[00:02.67]Nick Cave[00:03.12]Miscellaneous[00:03.66]Avalanche[00:36.06]I stepped into an avalanche[00:41.28]It covered up my soul[00:47.94]When I am not this hunchback that you see[00:53.97]I sleep beneath the golden hill[01:01.23]You who wish to conquer pain[01:05.16]You must learn to serve me well[01:21.93]You strike my side by accident[01:27.30]As you go down to your goal[01:33.03]This cripple here that you clothe and feed[01:38.28]Is neither starved nor cold[01:45.27]He does not ask for your company[01:49.02]Not at the centre, the centre of the world[01:53.25]I who am on a pedestal[01:53.94]You did not raise me there[01:54.54]Your laws do not compel me now[01:55.26]To kneel grotesque and bare[01:55.80]For I myself am the pedestal[01:57.00]For this ugly hump at which you stare[01:58.41]You who wish to conquer pain[02:06.75]You must learn what makes me kind[02:07.59]The crumbs of love that you offer me[02:08.82]Are the crumbs I've left behind[02:14.01]Your pain is no credential here[02:15.09]It's just a shadow of my wound[02:18.03]I have begun to ask for you[02:26.25]I who have no greed[02:26.79]I have begun to long for you[02:30.00]I who have no need[02:30.33]You say you've gone away from me[02:33.69]But I can feel you when you breathe[03:36.51]Do not dress in those rags for me[03:41.88]I know you are not poor[03:48.66]And do not love me quite so fiercely now[03:53.01]When you know that you are not sure[04:00.69]It is your turn, my beloved one[04:06.96]It is your flesh that I wear