Drums snare the opening across a silky arpeggio of melancholy and terrible beauty.

Instruments swing as rock and roll maestro Nick Cave echos a lurid tale of a street girl who stumbles and falls when the Russians move in. A ten-ton catastrophe on a sixty-pound chain.

The second verse ratchets up the tension. Instruments build and release. The tempo quickens, tightening the loop.

Written by Nick and Warren Ellis. Produced by the wonderful Nick Launay in 2012 for the band’s fifteenth studio album, “Push the Sky Away”. Recorded at the sumptuous La Fabrique studio in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. Originally built for Napoleon to make military uniforms with flamboyant red trousers for his troops. (While the red cloth hid the blood it also made the troops easy targets on the battlefield.)

Nick coaxed everything out of the band. Swirling, ascending, transcending. Exhilarating.

Turn up this flawless live version of “Jubilee Street” from a 2017 concert in Copenhagen where the band winds the song tighter and tighter until it explodes.

I’m transforming, I’m vibrating.

I’m glowing, I’m flying.

Look at me now.