O'Malley's Bar (2011 - Remaster)

Song O'Malley's Bar (2011 - Remaster)
Artist Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Album Murder Ballads (2011 - Remaster)

Lyrics

[00:04.86] O'Malley's Bar
[00:11.87] Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
[00:16.87]
[00:22.81] I am tall and I am thin
[00:26.34] Of an enviable hight
[00:30.16] And I've been known to be quite handsome
[00:33.43] In a certain angle and in certain light
[00:41.10] Well I entered into O'Malley's
[00:43.30] Said, "O'Malley I have a thirst"
[00:47.09] O'Malley merely smiled at me
[00:50.77] Said "You wouldn't be the first"
[00:57.98] I knocked on the bar and pointed
[00:59.97] To a bottle on the shelf
[01:03.72] And as O'Malley poured me out a drink
[01:07.61] I sniffed and crossed myself
[01:13.62] My hand decided that the time was nigh
[01:16.86] And for a moment it slipped from view
[01:20.80] And when it returned, it fairly burned
[01:24.68] With confidence anew
[01:29.95] Well the thunder from my steely fist
[01:34.05] Made all the glasses jangle
[01:37.65] When I shot him, I was so handsome
[01:41.15] It was the light, it was the angle
[01:45.93] Huh! Hmmmmmm
[02:01.23]
[02:06.54] "Neighbours!" I cried, "Friends!" I screamed
[02:09.60] I banged my fist upon the bar
[02:13.70] "I bear no grudge against you!"
[02:16.63] And my dick felt long and hard
[02:22.86] "I am the man for which no God waits
[02:26.23] But for which the whole world yearns
[02:30.07] I'm marked by darkness and by blood
[02:33.93] And one thousand powder-burns"
[02:40.19] Well, you know those fish with the swollen lips
[02:43.76] That clean the ocean floor
[02:46.80] When I looked at poor O'Malley's wife
[02:50.82] That's exactly what I saw
[02:56.54] I jammed the barrel under her chin
[03:00.03] And her face looked raw and vicious
[03:03.72] Her head it landed in the sink
[03:07.62] With all the dirty dishes
[03:13.25] Her little daughter Siobhan
[03:16.89] Pulled beers from dusk till down
[03:20.78] And amongst the townfolk she was a bit of a joke
[03:24.49] But she pulled the best beer in town
[03:30.96] I swooped magnificent upon her
[03:33.64] As she sat shivering in her grief
[03:37.40] Like the Madonna painted on the church-house wall
[03:41.32] In whale's blood and banana leaf
[03:47.83] Her throat it crumbled in my hands
[03:50.58] And I spun heroically around
[03:54.20] To see Caffrey rising from his seat
[03:57.87] I shot that mother ****er down
[04:03.02] Mmmmmmmmmm Yeah Yeah Yeah
[04:30.41]
[04:31.13] "I have no free will", I sang
[04:34.11] As I flew about the murder
[04:38.53] Mrs. Richard Holmes, she screamed
[04:41.47] You really should have heard her
[04:47.00] I sang and I laughed, I howled and I wept
[04:50.64] I panted like a pup
[04:54.25] I blew a hole in Mrs. Richard Holmes
[04:57.93] And her husband stupidly stood up
[05:04.19] As he screamed, "You are an evil man"
[05:06.80] And I paused a while to wonder
[05:10.94] "If I have no free will then how can I
[05:14.14] Be morally culpable, I wonder"
[05:21.28] I shot Richard Holmes in the stomach
[05:24.58] And gingerly he sat down
[05:28.15] And he whispered weirdly, "No offense"
[05:31.58] And then lay upon the ground
[05:37.84] "None taken", I replied to him
[05:40.81] To which he gave a little cough
[05:44.41] With blazing wings I neatly aimed
[05:48.24] And blew his head completely off
[05:54.74] I've lived in this town for thirty years
[05:58.87] And to no-one I am a stranger
[06:01.83] And I put new bullets in my gun
[06:05.57] Chamber upon chamber
[06:11.23] And I turned my gun on the bird-like Mr. Brookes
[06:15.01] I thought of Saint Francis and his sparrows
[06:18.59] And as I shot down the youthful Richardson
