CONWAY SAVAGE – Bring It On (Nick Cave cover)

Conway Victor Savage (27 July 1960 – 2 September 2018) was an Australian rock musician. He was a member of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, providing piano, organ and backing vocals from 1990 to 2017.

Savage released solo albums titled Nothing Broken (2000) and Wrong Man’s Hands (2004) as well as a compilation called Rare Songs & Performances 1989–2004. He also collaborated with other artists such as Suzie Higgie for Soon Will Be Tomorrow (1998) and “Quickie For Ducky” by Amanda Fox & Robert Tickner (2007).

Savage underwent medical treatment for a brain tumour in 2017. He died, aged 58, on 2 September 2018. Ghosteen (2019), the Bad Seeds’ seventeenth album, was dedicated to Savage.

This rendition of Nick Cave’s “Bring It On” is from Savage’s 2004 album Wrong Man’s Hands.

This garden that I built for you That you sit in now and yearn I will never leave it, dear I could not bear to return And find it all untended With the trees all bended low This garden is our home, dear And I got nowhere else to go

So bring it on Bring it on Every little tear Bring it on Every useless fear Bring it on All your shattered dreams And I’ll scatter them into the sea

Into the sea

The geraniums on your window sill The carnations, dear, and the daffodil Well, they’re ordinary flowers But they long for the light of your touch And of your trembling will Ah, you’re trembling still And I am trembling too

To be perfectly honest I don’t know Quite what else to do

So bring it on Bring it on Every neglected dream Bring it on Every little scheme

Bring it on Every little fear And I’ll make them disappear

So bring it on, bring it on Bring it on Every little thing Bring it on Every tiny fear Bring it on Every shattered dream And I’ll scatter them into the sea