Higgs Boson Blues lyrics

Can't remember anything at all

Flame trees line the streets

Can't remember anything at all

But I'm driving my car down to Geneva

I been sitting in my basement patio

Aye it was hot up above

Girls walk past, the roses all in bloom

Have you ever heard about the Higgs Boson Blues?

I'm going down to Geneva, baby

Gonna teach it to you

Who cares? Who cares what the future brings?

Black road long and I drove and drove

And came upon a crossroad

The night was hot and black

I see Robert Johnson with a 10-dollar guitar

Strapped to his back looking for a tomb

Well here comes Lucifer with his canon law

And a hundred black babies running from his genocidal jaw

He got the real killer groove

Robert Johnson and the devil, man

Don't know who is gonna rip off who

Driving my car, flame trees on fire

Sitting and singing the Higgs Boson Blues

I'm tired, I'm looking for a spot to drop

All the clocks have stopped

In Memphis now in the Lorraine Motel

It's hot, it's hot - that's why they call it the Hot Spot

I'll take a room with a view

Hear a man preaching in a language that's completely new

Making the hot cocks in the flophouse bleed

While the cleaning ladies sob into their mops

And a bellhop hops and bops

A shot rings out to a spiritual groove

Everybody bleeding to that Higgs Boson Blues

If I die tonight, bury me

In my favorite yellow patent leather shoes

With a mummified cat and a cone-like hat

That the caliphate forced on the Jews

Can you feel my heartbeat?

Can you feel my heartbeat?

Hannah Montana does the African Savannah

As the simulated rainy season begins

She curses the queue at the Zulus

And moves on to Amazonia

And cries with the dolphins

Mau Mau ate the pygmy

The pygmy ate the monkey

The monkey has a gift that he is sending back to you

Look here comes the missionary

With his smallpox and flu

He's saving them, the savages

With the Higgs Boson Blues

I'm driving my car down to Geneva

I'm driving my car down to Geneva

Oh let the damn day break

The rainy days always make me sad

Miley Cyrus floats in a swimming pool in Toluca Lake

And you're the best girl I've ever had

Can't remember anything at all

• Artist:Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Album:Push the Sky Away (2013)