Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — OMalleys Bar Part 2

Oh, my god Oh yeah, oh yeah Oh yeah, I said oh yeah [Verse 1] "I have no free will," I sang As I flew about the murder Mrs. Richard Holmes, she screamed Well, you really should have heard her [Verse 2] I sang and I laughed, I howled and I wept I panted and I squealed I blew a hole in Mrs. Richard Holmes Who used her husband as a shield [Verse 3] 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? [Verse 4] I shot Richard Holmes in the stomach I said, "It felt good to take your life" I'm not sure, but I think he thanked me As he lay down next to his wife [Verse 5] "It's nice to be nice," I replied to him And he gave a little cough "Yeah, it's nice to be nice" and I neatly aimed And blew his head completely off [Verse 6] 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 [Verse 7] When 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 [Bridge] Oooh mmmm ohhhh Oh my god, oh my god He shot him in the fu---ing head [Verse 8] I said, "I want to introduce myself And I'm glad that all you came" And I lept upon the bar And I shouted out my name [Verse 9] Well, Jerry Bellows, he hugged his stool Closed his eyes and shrugged and laughed And with an ashtray as big as a really bloody big brick I split his skull in half [Verse 10] "This hurts me more than it hurts you," I said And I sat on the bar and cried And for a strange moment, no one moved or spoke They all sat like that for a while [Verse 11] "It's nice to be nice," I said again Well it is, and that's a fact I smiled at Henry Davenport I think Henry Davenport smiled back [Verse 12] Well, from the position I was sitting The strangest thing I ever saw The bullet entered through the top of Henry's chest And blew his bowels out on the floor [Verse 13] Well I floated down the counter Showing no remorse I shot a hole in Kathleen Carpenter Recently divorced [Verse 14] The remorse I felt, the remorse I had Clung to everything From the raven's hair upon my head To the feathers on my wings [Verse 15] "Life is grand," I shouted "But death is just the best!" And I glided through the bodies And killed the fat man Vincent West [Verse 16] Who sat quietly in his chair A grown man become a child And I raised the gun up to his head Executioner-style [Verse 17] He made no attempt to resist So fat and dull and lazy "Did you know I live in your street?" I cried And he looked at me like I was crazy [Verse 18] "Oh," he said, "I had no idea" He grew as quiet as a mouse And the roar of the pistol when it went off Near blew that roof right off the house Ohhhhh uh huh ugh Oh my god, oh my god He shot him in the fu---ing head