Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward Cave AO (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor, best known for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Cave's music is generally characterized by his baritone voice, emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.
Born and raised in rural Victoria, Cave studied art before fronting The Birthday Party, one of Melbourne's leading post-punk bands, in the late 1970s. Read Full BioNicholas Edward Cave AO (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor, best known for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Cave's music is generally characterized by his baritone voice, emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.
Born and raised in rural Victoria, Cave studied art before fronting The Birthday Party, one of Melbourne's leading post-punk bands, in the late 1970s. They relocated to London in 1980, but, disillusioned by life there, evolved towards a darker, more challenging sound, and acquired a reputation as "the most violent live band in the world". At this time, Cave, with his shock of black hair and pale, emaciated look, became an unwilling gothic rock poster boy. Soon after the band's break-up in 1983, Cave formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Much of the band's early material was set in a mythic American Deep South, drawing on spirituals and Delta blues, while Cave's preoccupation with Old Testament notions of good versus evil culminated in what has been called his signature song, "The Mercy Seat" (1988). The 1990s saw Cave achieve greater commercial success with quieter, piano-driven ballads, notably the Kylie Minogue duet "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1996), and "Into My Arms" (1997). More recent releases, including the band's 17th and latest LP, Ghosteen (2019), feature increasingly abstract lyrics from Cave, as well as elements of ambient and electronic music. Grinderman, Cave's garage rock side project, has released two albums since 2006.
Cave co-wrote, scored and starred in the 1988 Australian prison film Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988), directed by John Hillcoat. He also wrote the screenplay for Hillcoat's bushranger film The Proposition (2005), and composed the soundtrack with frequent collaborator Warren Ellis. The pair's film score credits include The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009), Lawless (2012), and Hell or High Water (2016). Cave is the subject of several films, including the semi-fictional "day in the life" 20,000 Days on Earth (2014), and the documentary One More Time with Feeling (2016). Cave has also released two novels: And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989) and The Death of Bunny Munro (2009).
Cave's work has become the subject of academic study, and his songs have been covered by a wide range of artists, including Johnny Cash ("The Mercy Seat"), Metallica ("Loverman") and Snoop Dogg ("Red Right Hand"). He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007, and named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017.
Born and raised in rural Victoria, Cave studied art before fronting The Birthday Party, one of Melbourne's leading post-punk bands, in the late 1970s. Read Full BioNicholas Edward Cave AO (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor, best known for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Cave's music is generally characterized by his baritone voice, emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.
Born and raised in rural Victoria, Cave studied art before fronting The Birthday Party, one of Melbourne's leading post-punk bands, in the late 1970s. They relocated to London in 1980, but, disillusioned by life there, evolved towards a darker, more challenging sound, and acquired a reputation as "the most violent live band in the world". At this time, Cave, with his shock of black hair and pale, emaciated look, became an unwilling gothic rock poster boy. Soon after the band's break-up in 1983, Cave formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Much of the band's early material was set in a mythic American Deep South, drawing on spirituals and Delta blues, while Cave's preoccupation with Old Testament notions of good versus evil culminated in what has been called his signature song, "The Mercy Seat" (1988). The 1990s saw Cave achieve greater commercial success with quieter, piano-driven ballads, notably the Kylie Minogue duet "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1996), and "Into My Arms" (1997). More recent releases, including the band's 17th and latest LP, Ghosteen (2019), feature increasingly abstract lyrics from Cave, as well as elements of ambient and electronic music. Grinderman, Cave's garage rock side project, has released two albums since 2006.
Cave co-wrote, scored and starred in the 1988 Australian prison film Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988), directed by John Hillcoat. He also wrote the screenplay for Hillcoat's bushranger film The Proposition (2005), and composed the soundtrack with frequent collaborator Warren Ellis. The pair's film score credits include The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009), Lawless (2012), and Hell or High Water (2016). Cave is the subject of several films, including the semi-fictional "day in the life" 20,000 Days on Earth (2014), and the documentary One More Time with Feeling (2016). Cave has also released two novels: And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989) and The Death of Bunny Munro (2009).
Cave's work has become the subject of academic study, and his songs have been covered by a wide range of artists, including Johnny Cash ("The Mercy Seat"), Metallica ("Loverman") and Snoop Dogg ("Red Right Hand"). He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007, and named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017.
