Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Hallelujah lyrics

On the first day of May I took to the road<br />
I'd been staring out the window most of the morning<br />
I'd watched the rain claw at the glass<br />
And a vicious wind blew hard and fast<br />
I should have taken it as a warning<br />
<br />
As a warning<br />
A warning<br />
As a warning<br />
<br />
I'd given my nurse the weekend off<br />
My meals were ill prepared<br />
My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb<br />
And my piano crouched in the corner of my room<br />
With all it's teeth bared<br />
<br />
All it's teeth bared<br />
All it's teeth bared<br />
All it's teeth bared<br />
<br />
Hallelujah<br />
Hallelujah<br />
Hallelujah<br />
Hallelujah<br />
<br />
I left my house without my coat<br />
Something my nurse would not have allowed<br />
And I took the small roads out of town<br />
And I passed a cow and the cow was brown<br />
And my pajamas clung to me like a shroud<br />
<br />
Like a shroud<br />
Like a shroud<br />
Like a shroud<br />
<br />
There rose before me a little house<br />
With all hope and dreams kept within<br />
A woman's voice close to my ear<br />
Said, "Why don't you come in here?"<br />
"You looked soaked to the skin"<br />
<br />
Soaked to the skin<br />
You look soaked to the skin<br />
Soaked to the skin<br />
<br />
Hallelujah<br />
Hallelujah<br />
Hallelujah<br />
Hallelujah<br />
<br />
I turned to the woman and the woman was young<br />
I extended a hearty salutation<br />
But I knew if my nurse had been here<br />
She would never in a thousand years<br />
Permit me to accept that invitation<br />
<br />

Invitation<br />
That invitation<br />
That invitation<br />
<br />
Now, you might think it wise to risk it all<br />
Throw caution to the reckless wind<br />
But with her hot cocoa and her medication<br />
My nurse had been my one salvation<br />
So I turned back home<br />
<br />
I turned back home<br />
I turned back home<br />
Singing my song<br />
<br />
Hallelujah<br />
Hallelujah<br />
Hallelujah<br />
Hallelujah<br />
<br />
Hallelujah<br />
Hallelujah<br />
Hallelujah<br />
Hallelujah<br />
<br />
Hallelujah<br />
(The tears are welling in my eyes again)<br />
Hallelujah<br />
(I need twenty big buckets to catch them in)<br />
Hallelujah<br />
(Twenty pretty girls to carry them down)<br />
Hallelujah<br />
(And twenty deep holes to bury them in)<br />
<br />
Hallelujah<br />
(The tears are welling in my eyes again)<br />
Hallelujah<br />
(I need twenty big buckets to catch them in)<br />
Hallelujah<br />
(Twenty pretty girls to carry them down)<br />
Hallelujah<br />
(And twenty deep holes to bury them in)<br />
<br />
(Hallelujah)<br />
The tears are welling in my eyes again<br />
(Hallelujah)<br />
I need twenty big buckets to catch them in<br />
Twenty pretty girls to carry them down<br />
Twenty deep holes to bury them in<br />
<br />
The tears are welling in my eyes again<br />
I need twenty big buckets to catch them in<br />
Twenty pretty girls to carry them down<br />
And twenty deep holes to bury them in