“Jesus Alone” is Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' first single from their 2016 album Skeleton Tree, and Cave’s first release since the untimely death of his son Arthur in July 2015.
The song was actually one of the first from Skeleton Tree to be written, around late 2014. In the documentary One More...
[Verse 1]
You fell from the sky
Crash landed in a field
Near the River Adur
Flowers spring from the ground
Lambs burst from the wombs of their mothers
In a hole beneath the bridge
You convalesced, you fashioned masks of twigs and clay
You cried beneath the dripping trees
Ghost song lodged in the throat of a mermaid
[Chorus]
With my voice
I am calling you
[Verse 2]
You're a young man waking
Covered in blood that is not yours
You're a woman in a yellow dress
Surrounded by a charm of hummingbirds
You're a young girl full of forbidden energy
Flickering in the gloom
You're a drug addict lying on your back
In a Tijuana hotel room
[Chorus]
With my voice
I am calling you
With my voice
I am calling you
[Verse 3]
You're an African doctor
Harvesting tear ducts
You believe in God
But you get no special dispensation for this belief now
You're an old man sitting by the fire
You're the mist rolling off the sea
You're a distant memory in the mind of your creator
Don't you see?
[Chorus]
With my voice
I am calling you
With my voice
I am calling you
Let us sit together until the moment comes
With my voice
I am calling you
Let us sit together in the dark until the moment comes
With my voice
I am calling you
With my voice
I am calling you
With my voice
I am calling you
With my voice
I am calling you
Jesus Alone was written by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.
Jesus Alone was produced by Nick Launay & Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds released Jesus Alone on Thu Sep 01 2016.