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Song O'Malley's Bar
Artist Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Album Murder Ballads
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[00:00.00] 作曲 : Cave
[00:01.00] 作词 : Cave
[00:22.98] I am tall and I am thin
[00:26.48] Of an enviable hight
[00:30.17] And I've been known to be quite handsome
[00:34.29] In a certain angle and in certain light
[00:41.33] Well I entered into O'Malley's
[00:43.33] Said, "O'Malley I have a thirst"
[00:47.07] O'Malley merely smiled at me
[00:51.26] Said "You wouldn't be the first"
[00:58.13] I knocked on the bar and pointed
[01:00.25] To a bottle on the shelf
[01:02.94] And as O'Malley poured me out a drink
[01:07.68] I sniffed and crossed myself
[01:13.81] My hand decided that the time was nigh
[01:17.19] And for a moment it slipped from view
[01:20.69] And when it returned, it fairly burned
[01:24.50] With confidence anew
[01:30.25] Well the thunder from my steely fist
[01:33.81] Made all the glasses jangle
[01:37.51] When I shot him, I was so handsome
[01:41.32] It was the light, it was the angle
[01:46.32] Huh! Hmmmmmm
[02:13.88] "Neighbours!" I cried, "Friends!" I screamed
[02:15.32] I banged my fist upon the bar
[02:17.01] "I bear no grudge against you!"
[02:18.20] And my dick felt long and hard
[02:23.20] "I am the man for which no God waits
[02:26.20] But for which the whole world yearns
[02:29.90] I'm marked by darkness and by blood
[02:33.77] And one thousand powder-burns"
[02:38.53] Well, you know those fish with the swollen lips
[02:43.84] That clean the ocean floor
[02:46.85] When I looked at poor O'Malley's wife
[02:50.66] That's exactly what I saw
[02:53.15] I jammed the barrel under her chin
[03:00.09] And her face looked raw and vicious
[03:03.72] Her head it landed in the sink
[03:07.72] With all the dirty dishes
[03:13.34] Her little daughter Siobhan
[03:17.03] Pulled beers from dusk till down
[03:20.47] And amongst the townfolk she was a bit of a joke
[03:24.47] But she pulled the best beer in town
[03:30.97] I swooped magnificent upon her
[03:33.85] As she sat shivering in her grief
[03:37.40] Like the Madonna painted on the church-house wall
[03:41.28] In whale's blood and banana leaf
[03:50.35] Her throat it crumbled in my fist
[03:53.79] And I spun heroically around
[03:54.78] To see Caffrey rising from his seat
[03:57.35] I shot that mother fucker down
[03:58.78]
[04:03.09] Mmmmmmmmmm Yeah Yeah Yeah
[04:32.29] "I have no free will", I sang
[04:34.29] As I flew about the murder
[04:38.48] Mrs. Richard Holmes, she screamed
[04:41.48] You really should have heard her
[04:46.92] I sang and I laughed, I howled and I wept
[04:51.94] I panted like a pup
[04:54.71] I blew a hole in Mrs. Richard Holmes
[04:58.01] And her husband stupidly stood up
[05:04.25] As he screamed, "You are an evil man"
[05:07.12] And I paused a while to wonder
[05:10.94] "If I have no free will then how can I
[05:14.37] Be morally culpable, I wonder"
[05:21.50] I shot Richard Holmes in the stomach
[05:25.00] And gingerly he sat down
[05:28.00] And he whispered weirdly, "No offense"
[05:32.56] And then lay upon the ground
[05:41.50] "None taken", I replied to him
[05:44.25] To which he gave a little cough
[05:44.62] With blazing wings I neatly aimed
[05:48.68] And blew his head completely off
[05:52.25] I've lived in this town for thirty years
[05:58.89] And to no-one I am a stranger
[06:01.51] And I put new bullets in my gun
[06:05.39] Chamber upon chamber
