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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Far From Me

This song about an intense love affair was inspired by Cave's relationship with the English singer-songwriter PJ Harvey. He finished this song when their affair went wrong and the pair broke up. Cave told Q magazine June 2008 that he needed to "experience the disaster to complete the work." He added: "I'll do anything to get a good song. Even be involved in a disastrous relationship. Love dies. What remains is the art. I can look back at my songs and piece my life together. I have songs waiting now for the catastrophic element to manifest itself."

Cave's relationship with Harvey started when they made a video for their duet "Henry Lee." Several other songs on The Boatman's Call are thought to have been inspired by their fling including "West Country Girl," "Black Hair" and "Green Eyes."

The lyrics:

For you dear I was born

For you I was raised up

For you I've lived and for you I will die

For you I am dying now

You were my mad little lover

In a world where everybody fucks everybody else over

You who are so far from me

Far from me

So far from me

Way across some cold neurotic sea

Far from me

I would talk to you of all matter of things

With a smile you would reply

Then the sun would leave your pretty face

And you'd retreat from the front of your eyes

I keep hearing that you're doing best

I hope your heart beats happy in your infant breast

You are so far from me

Far from me

Far from me

There is no knowledge but i know it

There's nothing to learn from that vacant voice

That sails to me across the line

From the ridiculous to the sublime

It's good to hear you're doing so well

But really can't you find somebody else that you can ring and tell

Did you ever

Care for me?

Were you ever

There for me?

So far from me

You told me you'd stick by me

Through the thick and through the thin

Those were your very words

My fair-weather friend

You were my brave-hearted lover

At the first taste of trouble went running back to mother

So far from me

Far from me

Suspended in your bleak and fishless sea

Far from me

Far from me