Hallelujah Lyrics - No More Shall We Part - Nick Cave

On the first day of May I took to the road 

I'd been staring out the window most of the morning 

I'd watched the rain claw at the glass 

And a vicious wind blew hard and fast 

I should have taken it as a warning 

As a warning As a warning 

As a warning 

I'd given my nurse the weekend off 

My meals were ill prepared 

My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb 

And my piano crouched in the corner of my room 

With all its teeth bared 

All its teeth bared All its teeth bared 

All its teeth bared. 

Hallelujah Hallelujah 

Hallelujah Hallelujah 

I left my house without my coat 

Something my nurse would not have allowed 

And I took the small roads out of town 

And I passed a cow and the cow was brown 

And my pajamas clung to me like a shroud 

Like a shroud Like a shroud 

Like a shroud 

There rose before me a little house 

With all hope and dreams kept within 

A woman's voice close to my ear 

Said, "Why don't you come in here?" 

"You looked soaked to the skin" 

Soaked to the skin Soaked to the skin 

Soaked to the skin 

Hallelujah Hallelujah 

Hallelujah Hallelujah 

I turned to the woman and the woman was young 

I extended a hearty salutation 

But I knew if my nurse had been here 

She would never in a thousand years 

Permit me to accept that invitation 

Invitation That invitation 

That invitation 

Now, you might think it wise to risk it all 

Throw caution to the reckless wind 

But with her hot cocoa and her medication 

My nurse had been my one salvation 

So I turned back home 

I turned back home I turned back home 

Singing my song 

Hallelujah 

The tears are welling in my eyes again 

Hallelujah 

I need twenty big buckets to catch them in 

Hallelujah 

And twenty pretty girls to carry 

Them down 

Hallelujah 

And twenty deep holes to bury them in 

Hallelujah 

The tears are welling in my eyes again 

Hallelujah 

I need twenty big buckets to catch them in 

Hallelujah 

And twenty pretty girls to carry them down 

Hallelujah 

And twenty deep holes to bury them in