West Country Girl Lyrics

With a crooked smile and a heart-shaped face
Comes from the west country where the birds sing ba*s
She's got a house-big heart where we all live
And plead and council and forgive
Her widow's peak, her lips I've kissed
Her glove of bones at her wrist
That I have held in my hand
Her spanish fly and her monkey gland
Her godly body and it's fourteen stations
That I have embraced, her palpitations
Her unborn baby crying, 'mummy'
Amongst the rubble of her body
Her lovely lidded eyes I've sipped
Her fingernails, all pink and chipped
Her accent which I'm told is 'broad'
That I have heard and has been poured
Into my human heart and filled me
And rebuilt me back anew
With something to look forward to
Well, who could ask much more than that?
A west country girl with a big fat cat
That looks into her eyes of green
And meows, 'he loves you', then meows again

Nick Cave - The Boatman's Call

May 1997

1. Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?
2. Black Hair
3. Brompton Oratory
4. Far from Me
5. Green Eyes
6. I Do Love Her So
7. Idiot Prayer
8. Into My Arms
9. People Ain't No Good
10. There is a Kingdom
11. West Country Girl
12. Where Do We Go Now but Nowhere