O`Malley`s Bar lyrics

Artist  : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 
Song : O`Malley`s Bar
 


I am tall and I am thin
Of an enviable
hight
And I've been known to be quite
handsome
In a certain angle and in certain
light

Well I entered into
O'Malley's
Said, "O'Malley I have a
thirst"
O'Malley merely smiled at me
Said
"You wouldn't be the first"

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
And 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!
Hmmmmmm

"Neighbours!" I cried, "Friends!"
I screamed
I banged my fist upon the bar
"I
bear no grudge against you!"
And my dick felt
long and hard

"I am the man for which no
God waits
But for which the whole world
yearns
I'm marked by darkness and by
blood
And one thousand
powder-burns"

Well, you know those fish
with the swollen lips
That clean the ocean
floor
When I looked at poor O'Malley's
wife
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

Her
little daughter Siobhan
Pulled beers from dusk
till down
And amongst the townfolk she was a
bit of a joke
But she pulled the best beer in
town

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
it crumbled in my fist
And I spun heroically
around
To see Caffrey rising from his
seat
I shot that mother fucker
down

Mmmmmmmmmm Yeah Yeah Yeah

"I
have no free will", I sang
As I flew about the
murder
Mrs. Richard Holmes, she
screamed
You really should have heard
her

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, "You are an evil
man"
And I paused a while to wonder
"If I
have no free will then how can I
Be morally
culpable, I wonder"

I shot Richard Holmes
in the stomach
And gingerly he sat down
And
he whispered weirdly, "No offense"
And then
lay upon the ground

"None taken", I
replied to him
To which he gave a little
cough
With blazing wings I neatly aimed
And
blew his head completely off

I've lived in
this town for thirty years
And 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. Brookes
I thought
of Saint Francis and his sparrows
And as I
shot down the youthful Richardson
It was St.
Sebastian I thought of, and his
arrows

Hhhhhhhhhh Mmmmmmmmmmmm

I
said, "I want to introduce myself
And I am
glad that all you came"
And I leapt upon the
bar
And shouted out my name

Well Jerry
Bellows, he hugged his stool
Closed his eyes
and shrugged and laughed
And with an ashtray
as big as a fucking really big brick
I split
his head in half

His blood spilled across
the bar
Like a steaming scarlet brook
And I
knelt at it's edge on the counter
Wiped the
tears away and looked

Well, the light in
there was blinding
Full of God and ghosts of
truth
I smiled at Henry Davenport
Who made
an 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

Well I floated down the
counter
Showing no remorse
I shot a hole in
Kathleen Carpenter
Recently
divorced

But remorse i felt and remorse I
had
It clung to every thing
From the
raven's hair upon my head
To the feathers on
my wings

Remorse sqeezed my hand in it's
fradulent claw
With it's 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
"Did you know I lived in your street?" I
said
And he looked at me as though I were
crazy

"O", he said, "I had no idea"
And
he grew as quiet as a mouse
And the roar of
the pistol when it went off
Near blew that hat
right off the house

Hmmmmmm Uh
Uh

Well, I caught my eye in the
mirror
And gave it a long and loving
inspection
"There stands some kind of man", I
roared
And there 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
And I spun to the
left again
"Fear me! Fear me! Fear me!"
But
no one did cause they were dead

Huh!
Hmmmmmmmmm

And then there were the police
sirens wailing
And a bull-horn squelched and
blared
"Drop your weapons and come out
With
your hands held in the air"

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 to my head

"Drop
your weapon and come out!
Keep your hands
above your 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 around O'Malley's
bar
"Don't shoot", I cried, "I'm a man
unarmed!"
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

Aaaaaah One Aaaaaah Two Aaaaaah
Three Aaaaaaah Four
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