# The Complete Lyrics

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- Authors: [Nick Cave](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-cave)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0596-319-0
- Published: 2023-07-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The complete lyrics from cultural icon and bestselling author Nick Cave, spanning his entire career to date, with a new foreword by Andrew O'Hagan From Nick Cave's writing for The Birthday Party , through highly acclaimed albums like Murder Ballads , Henry's Dream , DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! and Ghosteen , this is a must-have book for all fans of the dark, the beautiful and the defiant - for all fans of the songs of Nick Cave. 'The greatest living songwriter' NME 'A glowing wire, a mainline to meaning ad feeling and art' New Yorker 'Nick Cave is a true lyrical master. He can conjure empathy and hope out of thin air, light out of darkness' Cillian Murphy 'His lyrics - so rich in the toils of love, so committed to memory and everlasting presence - are the best-made of his generation' Andrew O'Hagan 'A poetic craftsman' Will Self 'Alternative rock legend' Billboard 'Cave's genius rings loud and clear' Evening Standard Cover art by Aleksandra Waliszewska