Exodus - Jesu, Sun Kil Moon

I showed up to Heathrow today

For the 2000th time

Got into my taxi and I learned

Nick Cave’s son died

The news hit me like a bus into a hill

'cause once at the K West Hotel

I met him and his son

They were standing across the hall

And I mentioned to him how be both played Hultsfred 1997

I don’t believe in god but sometimes I hope there’s heaven

The bad news hurt to hear and it hurts to repeat

It’s just sad news and I’m sorry to even speak it

I was on my way home from Perth this past March, Virgin Airlines, row 23

And I watched '20,000 Days On Earth', and it inspired me

I’m very much me

And Nick Cave is very much he

But we are the same in that we are both songbirds and that we don’t stop moving

We’re like waves in the sea

I remember seeing Mike Tyson’s 'Undisputed Truth'

He spoke about the passing of his daughter Exodus and how he joined the

bereaved parents group

He knew when he arrived at her bed, that he was not alone

Because the parents of the other children embraced him and they cried together

in the hospital room

And I remember when Danielle Steel lost her son

At only 19-years-old to an overdose on heroin

And on his bedroom window still remains the sticker he put there, 'The Misfits'

Every time I walk past her home on Washington Street I look up and I glance at

it

For all bereaved parents

I send you my love

When parents survive their children it’s a pain

That very few know of

My cousin Carissa’s and my friends Chris' and Brett’s and Dennis'

And my ex-girlfriend Katy’s mom and dad

All became part of the family of bereaved parents

And when my father was young, he lost his older brother Lenny

His mom and dad joined the bereaved parents group

My dad looks down on the ground and gets quiet whenever I mention his name

When my little second cousin Carissa died

My mother called me and it had been so long since I heard that certain cry

Not since the day she divorced my father

But they’re friendly now, so with that story I’d rather not bother

But I flew out there and we gathered in the living room

And we all shared stories of a person of whom different amounts of depth we knew

The coffee table was filled with prescription drugs

Carissa’s puppy laid at my feet and I gave Carissa’s mom a hug

And she sat motionless as if there was no air

She was in a world all her own in that chair

She was the one who gave birth to Carissa and raised her

All we would do for her was be there

And it’s been two years and I know that for her some days are better

But the loss of a child has to be the hardest things to bear

The loss of a child is something that no parent is prepared

The loss of a child is simply unfair

For all bereaved parents

I send you my love

When parents outlive their children

It’s the cruelest cut

For all bereaved parents

I know

That I don’t know

But the pain has to be the worst nightmare blow

For all bereaved parents

I send you my love

For all bereaved parents

I send you my love