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[ar:NICK CAVE]
[ti:O'Malley's Bar]
[00:04.49]O'Malley's Bar
[00:25.48]I am tall and I am thin
[00:26.33]Of an enviable hight
[00:30.73]And I've been known to be quite handsome
[00:34.11]In a certain angle and in certain light
[00:39.85]Well I entered into O'Malley's
[00:43.64]Said, "O'Malley I have a thirst"
[00:47.59]O'Malley merely smiled at me
[00:51.17]Said "You wouldn't be the first"
[00:58.25]I knocked on the bar and pointed
[01:02.49]To a bottle on the shelf
[01:04.29]And as O'Malley poured me out a drink
[01:08.28]I sniffed and crossed myself
[01:14.07]My hand decided that the time was nigh
[01:17.26]And for a moment it slipped from view
[01:20.95]And when it returned, it fairly burned
[01:24.78]With confidence anew
[01:27.03]Well the thunder from my steely fist
[01:32.92]Made all the glasses jangle
[01:37.59]When I shot him, I was so handsome
[01:41.19]It was the light, it was the angle
[01:46.96]Huh! Hmmmmmm
[01:59.63]"Neighbours!" I cried, "Friends!" I screamed
[02:12.29]I banged my fist upon the bar
[02:13.63]"I bear no grudge against you!"
[02:16.77]And my dick felt long and hard
[02:22.86]"I am the man for which no God waits
[02:26.10]But for which the whole world yearns
[02:29.84]I'm marked by darkness and by blood
[02:33.96]And one thousand powder-burns"
[02:38.41]Well, you know those fish with the swollen lips
[02:43.70]That clean the ocean floor
[02:46.74]When I looked at poor O'Malley's wife
[02:50.48]That's exactly what I saw
[02:56.51]I jammed the barrel under her chin
[02:59.70]And her face looked raw and vicious
[03:03.49]Her head it landed in the sink
[03:07.52]With all the dirty dishes
[03:13.71]Her little daughter Siobhan
[03:16.45]Pulled beers from dusk till down
[03:20.39]And amongst the townfolk she was a bit of a joke
[03:24.02]But she pulled the best beer in town
[03:30.42]I swooped magnificent upon her
[03:33.21]As she sat shivering in her grief
[03:36.85]Like the Madonna painted on the church-house wall
[03:40.64]In whale's blood and banana leaf
[03:47.01]Her throat it crumbled in my fist
[03:50.16]And I spun heroically around
[03:53.65]To see Caffrey rising from his seat
[03:58.19]I shot that mother fucker down
[04:01.83]Mmmmmmmmmm Yeah Yeah Yeah
[04:17.70]"I have no free will", I sang
[04:33.57]As I flew about the murder
[04:37.66]Mrs. Richard Holmes, she screamed
[04:42.00]You really should have heard her
[04:45.98]I sang and I laughed, I howled and I wept
[04:49.53]I panted like a pup
[04:53.26]I blew a hole in Mrs. Richard Holmes
[04:57.00]And her husband stupidly stood up
[05:03.04]As he screamed, "You are an evil man"
[05:05.79]And I paused a while to wonder
[05:10.02]"If I have no free will then how can I
[05:13.31]Be morally culpable, I wonder"
[05:16.79]I shot Richard Holmes in the stomach
[05:22.82]And gingerly he sat down
[05:27.11]And he whispered weirdly, "No offense"
[05:30.90]And then lay upon the ground
[05:37.17]"None taken", I replied to him
[05:39.08]To which he gave a little cough
[05:43.46]With blazing wings I neatly aimed
[05:47.25]And blew his head completely off
[05:53.83]I've lived in this town for thirty years
[05:58.21]And to no-one I am a stranger
[06:00.90]And I put new bullets in my gun
[06:04.45]Chamber upon chamber
[06:10.32]And I turned my gun on the bird-like Mr. Brookes
[06:13.81]I thought of Saint Francis and his sparrows
[06:17.55]And as I shot down the youthful Richardson
[06:20.89]It was St. Sebastian I thought of, and his arrows
[06:27.02]Hhhhhhhhhh Mmmmmmmmmmmm
