"The Carny" is a song by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appearing on their fourth studio album Your Funeral... My Trial (1986).
It was written by Nick Cave and was recorded in August 1986 at Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin and Strongroom in London.
As the circus prepares to leave without the missing performer, they find the Carny's horse Sorrow, "so skin and bone", and kill it.
[1] The song is featured in Wim Wenders' romantic fantasy film Wings of Desire (1987), when the character Marion (Solveig Dommartin) listens to the album Your Funeral... My Trial.
[1] Professor Adrian Danks wrote "The Carny" adds a feel of sorrow in the background, while Marion gives "breathy accompaniment".