(l,m) Nick (p) Cave & The Bad Seeds < Nick Cave: vocals; Mick Harvey: guitar, organ, backing vocals; Blixa Bargeld: guitar; Savage: piano; Martyn Casey: Thomas Wydler: drums; The Bad Seeds: backing Mick & David Blumberg: string arrangements; Dennis cello; Bruce Dukov, Barbara Porter: violins > ( Dream [Mute, 1992] ) Well the was deep and the night was dark And I was at the old on the edge of town Some big ceremony was going writhed and squirmed and then, Came apart and then writhed Like squirming on a pin In the and in the din Yes, in the and in the din I fell to thinking about brand new wife of mad Finn Well, came and clock did strike And in she came, did John Finn's With legs like scissors and butcher's A tattooed and flaming eyes And a carnation in her teeth Carving her way through the floor And I'm over by the bandstand Every eye gaping on John Finn's Yeah, every eye gaping on John Finn's Now John Finn's was something of a mystery In a where to share a sworn secret was a solemn duty I had knuckles and a bolo knife Over near the with John Finn's wife She got perfumed breasts and hair Sprinkled with confettis And a gang of garrotters all giving me stares Armed, as they were, machetes And the night through the window was of lights Winking and awatching at John Finns' Winking and awatching at John wife Next came the cops, all out on the But it don't look like no there As they had for the bar in lumpy suits And I slip my hand between the things of John Finn's And they seemed to awake, her things It was a warm and ferocious night The moon of blood and light And my grew small and my eyes grew tight As I plotted in the ear of John Finns' Enter John Finn in his shrunken his quick black eyes and black cheroot With his filled-down and a hobnail boot And his fists of pistols in his pockets Aiming at me and aiming at his The band fall silent fearing for lives And with fear in my guts like twine Cause all I got is brass knuckles and a bolo And mad Finns' wife is all And the three of us out of the hall Now the night bore down us all You could the crickets in the thickets call And guns did and guns did bawl And I planted my bolo knife in the Of mad Finn. I took his wretched life Now I'm over near the Every hand moving on John Finns' Every hand moving on John Finns' And Finns' wife all the flowers down From her And threw on the ground And the did hum And the flies did buzz Poor Finn Lying dead upon the Lying upon the ground