The title track and also the first single from Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, released on 18 February 2008. On the album cover, we can read, that the song was written ‘for Larry Sloman’.

Nick Cave says:

Ever since I can remember hearing the Lazarus story, when I was a kid, you know, back in church, I was disturbed and worried by it. Traumatised, actually. We are all, of course, in awe of the greatest of Christ‘s miracles – raising a man from the dead – but I couldn’t help but wonder how Lazarus felt about it. As a child it gave me the creeps, to be honest.