"Higgs Boson Blues (Live At Alexandra Palace, 2020)" lyrics - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS

Can't remember anything at all
Can't remember anything at all

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 tune
Ah, 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

I'm driving my car, flame trees on fire
Sitting and singing the Higgs Boson Blues
I'm tired, I'm I'm looking for a spot to drop
All the clocks have stopped
In Memphis, in the Lorraine Motel
It's hot, 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, yeah
Making the hot cots 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

And 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?

[Refrain:]
I'm driving my car down to Geneva

Hannah Montana, she does the African Savannah
As the simulated rainy season begins
She curses the queue at the zoo loos
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
And he is sending it back to you
Look, here comes the missionary
With his smallpox and flu
Saving them savages
With his Higgs Boson Blues

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
And you're the very best girl I've ever had
And you're the best girl that I've ever had
Bar none