[06:09.89] And I turned my gun on the bird-like Mr. Brookes
[06:18.35] I thought of Saint Francis and his sparrows
[06:21.62]
[06:25.69] And as I shot down the youthful Richardson
[06:27.38] It was St. Sebastian I thought of, and his arrows
[06:29.38] Hhhhhhhhhh Mmmmmmmmmmmm
[06:58.39] I said, "I want to introduce myself
[06:59.81] And I am glad that all you came"
[07:02.06] And I leapt upon the bar
[07:03.12] And shouted out my name
[07:07.50] Well Jerry Bellows, he hugged his stool
[07:11.12] Closed his eyes and shrugged and laughed
[07:14.43] And with an ashtray as big as a fucking really big brick
[07:19.00] I split his head in half
[07:22.94] His blood spilled across the bar
[07:28.24] Like a steaming scarlet brook
[07:31.00] And I knelt at it's edge on the counter
[07:38.19] Wiped the tears away and looked
[07:42.75] Well, the light in there was blinding
[07:49.06] Full of God and ghosts of truth
[07:54.75] I smiled at Henry Davenport
[07:55.42] Who made an attempt to move
[07:56.92] Well, from the position I was standing
[08:01.78] The strangest thing I ever saw
[08:04.46] The bullet entered through the top of his chest
[08:09.59] And blew his bowels out on the floor
[08:16.78] Well I floated down the counter
[08:19.65] Showing no remorse
[08:22.16] I shot a hole in Kathleen Carpenter
[08:25.28] Recently divorced
[08:26.41] But remorse i felt and remorse I had
[08:33.53] It clung to every thing
[08:36.98] From the raven's hair upon my head
[08:45.04] To the feathers on my wings
[08:56.11] Remorse sqeezed my hand in it's fradulent claw
[08:58.17] With it's golden hairless chest
[08:59.17] And I glided through the bodies
[09:00.73] And killed the fat man Vincent West
[09:05.61] Who sat quietly in his chair
[09:09.29] A man become a child
[09:12.04] And I raised the gun up to his head
[09:24.36] Executioner-style
[09:24.48] He made no attempt to resist
[09:26.11] So fat and dull and lazy
[09:30.48] "Did you know I lived in your street?" I said
[09:42.11] And he looked at me as though I were crazy
[09:47.36] "O", he said, "I had no idea"
[09:51.11] And he grew as quiet as a mouse
[09:52.86] And the roar of the pistol when it went off
[09:54.42] Near blew that hat right off the house
[10:17.42] Hmmmmmm Uh Uh
[10:27.05] Well, I caught my eye in the mirror
[10:30.74] And gave it a long and loving inspection
[10:34.55] "There stands some kind of man", I roared
[10:44.74] And there did, in the reflection
[10:52.68] My hair combed back like a raven's wing
[10:53.80] My muscles hard and tight
[10:54.49] And curling from the business end of my gun
[10:55.99] Was a query-mark of cordite
[11:00.05] Well I spun to the left, I spun to the right
[11:05.24] And I spun to the left again
[11:07.74] "Fear me! Fear me! Fear me!"
[11:08.86] But no one did cause they were dead
[11:14.05] Huh! Hmmmmmmmmm
[11:52.83] And then there were the police sirens wailing
[11:54.34] And a bull-horn squelched and blared
[11:55.52] "Drop your weapons and come out
[11:57.02] With your hands held in the air"
[12:04.77] Well, I checked the chamber of my gun
[12:07.15] Saw I had one final bullet left
[12:11.02] My hand, it looked almost human
[12:12.90] As I raised it to my head
[12:16.01] "Drop your weapon and come out!
[12:23.83] Keep your hands above your head!"
[12:27.29] I had one one long hard think about dying
[12:31.07] And did exactly what they said
[12:37.46] There must have been fifty cops out there
[12:40.77] In a circle around O'Malley's bar
[12:44.25] "Don't shoot", I cried, "I'm a man unarmed!"
