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