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Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
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On the first day of May I took to the road
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I'd been staring out the window most of the morning
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I'd watched the rain claw at the glass
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And a vicious wind blew hard and fast
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I should have taken it as a warning
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As a warning As a warning
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As a warning
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I'd given my nurse the weekend off
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My meals were ill prepared
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My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb
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And my piano crouched in the corner of my room
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With all its teeth bared
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All its teeth bared All its teeth bared
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All its teeth bared.
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Hallelujah Hallelujah
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Hallelujah Hallelujah
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I left my house without my coat
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Something my nurse would not have allowed
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And I took the small roads out of town
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And I passed a cow and the cow was brown
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And my pyjamas clung to me like a shroud
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Like a shroud Like a shroud
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Like a shroud
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There rose before me a little house
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With all hope and dreams kept within
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A woman's voice close to my ear
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Said, "Why don't you come in here?"
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"You looked soaked to the skin"
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Soaked to the skin Soaked to the skin
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Soaked to the skin
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Hallelujah Hallelujah
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Hallelujah Hallelujah
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I turned to the woman and the woman was young
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I extended a hearty salutation
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But I knew if my nurse had been here
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She would never in a thousand years
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Permit me to accept that invitation
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Invitation That invitation
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That invitation
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Now, you might think it wise to risk it all
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Throw caution to the reckless wind
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But with her hot cocoa and her medication
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My nurse had been my one salvation
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So I turned back home
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I turned back home I turned back home
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Singing my song
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Hallelujah
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The tears are welling in my eyes again
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Hallelujah
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I need twenty big buckets to catch them in
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Hallelujah
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And twenty pretty girls to carry
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Them down
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And twenty deep holes to bury them in
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The tears are welling in my eyes again
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Hallelujah
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I need twenty big buckets to catch them in
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Hallelujah
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And twenty pretty girls to carry them down
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And twenty deep holes to bury them in
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