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White Elephant

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

2021

The white hunter sits on his porch

With his elephant gun and his tears

He’ll shoot you for free

If you come around here

 

A protester kneels on the neck of a statue

The statue says I can’t breathe

The protester says now you know how it feels

And kicks it into the sea

 

I am a Botticelli Venus with a penis

Riding an enormous scalloped fan

I’m a sea foam woman rising from the spray

I’m coming to do you harm

With the gun in my pants full of elephant tears

And a seahorse on each arm

With my elephant gun of tears

I’ll shoot you all for free

If you even think about coming round here

I’ll shoot you in the fucking face

If you think of coming around here

 

I’m an ice sculpture melting in the sun

I’m an ice sculpture with an elephant gun

I’m an ice sculpture made of elephant-sized tears

Raining gas and salt upon your heads

The president has called in the Feds

I’ve been planning this for years

I’ll shoot you in the fucking face

If you think of coming around here

I’ll shoot you for just for fun

I’m a statue lying on my side, in the sun

With the memory of an elephant

Evaporating before your eyes

Becoming a great grey cloud of wrath

Roaring my salt upon the earth

I will shoot you all for free

If you so much as look at me

 

A time is coming

A time is nigh

For the kingdom

In the sky

 

Don’t ask who

Don’t ask why

There’s a kingdom in the sky

We’re all coming home

For a while

 

A time is coming

A time is nigh

For the kingdom in the sky

We’re all coming home

For a while

 

A time is coming

A time is nigh

For the kingdom in the sky

We’re all coming home

In a while

 

For Thomas H

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