Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Murder Ballads
Из сборника текстов песен, собранных Корневым И.М. (corneff@iibankm.msk.su) Глушаком А.Н. (andrey@iibankm.msk.su) Худяковым Д.М. в 1994-1996 годах.
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Murder Ballads LCD Stumm138
Song Of Joy
Have mercy on me, sir Allow me to impose on you I have no place to stay And my bones are cold right through I will tell you a story Of a man and his family And I swear that it is true Ten years ago I met a girl named Joy She was a sweet and happy thing Her eyes were bright blue jewels And we were married in the spring I had no idea what happiness a little love could bring Or what life had in store But all things move toward their end All things move toward their end On that you can be sure La la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la Then one morning I awoke to find her weeping And for many days to follow She grew so sad and lonely Became Joy in name only Within her breast there launched an unnamed sorrow And a dark and grim force set sail 'Farewell happy fields' 'Where joy forever dwells' 'Hail horrors hail' Was it an act of contrition or some awful premonition As if she saw into the heart of her final blood-soaked night Those lunatic eyes, that hungry kitchen knife Ah, I see, sir, that I have your attention! Well, could it be? How often I've asked that question Well, then in quick succession We had babies, one, two, three We called them Hilda, Hattie and Holly They were their mother's children Their eyes were bright blue jewels And they were quiet as a mouse There was no laughter in the house No, not from Hilda, Hattie or Holly "No wonder", people said, "poor mother Joy's so melancholy" Well, one night there came a visitor to our little home I was visiting a sick friend I was a doctor then Joy and the girls were on their own La la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la Joy had been bound with electrical tape In her mouth a gag She'd been stabbed repeatedly And stuffed into a sleeping bag In their very cots my girls were robbed of their lives Method of murder much the same as my wife's Method of murder much the same as my wife's It was midnight when i arrived at home Said to the police on the telephone Someone's taken four innocent lives They never caught the man He's still on the loose It seems he has done many many more Quotes John Milton on the walls in the victim's blood The police are investigating at tremendous cost In my house he wrote "Red right hand" That, I'm told, is from 'Paradise Lost' The wind around here gets wicked cold But my story is nearly told I fear the morning will bring quite a frost And so I've left my home I drift from land to land I am upon your step and you are a family man Outside the vultures wheel The wolves howl, the serpents hiss And to extend this small favour, friend Would be the sum of earthly bliss Do you reckon me a friend? 'The sun to me is dark' 'And silent as the moon' Do you, sir, have a room? Are you beckoning me in? La la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la
Stagger Lee
It was back in '32 when times were hard He had a Colt .45 and a deck of cards Stagger Lee He wore rat-drawn shoes and an old stetson hat Had a '28 Ford, had payments on that Stagger Lee His woman threw him out in the ice and snow And told him, "Never ever come back no more" Stagger Lee So he walked through the rain and he walked through the mud Till he came to a place called The Bucket Of Blood Stagger Lee He said, "Mr Motherfucker, you know who I am" The barkeeper said, "No, and I don't give a good goddamn" To Stagger Lee He said, "Well bartender, it't plain to see I'm that bad motherfucker called Stagger Lee" Mr. Stagger Lee Barkeep said, "Yeah, I've heard your name down the way And I kick motherfucking asses like you everyday" Mr Stagger Lee Well, those were the last words that the barkeep said 'Cause Stag put four holes in his motherfucking head Just then in came a broad called Nellie Brown Was known to make more money than any bitch in town She struts across the bar, hitching up her skirt Over to Stagger Lee, she starts to flirt With Stagger Lee She saw the barkeep, said, "O God, he can't be dead!" Stag said, "Well, just count the holes in the motherfucker's head" She said, "You look like you ain't scored in quite a time. Why not come to my pad? It won't cost you a dime" Mr. Stagger Lee "But there's something I have to say before you begin You'll have to be gone before my man Billy Dilly comes in, Stagger Lee" "I'll stay here till Billy Dilly comes in, till time comes to pass And furthermore I'll fuck Billy Dilly in his motherfucking ass" Said Stagger Lee "I'm a bad motherfucker, don't you know And I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boy's ass hole" Said Stagger Lee Just then Billy Dilly rolls in and said, "You must be That bad motherfucker called Stagger Lee" Stagger Lee "Yeah, I'm Stagger Lee and you better get down on your knees And suck my dick, because if you don't you're sure to be dead" Said Stagger Lee Billy Dilly dropped down and sobbered on his head And Stag filled him full of lead Oh yeah.