[06:22.19] It was St. Sebastian I thought of, and his arrows
[06:28.45] Hhhhhhhhhh Mmmmmmmmmmmm
[06:41.80]
[06:49.48] I said, "I want to introduce myself
[06:54.12] And I am glad that all you came"
[06:57.61] And I leapt upon the bar
[07:01.31] And shouted out my name
[07:07.12] Well Jerry Bellows, he hugged his stool
[07:10.80] Closed his eyes and shrugged and laughed
[07:14.44] And with an ashtray as big as a ****ing really big brick
[07:19.20] I split his head in half
[07:24.87] His blood spilled across the bar
[07:27.71] Like a steaming scarlet brook
[07:31.30] And I knelt at it's edge on the counter
[07:35.20] Wiped the tears away and looked
[07:41.56] Well, the light in there was blinding
[07:44.56] Full of God and ghosts of truth
[07:48.52] I smiled at Henry Davenport
[07:51.89] Who made an attempt to move
[07:58.96] Well, from the position I was standing
[08:02.43] The strangest thing I ever saw
[08:06.09] The bullet entered through the top of his chest
[08:08.91] And blew his bowels out on the floor
[08:15.35] Well I floated down the counter
[08:18.73] Showing no remorse
[08:21.84] I shot a hole in Kathleen Carpenter
[08:26.36] Recently divorced
[08:32.12] But remorse i felt and remorse I had
[08:35.36] It clung to every thing
[08:38.84] From the raven's hair upon my head
[08:42.59] To the feathers on my wings
[08:51.19] Remorse sqeezed my hand in it's fradulent claw
[08:54.45] With it's golden hairless chest
[08:57.69] And I glided through the bodies
[09:01.15] And killed the fat man Vincent West
[09:05.40] Who sat quietly in his chair
[09:09.13] A man become a child
[09:12.42] And I raised the gun up to his head
[09:16.82] Executioner-style
[09:22.73] He made no attempt to resist
[09:26.17] So fat and dull and lazy
[09:29.39] "Did you know I lived in your street?" I said
[09:33.50] And he looked at me as though I were crazy
[09:39.18] "O", he said, "I had no idea"
[09:42.75] And he grew as quiet as a mouse
[09:46.55] And the roar of the pistol when it went off
[09:49.88] Near blew that hat right off the house
[09:54.68] Hmmmmmm Uh Uh
[10:25.06]
[10:26.68] Well, I caught my eye in the mirror
[10:30.49] And gave it a long and loving inspection
[10:34.05] "There stands some kind of man", I roared
[10:37.03] And there did, in the reflection
[10:43.25] My hair combed back like a raven's wing
[10:46.77] My muscles hard and tight
[10:50.81] And curling from the business end of my gun
[10:53.86] Was a query-mark of cordite
[10:59.26] Well I spun to the left, I spun to the right
[11:03.28] And I spun to the left again
[11:07.24] "Fear me! Fear me! Fear me!"
[11:12.19] But no one did cause they were dead
[11:16.90] Huh! Hmmmmmmmmm
[11:44.25]
[11:48.10] And then there were the police sirens wailing
[11:50.48] And a bull-horn squelched and blared
[11:54.91] "Drop your weapons and come out
[11:56.79] With your hands held in the air"
[12:04.29] Well, I checked the chamber of my gun
[12:07.59] Saw I had one final bullet left
[12:11.26] My hand, it looked almost human
[12:14.16] As I raised it to my head
[12:21.27] "Drop your weapon and come out!
[12:23.67] Keep your hands above your head!"
[12:27.48] I had one one long hard think about dying
[12:30.83] And did exactly what they said
[12:37.66] There must have been fifty cops out there
[12:40.70] In a circle around O'Malley's bar
[12:44.89] "Don't shoot", I cried, "I'm a man unarmed!"
[12:48.56] So they put me in their car
[12:54.87] And they sped me away from that terrible scene
[12:58.32] And I glanced out of the window
[13:01.10] Saw O'Malley's bar, saw the cops and the cars
[13:05.49] And I started counting on my fingers
[13:09.69] Aaaaaah
[13:20.19] One Aaaaaah
[13:23.01] Two Aaaaaah
[13:29.05] Three Aaaaaaah
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