Animal X Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

There was a girl, call her Animal X 

22, 24, 25 it's hard to tell 

It's hard to tell 

She comes from the city where there is light and air 

Where you can watch television 

Where you can go to the movies 

And read books just for the joy of it 

She went out walking 

She's drawn along by a kind of humming, a kind of prayer 

She winds up down on the waterfront, out on the boom docks 

Out on the boom docks 

Yeah and at the gates she meets a boy 

Animal Y, 22, 24, it's hard to tell 

It's hard to tell, I mean I never really can tell 

But he wasn't her type 

He was a different kind, but they were built for each other 

Bit by bit, and piece by piece they were built for each other 

By some cosmic hand just for the joy of it 

Down in the boom docs 

Down in the waterfront 

And he calls out something in a language she doesn't understand 

And he calls out something in a language she doesn't understand 

And she put her hand on his stomach just for the joy of it 

But his stomach was where his head was 

And she put her hand on his head just for the joy of it 

But his head was where his feet were 

And she put her hand on his heart, 

Right there on his heart, just for the joy of it 

But his heart was lying down on the road 

And Animal X says to Animal Y: 

They can build their gods way up high 

They can build their gods, but they don't own the sky 

Says animal X to animal Y 

They can build their gods way uṗ high 

And I'll lay right down beside you 

Be a bride of Frankenstein 

He was a head with no heart 

He was an arm with no hand 

He was a leg with no feet 

He was a head with no heart 

She was a head with no heart 

She was an arm with no hand 

She was a leg with no feet 

She was a head with no heart 

Yeah, 501s, 511s, 603s it's hard to tell 

It's hard to tell 

Yeah but she sure looked good going down the waterfront 

Yeah but she sure looked good going down the wood docks 

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