Henry Lee
Get down, get down, little Henry Lee And stay all night with me You won't find a girl in this damned world That will compare with me And the did howl and the wind did blow La la la la la La la la la lee A little bird lit down on Henry Lee I can't get down and I won't get down And spend all night with thee For the girl I have in that merry green land I love far better than thee And the did howl and the wind did blow La la la la la La la la la lee A little bird lit down on Henry Lee She leaned herself against a fence Just for a kiss or two And with a little pen-knife held in her hand She plugged him through and through And the did howl and the wind did blow La la la la la La la la la lee A little bird lit down on Henry Lee Come take him by his lilly-white hands Come take him by his feet And throw him down this deep deep well Which is more than one hundred feet And the did howl and the wind did blow La la la la la La la la la lee A little bird lit down on Henry Lee Lie there, lie there, little Henry Lee Till the flesh drops from your bones For the girl you have in that merry green land Can wait forever for you to come home And the did howl and the wind did blow La la la la la La la la la lee A little bird lit down on Henry Lee
Lovely Creature
There she stands, this lovely creature There she stands, there she stands With her hair full of ribbons And green gloves on her hands So I asked this lovely creature Yes, I asked. Yes I asked Would she walk with me a while Through this night so fast She took my hand, this lovely creature "Yes" she said, "Yes" she said "Yes, I'll walk with you a while" It was a joyful man she lead Over hills, this lovely creature Over mountains, over ranges By great pyramids and sphinxs We met drifters and strangers Oh the sands, my lovely creature And the mad, moaning winds At night the deserts writhed With diabolical things Through the night, throug the night The wind lashed and it whipped me When I got home, my lovely creature She was no longer with me Somewhere she lies, this lovely creature Beneath the slow drifting sands With her hair full of ribbons And green gloves on her hands
Where The Wild Roses Grow
Chorus:
Gm Cm Gm They call me The Wild Rose Gm Bb D But my name was Elisa Day Gm Cm Gm Why they call me it I do not know Gm F Gm For my name was Elisa Day Gm Bb From the first day I saw I knew she was the one Cm D As she stared in my eyes and smiled Gm Bb For her lips were the colour of the roses Cm D That grew down the river, all bloody and wild Gm Bb When he knocked on my door and entered the room Cm D My trembling subsided in his sure embrace Gm Bb He would be my first man, and with a careful hand Cm D He wiped at the tears that ran down my face Chorus. On the second day I brought her a flower She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow So sweet and scarlet and free?" On the second day he came with a single red rose Said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?" I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed He said, "If I show you the roses will you follow?" Chorus. On the third day he took me to the river He showed me the roses and we kissed And the last thing I heard was a muttered word As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief As I kissed her goodbye, I said, "All beauty must die" And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth Chorus.
