Papa Won’t Leave You Henry Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

[Verse 1]
I went out walking the other day
The heat hung wet around my neck
My head, it rung with screams and groans
From the night I spent amongst her bones
And I passed beside the mission house
Where that mad old buzzard, the reverend
Shrieked and flapped about life after you're dead
Well, I thought about my friend Michel
How they rolled him in linoleum and they shot him in the neck
A bloody halo like a think-bubble a-circling his head
And I bellowed at the firmament
Looks like the rains are here to stay
And the rain pissed down upon me and it washed me all away

[Chorus 1]
Saying, Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy
Well, the road is long and the road is hard
And many fall by the side
But Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry

[Post-Chorus]
And I went on down the road
(He went on down the road)
Oh yeah, I went on down the road
(He went on down the road)