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Grinderman was an Australian-British alternative rock band formed by Nick Cave (vocals, guitar, organ, piano), Warren Ellis (tenor guitar, electric mandolin, violin, viola, guitar, backing vocals), Martyn P. Casey (bass, guitar, backing vocals) and Jim Sclavunos (drums, percussion, backing vocals).
Formed as a side project to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the band was originally known as Mini Seeds and was formed by Cave as "a way to escape the weight of The Bad Seeds." The band's name was inspired by a Memphis Slim song, "Grinder Man Blues," which Cave is noted to have started singing during one of the band's early rehearsal sessions. The band's eponymous debut studio album, Grinderman, was released in 2007 to extremely positive reviews and the band's second and final studio album, Grinderman 2, was released in 2010 to a similar reception.
Following extensive touring after the release of Grinderman 2, Grinderman disbanded after a performance at the Meredith Music Festival in Victoria, Australia in December 2011. The band split up in order to focus on The Bad Seeds’ upcoming material. However, Jim Sclavunos later said: "I can't predict what the future of Grinderman is – if there is a future." The band reunited for a one-off performance at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California in April 2013.
lyrics :
I know where the bodies are, I buried them myself.
I'm coming down from off the hill to terminate your health.
I am not a peaceful man when lightning leaps up from my hand.
Something in your smiling eyes says all you gotta do is rise.
I am not a peaceful man, but sometimes when I take your hand.
The natural urge, it does subside, of plunder, rape and genocide.
I'm not one to compromise on the truth, the beauty, the ruined prize.
Look into your smiling eyes 'cause all I wanna do is rise.
I am a lizard in the sun with hooded eyes and belly warm.
I move down through the blackened fields, the ocean wide as silver shield.
Hold me darling in your arms and stay here 'til the morning comes.
Look into your smiling eyes and all I gotta do is rise.
Grinderman was an Australian-British alternative rock band formed by Nick Cave (vocals, guitar, organ, piano), Warren Ellis (tenor guitar, electric mandolin, violin, viola, guitar, backing vocals), Martyn P. Casey (bass, guitar, backing vocals) and Jim Sclavunos (drums, percussion, backing vocals).
Formed as a side project to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the band was originally known as Mini Seeds and was formed by Cave as "a way to escape the weight of The Bad Seeds." The band's name was inspired by a Memphis Slim song, "Grinder Man Blues," which Cave is noted to have started singing during one of the band's early rehearsal sessions. The band's eponymous debut studio album, Grinderman, was released in 2007 to extremely positive reviews and the band's second and final studio album, Grinderman 2, was released in 2010 to a similar reception.
Following extensive touring after the release of Grinderman 2, Grinderman disbanded after a performance at the Meredith Music Festival in Victoria, Australia in December 2011. The band split up in order to focus on The Bad Seeds’ upcoming material. However, Jim Sclavunos later said: "I can't predict what the future of Grinderman is – if there is a future." The band reunited for a one-off performance at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California in April 2013.
lyrics :
I know where the bodies are, I buried them myself.
I'm coming down from off the hill to terminate your health.
I am not a peaceful man when lightning leaps up from my hand.
Something in your smiling eyes says all you gotta do is rise.
I am not a peaceful man, but sometimes when I take your hand.
The natural urge, it does subside, of plunder, rape and genocide.
I'm not one to compromise on the truth, the beauty, the ruined prize.
Look into your smiling eyes 'cause all I wanna do is rise.
I am a lizard in the sun with hooded eyes and belly warm.
I move down through the blackened fields, the ocean wide as silver shield.
Hold me darling in your arms and stay here 'til the morning comes.
Look into your smiling eyes and all I gotta do is rise.
