Accidents Will Happen - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

All the dreams you’re having

You stole them all from me

I was having dreams like that

Back in 1973

Groovy Boo is banging the ivories

In his ancient overcoat

Stuffing all his rage and anger

Down that old piano’s throat

Accidents will happen

That’s what accidents are for

Accidents will happen

And an accident is just an accident

I walk through the swinging door

See my old girl Mabel

Her jawbone hits the floor

And her eyeballs roll around the table

In a clever act of misdirection

I manage with some finesse

To scale the ladders in her stockings

And creep into her dress

Accidents will happen

We’ve all had 'em many times before

And coincidences are just accidents

Nothing less and nothing more

I come around when she expects it the least

She always looks so strange and tragic

She comes on like some juju priest

Laying down her own brand of magic

She tells me that she’ll be true

She ain’t the type to keep her promises

I used to be down with the faithful man

Now I’m hanging with the doubting Thomases

'Cause accidents keep happening

This old world was born from one

There are servants they don’t govern

And I don’t put too much faith in them

Well, let me tell you a little more about Mabel

She is shaped like an inverted duck pond chair

I roll out my tongue when she walks past

Fix her with my famous jelly-eyed stare

Her husband is a Cro-magnon man with a magnum

He recites the second amendment, Jim

Well, accidents will happen

I’m hoping one might happen to him

We’re accidents waiting to happen

You know they’ll be happening for all time

While you’re having yours

I’ll be having mine

Maybe you and I will get it together

You and I, we will get in together

You and I, we will get it together

You and I, we will get it together