alive she cried Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 I live in a town called millhaven And its small and its mean and its cold But if you come around just as the sun goes down You can watch the whole town turn to gold Its around about then that I used to go a-roaming Singing la la la la la la la lie All gods children they all gotta die My name is loretta BUT I PREFER LOTTIE Im closing in on my fifteenth year And if you think you have seen a pair of eyes more green Then you sure didnt see them around here My hair is yellow and Im always a-combing La la la la la la la lie Mama often told me we all got to die You must have heard about the curse of millhaven How last christmas bill blakes little boy didnt come Home They found him next week in one mile creek His head bashed in and his pockets full of stones Well, just imagine all the wailing and moaning La la la la la la la lie Even little billy blakes boy, he had to die Then professor orye from millhaven high Found nailed to his door his prize-winning terrier Then next day the old fool brought little biko to school And we all had to watch as he buried her His eulogy to biko had all the tears a-flowing La la la la la la la lie Even gods little creatures, they have to die Our little town fell into a state of shock A lot of people were saying things that made little sense Then the next thing you know the head of handyman joe Was found in the fountain of the mayors residence Foul play can really get a small town going La la la la la la la lie Even gods children all have to die Then, in a cruel twist of fate, old mrs colgate Was stabbed but the job was not complete The last thing she said before the cops pronounced her Dead Was, my killer is loretta and she lives across the Street! Twenty cops burst through my door without even phoning La la la la la la la lie The young ones, the old ones, they all gotta die Yes, it is i, lottie. the curse of millhaven Ive struck horror in the heart of this town Like my eyes aint green and my hair aint yellow Its more like the other way around I gotta pretty little mouth underneath all the foaming La la la la la la la lie Sooner or later we all gotta die Since I was no bigger than a weavil theyve been saying i Was evil That if bad was a boot that Id fit it That Im a wicked young lady, but Ive been trying hard Lately O fuck it! Im a monster! I admit it! It makes me so mad my blood really starts a-going La la la la la la la lie Mama always told me that we all gotta die Yeah, I drowned the blakey kid, stabbed mrs. colgate, i Admit Did the handyman with his circular saw in his garden shed But I never crucified little biko, that was two junior High school psychos Stinky bohoon and his friend with the pumpkin-sized head Ill sing to the lot, now you got me going La la la la la la la lie All gods children have all gotta die There were all the others, all our sisters and brothers You assumed were accidents, best forgotten Recall the children who broke through the ice on lake Tahoo? Everyone assumed the warning signs had Followed them to the bottom Well, theyre underneath the house where I do quite a bit Of stowing La la la la la la la lie Even twenty little children, they had to die And the fire of 91 that razed the bella vista slum There was the biggest shit-fight this countrys ever seen Insurance companies ruined, land lords getting sued All cause of wee girl with a can of gasoline Those flames really roared when the wind started blowing La la la la la la la lie Rich man, poor man, all got to die Well I confessed to all these crimes and they put me on Trial I was laughing when they took me away Off to the asylum in an old black mariah It aint home, but you know, its fucking better than Jail It aint such bad old place to have a home in La la la la la la la lie All gods children they all gotta die Now I got shrinks that will not rest with their endless Rorschach tests I keep telling them theyre out to get me They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer, why of Course! There is so much more I could have done if theyd let Me! So its rorschach and prozac and everything is groovy Singing la la la la la la la lie All gods children they all have to die La la la la la la la lie Im happy as a lark and everything is fine Singing la la la la la la la lie Yeah, everything is groovy and everything is fine Singing la la la la la la la lie All gods children they gotta die here, is her story being recited by nick cave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jont Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Lottie is the thing that monsters fear lie beneath their beds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alive she cried Posted November 6, 2007 Author Share Posted November 6, 2007 who the fuck crap shacked this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Me, it had no place in music given it has absolutely no point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 It has a Nick Cave song with the song's lyrics. It has no point? Well according to Sartre, none of this has any point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Given the point he was trying to get across was the fact he's steamingly obsessed with a slightly northern british teenager i thought it didn't belong in the music forum, why not start up a nick cave thread in general, instead of just singling out one line in one song and bolding it out to try flag some attention... S'what im saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 You really have no idea what rock n roll is all about. Fucking teenagers, that's what it's about, Sgt Joykill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 im not a teenager... dick'ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 'Fucking' wasn't an adjective there, it was a progressive tense verb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 i couldn't care less? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acalis Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 who the fuck crap shacked this? Me, it had no place in music given it has absolutely no point. I disagree. It belongs more in Music than it does here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 its a pile of crap, hence it belonging here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Quality doesn't really define where a thread belongs, does it? I thought subject matter did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 its subject matter is trying to show that lottie is a monster.... wierd science anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acalis Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Your call Jax, since you are Co-Mod of the Music forum with DoJ. You want it there or here? I could care less if it's here or not, but seems like ASC doesn't like the thread being here, and you think it belongs in the Music forum, so I leave it to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Now, that's a better argument than your dislike for it. It still involves a song, though. Look, there's even a video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiterasta Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Murder Ballads is a great album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Your call Jax, since you are Co-Mod of the Music forum with DoJ. You want it there or here? I could care less if it's here or not, but seems like ASC doesn't like the thread being here, and you think it belongs in the Music forum, so I leave it to you. I moved it back to Music once already and DoJ moved it back. He's completely PMS over this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acalis Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 I moved it back to Music once already and DoJ moved it back. He's completely PMS over this thread. I moved it earlier today back to Music and he did the same thing. You, me, ASC, and probably others all feel it should be in Music, but DoJ is having a hissyfit over all this, so oh well, guess keep it here for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jont Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Given the point he was trying to get across was the fact he's steamingly obsessed with a slightly northern british teenager And what may I ask is wrong with that? And in just how can someone be "slightly" Northern? Is she not Northern enough for your liking? Should she be wearing a flat cap, holding a pie in one hand, an Anti-Thatcherite placard in the other and a pipe in her mouth as she marches the wind torn slag covered streets of the pit-village that bore her demanding the mines be reopened? i thought it didn't belong in the music forum, why not start up a nick cave thread in general, instead of just singling out one line in one song and bolding it out to try flag some attention... S'what im saying. It gave me an opportunity to listen to an awesome song, isn't that point enough. All of this, you moving the thread, us arguing that it should stay, this is pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 And in just how can someone be "slightly" Northern? Is she not Northern enough for your liking? Should she be wearing a flat cap, holding a pie in one hand, an Anti-Thatcherite placard in the other and a pipe in her mouth as she marches the wind torn slag covered streets of the pit-village that bore her demanding the mines be reopened? Man, why did this thread have to happen int eh first week fo November. That would have been an AWESOME halloween costume for Lottie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jont Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Man, why did this thread have to happen int eh first week fo November. That would have been an AWESOME halloween costume for Lottie. It's not a costume man, this is Lottie's life we're talking about. You'll never live like common people,you'll never do what common people do, you'll never fail like common people, you'll never watch your life slide out of view, and dance and drink and screw, because there's nothing else to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 It's not a costume man, this is Lottie's life we're talking about. That's true. This has been a very productive day for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jont Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Ah, that's her all right. The Devil's in the details, and you got them down, like a true rugged northern lass, she doesn't open the tin to eat her Fray Bentos, she just bites through with her working class gums. This has been the way round 'er parts ever since Maggie sent all the tin openers to the Falklands and had every dentist north of Cheshire shot as traitors upon hearing that they had voted Labour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Yes, well, I tried. Google searches for Northern-specific English slang turned up for little for me. "Shed-full" was all I could find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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