“I came back the next day and Blixa had put his guitar on it. I hadn’t really sung on it yet. I just sat in an armchair with all these verses and notes and stuff, and we constructed the music from a very rough perspective. Blixa had come in and done this really beautiful guitar which sounded like a dying horse… and he said, ‘Well the song’s about a fucking dying horse, isn’t it?’”

Nick Cave, talking about The Carny (via choppingdownapalmtree)