Spinning Song

Album: Ghosteen (2019)
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  • Once there was a song, the song yearned to be sung
    It was a spinning song about the king of rock 'n' roll
    The king was first a young prince, the prince was the best
    With his black jelly hair he crashed onto a stage in Vegas
    The king had a queen, the queen's hair was a stairway
    She tended the castle garden, and in the garden planted a tree
    The garden tree was a stairway, it was sixteen branches high
    On the top branch was a nest, sing the high cloudy nest
    In the nest there was a bird, the bird had a wing
    The wing had a feather, spin the feather and sing the wind

    The king in time died, the queen's heart broke like a vow
    And the tree returned to the earth with the nest and the bird
    But the feather spun upward, upward and upward
    Spinning all the weather vanes
    And you're sitting at the kitchen table, listening to the radio

    And I love you, and I love you, and I love you, and I love you
    And I love you, and I love you, and I love you
    Peace will come, and peace will come, and peace will come in time
    Time will come, and time will come, a time will come for us
    Peace will come, and peace will come, and peace will come in time
    Time will come, and time will come, a time will come for us Writer/s: Nicholas Cave, Warren Ellis
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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