Cassiel's Song Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

We've come to bring you home 

Haven't we, Cassiel? 

To cast aside your loss and all your sadness 

And shuffle off that mortal coil and mortal madness 

For we're here to pick you up and bring you home 

Aren't we, Cassiel? 

It's a place where you did not belong 

Were time itself was mad and far too strong 

Where life leapt up laughing and hit you head on 

And hurt you, didn't it hurt you, Cassiel? 

While time outran you and trouble flew toward you 

And you were there to greet it 

Weren't you, foolish Cassiel? 

But here we are, we've come to call you home 

And here you'll stay, never more to stray 

Where you can kick off your boots of clay 

Can't you, Cassiel? 

For death and you did recklessly collide 

And time ran out of you 

And you ran out of time 

Didn't you, Cassiel? 

And all the clocks in all the world 

May this once just skip a beat in memory of you 

But then again those damn clocks, they probably won't 

Will they, Cassiel? 

One moment you are there 

And then strangely you are gone 

But on behalf of us all here 

We're glad to have you home 

Aren't we, dear Cassiel?