Brompton Oratory - Brompton Road, London, UK
N 51° 29.803 W 000° 10.162
30U E 696478 N 5708863
The song "Brompton Oratory" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds mentions this building as its title.
Waymark Code: WMDCT0
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/26/2011
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The Brompton Oratory is sometimes known as the London Oratory. The first verse contains "up those stone steps I climb" that makes it sound as though there are a lot of steps. In fact there is only about six.
Musician: Nick Cave
Name of Song: Brompton Oratory
Relevant Verse:
It is the title but the song is:
Up those stone steps I climb
Hail this joyful day's return
Into its great shadowed vault I go
Hail the Pentecostal morn
The reading is from Luke 24
Where Christ returns to his loved ones
I look at the stone apostles
Think that it's alright for some
And I wish that I was made of stone
So that I would not have to see
A beauty impossible to define
A beauty impossible to believe
A beauty impossible to endure
The blood imparted in little sips
The smell of you still on my hands
As I bring the cup up to my lips
No God up in the sky
No devil beneath the sea
Could do the job that you did, baby
Of bringing me to my knees
Outside I sit on the stone steps
With nothing much to do
Forlorn and exhausted, baby
By the absence of you
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