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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds( Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds )
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O'Malley's Bar - 2011 - Remaster
I am tall and I am thin Of an enviable height And I've been known to be quite handsome In a certain angle and a certain light
Well I entered into O'Malley's I said, '' O'Malley merely smiled at me Said ''
I knocked on the bar and pointed To a bottle on the shelf And as O'Malley poured me out a drink I sniffed and crossed myself
My hand decided that the time was nigh And for a moment it slipped from view When it returned, it fairly burned With confidence anew
Well the thunder from my steely fist Made all the glasses jangle When I shot him, I was so handsome It was the light, it was the angle
Huh! Hmm...
'' I cried, '' I screamed I banged my fists upon the bar '' And my dick felt long and hard
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Well, you know those fish with the swollen lips That clean the ocean floor When I looked at poor old O'Malley's wife Well that's exactly what I saw
I jammed the barrel under her chin And her face looked raw and vicious Her head it landed in the sink With all the dirty dishes
And her little daughter Siobhan Pulled beers from dusk till down And amongst the town folk she was a bit of a joke But she pulled the best beer in town
Well I swooped magnificent upon her As she sat shivering in her grief Like the Madonna painted on the church-house wall In whale's blood and banana leaf
Her throat crumbled in my hands And I spun heroically around To see Caffrey rising from his seat I shot that mother fucker down
Mmm... Yeah, yeah, yeah...
'', I sang And I flew about the murder Mrs. Richard Holmes, she screamed — You really should have heard her
Well, I sang and I laughed, I howled and I wept, I panted like a pup I blew a hole in Mrs. Richard Holmes And her husband stupidly stood up
As he screamed, '' And I paused a while to wonder '' I wonder
I shot Richard Holmes in the stomach Gingerly he sat down And he whispered weirdly, '' And then lay upon the ground
'', I replied to him To which he gave a little cough And with blazing wings I neatly aimed Blew his head completely off
I've lived in this town for thirty years To no-one I am a stranger And I put new bullets in my gun Chamber upon chamber
And I turned my gun on the bird-like Mr. Brooks I thought of Saint Francis and his sparrows And as I shot down the youthful Richardson It was Sebastian I thought of, and his arrows
Hmm mmm yeah Yeah! Listen, listen...
I said, '' And I leapt upon the bar And I shouted down my name
Well Jerry Bellows, he hugged his stool Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Closed his eyes and shrugged and laughed And with an ashtray big as a fucking really big brick I split his skull in half
His blood spilled across the bar Like a steaming scarlet brook And then I knelt there at its edge on the counter Wiped the tears away and looked
Well, the light in there it was blinding Full of God and ghosts and truth And I smiled at Henry Davenport Who made no attempt to move
Well, from the position I was standing The strangest thing I ever saw The bullet entered through the top of his chest And blew his bowels out on the floor
And I floated down the counter, Showing no remorse I shot a hole in Kathleen Carpenter — recently divorced
But remorse I felt, remorse I had It clung to every thing From the raven hair upon my head To the feathers on my wings
Then I squeezed my hand in its fraudulent claw With its golden hairless chest And I glided through the bodies And killed the fat man, Vincent West
Who sat quietly in his chair A man become a child And I raised the gun up to his head Executioner-style
He made no attempt to resist So fat and dull and lazy '' I said And he looked at me like I was crazy
'', he said, '' And he grew as quiet as a mouse Well the roar of the pistol when it went off Near blew the hat right off the house
Hmm uh hmm uh hmm uh Yeah, peah Hmm mmm ha ah...
Well, I caught my eye in the mirror And gave it a long and loving inspection '', I roared And then did in the reflection
My hair combed back like a raven's wing My muscles hard and tight And curling from the business end of my gun Was a query-mark of cordite
Well I spun to the left, I spun to the right, I spun to the left again '' But no one did cause they were dead
Huh! Hmm Oh oh yeah! Hmm! Mmm hmmm mmm hmmm yeah
And then there were the police sirens wailing and And then a bull-horn squelched and blared ''
Well, I checked the chamber of my gun Saw I had one final bullet left My hand, it looked almost human As I raised it bravely to my head
'' I had one one long hard think about dying And did exactly what they said
There must have been fifty cops out there In a circle round O'Malley's bar '', I cried, '' So they put me in their car
And they sped me away from that terrible scene And I glanced out of the window Saw O'Malley's bar, saw the cops and the cars And I started counting on my fingers
Aaaaah one aaaaaah two aaaaaaah three aaaaaah
Mmmmmmm O'Malley's bar Mmmmmmm O'Malley's bar Mmmmmmm O'Malley's bar...
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