Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God (Official Audio) 

I work in aged care, and I swear every time a resident that I am really attached to passes, a song is released by a beloved artist of mine that describes that resident. For example Trouble Of The World, Sinead O'Connor, Beautiful Day (thank you for sunshine), Trinix, but I never would have thought a month ago that my beloved, dementia ridden 104 year old resident who I loved like my own grandma, who was a force of nature and a stunning soul, would pass on the day this song was released, and better believe me she was a Wild God, I am utterly shattered but grateful that this is HER song. Having been a massive Nick Cave fan for decades, this is a mind blowing coincidence for me, and I cannot stop the tears from flowing, tears moving through my body like a prehistoric bird 😭 Thank you thank you thank you, I am awed, humbled and grateful to be alive to witness this song and to honour the life of a beautiful lady.

No one talk to me August 30th - I'll be having a moment!!! ❤

Yes, he's back, the band are back, the groove is back & the drum kit has been found! A new era begins!

The last 2 minutes of this song reach a level of ecstatic passion that I’ve rarely heard. What a ride.

I'm a fairly new Nick Cave fan. For the first time in my fandom, I get to experience a brand new song. A wonderful feeling

Ah man, that last two minutes felt like being thrown into the air.

I'm 30 years old and it's been 17 years together Nick. Thank you for everything, half of my life listening your crazy and beautiful stories, see you in Madrid. By the way, I'm from Argentina.

Oh Lord, well, if you're feeling lonely and if you're feeling blue And if you just don't know what to do Bring your spirit down

Hardest year of my life behind me, may I can find here some joy.

First part Push the sky, second Abattoir. I really hope it will be more in the Abattoir vibe. I love that energy.

There’s some real harking back vibes here. A great man, a wild god looking back over his life.

rejoice! and drums are back.

So much loss these last few years and Nick has held my hand throughout ❤ And on the day I had to face being no fixed abode again, my dog, my van and me, so many people gone…this music just made me cry tears of joy as I drove away. I’m lost but I’m free ❤

This pushes the grey skies away!

Since a couple of months I'm inscribed to the "RED HAND FILES", a kind of Q&A-Board that Nick maintains every week. I have to tell, that I adore this man since then even more. He's a true one, an authentic one. LOVE YOU, NICK §

Nick kept me company when I lost dad last year...sacred moments 🙏 Best of luck to the album

Been listening to this over and over. The more you hear it the more magnificent it is!!! Straight to the heart! ❤

NICK CAVE JUST KEEPS GETTIING BETTER AND BETTER!I WOULD DIE WITHOUT HIS MUSIC!

I don't care what else is on the album...I can't wait to hear this song live

And the year of 2024 its now branded as special, as he came to us again

New Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds? Best day of the year so far 💛💛💛

Swim to the hymn, swim to the prayer and BRING YOUR SPIRIT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now this...THIS IS A SONG.

Can't stop listening to this!!!

Wow first the Eels release a new song now NICK!!! And PJ is in October. What a blessed year for music!!!!

I've enjoyed the last several albums, but a return to the sounds from Nocturama to Push the Sky Away is like a warm hug from an old friend

Any day a new Nick Cave single drops is a very good day - a wild day!!

Yes, you are a wild god! ❤ Imagine how this will sound live!!!

This song is ecstatic and a blaze of pain and splendor, ah yes he is a prehistoric bird plunging into my blood.

I was missing this sound! This is beautiful

Nick cave the best singer songwriter of our time, a real talent and legend

The last minutes of this song always ignites a spark of hope in my heart. A great return of Nick and the Bad Seeds. Can't wait to hear them live in Milan ♥

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, I'm going through a very hard time and this comes as a beautiful consolation.

