Bar, Pt. 1
3 O'Malley's Bar Pt. 3
4 Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum
5 O'Malley's Bar Reprise
6 Red Right Hand (Scream 3 Version)
7 Little Empty Boat
8 Right Now I'm a-Roaming
9 Come Into My Sleep (Single Version)
10 Sheep May Safely Graze
11 Good Good Day
12 Little Janey's Gone
13 I Feel So Good
14 Shoot Me Down
15 Swing Low (Edit)
16 Little Ghost Song
17 Everything Must Converge (Edit)
18 Nocturama
19 She's Leaving You
20 Knoxville Girl
21 Under This Moon
22 King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O
23 The Willow Garden
24 The Mercy Seat (Acoustic Version)
25 City of Refuge (Acoustic Version)
26 The Moon Is In the Gutter - B-Sides and Rarities Version
27 The Six Strings That Drew Blood - B-Sides and Rarities Version
28 Rye Whiskey
29 Running Scared
30 Scum
31 The Girl at the Bottom of My Glass
32 The Train Song - Edit
33 Cocks 'n' Asses
34 Helpless
35 God's Hotel
36 What Can I Give You?
37 What a Wonderful World
38 Rainy Night In Soho
39 Lucy (Version #2)
40 Jack the Ripper (Acoustic Version)
41 Sail Away
42 There's No Night Out in the Jail
43 That's What Jazz Is to Me
44 The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane
45 Black Hair (Band Version)
46 BabeI Got You Bad (Single Version)
47 Bless His Ever Loving Heart
48 Black Betty
49 Blue Bird (Single Version)
50 (I'll Love You) Till the End of the World
51 Cassiel's Song
52 Grief Came Riding (Single)
53 O'Malley's Bar Pt. 2




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