[12:48.49] So they put me in their car
[12:54.77] And they sped me away from that terrible scene
[12:58.84] And I glanced out of the window
[13:01.34] Saw O'Malley's bar, saw the cops and the cars
[13:04.90] And I started counting on my fingers
[13:10.59] Aaaaaah One Aaaaaah Two Aaaaaah Three Aaaaaaah Four
[13:36.61] O'Malley's bar O'Malley's bar
[00:00.00] zuo qu : Cave
[00:01.00] zuo ci : Cave
[00:22.98] I am tall and I am thin
[00:26.48] Of an enviable hight
[00:30.17] And I' ve been known to be quite handsome
[00:34.29] In a certain angle and in certain light
[00:41.33] Well I entered into O' Malley' s
[00:43.33] Said, " O' Malley I have a thirst"
[00:47.07] O' Malley merely smiled at me
[00:51.26] Said " You wouldn' t be the first"
[00:58.13] I knocked on the bar and pointed
[01:00.25] To a bottle on the shelf
[01:02.94] And as O' Malley poured me out a drink
[01:07.68] I sniffed and crossed myself
[01:13.81] My hand decided that the time was nigh
[01:17.19] And for a moment it slipped from view
[01:20.69] And when it returned, it fairly burned
[01:24.50] With confidence anew
[01:30.25] Well the thunder from my steely fist
[01:33.81] Made all the glasses jangle
[01:37.51] When I shot him, I was so handsome
[01:41.32] It was the light, it was the angle
[01:46.32] Huh! Hmmmmmm
[02:13.88] " Neighbours!" I cried, " Friends!" I screamed
[02:15.32] I banged my fist upon the bar
[02:17.01] " I bear no grudge against you!"
[02:18.20] And my dick felt long and hard
[02:23.20] " I am the man for which no God waits
[02:26.20] But for which the whole world yearns
[02:29.90] I' m marked by darkness and by blood
[02:33.77] And one thousand powderburns"
[02:38.53] Well, you know those fish with the swollen lips
[02:43.84] That clean the ocean floor
[02:46.85] When I looked at poor O' Malley' s wife
[02:50.66] That' s exactly what I saw
[02:53.15] I jammed the barrel under her chin
[03:00.09] And her face looked raw and vicious
[03:03.72] Her head it landed in the sink
[03:07.72] With all the dirty dishes
[03:13.34] Her little daughter Siobhan
[03:17.03] Pulled beers from dusk till down
[03:20.47] And amongst the townfolk she was a bit of a joke
[03:24.47] But she pulled the best beer in town
[03:30.97] I swooped magnificent upon her
[03:33.85] As she sat shivering in her grief
[03:37.40] Like the Madonna painted on the churchhouse wall
[03:41.28] In whale' s blood and banana leaf
[03:50.35] Her throat it crumbled in my fist
[03:53.79] And I spun heroically around
[03:54.78] To see Caffrey rising from his seat
[03:57.35] I shot that mother fucker down
[03:58.78]
[04:03.09] Mmmmmmmmmm Yeah Yeah Yeah
[04:32.29] " I have no free will", I sang
[04:34.29] As I flew about the murder
[04:38.48] Mrs. Richard Holmes, she screamed
[04:41.48] You really should have heard her
[04:46.92] I sang and I laughed, I howled and I wept
[04:51.94] I panted like a pup
[04:54.71] I blew a hole in Mrs. Richard Holmes
[04:58.01] And her husband stupidly stood up
[05:04.25] As he screamed, " You are an evil man"
[05:07.12] And I paused a while to wonder
[05:10.94] " If I have no free will then how can I
[05:14.37] Be morally culpable, I wonder"
[05:21.50] I shot Richard Holmes in the stomach
[05:25.00] And gingerly he sat down
[05:28.00] And he whispered weirdly, " No offense"
[05:32.56] And then lay upon the ground
[05:41.50] " None taken", I replied to him
[05:44.25] To which he gave a little cough
[05:44.62] With blazing wings I neatly aimed
[05:48.68] And blew his head completely off
[05:52.25] I' ve lived in this town for thirty years
[05:58.89] And to noone I am a stranger
