O'Malley's Bar

I am tall and I am thin
Of an enviable height
And I've been known to be quite handsome
From a certain angle and a certain light

Well I entered into O'Malley's
Said, "O'Malley I have a thirst"
O'Malley merely smiled at me
said "You wouldn't be the first"

I knocked on the bar and pointed
To a bottle on the shelf
And as O'Malley poured me out a drink
I sniffed and crossed myself

My hand decided that the time was nigh
And for a moment it slipped from view
And when it returned, it fairly burned
With confidence anew

Well the thunder from my steely fist
Made all the glasses jangle
When I shot him, I was so handsome
It was the light, it was the angle

Huh! Hmmmmm

"Neighbours!" I cried, "Friends!" I screamed
I banged my fist upon the bar
"I bear no grudge against you!"
And my d_ck felt long and hard
"I am the man for which no God waits
And for which the whole world yearns
I'm marked by darkness and by blood
And one thousand powder-burns"

Well, you know those fish with swollen lips
That clean the ocean floor?
When I looked at poor O'Malley's wife
That is exactly what I saw

I jammed the barrel under her chin
And her face looked raw and vicious
Her head it landed in the sink
With all the dirty dishes

Her little daughter Siobhan
Pulled beers from dusk till dawn
And amongst the townfolk, she was a bit of a joke
But she pulled the best beers in town

I swooped magnificent upon her
As she sat shivering in her grief
Like the Madonna painted on the church-house wall
In whale's blood and banana leaf

Her throat it crumbled in my fist
And I spun heroically around
To see Caffrey rising from his seat
I shot that motherf_cker down

Mmmmmmmmm Yeah Yeah Yeah

"I have no free will," I sang
As I flew about the murder
Mrs. Richard Holmes, she screamed
You really should have heard her
I sang and I laughed, I howled and I wept
I panted like a pup
I blew a hole in Mrs. Richard Holmes
And her husband he stood up

And he screamed, "You are an evil man"
And I paused a while to wonder
"If I have no free will then how could I
Be morally culpable, I wonder"

I shot Richard Holmes in the stomach
And gingerly he sat down
And he whispered weirdly, "No offense"
And lay upon the ground

"None taken," I replied to him
With which he gave a little cough
With blazing wings I neatly aimed
And blew his head completely off

I've lived in this town for thirty years
And to no-one I am a stranger
And I put new bullets in my gun
Chamber upon chamber

And when I turned my gun on the bird-like Mr. Brookes
I thought of Saint Francis and his sparrows
And as I shot down the youthful Richardson
It was Sebastian I thought of, and his arrows

Hhhhhhhhhhhh Mmmmmmmmm

I said, "I want to introduce myself
And I'm glad that you all came"
And I leapt upon the bar
And shouted out my name

Well Jerry Bellows, he hugged his stool
Closed his eyes and shrugged and laughed
And with an ashtray as big as a f_cking big brick
I split his head in half

His blood spilled across the bar
Like a streaming scarlet brook
And I knelt at it's edge on the counter
Wiped the tears away and looked

Well, the light in there was blinding
Full of God and ghosts and truth
I smiled at Henry Davenport
Who made an attempt to move

Well, from the position I was standing
The strangest thing I ever saw
The bullet entered through the top of his chest
And blew his bowels out on the floor

Well I floated down the counter
Showing no remorse
I shot a hole in Kathleen Carpenter
Recently divorced

But remorse I felt and remorse I had
It clung to everything
From the raven hair upon my head
To the feathers on my wings

Then I squeezed my hand in it's fraudulent claw
With it's golden hairless chest
And I glided through the bodies
And killed the fat man Vincent West

Who sat quietly in his chair
A man become a child
And I raised the gun up to his head
Executioner-style

He made no attempt to resist
So fat and dull and lazy
"Do you know I lived in your street?" I cried
And he looked at me as though I was crazy

"O", he said, "I had no idea"
And he grew as quiet as a mouse
And the roar of the pistol when it went off
Near blew the hat right off the house

Well, I caught my eye in the mirror
And gave it a long and loving inspection
"There stands some kind of man", I roared
And there did, in the reflection

My hair combed back like a raven's wing
My muscles hard and tight
And curling from he business end of my gun
Was a query-mark of cordite

Well I spun to the left, I spun to the right
And I spun to the left again
"Fear me! Fear me!"
But no one did cause they were all dead

Huh! Hmmmmmmmm
And then there were the police sirens wailing
And a bull-horn squelched and blared
"Drop your weapons and come out
With your hands held in the air"

Well, I checked the chambers of my gun
Saw I had one final bullet left
My hand, it looked almost human
As I help it to my head

"Drop your weapon and come out!
Keep you hands above your head!"
Well, I had one long hard think about dying
And did exactly what they said

There must have been fifty cops out there
In a circle around O'Malley's bar
"Don't shoot", I cried "I'm a man unarmed!"
So they put me in their car

And they sped me away from that terrible scene
And I glanced out of the window
Saw O'Malley's bar, saw the cops and the cars
And started counting on my fingers

Aaaaaaaaah One Aaaaaaaah Two Aaaaaah Three Aaaah Four
O'Malley's bar O'Malley's bar

我又高又瘦
玉树临风
我因英俊而出名
在特定的角度和特定的灯光下

就这样我走进奥马利酒吧
说：“奥马利，我渴了”
奥马利不过是冲我一笑，说
“你并不是第一个”

