Well ah jumpt! And fled this fucken heap on doctored wingsMah flailin pinions, with splints and rags and crutches!(Damn things nearly hardly flap)Canker upon canker upon one million tiny puncturesThat look like...Long thin red ribbons draped across the arms of a lil mortal girl(Like a ground -plan of Hell)Curse these smartin strings! These fucken ruptures!Enough! Enough is enough!(If this is Heaven ah'm bailin out)If this is Heaven ah'm bailin outAh caint tolerate this ol tin-tubSo fulla trash and rats! Felt one crawl across mah soulFor a seckon there, as thought as wassa back down in the ghetto!(Rats in Paradise! Rats in Paradise!)Ah'm bailin out! There's a mutiny in Heaven!Ah wassa born...And Lord shakin, even then was dumpt into some icy font,Like some great stinky unclean!From slum-chuch to slum-church, ah spilt mah heartTo some fat c*** behind a screen...Evil poppin eye presst up to the openingHe'd slide shut the lil perforated hatch... At night mah bodyBlushtTo the whistle of the birchWith a lil practice ah soon learnt to use in on mahselfPunishment?! Reward!! Punishment?! Reward!!Well, ah tied on... Percht on mah bed ah was...Sticken a needle in mah arm...Ah tied off! Fucken wings burst out mah back(Like ah was cuttin teeth!!)Ah took off!!!(Rats in Paradise! Rats in Paradise!)There's a mutiny in Heaven!Oh Lord, ah git down on mah knees(Ah git down on mah knees and start to pray)Wrapped in mah mongrel wings, ah nearly freezeIn the howlin wind and drivin rain(All the trash blowin round 'n' round)>From slum-heaven into townAh take mah tiny pain and rollin back mah sleeve(Roll anna roll anna roll anna roll)Ah yank the drip outa mah vein! Utopiate! Ah'm bailin out!Utopiate!If this is Heaven ah'm bailin out!Mah threadbare soul teems with vermin and louseThoughts come like a plague to the head... In God's house!Mutiny in Heaven!(Ars infectio forco Dio)To the plank!(Rats in Paradise! Rats in Paradise!)Ah'm bailin out!(Hail Hypuss Dermio Vita Rex!)Hole inna ghetto! Hole inna ghetto!(Scabio Murem per Sanctum... Dio, Dio, Dio)
Lyrics by Nick Cave
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As I Sat Sadly By Her Side Avalanche Babe, I am On Fire Babe, I Got You Bad Babe, I'm On Fire Babe, I'm On Fire Babe, You Turn Me On Banks Of The Roses Big Jesus - Trash Can Big-Jesus-Trash-Can Black Betty Black Crow King Black Hair Blast Off Bless His Ever Loving Heart Blind Lemon Jefferson Blood sweat and murder Blue Bird Blundertown Breathless Bring It On Brompton Oratory Brother, My Cup Is Empty By The Time I Get To Phoenix Cabin Fever Cabin Fever! Cannibal's Hymn Cannibal's Hymn Capers Carny Carry Me Casino Cassiel's Song Cassiel's Song Christina The Astonishing Cindy City Of Refuge Comancheria Comancheria ii Come Into My Sleep Crow Jane Cry Darker With The Day Dead Joe Dead Man In My Bed Deanna Death Is Not The End Deep In The Woods Disco 2000 - Pub Rock Version [Previously Unreleas... Distant Sky Do You Love Me Do You Love Me (part 2) Do You Love Me Like I Love You, Part 4 Do You Love Me? Do You Love Me? (Part 2) Dollar bill blues Dull Day Dumb Europe Dust of the chase Easy Money Fable Of The Brown Ape Far From Me Faraway, So Close Faraway, So Close! Fears Of Gun Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow Finishing Jubilee Street Foi Na Cruz Foi Na Cruz Sorrows Child [DVD][Instrumental] From Her To Eternity From my cold dead hands Gates To The Garden Get Ready For Love Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass Girl in Amber Give Us A Kiss God Is In The House God's Hotel God's Hotel Green Eyes Grief Came Riding Hallelujah Hamlet Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow) Happy Birthday Hard On For Love He Wants You Helpless Henry Lee Henry Lee"(feat. PJ Harvey Hey Joe Hey, Joe Hiding All Away Higgs Boson