Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - I Need You Lyrics






When you're feeling like a lover
Nothing really matters anymore
I saw you standing there in the supermarket
With your red dressing falling and your eyes are to the ground
Nothing really matters, nothing really matters when the one you love is gone
You're still in me, baby
I need you
In my heart, I need you

Cause nothing really matters
I'm standing in the doorway
You're walking 'round my place in your red dress, hair hanging down
With your eyes on one, we love the ones we can
Cause nothing really matters when you're standing, standing

I need you, need you

Cause nothing really matters
We follow the line of the palms of our hands
You're standing in the supermarket, nothing, holding hands
In your red dress, falling, falling in, falling in
A long black car is waiting 'round
I will miss you when you're gone
I'll miss you when you're gone away forever
Cause nothing really matters
I thought I knew better, so much better

And I need you
I need you

Cause nothing really matters
On the night we wrecked like a train
Purring cars and pouring rain
Never felt right about, never again
Cause nothing really matters
Nothing really matters anymore, not even today
No matter how hard I try
When you're standing in the aisle, and no, baby
Nothing, nothing, nothing
I need, I need, I need you

I need you
I need you

Just breathe, just breathe
I need you





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  1. E.... G....

    💓💦

  2. A.... V....

    And. .......
    ........... I'm crying 😭

    A.... V....

    Gets me every time

  3. P.... F....

    This hurts.

  4. J.... A....

    Who the fuck can dislike this? Nick Cave is God playing pianno and singing!

  5. A.... T....

    I understand Cave fully..... I lost my oldest son Remco in 2013 when he was just 16......

  6. J.... W....

    In all of my 54 years, I cannot think of any song that rips me apart - as this song does.
    'I will miss you, when you're gone. I'll miss you, when you're gone away, forever'. Fuck. Truer words were never written.
    Karen, should you ever this way come, remember that I loved you beyond compare. No one before or since has remotely come close, to being loved, as much as I loved you.
    'That night, we wrecked like a train'. I'd do anything in my power to turn back time - but of course, I cannot.
    I will live what's left of my life in the shadows, of what should have been.

  7. s.... �....

    Red right hours

  8. P.... B....

    Je viens juste de perdre ma fille de vingt quatre ans dans des circonstances dramatiques. Je suis hanté usé lyrique. Je ne me vois pas pouvoir faire ce qu’ il viens de faire.

    P.... B....

    Courage à vous ...

    P.... B....

    Courage à vous ...

  9. J.... J....

    This is just beautiful, I've told my wife to play this at my funeral....tearsville.

  10. B.... B....

    Just...wow!!

  11. d.... m....

    📲*00212679620248* *Whatapps*📲
    ولاحـظــت💁‍♂️ كــثــيــر مـن الـتـعـالـيـق عــن تــكــبــيــر الـقـضـيـب وضـعـف الانــتــصــاب وســرعــة الـقـذف
    وأبــغــى أبـشـركـم😉 أنـي حــصــلــت عـلـى مـعـلـومـات كــثــيــر مـفـيـدة✅ هـتـنـفـعـكـم كــثــيــر ومـجـربـهـا كـمـان ونـفـعـتـنـي🤩🥳
    تـواصـل مـعـي🙋‍♂️ وأنـا بـشـرح لــك ســر الــوصــفــة 📲*00212.679.620.248* *whatapps*📲

  12. M.... F....

    If complexity, pain, love and feeling makes us unique, you are one of a kind Nick. Thank you for sharing your view. Your lines are pure feeling.

  13. A.... E....

    I have anxiety disorder and every time I am packing I listen this album. Brings me relief... I can't explain how much this means in my life. Thanks

  14. I.... D....

    Sitting on the bus crying right now listening to this. Just saw him last week at The Moore. Still on a major high! 🖤 Nick Cave is one of a kind

  15. A.... M....

    the most sophisticated artist in current music history. He has class and humanity, a real gentleman. I had the privilege to see him in concert in Milan, few people. I thought I saw an angel.

  16. G.... T....

    "The images never coalesce into a clear narrative, but they amount to something even greater: a lifetime flashing before your eyes, so sad and real that it could be your own". Not my words but a beautifully succinct appraisal by a music journalist. When we're struck by an emotional loss those images tumble through our minds as if our whole life lead to that/this one moment.

  17. G.... M....

    If ya get a chance, please check out 1st508th Airborne site, that Is if ya like puppies, thanks.

