[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [00:05.52]Hallelujah [00:10.39]Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds [00:15.03] [01:07.11]On the first day of May I took to the road [01:11.10]I'd been staring out the window most of the morning [01:15.10]I'd watched the rain claw at the glass [01:18.04]And a vicious wind blew hard and fast [01:21.17]I should have taken it as a warning [01:25.58]As a warning [01:30.02]As a warning [01:33.49]As a warning [01:35.92] [01:38.73]I'd given my nurse the weekend off [01:42.70]My meals were ill prepared [01:46.54]My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb [01:49.69]And my piano crouched in the corner of my room [01:52.90]With all its teeth bared [01:57.46]All its teeth bared [02:01.08]All its teeth bared [02:05.03]All its teeth bared [02:08.60]Hallelujah [02:12.61]Hallelujah [02:16.47]Hallelujah [02:20.83]Hallelujah [02:25.10] [02:56.45]I left my house without my coat [02:59.88]Something my nurse would not have allowed [03:03.50]And I took the small roads out of town [03:06.46]And I passed a cow and the cow was brown [03:09.98]And my pyjamas clung to me like a shroud [03:13.84]Like a shroud [03:17.70]Like a shroud [03:21.78]Like a shroud [03:25.00] [03:27.28]There rose before me a little house [03:30.48]With all hope and dreams kept within [03:34.43]A woman's voice close to my ear [03:37.39]I said, Why don't you come in here? [03:40.28]You looked soaked to the skin [03:44.52]Soaked to the skin Soaked to the skin [03:48.40]You looked soaked to the skin [03:52.24]Soaked to the skin [03:54.97] [03:56.27]Hallelujah [03:59.77]Hallelujah [04:03.59]Hallelujah [04:07.43]Hallelujah [04:12.11] [05:13.58]I turned to the woman and the woman was young [05:16.86]I extended a hearty salutation [05:20.68]But I knew if my nurse had been here [05:23.48]She would never in a thousand years [05:26.34]Permit me to accept that invitation [05:31.05]Invitation [05:34.26]That invitation [05:37.99]That invitation [05:40.77] [05:43.96]Now, you might think it wise to risk it all [05:47.58]Throw caution to the reckless wind [05:50.22]But with her hot cocoa and her medication [05:54.25]My nurse had been my one salvation [05:57.57]So I turned back home [06:01.47]I turned back home [06:05.28]I turned back home [06:08.72]I singing my song [06:11.76] [06:12.68]Hallelujah…… [06:43.09]Hallelujah (The tears are welling in my eyes again) [06:47.20]Hallelujah (I need twenty big buckets to catch them in) [06:50.74]Hallelujah (And twenty pretty girls to carry them down) [06:54.45]Hallelujah (And twenty deep holes to bury them in) [06:58.31]Hallelujah [07:00.15]*The tears are welling in my eyes again [07:02.80]I need twenty big buckets to catch them in [07:06.12]And twenty pretty girls to carry them down [07:09.94]And twenty deep holes to bury them in* [07:14.45]Repeat*