{"id":26557,"date":"2016-10-06T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=26557"},"modified":"2016-10-06T12:08:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:08:01","slug":"watch-nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-perform-hauntingly-beautiful-girl-in-amber-off-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-10\/watch-nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-perform-hauntingly-beautiful-girl-in-amber-off-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Perform Hauntingly Beautiful &#8220;Girl In Amber&#8221; Off New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-26558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-5-650x366.jpg\" alt=\"maxresdefault-5\" width=\"635\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-5-650x366.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-5-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-5-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-5-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-5.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world fell to its knees when<strong> Nick Cave<\/strong> lost his 15-year-old son, <strong>Arthur<\/strong>, in a tragic accident last year. <strong>Cave and The Bad Seeds<\/strong> have somehow managed to release a harrowing new album entitled\u00a0<em><strong>Skeleton Tree<\/strong>. <\/em>As with the raw emotion of<em>\u00a0<strong>Neil Young&#8217;s Tonight&#8217;s The Night<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0or<em><strong> On The Beach<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>albums<em>, <\/em>or<em> <strong>Richard and Linda Thompson&#8217;s I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight<\/strong>, <strong>Skeleton Tree<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>is rife with soul-churning devastation and loss.<\/p>\n<p>While recording the new album,<strong> Cave<\/strong>\u00a0invited director\u00a0<strong>Andrew Dominik<\/strong> to video the process, ultimately resulting in the documentary <strong><em>One More Time With Feeling<\/em><\/strong>.<i>\u00a0<\/i><strong>Cave<\/strong> has previously released videos from that movie for album songs <em><strong>Jesus Alone\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and <em><strong>I Need You<\/strong><\/em>, but frankly we couldn&#8217;t handle the harrow and didn&#8217;t\u00a0watch for fear of coming unglued. Today <strong>Cave<\/strong> has released another video for song <em><strong>Girl In Amber\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(lyrics at bottom), and while we still are discomfited by the devastation and voyeuristic sensations, <em><strong>Girl In Amber<\/strong> <\/em>is so hauntingly beautiful that we cannot not sing it&#8217;s praises. The wordless choral vocals alone are enough to shade the staggering sorrow. May the girl in amber find healing. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xKq39e7SBOE\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Girl In Amber\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(emphasis added):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some go and some stay behind<br \/>\nSome never move at all<br \/>\nGirl in amber trapped forever, spinning down the hall<br \/>\nLet no part of her go unremembered, clothes across the floor<br \/>\nGirl in amber lumber slumber shuts the bathroom door<\/p>\n<p>The phone, the phone, the phone it rings, it rings, it rings no more<br \/>\nThe song, the song, the song it spins since nineteen eighty-four<br \/>\nThe phone, the phone, the phone, it rings, the phone, it rings no more<br \/>\nThe song, the song it&#8217;s been spinning now since nineteen<br \/>\nAnd if you want to bleed, just bleed<br \/>\nAnd if you want to bleed, just bleed<br \/>\nAnd if you want to bleed, don&#8217;t breathe<br \/>\nA word<\/p>\n<p>Just step away and let the world spin<br \/>\nAnd now in turn, you turn<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">You kneel, lace up his shoes, your little blue-eyed boy<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Take him by his hand, go move and spin him down the hall<\/span><br \/>\nI get lucky, I get lucky cause I tried again<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I knew the world it would stop spinning now since you&#8217;ve been gone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> I used to think that when you died you kind of wandered the world<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> In a slumber till you crumbled, were absorbed into the earth<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Well, I don&#8217;t think that any more<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The phone it rings no more<br \/>\nThe song, the song it spins now since nineteen eighty-four<br \/>\nThe song, the song, the song it spins, it&#8217;s been a spinning now<br \/>\nAnd if you&#8217;ll hold me I will tell you that you know that<br \/>\nAnd if you want to leave, don&#8217;t breathe<br \/>\nAnd if you want to leave, don&#8217;t breathe<br \/>\nAnd if you want to leave, don&#8217;t breathe a word<br \/>\nAnd let the world turn<\/p>\n<p>The song, the song it spins, the song, it spins, it spins no more<br \/>\nThe phone, it rings, it rings<br \/>\nAnd you won&#8217;t stay<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t touch me<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t touch me<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t touch me<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t touch me&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world fell to its knees when Nick Cave lost his 15-year-old son, Arthur, in a tragic accident last year. Cave and The Bad Seeds have somehow managed to release a harrowing new album entitled\u00a0Skeleton Tree. As with the raw emotion of\u00a0Neil Young&#8217;s Tonight&#8217;s The Night\u00a0or On The Beach\u00a0albums, or Richard and Linda Thompson&#8217;s I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26562,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26557\/revisions\/26562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}