Song of Joy (2011 Remastered Version)-Nick Cave

[ti:Song of Joy]
[ar:Nick Cave & the bad seeds]
[al:Murder Ballads]
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[00:12.08]Have mercy on me sir
[00:13.71]Allow me to impose on you
[00:15.03]I have no place to stay
[00:16.10]And my bones are cold right through
[00:23.41]I will tell you a story
[00:25.86]Of a man and his family
[00:28.11]And I swear that it is true
[00:33.92]Ten years ago I met a girl named Joy
[00:36.99]She was a sweet and happy thing
[00:39.86]Her eyes were bright blue jewels
[00:42.36]And we were married in the spring
[00:45.49]I had no idea what happiness and little love could bring
[00:51.36]Or what life had in store
[00:58.17]But all things move toward their end
[01:01.24]All things move toward their their end
[01:04.11]On that you can be sure
[01:05.33]
[01:34.16]Then one morning I awoke to find her weeping
[01:37.84]And for many days to follow
[01:41.72]She grew so sad and lonely
[01:44.03]Became Joy in name only
[01:47.41]Within her breast there launched an unnamed sorrow
[01:51.90]And a dark and grim force set sail
[01:59.16]Farewell happy fields
[02:00.78]Where joy forever dwells
[02:04.40]* Hail horrors hail *
[02:09.84]Was it an act of contrition or some awful premonition
[02:15.72]As if she saw into the heart of her final blood-soaked night
[02:21.71]Those lunatic eyes that hungry kitchen knife
[02:27.33]Ah I see sir that I have your attention
[02:32.52]Well could it be
[02:37.58]How often I've asked that question
[02:41.64]Well then in quick succession
[02:42.90]We had babies one two three
[02:48.19]We called them Hilda Hattie and Holly
[02:51.78]They were their mother's children
[02:52.72]Their eyes were bright blue jewels
[02:57.44]And they were quiet as a mouse
[03:00.02]There was no laughter in the house
[03:03.05]No not from Hilda Hattie or Holly
[03:05.81]"No wonder" people said"poor mother Joy's so melancholy"
[03:11.68]Well one night there came a visitor to our little home
[03:19.92]I was visiting a sick friend
[03:22.36]I was a doctor then
[03:25.42]Joy and the girls were on their own
[03:32.13]
[03:57.08]Joy had been bound with electrical tape
[03:58.08]In her mouth a gag
[04:00.27]She'd been stabbed repeatedly
[04:02.64]And stuffed into a sleeping bag
[04:05.98]In their very cots my girls were robbed of their lives
[04:10.42]Method of murder much the same as my wife's
[04:14.68]Method of murder much the same as my wife's
[04:22.56]It was midnight when I arrived home
[04:25.74]Said to the police on the telephone
[04:28.18]Someone's taken four innocent lives
[04:33.62]They never caught the man
[04:36.62]He's still on the loose
[04:39.56]It seems he has done many many more
[04:44.50]Quotes John Milton on the walls in the victim's blood
[04:48.43]The police are investigating at tremendous cost
[04:52.62]In my house he wrote"his red right hand"
[04:57.12]That I'm told is from Paradise Lost
[05:03.87]The wind round here gets wicked cold
[05:07.31]But my story is nearly told
[05:09.75]I fear the morning will bring quite a frost
[05:15.30]And so I've left my home
[05:18.18]I drift from land to land
[05:19.80]I am upon your step and you are a family man
[05:25.49]Outside the vultures wheel
[05:27.93]The wolves howl the serpents hiss
[05:31.30]And to extend this small favour friend
[05:34.49]Would be the sum of earthly bliss
[05:37.18]Do you reckon me a friend
[05:42.46]The sun to me is dark
[05:45.33]And silent as the moon
[05:47.77]Do you sir have a room
[05:50.21]Are you beckoning me in