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
O'Malley's bar O'Malley's bar
O'Malley's Bar
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(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? A Box For Black Paul Abattoir Blues Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore All Tomorrow's Parties And No More Shall We Part Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For? As I Sat Sadly By Her Side Avalanche Avalanche (Leonard Cohen cover) Avalanche [DVD][*] Babe, I Got You Bad Babe, I'm on Fire Babe, You Turn Me On Black Betty Black Crow King Black Hair Blind Lemon Jefferson Blue Bird Breathless Bring It On Brompton Oratory Brother, My Cup Is Empty By The Time I Get To Phoenix Cabin Fever! Cannibal's Hymn Carry Me Christina the Astonishing City of Refuge Come Into My Sleep Crow Jane Darker With The Day Dead Man In My Bed Deanna Death Is Not The End Death Is Not the End (Bob Dylan cover) Do You Love Me? Do You Love Me? (Part 2) Do You Love Me? Pt 2 Do You Love Me? Pt. 2 Easy Money Fable Of The Brown Ape Far From Me Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow Finishing Jubilee Street Foi Na Cruz From Her To Eternity From Her to Eternity [John Peel BBC Session] Gates To The Garden Get Ready For Love God Is In The House Green Eyes Grief Came Riding Hallelujah Hard On For Love He Wants You Helpless Henry Lee Henry Lee (Nick Cave version) Hey Joe Hey Joe [DVD][*] Hiding All Away Higgs Boson Blues I Do Love Her So (Lime Tree Arbour) I Had A Dream, Joe I Let Love In I'm Gonna Kill That Woman Idiot Prayer In The Ghetto In the Ghetto (Elvis Presley cover) Into My Arms Jack the Ripper Jack's Shadow Jangling Jack Jesus Met The Woman At The Well John Finn's Wife Jubilee Street Knockin' On Joe Lament Lay Me Low Let The Bells Ring Lightning Bolts Little Empty Boat Long Black Veil Long Black Veil (Lefty Frizzell cover) Long Time Man Loom of the Land Love Letter Lovely Creature Loverman Lucy Mermaids Mermaids (Live) Messiah Ward Muddy Water Nature Boy Needle Boy New Morning Nobody's Baby Now Nocturama O Children Oh My Lord Oh, Happy Day Papa Won't Leave You, Henry People Ain't No Good Plain Gold Ring Push the Sky Away Rainy Night In Soho Red Right Hand Red Right Hand (Scream 3 version) Right Now I'm A-roaming Right Out Of Your Hand Rock Of Gibraltar Running Scared Sad Dark Eyes Sad Waters Sail Away Saint Huck Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree Scum She Fell Away She Passed By My Window Sleeping Analeah Slowly Goes The Night Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart Song Of Joy Sorrow's Child Spell Stagger Lee Stagger Lee [5.1 Surround Sound] Still In Love Straight To You Stranger than Kindness Sugar Sugar Sugar Sunday's Slave Supernaturally Sweetheart Come The Carnival Is Over The Carny The Curse Of Millhaven 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 Singer (a.k.a. The Folksinger) The Six Strings That Drew Blood The Sorrowful Wife The Train Song The Weeping Song The Witness Song There Is A Kingdom There Is A Town There She Goes, My Beautiful World Thirsty Dog Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum Train Long-Suffering Tupelo Up Jumped The Devil Vixo Wanted Man Watching Alice Water's Edge Water’s Edge We Came Along This Road We No Who 'U 'R We No Who U R We Real Cool 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 Do We Go Now but Nowhere? Where The Wild Roses Grow Wide Lovely Eyes Wings Off Flies Wonderful Life Your Funeral, My Trial Your Funeral... My Trial
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