Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Mutiny In Heaven Lyrics
Well ah jumpt! and fled this *****en heap on doctored wingsMah flailin pinions, with splints and rags and crutches!(damn things nearly hardly flap)Canker upon canker upon one million tiny puncturesThat look like...Long thin red ribbons draped across the arms of a lil mortal girl(like a ground -plan of hell)Curse these smartin strings! these *****en ruptures!Enough! enough is enough!(if this is heaven ahm bailin out)If this is heaven ahm bailin outAh caint tolerate this ol tin-tubSo fulla trash and rats! felt one crawl across mah soulFor a seckon there , as thought as wassa back down in the ghetto!(rats in paradise! rats in paradise!)Ahm bailin out! theres a mutiny in heaven!Ah wassa born...And lord shakin, even then was dumpt into some icy font,Like some great stinky unclean!From slum-chuch to slum-church, ah spilt mah heartTo some fat cunt behind a screen...Evil poppin eye presst up to the openingHed slide shut the lil perforated hatch...at night mah bodyBlushtTo the whistle of the birchWith a lil practice ah soon learnt to use in on mahselfPunishment? ! reward!! punishment? ! reward!!Well, ah tied on...percht on mah bed ah was...Sticken a needle in mah arm...Ah tied off! *****en wings burst out mah back(like ah was cuttin teeth!!)Ah took off!!!(rats in paradise! rats in paradise!)Theres a mutiny in heaven!Oh lord, ah git down on mah knees(ah git down on mah knees and start to pray)Wrapped in mah mongrel wings, ah nearly freezeIn the howlin wind and drivin rain(all the trash blowin round n round)>from slum-heaven into townAh take mah tiny pain and rollin back mah sleeve(roll anna roll anna roll anna roll)Ah yank the drip outa mah vein! utopiate! ahm bailin out!Utopiate!If this is heaven ahm bailin out!Mah threadbare soul teems with vermin and louseThoughts come like a plague to the head...in gods house!Mutiny in heaven!(ars infectio forco dio)To the plank!(rats in paradise! rats in paradise!)Ahm bailin out!(hail hypuss dermio vita rex!)Hole inna ghetto! hole inna ghetto!(scabio murem per sanctum...dio, dio, dio)
