𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗬𝗪𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗯𝘆 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗖𝗮𝘃𝗲 & 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀

"Hollywood" is a song from seventeenth studio album Ghosteen by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
★ At around 8’ 30’’ into the song "Hollywood" the narrator stands on the beach, looking out to sea. Malibu is on fire and the animals have been driven down from the hills to the shore. A sea serpent rises out of the ocean. A small boy drops his bucket and spade and climbs into the sun. Jon, this series of images came to me while in the back of a car driving around your city of Oslo on the last Bad Seeds’ tour, and was the first step toward the writing of Ghosteen. Within this sudden vision the whole of the album presented itself. It is rare in songwriting to be given such a rich and sustaining gift.
★ Some months later I wrote what would become the second verse of "Hollywood" - the image of my wife, as a white cougar with "a terrible engine of wrath for a heart", roaming the Hollywood Hills. This single image of rage-filled, carnivorous grief sat in my notebook waiting for a home.
★ The Buddhist story of Kisa and the Mustard Seed, that would eventually be the final part of "Hollywood" had been of great significance and comfort to me for years and at some point I jotted it down in verse form, completely independent of anything else, and with no intention of it being a song.
Recorded: 2018 - 2019
Released: 4 October 2019
𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚
𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗜: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻
01. Spinning Song
02. Bright Horses
03. Waiting for You
04. Night Raid
05. Sun Forest
06. Galleon Ship
07. Ghosteen Speaks
08. Leviathan
𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗜𝗜: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀
01. Ghosteen
02. Fireflies
04. 𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗬𝗪𝗢𝗢𝗗
★ 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐚𝐯𝐞. 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬
★ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗸: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐝 (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟕) 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐥𝐲 (𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐) και το 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐)
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