Patripassian Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

The rivers of Babylon flow, and fall, and carry 

away...Jesus is alone on earth, not merely with no 

one to feel and share His agony, but with no one 

even to know of it. Heaven and He are the only ones 

to know. 

Jesus is in a garden, not of delight, like the first 

Adam, who fell and took with him all 

mankind, but of agony, where He has saved 

Himself and all mankind 

He suffers this anguish and abandonment in the 

horror of the night. 

Jesus will be in agony until the end of the world. 

There must be no resting in the meantime...