O`malley`s Bar Lyrics

O`malley`s Bar lyrics

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 O'Malley's Bar

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 An extended version is also available. 

 

 

 

 I am tall and I am thin

 Of an enviable hight

 And I've been known to be quite handsome

 In a certain angle and in 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! Hmmmmmm 

 

 "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

 But 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's 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 down

 And amongst the townfolk she was a bit of a joke

 But she pulled the best beer in town 

 

 I swooped magnificent 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 seat

 I shot that mother fucker down 

 

 Mmmmmmmmmm 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 stupidly stood up 

 

 As 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 weirdly, "No offense"

 And then lay upon the ground 

 

 "None taken", I replied to him

 To 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 I am a stranger

 And I put new bullets in my gun

 Chamber upon chamber 

 

 And 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 St. Sebastian I thought of, and his arrows 

 

 Hhhhhhhhhh Mmmmmmmmmmmm 

 

 I said, "I want to introduce myself

 And I am glad that all you 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 really big brick

 I split his head in half 

 

 His blood spilled across the bar

 Like a steaming 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 of truth

 I smiled at Henry Davenport

 Who made an 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's hair upon my head

 To the feathers on my wings 

 

 Remorse sqeezed my hand in it's fradulent 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

 "Did you know I lived in your street?" I said

 And he looked at me as though 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 that hat right off the house 

 

 Hmmmmmm Uh Uh 

 

 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! Fear me!"

 But no one did cause they were dead 

 

 Huh! Hmmmmmmmmm 

 

 And then there were the police sirens wailing

 And a bull-horn squelched and blared

 "Drop your weapons and come out

 With your hands held in the air" 

 

 Well, I checked the chamber of my gun

 Saw I had one final bullet left

 My hand, it looked almost human

 As I raised it to my head 

 

 "Drop your weapon and come out!

 Keep your hands above your head!"

 I had one 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 I started counting on my fingers 

 

 Aaaaaah One Aaaaaah Two Aaaaaah Three Aaaaaaah Four

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