[06:01.51] And I put new bullets in my gun
[06:05.39] Chamber upon chamber
[06:09.89] And I turned my gun on the birdlike Mr. Brookes
[06:18.35] I thought of Saint Francis and his sparrows
[06:21.62]
[06:25.69] And as I shot down the youthful Richardson
[06:27.38] It was St. Sebastian I thought of, and his arrows
[06:29.38] Hhhhhhhhhh Mmmmmmmmmmmm
[06:58.39] I said, " I want to introduce myself
[06:59.81] And I am glad that all you came"
[07:02.06] And I leapt upon the bar
[07:03.12] And shouted out my name
[07:07.50] Well Jerry Bellows, he hugged his stool
[07:11.12] Closed his eyes and shrugged and laughed
[07:14.43] And with an ashtray as big as a fucking really big brick
[07:19.00] I split his head in half
[07:22.94] His blood spilled across the bar
[07:28.24] Like a steaming scarlet brook
[07:31.00] And I knelt at it' s edge on the counter
[07:38.19] Wiped the tears away and looked
[07:42.75] Well, the light in there was blinding
[07:49.06] Full of God and ghosts of truth
[07:54.75] I smiled at Henry Davenport
[07:55.42] Who made an attempt to move
[07:56.92] Well, from the position I was standing
[08:01.78] The strangest thing I ever saw
[08:04.46] The bullet entered through the top of his chest
[08:09.59] And blew his bowels out on the floor
[08:16.78] Well I floated down the counter
[08:19.65] Showing no remorse
[08:22.16] I shot a hole in Kathleen Carpenter
[08:25.28] Recently divorced
[08:26.41] But remorse i felt and remorse I had
[08:33.53] It clung to every thing
[08:36.98] From the raven' s hair upon my head
[08:45.04] To the feathers on my wings
[08:56.11] Remorse sqeezed my hand in it' s fradulent claw
[08:58.17] With it' s golden hairless chest
[08:59.17] And I glided through the bodies
[09:00.73] And killed the fat man Vincent West
[09:05.61] Who sat quietly in his chair
[09:09.29] A man become a child
[09:12.04] And I raised the gun up to his head
[09:24.36] Executionerstyle
[09:24.48] He made no attempt to resist
[09:26.11] So fat and dull and lazy
[09:30.48] " Did you know I lived in your street?" I said
[09:42.11] And he looked at me as though I were crazy
[09:47.36] " O", he said, " I had no idea"
[09:51.11] And he grew as quiet as a mouse
[09:52.86] And the roar of the pistol when it went off
[09:54.42] Near blew that hat right off the house
[10:17.42] Hmmmmmm Uh Uh
[10:27.05] Well, I caught my eye in the mirror
[10:30.74] And gave it a long and loving inspection
[10:34.55] " There stands some kind of man", I roared
[10:44.74] And there did, in the reflection
[10:52.68] My hair combed back like a raven' s wing
[10:53.80] My muscles hard and tight
[10:54.49] And curling from the business end of my gun
[10:55.99] Was a querymark of cordite
[11:00.05] Well I spun to the left, I spun to the right
[11:05.24] And I spun to the left again
[11:07.74] " Fear me! Fear me! Fear me!"
[11:08.86] But no one did cause they were dead
[11:14.05] Huh! Hmmmmmmmmm
[11:52.83] And then there were the police sirens wailing
[11:54.34] And a bullhorn squelched and blared
[11:55.52] " Drop your weapons and come out
[11:57.02] With your hands held in the air"
[12:04.77] Well, I checked the chamber of my gun
[12:07.15] Saw I had one final bullet left
[12:11.02] My hand, it looked almost human
[12:12.90] As I raised it to my head
[12:16.01] " Drop your weapon and come out!
[12:23.83] Keep your hands above your head!"
[12:27.29] I had one one long hard think about dying
[12:31.07] And did exactly what they said
[12:37.46] There must have been fifty cops out there
[12:40.77] In a circle around O' Malley' s bar
[12:44.25] " Don' t shoot", I cried, " I' m a man unarmed!"
