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Nick Cave Explains Why His Songs Aren’t Overtly Political

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Nick Cave’s palate is wickedly broad in scope. The veteran Australian singer, songwriter and bandleader is a complex storyteller, a master of the dark arts who's equally adept at touching one’s soul with the tenderness of an "Into My Arms" or a "Ship Song".Political songs, however, just aren’t part of his DNA.In a new entry to his Red Hand Files blog, Cave offered a thoughtful response to a query on whether he wishes he’d tackled “political” themes in his songs.He would if he could.

Cave’s songs, they almost write themselves.“I have very little control over what songs I write,” he explains. “They are constructed, incrementally, in the smallest of ways, the greater meaning revealing itself after the fact.

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