[00:00.50]Oh My Lord
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[00:01.50]I thought I'd take a walk today
[00:04.90]It's a mistake I sometimes make
[00:09.15]Kids lay asleep in bed
[00:12.68]My wife lay wide-awake
[00:17.78]I kissed her softly on the brow
[00:21.24]I tried not to make a sound
[00:24.79]But with stony eyes she looked at me
[00:28.79]And gently squeezed my hand
[00:33.86]Call it a premonition
[00:37.20]call it a crazy vision
[00:40.86]Call it intuition
[00:43.87]something learned from mother
[00:48.33]But when she looked up at me
[00:51.99]I could clearly see
[00:55.08]The Sword of Damocles,
[00:58.36]hanging directly above her
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[01:05.45]Oh Lord
[01:07.95]Oh my Lord
[01:12.59]Oh Lord
[01:16.54]How have I offended thee?
[01:23.82]Wrap your tender arms around me
[01:31.19]Oh Lord
[01:34.71]Oh Lord
[01:37.21]Oh My Lord
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[01:46.86]They called at me through the fence
[01:49.78]They were not making any sense
[01:52.94]They claimed that I had lost the plot
[01:56.44]Kept saying that I was not
[01:59.94]The man I used to be
[02:03.51]They held their babes aloft
[02:06.99]Threw marsh mellows at the Security
[02:10.46]And said that I'd grown soft
[02:14.87]Call it intuition
[02:17.83]call it a creeping suspicion,
[02:20.73]But their words of derision
[02:24.36]I meant they hardly knew me
[02:28.45]For even I could see in the way
[02:31.84]they looked at me
[02:34.65]The Spear of Destiny ,
[02:38.93]sticking right through me
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[02:44.00]Oh Lord
[02:46.62]Oh my lord
[02:50.83]Oh Lord
[02:54.15]How have I offended thee?
[03:00.98]Wrap your tender arms round me
[03:07.63]Oh Lord
[03:10.85]Oh lord
[03:13.15]Oh My Lord
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[03:48.50]Now I'm at the hairdressers
[03:51.60]People watch me as they move past
[03:54.36]A guy wearing plastic antlers
[03:57.55]Presses his bum against the glass
[04:00.69]Now I'm down on my hands and knees
[04:03.82]And it's so fucking hot!
[04:06.99]Someone cries, What are you looking for?
[04:10.17]I scream, The plot, the plot!
[04:13.44]I grab my telephone
[04:16.57]I call my wife at home
[04:19.66]She screams, Leave us alone!
[04:22.82]I say, Hey, it's only me
[04:26.09]The hairdresser with his scissors
[04:29.10]he holds up the mirror
[04:32.26]I look back and shiver
[04:35.36]I can't even believe what I can be
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[05:04.41]Be mindful of the prayers you send
[05:07.19]Pray hard but pray with care
[05:10.34]For the tears that you are crying now
[05:13.42]Are just your answered prayers
[05:16.64]The ladders of life that we scale merrily
[05:19.76]Move mysteriously around
[05:22.92]So that when you think
[05:24.35]you're climbing up man
[05:26.16]In fact you're climbing down
[05:29.14]Into the hollows of glamour,
[05:32.28]where with spikes and hammer
[05:35.36]With telescopic camera,
[05:38.36]they chose to turn the screw
[05:41.54]Oh I hate them, Ma!
[05:44.56]Oh I hate them, Pa!
[05:47.66]Oh I hate them all
[05:50.64]for what they went and done to you
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[05:56.45]Oh Lord
[05:58.91]Oh my Lord
[06:02.58]Oh Lord
[06:05.87]How have I offended thee?
[06:12.07]Wrap your tender arms round me
[06:18.33]Oh Lord
[06:21.37]Oh Lord
[06:23.60]Oh My Lord
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