  18. S.... E....

    I used to listen to this song when my girlfriend got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. It's a few years now, but hearing this just breaks me and reminds me of just sitting in her room as she injected her medication. Things are better now, fortunately, and we'll be moving in. But this song brings me back to the start of 2017. Jesus Christ. I know it's different from what Nick felt but at the time we genuinely didn't know how things are gonna be. So I can't really listen to this song, or the album for the matter. But when I do, it's truly something.


    Thank you, Nick.

  19. K.... L....

    Magnifique chanson avec beaucoup d'émotion ....Merci Monsieur Nick Cave ....d'avoir ce don de mettre des notes de musique sur des choses indescriptibles que la vie nous fait vivre et nous impose...

  20. M.... T....

    Everything Nick Cave is good in my life. I feel amazing when i listen to his music. Not many artists can do that!

  21. D.... W....

    I am so grateful for all the people out there who are afraid of _feelings_ and dare not touch them in the _fear_ of ridicule.
    People who shun _them_ and label _them_ with whatever _negatives_ they could possibly muster whilst constantly pursuing the _positives._
    Because of those people it is so much easier to appreciate the people who embraces and dares delving into the infinite depth of _feelings_ and all they has to offer.
    Whether it is _love, sadness, fear_ or even _hatred_ - as well as all the minor _feelings_ in between the major ones.

    This is so pure in regard to feelings that it almost hurts. And I love it. I live it. I breathe it.
    Thank you, all of you - because you play and sing as one in music and song.

  22. S.... T....

    My name is Santos T Ramos..... I am gay and happy, 37 years old. Saw Warren ellis in Portland or many years ago, then saw you (Nick cave with this new album after the passing of your son ((included in our prayers)) in that order ((with my beloved. It was a great concert in LA)). My Twitter is wheat_and_gold. God is benevolent and this is his Earth. Prayers are tree sap, the best incense.

  23. P.... ....

    Why are there 1k of dislikes? This track is a masterpiece.

    P.... ....

    Phantoma3 because people are terrified of pain--others' and their own

  24. T.... C....

    Crying.

  25. :.... :....

    God this hurts

  26. G.... W....

    I have to stop listening to this song because it always makes me cry. But I cant. It's just so perfect and so beautiful. Thanks Nick. So sorry for your loss.

  27. M.... R....

    I , we all need you to .. your musik is my medicine .. so you have to be brave for me and all your fans .. you have to be happy .. Mateja Rezonja

  28. M.... R....

    Nick .. just a little hug from me to you .. have a sunny day .. Mateja Rezonja

  29. G.... C....

    ♥️.

  30. t.... m....

    I came here to purposely cry.

  31. �.... �....

    Just incredibly wide painity

  32. b.... ....

    I love the lyrics of this song, and the overall emotion put into it. But, somehow, I just can't dig Nick's vocals. I think the song would have sounded so much better if he sang like he did in "Are You the One" or "Into My Arms". I understand what he was going through, but still...

  33. K.... B....

    Just when I thought he couldn't write a sadder song than "Where do we go but nowhere" - this fucking happens. Damn-it Nick! You're killing me!

  34. J.... ....

    Is it just me or is the mix on this music video much better than the album version?

    J.... ....

    Yeah the album sound quality wasn't great and same on the last album but they must have recorded live and raw on purpose but the volume on both was quite low and background hissing too

  35. h.... ....

    This song truly fucks me up in ways that no music or art has been able to for many years. It hurts but it feels kinda good to feel again.

  36. J.... L....

    This song has and always will just knock my socks off...Its pure pain.

  37. S.... ....

    The anguish is piercing. The emotion is suffocating. Really powerful.

  38. v.... t....

    Love u Nick.

  39. T.... R....

    When you’re feeling like a lover
    Nothing really matters anymore
    I saw you standing there in the supermarket
    With your red dressing falling
    And your eyes are to the ground
    Nothing really matters, nothing really matters
    When the one you love is gone
    You’re still in me, baby
    I need you
    In my heart, I need you

    Cause nothing really matters
    I’m standing in the doorway
    You’re walking ‘round my place in your red dress, hair hanging down
    With your eyes on one
    We love the ones we can
    Cause nothing really matters
    When you’re standing, standing

    I need you, need you

    Cause nothing really matters
    We follow the line of the palms of our hands
    You’re standing in the supermarket
    Nothing, holding hands
    In your red dress, falling, falling in, falling in
    A long black car is waiting ‘round
    I will miss you when you’re gone
    I’ll miss you when you’re gone away forever
    Cause nothing really matters
    I thought I knew better, so much better
    And I need you
    I need you

