Hallelujah lyrics

Artist  : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 
Song : Hallelujah
 


On the first day of May I took to the road
I'd
been staring out the window most of the
morning
I'd watched the rain claw at the
glass
And a vicious wind blew hard and
fast
I should have taken it as a warning
As
a warning As a warning
As a warning

I'd
given my nurse the weekend off
My meals were
ill prepared
My typewriter had turned mute as
a tomb
And my piano crouched in the corner of
my room
With all its teeth bared
All its
teeth bared All its teeth bared
All its teeth
bared.

Hallelujah Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

I left my house without my
coat
Something my nurse would not have
allowed
And I took the small roads out of
town
And I passed a cow and the cow was
brown
And my pyjamas clung to me like a
shroud
Like a shroud Like a shroud
Like a
shroud

There rose before me a little
house
With all hope and dreams kept
within
A woman's voice close to my
ear
Said, "Why don't you come in
here?"
"You looked soaked to the
skin"
Soaked to the skin Soaked to the
skin
Soaked to the skin

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah

I
turned to the woman and the woman was young
I
extended a hearty salutation
But I knew if my
nurse had been here
She would never in a
thousand years
Permit me to accept that
invitation
Invitation That invitation
That
invitation

Now, you might think it wise to
risk it all
Throw caution to the reckless
wind
But with her hot cocoa and her
medication
My nurse had been my one
salvation
So I turned back home
I turned
back home I turned back home
Singing my
song

Hallelujah
The tears are welling
in my eyes again
Hallelujah
I need twenty
big buckets to catch them in
Hallelujah
And
twenty pretty girls to carry
them
down
Hallelujah
And twenty deep holes to
bury them in
Hallelujah
The tears are
welling in my eyes again
Hallelujah
I need
twenty big buckets to catch them
in
Hallelujah
And twenty pretty girls to
carry them down
Hallelujah
And twenty deep
holes to bury them in