Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - O'Malley's Bar (part 1) lyrics

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 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 When it returned, it fairly burned With confidence anew Well the thunder from my steely fist Made all the gla**es jangle When I shot him, I was so handsome It was the light, it was the angle Huh! Hmm... "Neighbours!" I cried, "Friends!" I screamed I banged my fists 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 And I'm marked by darkness and by blood And by a thousand powder-burns" 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 f**er down Mmm... Yeah, yeah, yeah... "I have no free will", 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, "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 Gingerly he sat down And he whispered weirdly, "No offence" And then lay upon the ground "None taken", 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, "I want to introduce myself And I am glad that all you came" And I leapt upon the bar And I shouted down my name Well Jerry Bellows, he hugged his stool Closed his eyes and shrugged and laughed And with an ashtray big as a f**ing 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 k**ed 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 that I live in your street?" I said And he looked at me like I was crazy "Oh", he said, "I had no idea" 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 "There stands some kind of man", 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 "Fear me! Fear me! Fear me!" 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 "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 bravely to my head "Drop your weapon and come on 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 round 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 Aaaaah one aaaaaah two aaaaaaah three aaaaaah Mmmmmmm O'Malley's bar Mmmmmmm O'Malley's bar Mmmmmmm O'Malley's bar...