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[00:01.20]The Curse Of Millhaven
[00:05.05]Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
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[00:18.31]I live in a town called Millhaven
[00:21.71]And it's small
[00:22.78]and it's mean
[00:23.79]and it's cold
[00:25.79]But if you come around
[00:27.10]just as the sun goes down
[00:29.55]You can watch
[00:30.31]the whole town turn to gold
[00:33.04]It's around about then
[00:34.67]that I used to go a-roaming
[00:36.66]Singing La la la la La la la lie
[00:39.96]All God's children they all gotta die
[00:45.07]
[00:46.46]My name is Loretta but I prefer Lottie
[00:50.13]I'm closing in on my fifteenth year
[00:53.81]And if you think
[00:54.36]you have seen a pair of eyes more green
[00:57.36]Then you sure didn't see them around here
[01:00.75]My hair is yellow and I'm always a-combing
[01:04.65]La la la la La la la lie
[01:08.37]Mama often told me we all got to die
[01:12.44]
[01:14.68]You must have heard about
[01:16.48]The Curse Of Millhaven
[01:17.94]How last Christmas
[01:18.96]Bill Blake's little boy didn't come home
[01:21.02]They found him next week in One Mile Creek
[01:25.79]His head bashed in
[01:26.94]and his pockets full of stones
[01:29.16]Well, just imagine all the wailing and moaning
[01:32.43]La la la la La la la lie
[01:36.45]Even little Billy Blake's boy,
[01:38.17]he had to die
[01:40.39]
[01:42.83]Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High
[01:45.98]Found nailed to his door
[01:47.60]his prize-winning terrier
[01:49.76]Then next day
[01:50.85]the old fool brought little Biko to school
[01:53.25]And we all had to watch as he buried her
[01:57.01]His eulogy to Biko had all the tears a-flowing
[02:01.13]La la la la La la la lie
[02:04.39]Even God's little creatures
[02:06.27]they have to die
[02:08.90]
[02:10.60]Our little town fell into a state of shock
[02:13.78]A lot of people were saying things
[02:15.79]that made little sense
[02:17.59]Then the next thing you know
[02:19.22]the head of Handyman Joe
[02:21.28]Was found
[02:22.57]in the fountain of the Mayor's residence
[02:25.50]Foul play can really get a small town going
[02:28.53]La la la la La la la lie
[02:32.45]Even God's children they have to die
[02:36.89]
[02:38.41]Then, in a cruel twist of fate, old Mrs Colgate
[02:41.98]Was stabbed but the job was not complete
[02:45.56]The last thing she said
[02:47.31]before the cops pronounced her dead
[02:49.16]Was, "My killer is Loretta and she lives across the street!"
[02:53.76]Twenty cops burst through my door without even phoning
[02:56.80]La la la la La la la lie
[03:00.06]The young ones, the old ones,
[03:01.98]they all gotta die
[03:04.52]
[03:09.73]Yes, it is I, Lottie. The Curse Of Millhaven
[03:13.27]I've struck horror in the heart of this town
[03:17.15]Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yellow
[03:20.91]It's more like the other way around
[03:24.11]I gotta pretty little mouth underneath all the foaming
[03:27.99]La la la la La la la lie
[03:31.82]Sooner or later we all gotta die
[03:36.46]
[03:37.89]Since I was no bigger than a weavil
[03:39.86]they've been saying I was evil
[03:41.68]That if "bad" was a boot that I'd fit it
[03:45.02]That I'm a wicked young lady,
[03:46.79]but I've been trying hard lately
[03:48.74]O fuck it! I'm a monster! I admit it!
[03:52.61]It makes me so mad my blood really starts a-going
[03:56.41]La la la la La la la lie
[04:00.24]Mama always told me that we all gotta die
[04:04.35]
[04:05.91]Yeah, I drowned the Blakey kid,
[04:07.68]stabbed Mrs. Colgate, I admit
[04:09.57]Did the handyman with his circular
[04:11.37]saw in his garden shed
[04:13.47]But I never crucified little Biko,
[04:15.07]that was two junior high school psychos
[04:17.14]Stinky Bohoon and his friend
[04:18.97]with the pumpkin-sized head
[04:20.97]I'll sing to the lot, now you got me going
[04:24.59]La la la la La la la lie
[04:28.65]All God's children have all gotta die
[04:32.98]
[04:37.85]There were all the others,
[04:39.82]all our sisters and brothers
[04:41.71]You assumed were accidents,
[04:43.23]best forgotten
[04:45.04]Recall the children
[04:46.40]who broke through the ice on Lake Tahoo?
[04:48.80]Everyone assumed
[04:50.28]the "Warning" signs had followed them to the bottom
[04:52.59]Well, they're underneath the house
[04:54.57]where I do quite a bit of stowing
[04:56.18]La la la la La la la lie
[04:59.98]Even twenty little children,
[05:02.01]they had to die
[05:03.80]
[05:06.18]And the fire of '91 that razed the Bella Vista slum
[05:09.67]There was the biggest shit-fight this country's ever seen
[05:13.77]Insurance companies ruined,
[05:15.54]land lords getting sued
[05:17.47]All cause of wee girl with a can of gasoline
[05:20.80]Those flames really roared
[05:22.72]when the wind started blowing
[05:24.76]La la la la La la la lie
[05:28.41]Rich man, poor man, all got to die
[05:32.41]
[05:37.90]Well I confessed to all these crimes
[05:39.76]and they put me on trial
[05:41.74]I was laughing when they took me away
[05:45.52]Off to the asylum in an old black Mariah
[05:48.70]It ain't home, but you know, it's fucking better than jail
[05:52.94]It ain't such bad old place to have a home in
[05:56.16]La la la la La la la lie
[06:00.01]All God's children they all gotta die
[06:05.27]
[06:05.87]Now I got shrinks
[06:07.28]that will not rest with their endless Rorschach tests
[06:10.59]I keep telling them they're out to get me
[06:13.07]They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer,
[06:15.78]"Why of course!
[06:17.27]There is so much more I could have done
[06:19.06]if they'd let me!"
[06:20.74]So it's Rorschach and Prozac and everything is groovy
[06:24.52]La la la la La la la lie
[06:27.99]All God's children they all have to die
[06:31.95]La la la la La la la lie
[06:35.44]I'm happy as a lark and everything is fine
[06:39.18]La la la la La la la lie
[06:42.63]Yeah, everything is groovy and everything is fine
[06:46.14]La la la la La la la lie
[06:49.75]All God's children they gotta die