[12:48.49] So they put me in their car
[12:54.77] And they sped me away from that terrible scene
[12:58.84] And I glanced out of the window
[13:01.34] Saw O' Malley' s bar, saw the cops and the cars
[13:04.90] And I started counting on my fingers
[13:10.59] Aaaaaah One Aaaaaah Two Aaaaaah Three Aaaaaaah Four
[13:36.61] O' Malley' s bar O' Malley' s bar
[00:00.00] zuò qǔ : Cave
[00:01.00] zuò cí : Cave
[00:22.98] I am tall and I am thin
[00:26.48] Of an enviable hight
[00:30.17] And I' ve been known to be quite handsome
[00:34.29] In a certain angle and in certain light
[00:41.33] Well I entered into O' Malley' s
[00:43.33] Said, " O' Malley I have a thirst"
[00:47.07] O' Malley merely smiled at me
[00:51.26] Said " You wouldn' t be the first"
[00:58.13] I knocked on the bar and pointed
[01:00.25] To a bottle on the shelf
[01:02.94] And as O' Malley poured me out a drink
[01:07.68] I sniffed and crossed myself
[01:13.81] My hand decided that the time was nigh
[01:17.19] And for a moment it slipped from view
[01:20.69] And when it returned, it fairly burned
[01:24.50] With confidence anew
[01:30.25] Well the thunder from my steely fist
[01:33.81] Made all the glasses jangle
[01:37.51] When I shot him, I was so handsome
[01:41.32] It was the light, it was the angle
[01:46.32] Huh! Hmmmmmm
[02:13.88] " Neighbours!" I cried, " Friends!" I screamed
[02:15.32] I banged my fist upon the bar
[02:17.01] " I bear no grudge against you!"
[02:18.20] And my dick felt long and hard
[02:23.20] " I am the man for which no God waits
[02:26.20] But for which the whole world yearns
[02:29.90] I' m marked by darkness and by blood
[02:33.77] And one thousand powderburns"
[02:38.53] Well, you know those fish with the swollen lips
[02:43.84] That clean the ocean floor
[02:46.85] When I looked at poor O' Malley' s wife
[02:50.66] That' s exactly what I saw
[02:53.15] I jammed the barrel under her chin
[03:00.09] And her face looked raw and vicious
[03:03.72] Her head it landed in the sink
[03:07.72] With all the dirty dishes
[03:13.34] Her little daughter Siobhan
[03:17.03] Pulled beers from dusk till down
[03:20.47] And amongst the townfolk she was a bit of a joke
[03:24.47] But she pulled the best beer in town
[03:30.97] I swooped magnificent upon her
[03:33.85] As she sat shivering in her grief
[03:37.40] Like the Madonna painted on the churchhouse wall
[03:41.28] In whale' s blood and banana leaf
[03:50.35] Her throat it crumbled in my fist
[03:53.79] And I spun heroically around
[03:54.78] To see Caffrey rising from his seat
[03:57.35] I shot that mother fucker down
[03:58.78]
[04:03.09] Mmmmmmmmmm Yeah Yeah Yeah
[04:32.29] " I have no free will", I sang
[04:34.29] As I flew about the murder
[04:38.48] Mrs. Richard Holmes, she screamed
[04:41.48] You really should have heard her
[04:46.92] I sang and I laughed, I howled and I wept
[04:51.94] I panted like a pup
[04:54.71] I blew a hole in Mrs. Richard Holmes
[04:58.01] And her husband stupidly stood up
[05:04.25] As he screamed, " You are an evil man"
[05:07.12] And I paused a while to wonder
[05:10.94] " If I have no free will then how can I
[05:14.37] Be morally culpable, I wonder"
[05:21.50] I shot Richard Holmes in the stomach
[05:25.00] And gingerly he sat down
[05:28.00] And he whispered weirdly, " No offense"
[05:32.56] And then lay upon the ground
[05:41.50] " None taken", I replied to him
[05:44.25] To which he gave a little cough
[05:44.62] With blazing wings I neatly aimed
[05:48.68] And blew his head completely off
[05:52.25] I' ve lived in this town for thirty years
[05:58.89] And to noone I am a stranger
[06:01.51] And I put new bullets in my gun
[06:05.39] Chamber upon chamber
[06:09.89] And I turned my gun on the birdlike Mr. Brookes
[06:18.35] I thought of Saint Francis and his sparrows
[06:21.62]
