Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Good Son

Track 2 of 9 from the 1990 album The Good Son Lyrics: One more man gone Well the good son walks into the field He is a tiller, he has a tiller’s hand But deeper down in his heart now He’s laid down queer plans Against his brother and against his family Yet he worships his brother And he worships his mother But it’s his father he says is an unfair man The good son The good son has sat and often wept Beneath a malign star by which the good son’s kept And the night time in which he’s wrapped Speaks of good now and it speaks of evil And he calls to his mother, and he calls to his father But they are deaf in the shadows of his brother’s truancy The good son And he curses his mother, and he curses his father And he curses his virtue like an unclean thing The good son One more man gone