Oh My Lord - Dorothy Love Coates

[00:00.5]oh my lord
[00:01.2]nick cave & the bad seeds
[00:01.5]i thought i'd take a walk today
[00:04.9]it's a mistake i sometimes make
[00:09.15]kids lay asleep in bed
[00:12.68]my wife lay wide-awake
[00:17.78]i kissed her softly on the brow
[00:21.24]i tried not to make a sound
[00:24.79]but with stony eyes she looked at me
[00:28.79]and gently squeezed my hand
[00:33.86]call it a premonition
[00:37.2]call it a crazy vision
[00:40.86]call it intuition
[00:43.87]something learned from mother
[00:48.33]but when she looked up at me
[00:51.99]i could clearly see
[00:55.08]the sword of damocles,
[00:58.36]hanging directly above her
[01:05.45]oh lord
[01:07.95]oh my lord
[01:12.59]oh lord
[01:16.54]how have i offended thee?
[01:23.82]wrap your tender arms around me
[01:31.19]oh lord
[01:34.71]oh lord
[01:37.21]oh my lord
[01:46.86]they called at me through the fence
[01:49.78]they were not making any sense
[01:52.94]they claimed that i had lost the plot
[01:56.44]kept saying that i was not
[01:59.94]the man i used to be
[02:03.51]they held their babes aloft
[02:06.99]threw marsh mellows at the security
[02:10.46]and said that i'd grown soft
[02:14.87]call it intuition
[02:17.83]call it a creeping suspicion,
[02:20.73]but their words of derision
[02:24.36]i meant they hardly knew me
[02:28.45]for even i could see in the way
[02:31.84]they looked at me
[02:34.65]the spear of destiny ,
[02:38.93]sticking right through me
[02:44.0]oh lord
[02:46.62]oh my lord
[02:50.83]oh lord
[02:54.15]how have i offended thee?
[03:00.98]wrap your tender arms round me
[03:07.63]oh lord
[03:10.85]oh lord
[03:13.15]oh my lord
[03:48.5]now i'm at the hairdressers
[03:51.6]people watch me as they move past
[03:54.36]a guy wearing plastic antlers
[03:57.55]presses his bum against the glass
[04:00.69]now i'm down on my hands and knees
[04:03.82]and it's so f**king hot!
[04:06.99]someone cries, what are you looking for?
[04:10.17]i scream, the plot, the plot!
[04:13.44]i grab my telephone
[04:16.57]i call my wife at home
[04:19.66]she screams, leave us alone!
[04:22.82]i say, hey, it's only me
[04:26.09]the hairdresser with his scissors
[04:29.1]he holds up the mirror
[04:32.26]i look back and shiver
[04:35.36]i can't even believe what i can be
[05:04.41]be mindful of the prayers you send
[05:07.19]pray hard but pray with care
[05:10.34]for the tears that you are crying now
[05:13.42]are just your answered prayers
[05:16.64]the ladders of life that we scale merrily
[05:19.76]move mysteriously around
[05:22.92]so that when you think
[05:24.35]you're climbing up man
[05:26.16]in fact you're climbing down
[05:29.14]into the hollows of glamour,
[05:32.28]where with spikes and hammer
[05:35.36]with telescopic camera,
[05:38.36]they chose to turn the screw
[05:41.54]oh i hate them, ma!
[05:44.56]oh i hate them, pa!
[05:47.66]oh i hate them all
[05:50.64]for what they went and done to you
[05:56.45]oh lord
[05:58.91]oh my lord
[06:02.58]oh lord
[06:05.87]how have i offended thee?
[06:12.07]wrap your tender arms round me
[06:18.33]oh lord
[06:21.37]oh lord
[06:23.6]oh my lord