Oh My Lord-Nick Cave

[ti:Oh My Lord] [ar:Nick Cave] [al:No More Shall We Part] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Oh My Lord - Nick Cave [00:01.09]I thought I'd take a walk today [00:03.70] [00:04.92]It's a mistake I sometimes make [00:07.66] [00:08.77]My children lay asleep in bed [00:11.76] [00:12.77]My wife lay wide-awake [00:16.20] [00:17.88]I kissed her softly on the brow [00:20.62] [00:21.44]I tried not to make a sound [00:24.43] [00:25.14]But with stony eyes she looked at me [00:28.35] [00:29.12]And gently squeezed my hand [00:32.24] [00:33.75]Call it a premonition call it a crazy vision [00:39.81] [00:41.18]Call it intuition something learned from mother [00:47.17] [00:48.21]But when she looked up at me I could clearly see [00:54.66] [00:55.31]The Sword of Damocles hanging directly above her [01:02.37] [01:05.92]Oh Lord Oh my Lord [01:10.08] [01:12.97]Oh Lord [01:14.66] [01:16.71]How have I offended thee [01:23.36] [01:24.23]Wrap your tender arms around me [01:29.99] [01:31.39]Oh Lord Oh Lord [01:36.59] [01:37.22]Oh My Lord [01:44.62] [01:47.04]They called at me through the fence [01:49.48] [01:50.02]They were not making any sense [01:52.21] [01:53.04]They claimed that I had lost the plot [01:56.89]Kept saying that I was not [02:00.23]The man I used to be [02:02.75] [02:03.58]They held their babes aloft [02:07.08]Threw marsh mellows at the Security [02:10.71]And said that I'd grown soft [02:13.71] [02:15.40]Call it intuition call it a creeping suspicion [02:20.94]But their words of derision meant they hardly knew me [02:28.06] [02:28.75]For even I could see in the way they stared at me [02:33.86] [02:34.73]The Spear of Destiny sticking right through me [02:42.22] [02:44.45]Oh Lord Oh my lord [02:48.77] [02:50.98]Oh Lord [02:53.12] [02:54.61]How have I offended thee [03:00.66] [03:01.38]Wrap your tender arms round me [03:06.55] [03:07.98]Oh Lord Oh lord [03:12.77] [03:13.48]Oh My Lord [03:20.17] [03:48.84]Now I'm at the hairdressers [03:51.49]People watch me as they move past [03:53.69] [03:54.49]A guy wearing plastic antlers [03:57.79]Presses his bum against the glass [04:00.96]Now I'm down on my hands and knees [04:04.28]And it's so f**king hot [04:07.13]Someone cries "What are you looking for " [04:09.79] [04:10.40]I scream "The plot the plot " [04:13.09] [04:13.89]I grab my telephone I call my wife at home [04:19.96]She screams "Leave us alone " I say "Hey it's only me" [04:25.65] [04:26.39]The hairdresser with his scissors he holds up the mirror [04:32.50]I look back and shiver; I can't even believe what I can see [04:39.08] [05:04.84]Be mindful of the prayers you send [05:07.39]Pray hard but pray with care [05:09.63] [05:10.38]For the tears that you are crying now [05:12.97] [05:13.71]Are just your answered prayers [05:16.91]The ladders of life that we scale merrily [05:20.12]Move mysteriously around [05:22.70] [05:23.23]So that when you think you're climbing up man [05:26.06]In fact you're climbing down [05:28.97] [05:29.60]Into the hollows of glamour where with spikes and hammer [05:34.83] [05:35.69]With telescopic camera they chose to turn the screw [05:41.68]Oh I hate them Ma Oh I hate them Pa [05:48.01]Oh I hate them all for what they went and done to you [05:54.60] [05:56.88]Oh Lord Oh my Lord [06:01.30] [06:02.95]Oh Lord [06:05.63] [06:06.31]How have I offended thee [06:12.42]Wrap your tender arms round me [06:17.90] [06:18.56]Oh Lord Oh Lord [06:23.64]Oh My Lord