With this song I feel like Nick gone through the really dark times of his own and went into some kind of new era of his music. I really like it. And his precious albums of complete darkness are beautiful too. And his Idiot prayer is a soundtrack for my covid days ❤

[Verse 1] Once upon a time, a wild God zoomed All through his memory in which he was entombed It was rape and pillage in the retirement village But in his mind he was a man of great virtue and courage And he flew out the window with his long, trailing hair And the smoke from the bodies went straight up in the air He was a wild God searching for what all wild Gods are searching for And he flew through the dying city like a prehistoric bird He went searching for the girl down on Jubilee Street But she'd died in a bedsit in 1993 So he flew to the top of the world and looked around And said, "Where are my people? Where are my people to bring your spirit down?" [Instrumental Break] [Verse 2] A wild God searching for a faraway girl Who was basically a mirage but nevertheless loomed large She would hang under the rail as he blew 'round the room And make love with a kind of efficient gloom And the people on the ground cried, "When does it start?" And the wild God says, "It starts with a heart, with a heart, with a heart, with a heart" And the people on the ground cried, "When does it end?" And the wild God says, "Well, it depends, but it mostly never ends 'Cause I'm a wild God flying and a wild God swimming And I'm an old, sick God dying and crying and singing" You might also like Long Dark Night Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Frogs Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Song of the Lake Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds [Outro] Bring your spirit down Oh, we're wild Gods, baby, we're wild Gods Yeah, bring your spirit down Oh, well, he's moving through the flames of anarchy And he's moving through the winds of tyranny And the sweet, sweet tears of liberty, yeah, moving 'round the world He's moving through your body like a prehistoric bird He's moving 'round the world Oh Lord, well, if you're feeling lonely and if you're feeling blue And if you just don't know what to do Bring your spirit down Oh, we're wild Gods, baby, we're wild Gods I'm a wild God, baby, I'm a wild God Oh, here we go, we're going to the cradle of Africa We're going to Russia, we're going to China To the United States of America Yeah, moving 'round the world, yeah, moving like a great, big, beautiful bird We're moving 'round the world Yeah, and he's swimming at the end of the rotting pier He swims to the end of his rotting idea Swim to the hymn, swim to the prayer And bring your spirit down I'm a wild God, baby, I'm a wild God Well, here we go, yeah, here we go

I started dancing uncontrollably. A perfect piece for spring awakening! Thank you Nick Cave, thank you The Bad (and the Good) Seeds! You moved my body and soul, like you always do. I cannot wait now to hear it live

this guy is the best!

Interesting to hear Nick return to a sound he hasn't really approached for close to two decades now. Sounds like he's managed to find joy in life again.

Thank God the guitars and the drums are back 🙂

Oh wow, this is wonderful! I didn't know what to expect, but I LOVE this song! Thank you Nick! Thank you Bad Seeds! The world needs this.

This is really every treasure Nick Caves music holds combined in one song. Great. Very much looking forward to the new album.

Yes,yes; Bad Seeds are back!!

Im from Slovakia. We are in need for whole country therapist. Our government is more then friendly with Putin and Orbán, today we have lost our closest friend and neighbor - Czech Republic. I ve just cried hearing this song. Thank you!

Thank you! Can't wait the new album. I'm so happy! Just what I needed, life's been shitty lately but now I am like a kid again. Best news this year and I Fucking love this song! Again Thank You Nick Cave & Bad Seeds! Cheers from Finland

OMG. this songs just get better and better. Got some serious Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus and some of the best qualities of recent work. And the lyrics are rad, beautiful and mysterious, like Cave began to merge with Dylan in the best possible way.

nick cave just getting better with time...Its been 25 years together

This men is the one! Such a inteligent and glorious compositor 🙏 god bless you Nick ❤

GOD Is coming to Dublin. Thanks Lord. See ya soon Nick

I only recently began listening to Nick Cave; I was in a good place with work, when I began- albeit doing something I wasn't terribly fond of, but now I'm out of work, in such a short span. This song here reminds me, that you always have someone to reach to when times are tough. This might be your magnum opus, sir.

These beautiful album covers don’t go unnoticed. skeleton tree, ghosteen, carnage and now wild god. i really love everything you’ve put out these last few years

Damn, that song explodes in the latter half. Beautiful! Hope I'll have the opportunity to catch this live during a European tour, pretty please.

