Magneto – English Lyrics

• By: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• Album: Ghosteen

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Mostly I never knew which way was out

Once it was on, it was on and that was that

The umbilicus was a force that they'd found in rabid blood

Then I spin on my wheel like a laboratory rat

I was an electrical storm on the bathroom floor,

clutching the bowl

My blood was for the gags and other people's diseases

My monstrous little memory had swallowed me whole

It was the year I officially became the bride of Jesus

In love, in love, in love you laugh

In love you move, I move and one more time with feeling

For love, you love, I laugh, you love

Saw you in heart and the stars are splashed across the ceiling

Oh, the urge to kill somebody was basically overwhelming

I had such hard blues down there in the supermarket queues

And I had a sudden urge to become someone, someone like you

Who started out with less than anyone I ever knew

In love, in love, I love, you love, I laugh, you love

I move, you move and one more time with feeling

I love, you love, I laugh, you love

I'm sewn in heart and all the stars are splashed 'cross the ceiling

Oh, and oh, you come shining

Softly to the hold of a drink

Come as far as the edge of my blood and swim

And in the bathroom mirror I see me vomit in the sink

And all through the house we hear the hyena's hymns

Of love, I love, you love, I love, you love, I laugh, you love

I move, you move, you move, and one more time with feeling

I love, you love, I laugh, you love

We saw each other in heart and all the stars have splashed and splattered 'cross the ceiling

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