我敲了敲吧台并点了
酒架上的一瓶
然后奥马利给我倒了一杯
我嗅了一嗅并画了个十字

我的手判断出时候快到了
它滑出我的视野片刻
回到视野的时候，它燃烧得厉害
带着重新拾得的把握

就这样我的铁拳击碎了玻璃杯
它们发出刺耳的响声
当我开枪打他，我是那么英俊
现在就是那道灯光，现在就是那个角度

“邻居们！”我大叫，“朋友们！”我尖叫
我把拳头锤在吧台上
“我对你们毫无怨恨！”
我感到阴茎又长又硬

“我就是那个没有一个神灵接受
但整个世界都在盼望的人
我的身体打着黑暗与鲜血的记号
以及一千处火药的烧伤”

好吧，你知道那些清理着海洋底部的
嘴唇肿胀的鱼的模样
当我看着可怜的奥马利的老婆
那正是我所看到的

我掐住她下巴底下喉管
她的脸看起来原始而恶毒
她的头落在水槽里
陷进那些脏盘子里面

她的小女儿西沃恩
倒啤酒从晚倒到早
在镇里人之间她是个笑话
但她倒的啤酒镇上最好

我壮丽地猛扑向她
当她在悲痛中坐着颤抖
就像画在教堂墙上的玛利亚
在鲸鱼血与香蕉叶当中

她的喉咙碎在我手中
然后我英勇地四处旋转
看到卡弗里从他座位上站了起来
我一枪崩倒了那个婊子养的

“我没有自由意志！”我一边唱
一边从一个谋杀飞到下一个
理查德·赫尔姆斯太太，她尖叫起来
你真该听听她的声音

我唱然后我笑，我嚎叫然后我哭泣
我喘息像一只小狗
我在理查德·赫尔姆斯太太脑袋上开了个洞
然后她丈夫愚蠢地站起来

当他尖叫：“你是一个恶魔！”
我暂停了一会儿去疑惑
如果我没有自由意志那么我又怎么
才能在道德上有罪，我很疑惑

我开枪打在理查德·赫尔姆斯胃上
然后他坐在椅子上动作小心翼翼
然后他古怪地呢喃了一句：“无意冒犯”
然后倒在地板上

“没有关系”，我回答他
对此他只是轻轻咳嗽了一下
带着燃烧的双翼我利落地瞄准
把他的脑袋打得稀巴烂

我在这个镇子里住了三十年
没有一个人不认识我
我重新给枪上弹
一个枪膛接一个枪膛

当我把枪口转到长得像鸟的布鲁克斯先生
我想到了圣弗朗西斯和他的麻雀
当我一枪击倒年轻的理查森
我想到的是圣塞巴斯蒂安，和他身上的箭头

我说：“我想介绍下我自己，
我很高兴你们能来”
然后我跳上吧台
并且喊出我的名字

哦，杰瑞·贝洛斯，他紧抱着他的凳子
紧闭双眼耸着肩而且在笑
于是用一只大得就像一块真他妈大的砖头的烟灰缸
我把他的头劈成两半

他的血溢出来淌过酒吧
像一条冒汽的猩红色小溪
我跪下在它的边缘在柜台上
擦干眼泪然后环顾

哦，灯光是那么刺眼
到处是上帝和真理的鬼魂
我朝着亨利·达文波特微笑
他已失去了动弹的意志

好吧，从我站的位置看过去
我看到的最奇特的事
是子弹穿过他胸口的顶端
把他的肠子涂在地上

我飘飘荡荡坐回柜台
显露不出一丁点懊悔
我在凯瑟琳·卡朋特身上射了个洞
她最近刚离婚

但我感受到的懊悔和胸怀着的懊悔
紧紧联系着一切事物
从我头顶渡鸦的毛发
到我翅膀上的羽毛

懊悔把我的手捏进它欺诈的爪子
贴紧它金色的无毛的胸腔
我滑行穿过那些尸体
杀死了肥佬文森特·韦斯特

谁悄悄地缩在他的椅子里？
就像从成人变成了孩子？
我举起枪对准他的头
侩子手的风格

他并未尝试抵抗
那么肥胖那么呆滞那么懒惰
“你知道我住在你的街道吗？”我说
然后他瞧着我就好像我疯了

“噢，”他说，“我不知道”
然后他变得安静如同一只耗子
然后子弹自枪管脱膛而出的吼叫
简直快把那帽子也吹出了房子

就这样，我盯着镜子里我的眼睛
对它作了番漫长而钟情的视察
“那儿站着人的某种类型”，我咆哮道
的的确确，在倒影中

我的头发梳到后面像只渡鸦的翅膀
我的肌肉又硬又紧
我蜷曲着身体在枪的活儿结束之后
像一只洒满火药的疑问号

就这样我转到左边，我转到右边
然后我再次转到左边
“畏惧我！畏惧我！畏惧我！”
但没人照做因为他们全都死了

然后那时警笛的哭叫声传来
一只扬声喇叭嘎吱巨响
“放下你的武器然后出来，
把你双手举在空中！”

好吧，我查了查枪的枪膛
看见我还剩了最后一颗子弹
我的手，它看起来简直就是人类
当我举起枪对准我的头

“放下你的武器然后出来，
把你双手抱在头顶！”
我作了一个漫长而艰难的思考关于死亡
然后做了正如他们所说的

那儿肯定有五十个条子在外面
围成一圈包围着奥马利酒吧
“不要开枪！”我哭叫，“我是个手无寸铁的人！”
所以他们把我装进他们的车

就这样他们带我飞驰离开那可怕的景象
然后我往窗外瞥了一眼
看到奥马利酒吧，看到警察们和车们
然后我扳着手指开始数

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奥马利酒吧。。。

翻译转载自rainclub.lofter.com