Nick Cave's Sacred and Profane

Reading the Bad Seed

I was 15 the first time I ever read anything by Nick Cave. I was sitting shotgun in an older friend’s Honda Civic while he played the Massive Attack album he’d just purchased. I was feeling fidgety, so I opened up the case to look at the booklet that came with the used copy of Henry's Dream I’d bought for eight dollars and read Cave’s lyrics before ever…