[06:56.18]I said, "I want to introduce myself
[06:56.68]And I am glad that all you came"
[06:57.28]And I leapt upon the bar
[07:00.07]And shouted out my name
[07:05.95]Well Jerry Bellows, he hugged his stool
[07:09.29]Closed his eyes and shrugged and laughed
[07:13.04]And with an ashtray as big as a fucking really big brick
[07:17.56]I split his head in half
[07:23.64]His blood spilled across the bar
[07:26.24]Like a steaming scarlet brook
[07:30.12]And I knelt at it's edge on the counter
[07:34.16]Wiped the tears away and looked
[07:40.04]Well, the light in there was blinding
[07:42.93]Full of God and ghosts of truth
[07:46.58]I smiled at Henry Davenport
[07:50.57]Who made an attempt to move
[07:57.45]Well, from the position I was standing
[08:01.18]The strangest thing I ever saw
[08:04.47]The bullet entered through the top of his chest
[08:07.21]And blew his bowels out on the floor
[08:13.68]Well I floated down the counter
[08:16.88]Showing no remorse
[08:20.22]I shot a hole in Kathleen Carpenter
[08:24.41]Recently divorced
[08:29.89]But remorse i felt and remorse I had
[08:33.57]It clung to every thing
[08:37.02]From the raven's hair upon my head
[08:41.11]To the feathers on my wings
[08:49.28]Remorse sqeezed my hand in it's fradulent claw
[08:54.26]With it's golden hairless chest
[08:55.81]And I glided through the bodies
[08:58.74]And killed the fat man Vincent West
[09:03.68]Who sat quietly in his chair
[09:07.28]A man become a child
[09:10.61]And I raised the gun up to his head
[09:14.80]Executioner-style
[09:20.73]He made no attempt to resist
[09:23.47]So fat and dull and lazy
[09:26.97]"Did you know I lived in your street?" I said
[09:31.29]And he looked at me as though I were crazy
[09:37.28]"O", he said, "I had no idea"
[09:40.47]And he grew as quiet as a mouse
[09:43.91]And the roar of the pistol when it went off
[09:48.14]Near blew that hat right off the house
[09:53.33]Hmmmmmm Uh Uh
[09:57.72]Well, I caught my eye in the mirror
[10:28.17]And gave it a long and loving inspection
[10:31.60]"There stands some kind of man", I roared
[10:34.80]And there did, in the reflection
[10:40.78]My hair combed back like a raven's wing
[10:44.22]My muscles hard and tight
[10:48.36]And curling from the business end of my gun
[10:51.19]Was a query-mark of cordite
[10:57.07]Well I spun to the left, I spun to the right
[11:00.62]And I spun to the left again
[11:04.66]"Fear me! Fear me! Fear me!"
[11:09.54]But no one did cause they were dead
[11:24.85]Huh! Hmmmmmmmmm
[11:45.33]And then there were the police sirens wailing
[11:47.22]And a bull-horn squelched and blared
[11:52.01]"Drop your weapons and come out
[11:55.30]With your hands held in the air"
[11:56.35]Well, I checked the chamber of my gun
[12:04.72]Saw I had one final bullet left
[12:08.55]My hand, it looked almost human
[12:11.35]As I raised it to my head
[12:18.13]"Drop your weapon and come out!
[12:21.22]Keep your hands above your head!"
[12:24.26]I had one one long hard think about dying
[12:27.75]And did exactly what they said
[12:34.58]There must have been fifty cops out there
[12:37.66]In a circle around O'Malley's bar
[12:42.20]"Don't shoot", I cried, "I'm a man unarmed!"
[12:45.64]So they put me in their car
[12:52.02]And they sped me away from that terrible scene
[12:55.31]And I glanced out of the window
[12:58.11]Saw O'Malley's bar, saw the cops and the cars
[13:01.80]And I started counting on my fingers
[13:09.12]Aaaaaah One Aaaaaah Two Aaaaaah Three Aaaaaaah Four
[13:42.12]O'Malley's bar O'Malley's bar
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