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O'Malley's Bar |
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds |
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I am tall and I am thin |
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Of an enviable hight |
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And I've been known to be quite handsome |
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In a certain angle and in certain light |
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Well I entered into O'Malley's |
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Said, "O'Malley I have a thirst" |
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O'Malley merely smiled at me |
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Said "You wouldn't be the first" |
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I knocked on the bar and pointed |
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To a bottle on the shelf |
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And as O'Malley poured me out a drink |
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I sniffed and crossed myself |
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My hand decided that the time was nigh |
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And for a moment it slipped from view |
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And when it returned, it fairly burned |
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With confidence anew |
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Well the thunder from my steely fist |
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Made all the glasses jangle |
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When I shot him, I was so handsome |
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It was the light, it was the angle |
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Huh! Hmmmmmm |
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"Neighbours!" I cried, "Friends!" I screamed |
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I banged my fist upon the bar |
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"I bear no grudge against you!" |
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And my dick felt long and hard |
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"I am the man for which no God waits |
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But for which the whole world yearns |
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I'm marked by darkness and by blood |
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And one thousand powder-burns" |
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Well, you know those fish with the swollen lips |
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That clean the ocean floor |
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When I looked at poor O'Malley's wife |
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That's exactly what I saw |
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I jammed the barrel under her chin |
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And her face looked raw and vicious |
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Her head it landed in the sink |
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With all the dirty dishes |
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Her little daughter Siobhan |
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Pulled beers from dusk till down |
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And amongst the townfolk she was a bit of a joke |
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But she pulled the best beer in town |
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I swooped magnificent upon her |
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As she sat shivering in her grief |
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Like the Madonna painted on the church-house wall |
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In whale's blood and banana leaf |
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Her throat it crumbled in my hands |
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And I spun heroically around |
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To see Caffrey rising from his seat |
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I shot that mother ****er down |
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Mmmmmmmmmm Yeah Yeah Yeah |
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"I have no free will", I sang |
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As I flew about the murder |
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Mrs. Richard Holmes, she screamed |
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You really should have heard her |
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I sang and I laughed, I howled and I wept |
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I panted like a pup |
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I blew a hole in Mrs. Richard Holmes |
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And her husband stupidly stood up |
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As he screamed, "You are an evil man" |
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And I paused a while to wonder |
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"If I have no free will then how can I |
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Be morally culpable, I wonder" |
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I shot Richard Holmes in the stomach |
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And gingerly he sat down |
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And he whispered weirdly, "No offense" |
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And then lay upon the ground |
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"None taken", I replied to him |
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To which he gave a little cough |
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With blazing wings I neatly aimed |
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And blew his head completely off |
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I've lived in this town for thirty years |
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And to no-one I am a stranger |
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And I put new bullets in my gun |
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Chamber upon chamber |
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And I turned my gun on the bird-like Mr. Brookes |
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I thought of Saint Francis and his sparrows |
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And as I shot down the youthful Richardson |
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It was St. Sebastian I thought of, and his arrows |
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Hhhhhhhhhh Mmmmmmmmmmmm |
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I said, "I want to introduce myself |
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And I am glad that all you came" |
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And I leapt upon the bar |
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And shouted out my name |
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Well Jerry Bellows, he hugged his stool |
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Closed his eyes and shrugged and laughed |
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And with an ashtray as big as a ****ing really big brick |
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I split his head in half |
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His blood spilled across the bar |
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Like a steaming scarlet brook |
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And I knelt at it's edge on the counter |
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Wiped the tears away and looked |
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Well, the light in there was blinding |
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Full of God and ghosts of truth |
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I smiled at Henry Davenport |
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Who made an attempt to move |
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Well, from the position I was standing |
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The strangest thing I ever saw |
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The bullet entered through the top of his chest |
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And blew his bowels out on the floor |
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Well I floated down the counter |
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Showing no remorse |
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I shot a hole in Kathleen Carpenter |
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Recently divorced |
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But remorse i felt and remorse I had |
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It clung to every thing |
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From the raven's hair upon my head |
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To the feathers on my wings |
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Remorse sqeezed my hand in it's fradulent claw |
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With it's golden hairless chest |
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And I glided through the bodies |
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And killed the fat man Vincent West |
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Who sat quietly in his chair |
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A man become a child |
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And I raised the gun up to his head |
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Executioner-style |
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He made no attempt to resist |
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So fat and dull and lazy |
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"Did you know I lived in your street?" I said |
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And he looked at me as though I were crazy |
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"O", he said, "I had no idea" |
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And he grew as quiet as a mouse |
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And the roar of the pistol when it went off |
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Near blew that hat right off the house |
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Hmmmmmm Uh Uh |
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Well, I caught my eye in the mirror |
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And gave it a long and loving inspection |
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"There stands some kind of man", I roared |
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And there did, in the reflection |
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My hair combed back like a raven's wing |
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My muscles hard and tight |
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And curling from the business end of my gun |
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Was a query-mark of cordite |
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Well I spun to the left, I spun to the right |
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And I spun to the left again |
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"Fear me! Fear me! Fear me!" |
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But no one did cause they were dead |
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Huh! Hmmmmmmmmm |
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And then there were the police sirens wailing |
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And a bull-horn squelched and blared |
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"Drop your weapons and come out |
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With your hands held in the air" |
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Well, I checked the chamber of my gun |
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Saw I had one final bullet left |
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My hand, it looked almost human |
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As I raised it to my head |
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"Drop your weapon and come out! |
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Keep your hands above your head!" |
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I had one one long hard think about dying |
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And did exactly what they said |
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There must have been fifty cops out there |
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In a circle around O'Malley's bar |
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"Don't shoot", I cried, "I'm a man unarmed!" |
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So they put me in their car |
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And they sped me away from that terrible scene |
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And I glanced out of the window |
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Saw O'Malley's bar, saw the cops and the cars |
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And I started counting on my fingers |
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Aaaaaah |
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One Aaaaaah |
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Two Aaaaaah |
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Three Aaaaaaah |
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