Dumb Europe

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 22:53:04 +0800 (WST)
From: Greg O'Beirne

Music by Jochen Arbeit, Christoph Dreher, Rainer Lingk, & Thomas Wydler
Lyrics by Nick Cave
Transcribed by Greg O'Beirne (*)
 Tempo: 80bpm
Rhythm: triplets (like "Da, d-Da, d-Da, d-Da, d-" etc...)
                        1     2     3     4
 Intro: (incredibly distorted noisy guitar)

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

                                    la  la  la  la  la.....

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

                                    la  la  la  la  la.....
Verse: (virtually the same as the intro, but
        spaced so the words can fit underneath)

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

 This Euro - pean   night      on the brink

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

  The cafes     & the bars         still stink

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

   the mist         is much        too thick       for seeing

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

   not thick         e-nough       for lean-          -ing

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

                                           (leave this room  in a)

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

   and if            I die          to-night     don't fling me in

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

       some bleak   teutonic           hole

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

       six             feet          under                     with

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

    a snap          frozen                soul....

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

   and really          we       could all             just

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

       die             of              shame...

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

                                                       yeah...

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

       die             of              shame...

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

       Dumb            Eur-          -ope....

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

     a laaaaaaaa       laaaaaaaa       laaaaaaa        laaaaaaa

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

       laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

       Dumb            Eur-          -ope....

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

     a laaaaaaaa       laaaaaaaa       laaaaaaa        laaaaaaa

Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."

       laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....
Lyrics:
1st Verse
On this European night out on the brink
The cafes and the bars still stink
The mist is much too thick for seeing
But not thick enough for leaning
I leave in a catatonic crawl
And if I die tonight don't fling me in
Some bleak teutonic hole
Six feet under with a snap-frozen soul
And really we could all just die of shame...
Yeah... die of shame...
2nd Verse
On this Utopian night on the brink
Mama's face staring up at me from the bottom of the sink
Witness my trail of destruction
Just trying to leave this drinking place
My feet are magnetized for furniture
The floor's attracted to my face
And if I die tonight
Sell me as a prehistoric bone
Authentic junk-souvenir to Jap
To fob off on his friends back home
The money-dance...[mumble] I find it hard to cope with days like this etc...

The third verse is completely undecipherable, but sounds like:

  And tonight steps into my beer in my poor '61,
  I swear that statue's read the moons
  Or my planets are all wrong
  And if I die tonight ship my body way back home

mumble

  Pulling the drip right out of the arm
4th Verse
On this European night on the brink
Your cafes, your beer-halls and your bars still stink
And if I die tonight send my body way back home
And if I die tonight send my body way back home
And if I die tonight send my body way back home
And if I die tonight and if I die tonight...
This recording is reasonably rare, and it's unlikely anyone you play the
song to will have heard the original anyway, so just use the lyrics
above, or the ones from King Ink, and play the song in whatever way
sounds best to you ;)  Have fun ;)