The Curse Of Millhaven
The Kindness Of Strangers
They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head O poor Mary Bellows She'd grown up hungry, she'd grown up poor So she left her home in Arkansas O poor Mary Bellows She wanted to see the deep blue sea She drove across Tennessee O poor Mary Bellows She met a man along the way He introduced himself as Richard Slade O poor Mary Bellows Poor Mary thought that she might die When she saw the ocean for the first time O poor Mary Bellows She checked into a cheap little place Richard Slade carried in her old suitcase O poor Mary Bellows "I'm a good girl, sir", she said to him I couldn't possibly permit you in O poor Mary Bellows Slade tipped his hat and winked his eye And turned away without goodbye O poor Mary Bellows She sat on her bed and thought of home With the sea breeze whistling all alone O poor Mary Bellows In hope and loneliness she crossed the floor And undid the latch on the front door O poor Mary Bellows They found her next day cuffed to the bed A rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head O poor Mary Bellows So mothers keep your girls at home Don't let them journey out alone Tell them this world is full of danger And to shun the company of strangers O poor Mary Bellows O poor Mary Bellows
Crow Jane
Crow Jane Crow Jane Crow Jane Horrors in her head That her tounge dare not name Lived all alone by the river The rolling rivers of pain Crow Jane Crow Jane Crow Jane Ah hah huh There is one shining eye on a hard-hat Company closed down the mine Winking on the waters they came Thenty hard-hats, twenty eyes In her clapboard shack Just six foot by five They killed all her whiskey Poured their pistols dry Crow Jane Crow Jane Crow Jane Ah hah huh Seems you've remembered How to sleep, how to sleep The house dogs are in your turnips And your yard dogs are running all over the streets Crow Jane Crow Jane Crow Jane Ah hah huh "O Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson Why you close up shop so late?" "Just fitted out a girl who looked like a bird Measured .32, .44, .38 Asked the girl which road she was taking Said she was walking on the road of hate But she hopped on a coal-trolley up to New Haven Population: 48" Crow Jane Crow Jane Crow Jane Ah hah huh Your guns are drunk and smoking They have followed you to the gate Laughing all way back from the new town Population, now, 28 Crow Jane Crow Jane Crow Jane Ah hah huh
O'Malley's Bar
I am tall and I am thin Of an enviable hight And I've been known to be quite handsome From a certain angle, and in a 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! Hmmmmm "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 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 is 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 dawn And amongst the townfolk, she was a bit of a joke But she pulled the best beers in town I swooped magnificient 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 chair I shot the motherfucker down Mmmmmmmmm 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 he stood up And 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 wierdly, "No offense" And lay upon the ground "None taken", I replied to him With 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 am I a stranger And I put new bullets in my gun Chamber upon chamber And when 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 Sebastian I thought of, and his arrows Hhhhhhhhhhhh Mmmmmmmmmm I said, "I want to introduce myself And I am glad that you all 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 big brick I split his head in half His blood spilled across the bar Like a streaming 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 and truth I smiled at Henry Davenport Who made no 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 hair upon my head To the feathers on my wings [...] in it's fraudulent 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 "Do you know I lived in your street?" I cried And he looked at me as thought 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 the hat right off the house 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!" But no one did cause they were dead Huh! Hmmmmmmmm And then there were the police sirens wailing And a bull-horn squelched and blared "Drop your weapons and come out With your hands in the air" Well, I checked the chambers of my gun Saw I had one final bullet left My hand, it looked almost human As I held it to my head "Drop your weapon and come out! Keep your hands above your head!" Well, I had 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 started counting on my fingers Aaaaaaaaah One Aaaaaaaah Two Aaaaaah Three Aaaah Four O'Malley's bar O'Malley's bar
Death Is Not The End
When you're sad and when you're lonely And you haven't got a friend Just remember that death is not the end And all that you held sacred Falls down and does not mend Just remember that death is not the end Not the end, not the end Just remember that death is not the end When you're standing on the crossroads That you cannot comprehend Just remember that death is not the end And all your dreams have vanished And you don't know what's up the bend Just remember that death is not the end Not the end, not the end Just remember that death is not the end When the storm clouds gather round you And heavy rains descend Just remember that death is not the end And there is no-one there to comfort you With a helping hand to lend Just remember that death is not the end Not the end, not the end Just remember that death is not the end For the tree of life is growing Where the spirit never dies And the bright light of salvation Up in dark and empty skies When the cities are on fire With the burning flesh of men Just remember that death is not the end And you search in vain to find Some law-abiding citizen Just remember that death is not the end Not the end, not the end Just remember that death is not the end Not the end, not the end Just remember that death is not the end
THE BAD SEEDS are: MICK HARVEY, BLIXA BARGELD, THOMAS WYLDER, COWAY SAVAGE, MARTYN P. CASEY, JIM SCLAVUNOS This record was produced by NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, TONY COHEN and VICTOR VAN VUGT. It was recorded in 1993-95 at ATLANTIS, SING SING and METROPOLIS STUDIOS, Melbourne, WESSEX STUDIOS, London, and mixed at METROPOLIS with TONY COHEN WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW was mixed by GREGG JACKMAN at SARAM WEST, London Mastered by RAY STAFF at WHITFIELD STREET (P) 1996 Mute Records Limited (C) 1996 Mute Records Limited - Reproduced without any given permission
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