The Spiritual Desire of Nick Cave
2 min readJun 14, 2021
Love, Lust and Affection.
“The Ship Song” has all of these elements that just flow over me, whenever I listen to it. What a life journey this man has been on and how very lucky we are that he feels compelled to share it with us. I first became aware of Nick Cave years ago (in my 20’s) when someone I was dating introduced me to The Bad Seeds and Blixa Bargeld. To say that I was transfixed would be putting it mildly. There was something undeniably sexy about Nick Cave that appealed to my rabid romantic tendencies — he was (and still is) rather like a modern day version of…