[06:25.69] And as I shot down the youthful Richardson
[06:27.38] It was St. Sebastian I thought of, and his arrows
[06:29.38] Hhhhhhhhhh Mmmmmmmmmmmm
[06:58.39] I said, " I want to introduce myself
[06:59.81] And I am glad that all you came"
[07:02.06] And I leapt upon the bar
[07:03.12] And shouted out my name
[07:07.50] Well Jerry Bellows, he hugged his stool
[07:11.12] Closed his eyes and shrugged and laughed
[07:14.43] And with an ashtray as big as a fucking really big brick
[07:19.00] I split his head in half
[07:22.94] His blood spilled across the bar
[07:28.24] Like a steaming scarlet brook
[07:31.00] And I knelt at it' s edge on the counter
[07:38.19] Wiped the tears away and looked
[07:42.75] Well, the light in there was blinding
[07:49.06] Full of God and ghosts of truth
[07:54.75] I smiled at Henry Davenport
[07:55.42] Who made an attempt to move
[07:56.92] Well, from the position I was standing
[08:01.78] The strangest thing I ever saw
[08:04.46] The bullet entered through the top of his chest
[08:09.59] And blew his bowels out on the floor
[08:16.78] Well I floated down the counter
[08:19.65] Showing no remorse
[08:22.16] I shot a hole in Kathleen Carpenter
[08:25.28] Recently divorced
[08:26.41] But remorse i felt and remorse I had
[08:33.53] It clung to every thing
[08:36.98] From the raven' s hair upon my head
[08:45.04] To the feathers on my wings
[08:56.11] Remorse sqeezed my hand in it' s fradulent claw
[08:58.17] With it' s golden hairless chest
[08:59.17] And I glided through the bodies
[09:00.73] And killed the fat man Vincent West
[09:05.61] Who sat quietly in his chair
[09:09.29] A man become a child
[09:12.04] And I raised the gun up to his head
[09:24.36] Executionerstyle
[09:24.48] He made no attempt to resist
[09:26.11] So fat and dull and lazy
[09:30.48] " Did you know I lived in your street?" I said
[09:42.11] And he looked at me as though I were crazy
[09:47.36] " O", he said, " I had no idea"
[09:51.11] And he grew as quiet as a mouse
[09:52.86] And the roar of the pistol when it went off
[09:54.42] Near blew that hat right off the house
[10:17.42] Hmmmmmm Uh Uh
[10:27.05] Well, I caught my eye in the mirror
[10:30.74] And gave it a long and loving inspection
[10:34.55] " There stands some kind of man", I roared
[10:44.74] And there did, in the reflection
[10:52.68] My hair combed back like a raven' s wing
[10:53.80] My muscles hard and tight
[10:54.49] And curling from the business end of my gun
[10:55.99] Was a querymark of cordite
[11:00.05] Well I spun to the left, I spun to the right
[11:05.24] And I spun to the left again
[11:07.74] " Fear me! Fear me! Fear me!"
[11:08.86] But no one did cause they were dead
[11:14.05] Huh! Hmmmmmmmmm
[11:52.83] And then there were the police sirens wailing
[11:54.34] And a bullhorn squelched and blared
[11:55.52] " Drop your weapons and come out
[11:57.02] With your hands held in the air"
[12:04.77] Well, I checked the chamber of my gun
[12:07.15] Saw I had one final bullet left
[12:11.02] My hand, it looked almost human
[12:12.90] As I raised it to my head
[12:16.01] " Drop your weapon and come out!
[12:23.83] Keep your hands above your head!"
[12:27.29] I had one one long hard think about dying
[12:31.07] And did exactly what they said
[12:37.46] There must have been fifty cops out there
[12:40.77] In a circle around O' Malley' s bar
[12:44.25] " Don' t shoot", I cried, " I' m a man unarmed!"
[12:48.49] So they put me in their car
[12:54.77] And they sped me away from that terrible scene
[12:58.84] And I glanced out of the window
[13:01.34] Saw O' Malley' s bar, saw the cops and the cars
[13:04.90] And I started counting on my fingers
[13:10.59] Aaaaaah One Aaaaaah Two Aaaaaah Three Aaaaaaah Four
[13:36.61] O' Malley' s bar O' Malley' s bar
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