    Cause nothing really matters
    On the night we wrecked like a train
    Purring cars and pouring rain
    Never felt right about, never again
    Cause nothing really matters
    Nothing really matters anymore, not even today
    No matter how hard I try
    When you’re standing in the aisle, and no, baby
    Nothing, nothing, nothing
    I need, I need, I need you

    I need you
    I need you

    Just breathe, just breathe
    I need you

  40. M.... P....

    Just breathe

  41. M.... ....

    My dad died in 2011. Big time trucker. He left me $200.00, a laptop, and his ashes. I’m gonna turn his ashes into ink tattoo and tatto a heart with his ashes. Cheap bigger lol. As a dad I can safely say whoever is your birthdad. He loves you.

  42. C.... C....

    My heart is a Breaking with you pain. This song is amazing.

  43. P.... ....

    Those simple words at the end “just breathe, just breathe, I need you” are some incredibly strong lyrics. I cannot begin to imagine his loss and pain.

  44. P.... ....

    Cheers!! Pistos Dogg..

  45. S.... M....

    So beautiful yet so tragic.

  46. J.... S....

    Good article about this song:
    https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/18520-nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-i-need-you/

  47. s.... ....

    Fuck Nick Cave, he crossed the picket line and played in apartheid Israel - FUCK YOU

  48. C.... B....

    It seems as tough our life, love and relationships are merely illusions. They are nothing against brutal reality that just works its way.

  49. a.... ....

    Your voice has been a salvation through those times, half the time not knowing who I was grieving for. much it seems to bear those terrible dark times
    It is beginning to pass. I put it all in the 'how bad it can get file' for evermore. if we can allow the crack to grow than the deep dark unconscious that plays havoc on the curtain of the cosmos. I do hope your head and heart are in a better space

  50. D.... M....

    He really touch me deep inside somewhere, I don't even understand why.. When he came out on stage in Berlin last summer I started to cry immediately. Never happen to me before in a live concert. This man has something really unique.

  51. r.... d....

    Muhteşem.nick cave playlistimde ilk 5 te.

  52. B.... T....

    Gets me crying.

  53. S.... P....

    MERCI...TALENTS..et TALENTS .ALWAYS TALENT . . .and THE BAD SEEDS TALENTS.....it's a lot...

  54. R.... A....

    The king of flow

  55. D.... H....

    always with the black and white for dear Nicky...

  56. a.... ....

    incredible video!

  57. J.... ....

    Happy Valentine's Day motherfuckers! My goddamn soul hurts!

  58. s.... l....

    pure professional ,nick is not dark ,he answers questions peaple are afraid to ask simple

  59. R.... B....

    Hope all is well brother

  60. A.... G....

    Awesome

  61. �.... �....

    איך את מצליחה לעצור אהבה בלחיצת כפתור לכבות כמו מכונה

  62. �.... �....

    יש שאהבים עם כל הלב ויש שיודעות לעצור הלב מתי ביום פקודה,מהי אהבה

  63. R.... D....

    Once in a while
    Slowy sorrow knocks on the door
    She never really leaves
    Always waiting in the corner
    Of that bad lit place
    With her comforting face
    Once in a while
    She's the one
    Who softens the pain

    Mr. Cave rules in words and tunes....

  64. R.... G....

    My husband is in prison. I'm homeless with our 1yr old daughter. We had our own pad and life waa great. He had an old warrant that required he do 4yrs with half time . so 2yrs flat he'll be gone. I thought it would get easier as time went by. But every day is harder. I fell apart when he got taken. I let my old addictions come back . I stopped just short of losing our kids. I put myself into a program. I can not stop crying. Day and night. Day in and day out. I Need you Seth !

  65. E.... D....

    Nothing really matters without you. And even though I'm the one who went away, it was never because I didn't need you and didn't love you. You deserve so much better and not to be stuck with loving someone who is dying so young. It's been a few years now, I still think of you and thank you for being the only happiness I've ever had and am sorry for being a regret and heartbreak you didn't realize the truth of. You're having a baby now and I'm getting a feeding tube for intestinal failure. I know I made the right choice. I just hope she loves you half as much as I do and I hope to be around to one day meet your family and say how lucky they are to have you. I love you, always and forever and in the shadows and clouds.

  66. L.... R....

    Heartbreaking... stunning, painfull and pure.

