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The Curse Of Millhaven
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Nick Cave
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I live in a town called millhaven
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And it's small and it's mean and it's cold
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But if you come around just as the sun goes down
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You can watch the whole town turn to gold
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It's around about then that I used to go a-roaming
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Singing la la la la la la la lie
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All god's children they all gotta die
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My name is loretta but I prefer lottie
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I'm closing in on my fifteenth year
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And if you think you have seen a pair of eyes more green
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Then you sure didn't see them around here
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My hair is yellow and I'm always a-combing
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La la la la la la la lie
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Mama often told me we all got to die
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You must have heard about the curse of millhaven
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How last christmas bill blake's little boy didn't come
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Home
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They found him next week in one mile creek
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His head bashed in and his pockets full of stones
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Well, just imagine all the wailing and moaning
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La la la la la la la lie
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Even little billy blake's boy, he had to die
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Then professor o'rye from millhaven high
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Found nailed to his door his prize-winning terrier
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Then next day the old fool brought little biko to school
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And we all had to watch as he buried her
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His eulogy to biko had all the tears a-flowing
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La la la la la la la lie
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Even god's little creatures, they have to die
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Our little town fell into a state of shock
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A lot of people were saying things that made little sense
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Then the next thing you know the head of handyman joe
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Was found in the fountain of the mayor's residence
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Foul play can really get a small town going
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La la la la la la la lie
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Even god's children all have to die
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Then, in a cruel twist of fate, old mrs colgate
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Was stabbed but the job was not complete
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The last thing she said before the cops pronounced her
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Dead
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Was, my killer is loretta and she lives across the
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Street!
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Twenty cops burst through my door without even phoning
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La la la la la la la lie
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The young ones, the old ones, they all gotta die
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Yes, it is i, lottie. the curse of millhaven
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I've struck horror in the heart of this town
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Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yellow
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It's more like the other way around
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I gotta pretty little mouth underneath all the foaming
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La la la la la la la lie
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Sooner or later we all gotta die
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Since I was no bigger than a weavil they've been saying i
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Was evil
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That if bad was a boot that I'd fit it
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That I'm a wicked young lady, but I've been trying hard
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Lately
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O fuck it! I'm a monster! I admit it!
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It makes me so mad my blood really starts a-going
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La la la la la la la lie
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Mama always told me that we all gotta die
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Yeah, I drowned the blakey kid, stabbed mrs. colgate, i
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Admit
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Did the handyman with his circular saw in his garden shed
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But I never crucified little biko, that was two junior
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High school psychos
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Stinky bohoon and his friend with the pumpkin-sized head
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I'll sing to the lot, now you got me going
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La la la la la la la lie
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All god's children have all gotta die
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There were all the others, all our sisters and brothers
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You assumed were accidents, best forgotten
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Recall the children who broke through the ice on lake
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Tahoo?
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Everyone assumed the warning signs had
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Followed them to the bottom
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Well, they're underneath the house where I do quite a bit
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Of stowing
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La la la la la la la lie
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Even twenty little children, they had to die
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And the fire of '91 that razed the bella vista slum
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There was the biggest shit-fight this country's ever seen
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Insurance companies ruined, land lords getting sued
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All cause of wee girl with a can of gasoline
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Those flames really roared when the wind started blowing
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La la la la la la la lie
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Rich man, poor man, all got to die
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Well I confessed to all these crimes and they put me on
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Trial
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I was laughing when they took me away
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Off to the asylum in an old black mariah
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It ain't home, but you know, it's fucking better than
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Jail
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It ain't such bad old place to have a home in
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La la la la la la la lie
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All god's children they all gotta die
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Now I got shrinks that will not rest with their endless
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Rorschach tests
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I keep telling them they're out to get me
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They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer, why of
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Course!
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There is so much more I could have done if they'd let
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Me!
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So it's rorschach and prozac and everything is groovy
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Singing la la la la la la la lie
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All god's children they all have to die
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La la la la la la la lie
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I'm happy as a lark and everything is fine
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Singing la la la la la la la lie
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Yeah, everything is groovy and everything is fine
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Singing la la la la la la la lie
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All god's children they gotta die
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