lyrics for an enigmatic day

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS

(a slightly altered version of the lyrics from their song, 'Hallelujah')

On the first day of May I took to the road

I'd been staring out the window most of the morning

I'd watched the rain claw at the glass
And a vicious wind blew hard and fast

I should have taken it as a warning.

I'd given my nurse the weekend off

My meals were ill prepared

My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb

And my piano crouched in the corner of my room

With all its teeth bared.

I left my house without my coat

Something my nurse would not have allowed

And I took the small roads out of town
And I passed a cow and the cow was brown

And my pyjamas clung to me like a shroud.

There rose before me a little house

With all hope and dreams kept within

A woman's voice close to my ear

Said, "Why don't you come in here?"

"You looked soaked to the skin".

I turned to the woman and the woman was young

I extended a hearty salutation

But I knew if my nurse had been here

She would never in a thousand years

Permit me to accept that invitation.

Now, you might think it wise to risk it all

Throw caution to the reckless wind

But with her hot cocoa and her medication

My nurse had been my one salvation

So I turned back home

I turned back home I turned back home

Singing my song.

The tears are welling in my eyes again
I need twenty big buckets to catch them in

And twenty pretty girls to carry

them down

And twenty deep holes to bury them in.

Go write something cool.
XX
Lou