Pick It Up (Or We All Go Down)
Opened my eyes
In the middle of the night
Awaken to the sound
Of my neighbors making love
Couldn't fall back asleep
I decided to go out for a walk
When I saw Nick Cave
Sitting by my neighbors' door
He had a glass in one hand
To listen through the wood
A notebook in the other
On which he was writing like a fool
At every sound they made
He just scrawled non sense
"Who fucks between the lines"
He said by my neighbors' door
The door burst out
Burning his ear
The man fled the room
Left the woman in tears
She's lying on the bed
With a hole on her chest
Her heart falls on the floor
For her first love is dead
"Pick it up or we all go down", Nick said
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
There's blood on the floor
Getting mixed up with tears
Fire around the bed
Just when I came in
Nick shouted out my name
And pointed at the heart
He said: "pick it up
Before the place burns to the ground"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
Nick said, "pick it up or we all go down
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
In the middle of the night
Awaken to the sound
Of my neighbors making love
Couldn't fall back asleep
I decided to go out for a walk
When I saw Nick Cave
Sitting by my neighbors' door
He had a glass in one hand
To listen through the wood
A notebook in the other
On which he was writing like a fool
At every sound they made
He just scrawled non sense
"Who fucks between the lines"
He said by my neighbors' door
The door burst out
Burning his ear
The man fled the room
Left the woman in tears
She's lying on the bed
With a hole on her chest
Her heart falls on the floor
For her first love is dead
"Pick it up or we all go down", Nick said
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
There's blood on the floor
Getting mixed up with tears
Fire around the bed
Just when I came in
Nick shouted out my name
And pointed at the heart
He said: "pick it up
Before the place burns to the ground"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
Nick said, "pick it up or we all go down
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
"Pick it up or we all go down"
Credits
Writer(s): Simon Ménard
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