Stranger Than Kindness

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1986

Stranger Than Kindness by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Release Date

Mon Nov 03 1986

Performed by

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Produced by

Tony Cohen & Flood

Writed by

Blixa Bargeld & Anita Lane

About

“Stranger than kindness” deals with themes of passion and desire, but also depression and suicide.

The title may be in reference to Tennessee Williams’s play, A Streetcar Named Desire.
The main character, Blanche du Bois, has an affair with a teenage student and, as a result, acts as a kind of pro...

Stranger Than Kindness Lyrics

Stranger than kindness
Bottled light from hotels
Spilling everything
Wet hand from the volcano
Sobers your skin
Stranger than kindness

You caress yourself
And grind my soft cold bones below
Your map of desire
Burned in your flesh
Even a fool can come
A strange lit stair
And find a rope hanging there
Stranger than kindness

Keys rain like heaven's hair
There is no home, there is no bread
We sit at the gate and scratch
The gaunt fruit of passion
Dies in the light
Stranger than kindness

Your sleeping hands journey
They loiter
Stranger than kindness
You hold me so carelessly close
Tell me I'm dirty
I'm a stranger
I'm a stranger
I'm a stranger to kindness

Stranger Than Kindness Q&A

Who wrote Stranger Than Kindness's ?

Stranger Than Kindness was written by Blixa Bargeld & Anita Lane.

Who produced Stranger Than Kindness's ?

Stranger Than Kindness was produced by Tony Cohen & Flood.

When did Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds release Stranger Than Kindness?

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds released Stranger Than Kindness on Mon Nov 03 1986.

What did Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds say about "Stranger Than Kindness"?

We really hit on something there. We found it really beautiful – to me there’s some really delicate, strange abstracted kinds of songs, that I loved. One of my favourite Bad Seeds songs is ‘Stranger Than Kindness’, which has a kind of unearthly beauty about it, and I think that’s largely because I h...