Someday, I'm going to have to walk down Jubilee Street. Gotta find it, first.

Yay! A Bad Seeds song WITH the Bad Seeds! The loop pedal was getting played out.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. Psalm50:21

Oh yeah! Just what we all needed... ...except I can't speak for anyone but myself. Just what I needed. Thanks men.

MASTERPIECE, MR. CAVE, GLORIOUS MASTERPICE

This is so fucking good. When the choir kicks in...

Nick, Warren and team are masters of their craft.

This song deserves an epic live video.

See you soon in Zagreb! ❤

This is the first thing that's really grabbed me since "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" Thanks, Nick. Excited to hear the rest!

Another journey to unique poetry and melodies is about to start… Thank you, Nick Cave! ❤

Nick and the Seeds at their almighty finest These guys just keep getting better and better I adore that they bring so much joy and emotion to this latest offering

Yeah Nick you hit this one out of the park. Soul stirring. ❤❤❤

Oh man, I have been waiting so long for Nick the Rock and Roll Wild God to reappear. Hallelujah!

Superb to hear! It's got elements of everything: snatches of other songs with a fresh take.

A marvelous gospel!!! ❤

A sweet gift to the world. Wild God Bless Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Finally, he rises

OMG for Wild God!!! Thank you Nick Cave for keeping music alive these days!

I’ve been in love with this man for like twenty odd years! He is a remarkable musician!! I’m a visual artist who recently found my muse in a brilliant fellow artist who looks very much like Nick. Bliss.

Nick- every first song I hear from a new album I’m like eh- but inevitably the alums grows on me & becomes a staple in my current season. Then my favorites from the album become part of the soundtrack of my life! Thanks for the continued artistic creativity you release into our world 🙏🏻✌️

You can see him singing this live ! Gonna be amazing

An angel in the sky.

Magnificent I can’t wait for the rest And tour to follow Sometimes I feel what more can he say and he does it again

Martyn P. Casey. That's all ... he hasn't quite asserted himself over the last few albums (he's sublimated himself for the songs -- great bass player). there are a lot of comments about the drums returning, but it's Marty who's really back in this song and I'm all for it.

Thank you, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, for such an emotional rush at a time when I so desperately need it. My speakers are trembling and the song feels like a storm in the clouds. Big love from Greece

Well, that was fantastic. The second part makes this song very entertaining that grabs my attention. I cannot wait hearing their new work. A return to form to Bad Seeds.

1ère impression: une Magnifique grandiose balade sauvage avec une pointe de gospel. Superbe

Nick Cave is the coolest.

Finally you are back, Nick! We do fucking love you!

As a young fan, this is my first Nick Cave + Bad Seeds song to be released while I've (sorta) been able to appreciate such music. What a feeling, I have to say I feel a part of some sort of club. And a good one at that.

Sounds like a return to the bad seeds sound before he was only collaborating with Warren Ellis. Love it. Can’t wait for the album!

Keep your voice like that Dear Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds! Much Love! :)

The Return of the King!!!

met Nick Cave last year at a book signing and he was very Nick Cave

Hey, I can actually hear the Bad Seeds on this one!!

Welcome back, Mr. Cave. Good ol' tunes ❤️ Absolutely adore it.

Finally, after all these years, Warren has found out that a synthesizer has an "off" switch and the band is back :P

This reminds me of a mixture of Carnage and There She Goes My Beautiful World.

You made my day, and my year! Can’t wait to see you live again!

Absolutely love this.

Thank you! The Bad Seeds musician are the best!

Nick and The Bad Seeds from "Nature Boy", the double albums; love love love! The heart is beating fast.. Thank you! So full of love you are making a "back to the future"!

They need to start singing this in Church!

YES! Love the sound of this one. August 30 can't come fast enough!

Amazing song!!! ♥️🤩

Amen to this. Bless the bad seeds

Beautiful!

Brilliant. As usual.