(l,m) Nick (p) Cave & The Bad Seeds < Nick Cave: vocals; Mick rhythm guitar, organ, backing vocals; Bargeld: guitar; Conway Savage: piano; Martyn Casey: bass; Thomas Wydler: The Bad backing vocals; Mick Harvey & David Blumberg: string Karmazyn: cello; Bruce Dukov, Barbara Porter: violins > ( Dream [Mute, 1992] ) Well the night was and the night was dark And I was at the old dance-hall on the edge of Some big was going down Dancers and squirmed and then, Came apart and then writhed squirming flies on a pin In the and in the din Yes, in the and in the din I to thinking about brand new wife of mad John Finn Well, came and clock did strike And in she came, did John wife With like scissors and butcher's knives A tattooed breast and eyes And a crimson 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 Finn's wife Now John Finn's wife was of a mystery In a town where to share a secret was a solemn duty I had knuckles and a bolo knife Over near the bandstand John Finn's wife She got perfumed breasts and hair Sprinkled wedding confettis And a of garrotters were all giving me stares Armed, as they were, with And the night through the window was full of and awatching at John Finns' wife Winking and at John Finns' wife Next the cops, all out on the town But it don't like no trouble there As they had for the bar in their suits And I my hand between the things of John Finn's wife And they seemed to awake, her things It was a and very ferocious night The moon full of blood and And my eyes small and my eyes grew tight As I plotted in the ear of John wife John Finn in his shrunken suit With his quick black eyes and black With his teeth and a hobnail boot And his fists of pistols in his pockets at me and aiming at his wife The band fall silent fearing for lives And with in my guts like tangled twine Cause all I got is brass and a bolo knife And mad Finns' wife is all And the three of us out of the hall Now the night bore upon us all You could hear the crickets in the thickets And guns did flare and guns did And I planted my knife in the neck Of mad Finn. I took his wretched life Now I'm over the bandstand Every moving on John Finns' wife Every hand on John Finns' wife And Finns' wife all the flowers down From her And threw them on the And the did hum And the flies did buzz John Finn Lying dead the ground Lying dead the ground