Patripassian

[Nick Cave]

The rivers of Babylon flow

And fall

And carry away

Jesus is alone on earth

Not merely with no one to feel and share His agony

But with no one even to know of it

Heaven and He are the only ones to know

Jesus is in a garden

Not of delight, like the first Adam

Who there fell and took with Him all mankind

But of agony, where He has saved Himself and all mankind

He suffers this anguish and abandonment in the horror of the night

Jesus will be in agony until the end of the world

There must be no resting in the meantime

To Eden with me, you will not leave

To live in my cottage of crazy crooked Eves

In your own heavy home, take care of this night

When you let your little cat in, turn on the light

Something scurries behinds and finds a cozy place to stare

Something send from you to paradise, paradisaically somewhere

Tongues flouring, they leap out laughing

Lapping, disappear