  67. A.... N....

    For 3 years I and my girlfriend do to some fucked up
    circumstances were forced against our will to live separately. We love ich other and craving for one another but we are fucking separated like some invisible barbed wire is between us. Such a pain I couldn't imagine when a person who you love deeply and truly and for long 12 years is been suddenly removed from you. Those first nights i thought I would die. Worst 3 years of my life. I m dying to lay beside her and hug her and listen to her breathing. I need her.

    A.... N....

    Are you back together now?

    A.... N....

    @Jeditard yes and no. in some kind of limb state... Thanks

  68. C.... B....

    Maldito cancer, gente buena, maravillosas, llenas de luz, que no merecen irse asi.

  69. L.... N....

    Esta es una de las pocas canciones que me dedicaría a mi misma.... Y el documental es precioso.

  70. k.... p....

    Aussie Neil Young Like, Beautiful Mr. Nick Cave

    k.... p....

    kevin pickering Neil Young is my favorite sonwriter along with Nick Cave

  71. R.... k....

    I know its tough for you to even imagine being with me. But I promise you that you will not be forgotten and our story will remain pious and true. My sunshine >>>>I Need you. I will love you with my every breath till I breathe.

  72. h.... h....

    I cant stop listening to this song

  73. J.... W....

    Is there a woman in the whole wide world who loves this song as much as I? Someone who just 'gets' this level of emotion? Someone, who's heart aches like mine, and who might love me as much as I would them, enveloped in the echo of this blissful song.
    I doubt no such person exists.

  74. p.... b....

    fantastic

  75. K.... C....

    This man makes my entire body quiver. he is absolutely the most talented human I've had the pleasure to touch.

  76. C.... B....

    If emotion is a door to your soul...

  77. B.... R....

    I am touched once again.

  78. s.... b....

    You break my heart every single time

  79. G.... E....

    Increíble show el de octubre en Buenos Aires, fue todo lo que podía esperar, y lo espere por mucho tiempo. Hasta la próxima NC.

  80. �.... �....

    עמוק שחותך את הלב

  81. J.... W....

    I am a man of 53. I have never done drugs in my life.
    But I am seriousjy addicted to this song. And every once and a while, I come back to it to get my beautiful fix.
    I think only those who have loved and lost the love of their life, will truly understand just how powerful this song is. ❤

  82. M.... P....

    who the hell would dislike this

  83. r.... h....

    Ranked the number one album of 2016 at Metacritic and rightfully so. Its criminal that none of their albums have even been nominated for a Grammy.

  84. D.... A....

    So awesome!

  85. R.... C....

    This song is a perfect expression of the confusion, hopelessness and oppressive desperation of loss.

    You never know when it will hit you: standing in the supermarket, walking round your place, holding hands; 
    And you blame yourself, you thought you knew better, so much better;
    And you tell yourself just breathe, just breathe, 'cause nothing really matters;
    And you reach out to those around you, the ones you still can;
    And you say: I need you

    Such a beautiful song, though it pains me to hear it

  86. B.... B....

    Every time I hear this and Girl In Amber I feel like I'm being stabbed in the chest. It's so painful to listen to. But then I have to remind myself that I can't even begin to imagine what the pain was like to have caused such an emotionally charged album to come about. Nick, if you can bare it, we can bear it. Much love x

  87. Z.... A....

    POA IS A FEW YEARS LATER I AM SURE YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO SEE IF I HATE BEING A GREAT DEAL

  88. I.... K....

    Listened to this at work. It came on the autoplay. My eyes filled with tears... Emotions that he channels through his music are just too strong. Always were strong, but now they're lancinating...

  89. J.... W....

    Only those who have loved the deepest and lost in the most painful way imaginable, will know the strength of this beautiful song.
    Just breathe. Just breathe. That's all I have left.

  90. K.... H....

    It's really hard to listen to, considering the tragic death of his young son. It's heart breaking when he sings "Just breathe, just breathe". What a beautifully dark song. The darkest I've ever heard.

  91. L.... D....

    Timeless and immortal...

  92. A.... K....

    hueman r no cg

  93. D.... S....

    Great Mr.Cave!!!

  94. L.... R....

    There are 954 who have clicked dislike, so there are 954 people who need a good cockpunching because holy fuck if you can't feel anything, ANYTHING, after this, you deserve a good and repeated cockpunching

  95. 1.... ....

    not an easy listen lads. what a legendary album

    1.... ....

    If he can bare it, we can bear it.

  96. M.... K....

    I understand,my mom passed away and it's very hard...

  97. j.... s....

    nothing better than feeling this brilliant song...heart and soul touching ...tears in my eyes - goosebumps everywher....again & again & again