The Curse Of Millhaven (2011 - Remaster)-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

[ti:The Curse of Millhaven] [ar:Nick Cave & the bad seeds] [al:Murder Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:18.53]I live in a town called Millhaven [00:21.84]And it's small and it's mean and it's cold [00:25.91]But if you come around just as the sun goes down [00:30.03]You can watch the whole town turn to gold [00:33.65]It's around about then that I used to go a-roaming [00:37.28]Singing La la la la La la la lie [00:40.40]All God's children they all gotta die [00:42.66]My name is Loretta but I prefer Lottie [00:46.28]I'm closing in on my fifteenth year [00:49.53]And if you think you have seen a pair of eyes more green [00:55.84]Then you sure didn't see them around here [00:58.97]My hair is yellow and I'm always a-combing [01:00.66]La la la la La la la lie [01:08.53]Mama often told me we all got to die [01:15.03]You must have heard about The Curse Of Millhaven [01:19.41]How last Christmas Bill Blake's little boy didn't come home [01:23.03]They found him next week in One Mile Creek [01:25.59]His head bashed in and his pockets full of stones [01:29.29]Well just imagine all the wailing and moaning [01:31.22]La la la la La la la lie [01:33.97] [01:43.95]Even little Billy Blake's boy he had to die [01:46.08]Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High [01:47.20]Found nailed to his door his prize-winning terrier [01:49.95]Then next day the old fool brought little Biko to school [01:53.57]And we all had to watch as he buried her [01:56.88]His eulogy to Biko had all the tears a-flowing [01:59.13]La la la la La la la lie [02:05.63]Even God's little creatures they have to die [02:10.64]Our little town fell into a state of shock [02:13.89]A lot of people were saying things that made little sense [02:17.63]Then the next thing you know the head of Handyman Joe [02:21.33]Was found in the fountain of the Mayor's residence [02:23.82]Foul play can really get a small town going [02:28.83]La la la la La la la lie [02:31.83]Even God's children all have to die [02:38.58]Then in a cruel twist of fate old Mrs Colgate [02:42.38]Was stabbed but the job was not complete [02:45.56]The last thing she said before the cops pronounced her dead [02:49.32]Was "My killer is Loretta and she lives across the street " [02:52.88]Twenty cops burst through my door without even phoning [02:56.57]La la la la La la la lie [03:00.07]The young ones the old ones they all gotta die [03:08.31] [03:09.94]Yes it is I Lottie The Curse Of Millhaven [03:12.63]I've struck horror in the heart of this town [03:17.19]Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yellow [03:20.44]It's more like the other way around [03:24.32]I gotta pretty little mouth underneath all the foaming [03:28.19]La la la la La la la lie [03:32.38]Sooner or later we all gotta die [03:37.62]Since I was no bigger than a weavil they've been saying I was evil [03:41.76]That if "bad" was a boot that I'd fit it [03:44.88]That I'm a wicked young lady but I've been trying hard lately [03:49.07]O f**k it I'm a monster I admit it [03:52.20]It makes me so mad my blood really starts a-going [03:56.33]La la la la La la la lie [04:00.33]Mama always told me that we all gotta die [04:05.71]Yeah I drowned the Blakey kid stabbed Mrs Colgate I admit [04:09.77]Did the handyman with his circular saw in his garden shed [04:13.33]But I never crucified little Biko that was two junior high school psychos [04:16.83]Stinky Bohoon and his friend with the pumpkin-sized head [04:20.58]I'll sing to the lot now you got me going [04:24.32]La la la la La la la lie [04:29.71]All God's children have all gotta die [04:38.02]There were all the others all our sisters and brothers [04:40.58]You assumed were accidents best forgotten [04:43.35]Recall the children who broke through the ice on Lake Tahoo [04:47.22]Everyone assumed the "Warning" signs had followed them to the bottom [04:52.78]Well they're underneath the house where I do quite a bit of stowing [04:56.85]La la la la La la la lie [05:01.17]Even twenty little children they had to die [05:06.29]And the fire of '91 that razed the Bella Vista slum [05:10.76]There was the biggest sh*t-fight this country's ever seen [05:13.63]Insurance companies ruined land lords getting sued [05:17.27]All cause of wee girl with a can of gasoline [05:21.14]Those flames really roared when the wind started blowing [05:25.17]La la la la La la la lie [05:28.17]Rich man poor man all got to die [05:37.85]Well I confessed to all these crimes and they put me on trial [05:41.51]I was laughing when they took me away [05:43.70]Off to the asylum in an old black Mariah [05:49.00]It ain't home but you know it's f**king better than jail [05:52.76]It ain't such bad old place to have a home in [05:56.39]La la la la La la la lie [05:59.76]All God's children they all gotta die [06:05.77]Now I got shrinks that will not rest with their endless Rorschach tests [06:09.58]I keep telling them they're out to get me [06:13.02]They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer "Why of course [06:16.90]There is so much more I could have done if they'd let me " [06:19.59]So it's Rorschach and Prozac and everything is groovy [06:24.15]Singing La la la la La la la lie [06:28.15]All God's children they all have to die [06:32.21]La la la la La la la lie [06:35.21]I'm happy as a lark and everything is fine [06:39.22]Singing La la la la La la la lie [06:42.15]Yeah everything is groovy and everything is fine [06:45.71]Singing La la la la La la la lie [06:49.52]All God's children they gotta die