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I'm Your Man
Nick Cave Lyrics
If you want a lover
I'll do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear a mask for you
And if you want a partner, take my hand
And if you want to strike me down in anger
Here I stand, I'm your man
And if you want boxer
I will step into the ring for you
And if you want a doctor
I'll examine every inch of you
And if you want a driver, climb inside
If you want to take me for a ride
You know you can 'cause I'm your man
Ah, the moon's too bright, the chain's too tight
The beast won't go to sleep
I've been running through these promises to you
That I made and could not keep
Ah, but a man never got a woman back
Not by begging on his knees
I've crawled to you, baby
And I fall at your feet
I've howled at your beauty
Like a dog in heat
And I've called at your heart
And I tear at your sheet
I said please, 'cause I'm your man
And if you got to sleep a moment on the road
I will steer for you
And if you want to work this street alone
I'll disappear for you
And if you want a father for your child
Or only want to walk with me a while
'Cross the sands, well, I'm your man
Ah, the moon's too bright, the chain's too tight
The beast won't go to sleep
I've been running through these promises to you
That I made and could not keep
Ah, but a man never got a woman back
Not by begging on his knees
I've crawled to you, baby
And I fall at your feet
I've howled at your beauty
Like a dog in heat
I've called at your heart
And I tear at your sheets
I said please, 'cause I'm your man, I'm your man
Cause I'm your man
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Written by: Leonard Cohen
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mehmet oğuz uslu
turkish translate:
Eğer bir aşık istersen
Benden istediğin her şeyi yapacağım
Ve aşkın başka türlüsünü yaşamak istersen
Senin için maske takacağım
Eğer hayat arkadaşı istiyorsan
Elimi tut
Ya da öfkeyle bana saldırmak
Tam buradayım
Ben senin erkeğinim
Eğer bir boksör istersen
Senin için ringe çıkacağım
Ve bir doktor istersen
Her santimini inceleyeceğim
Eğer bir şoför istersen
Bana yaklaş
Ya da beni uzaklara götürmek
Biliyorsun yapabilirsin
Ben senin erkeğinim
Ah, ay çok parlak
Zincir çok dar
Canavar uyumak istemiyor
Sana verdiğim sözlerle ilerliyorum
Verdiğim ama tutamadığım
Ah, ama bir erkek bir kadını geri çevirmemeli
Diz çöküp yalvarırken
Ya da sana sürünürüm bebeğim
Ayaklarının önüne düşüp
Güzelliğinle eriyip bitebilirim
Tıpkı çöldeki bir köpek gibi
Ve kalbini pençelerim
Ve üstünü gözyaşı yaparım
Lütfen, lütfen de
Ben senin erkeğinim
Ve bir gün aniden uyursan
Arabada yolun ortasında
Senin için kullanacağım
Ve sokağın ortasında yalnız çalışmak istersen
Senin için ortadan kaybolacağım
Eğer çocuğun için baba istersen
Yada sadece benimle yürümek
Kumların üstünde
Ben senin erkeğinim
suffie63
Nick, continue what Leonard started, please...
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Nick Cave is a legend who has been handed the crown of Leonard Cohen...Well done Sir...
Rajesh Bakshi
this is a difficult song to cover. good job.
Tony ToneR
Jeff Buckley covered hallelujah by giving it a new kind of soul, and Nick offers us some magistral covers of the great Léonard. Check his Suzanne's.
Meng-Meng Luv-Luv
@Tony ToneR yeah, a more obscure Leonard Cohen song. Nick Cave’s original cover for his debut solo album is quite dramatic, while he and Warren Ellis made a more recent arrangement that is more mellow but just as chilling. Brilliant versions, all of them!
Tony ToneR
@Meng-Meng Luv-Luv oh thank you so I didn't neither the original neither the cover::
Meng-Meng Luv-Luv
…and “Avalanche”!
Emma Flack
Oh my God and he just gets better with age oh God!
Orggs Orggs
Down girl! lols. Yeah he rocks.
Goatlips
LOL are you serious? It's just a cover version and the man can't sing - all with a fake American style.