Blues Ho-Ho How Long, How Long Blues I Do Dear, I Do. I Do Love Her So I Do Love Her So (Lime Tree Arbour) I Feel So Good I Had A Dream Joe I Had A Dream, Joe I Just Dropped In I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condit... I Let Love In I Need You I Put A Spell On You I Rowed A Little Boat I'm Gonna Kill That Woman I'm Your Man I'm Gonna Kill That Woman Idiot Prayer In The Ghetto Into My Arms Intro Jack The Ripper Jack's Shadow Jacks Shadow Jangling Jack Jennifer's Veil Jennifer's Veil Jesus Alone Jesus Met The Woman At The Well John Finn's Wife John Finn's Wife Jubilee Street Junkyard Just You and Me Katy Cruel Kewpie Doll King Ink King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O Kiss Me Black Knockin' On Joe Knockin' On Joe Knoxville Girl Lament Lay Me Low Let It Be Let The Bells Ring Lime Tree Arbour Little Empty Boat Little Janey's Gone Little Janey's Gone Long Black Veil Long Time Man Lord of the plains Love Henry Love Letter Lovely Creature Loverman Lucy Mack The Knife Magneto Mama s room Mama's Boy Mama's Boy Mars Theme Mercy Mermaids Messiah Ward Midnight Man Mini Skirts [Instrumental] Miss Perfect Mister Frog Went A-Courting Mojo Mountain lion mean Mr. Clarinet Muddy Water Nature Boy Needle Boy New Morning Nick The Stripper Nobody's Baby Now Nobody's Baby Now O Children O'Malley's Bar O'malley's Bar Oh Happy Day [DVD][Instrumental] Oh My Lord Oh, Happy Day Opium Tea Outlaw state of mind Oxford Tragedy Papa Won't Leave You, Henry Papa Won't Leave You, Henry PATRIPASSIAN People Ain't No Good People Ain't No Good Plain Gold Ring Pleasure Is The Boss Push The Sky Away Rainy Night In Soho Red Right Hand Release The Bats Riddle House Right Now I'm a - Roaming Right Now I'm A Roamin' Right Now I'm A-roaming Right Now I'm A Roamin' Right Out Of Your Hand Rings of Saturn Robbery Rock Of Gibraltar Running Scared Rye Whiskey Sad Dark Eyes Sad Waters Sail Away Saint Huck Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree Scum Several Sins She Fell Away She Passed By My Window She's Hit She's Leaving You She's Hit She's Leaving You Shivers Silent Scream Six Inch Gold Blade Skeleton Tree Sleeping Analeah Sleeping on the blacktop Slowly Goes The Night Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart Song Of Joy Sonny's Burning Sorrow's Child Sorrow's Child Spell Stagalee Stagger Lee Still In Love Stow-A-Way Straight To You Stranger Than Kindness Sugar Sugar Sugar Sunday's Slave Sunday's Slave Supernaturally Suzanne Swampland Sweetheart Come Texas midlands That's What Jazz Is To Me That's What Jazz Is To Me The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane The Big Hurt The Briddle Path The Carnival Is Over The Carny The Curse Of Millhaven The Dim Locator The Friend Catcher The Good Son The Hammer Song The Hammer Song (In Album Kicking Against The Pric... The Kindness Of Strangers The Loom Of The Land The Lyre Of Orpheus The Mercy Seat The Moon Is In The Gutter The Ship Song The Singer The Six Strings That Drew Blood The Sorrowful Wife The Train Song The Weeping Song The Willow Garden The Witness Song There Is A Kingdom There Is A Light There Is A Town There She Goes Thirsty Dog Time Jesum Transeuntum et Non Riverentum Time Jesum Transientum Et Non Riverentum To Be By Your Side Tower of Song Train Long-suffering Truck Love Tupelo Tupelo Blues Up Jumped The Devil Vixo Wanted Man Watching Alice We Came Along This Road Well Of Misery West Country Girl What a Wonderful World What Can I Give You? When I First Came To Town Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere Where The Action Is Where The Wild Roses Grow Where The Wild Roses Grow"(feat. Kylie Minogue Wife Wild Rose Wild World Wings Off Flies Wonderful Life Yard You ask me to Your Funeral My Trial Your Funeral... My Trial Zoo Music Girl