= A rare and unique opportunity to acquire a first draft original handwritten exquisite song lyric, of the 2010 song "Fire Boy", recorded in 2009 for the Grinderman 2 album. Nick cave is more and more regarded as one of the most interesting and gifted songwriters of this age.
Text includes several textual variants from the recorded version, several words changed, crossed-out, marked and several marginal annotations relating to chord.
The song may be listened to online.
Nick Cave is known as a maniacal archivary of his own works and papers and has donated almost all of his personal archive to museums - reportedly only 3 sets of other draft lyrics have been donated by Mr. Cave to charities (being two sets of Where the Wild Roses Grow and one re-written copy of God is in the house). Nick Cave does not usually give away song lyrics, but made an exception for this one only occasion when he gave away these lyrics to a long-time personal close friend and professional collaborator. The lyric sheet comes with an autograph signed statement by Nick Cave in which he declares to give away these lyrics and to whom.

The lyrics as recorded:

Where has my sister gone?
Says the fire boy to his mother
They gone down to the moratorium
with your crazy little brother
Do you think she might mind if I tag along
Says the fire boy as he detaches
Here take me down some petroleum
and a rag and a box of matches
You better hide you better hide away
The fire boy is purging
You better hide you better hide away
Yeah, the cops they are surging

Oh, we were always running away
Said the fireboy to his little sons
We were always running away
my darling my precious ones

I'm gonna go wake up Mary
and together we'll get loaded
I'm gonna bite deep into her cherry
while the government houses exploded
Yeah I love the way she jumped the counter
in her miniskirt and her leather boots
Well I don't know what I ever did without her
as we hide in the alleyways and the garbage chutes

Yeah we were always running away
Said the fireboy to his little sons
Yeah we were always running away
oh my darling, my precious ones

Come on
Come on
Shoot it at the sun
Come on
Shoot it at the sun