(l,m) Cave (p) Nick & The Bad Seeds < Nick Cave: vocals; Harvey: rhythm guitar, organ, backing vocals; Blixa Bargeld: guitar; Conway piano; Martyn Casey: bass; Wydler: drums; The Bad backing vocals; Harvey & David Blumberg: string arrangements; Dennis Karmazyn: cello; Dukov, Barbara Porter: violins > ( Henry's Dream [Mute, ) Well the night was deep and the night was And I was at the old on the edge of town Some big was going down Dancers writhed and 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 Finn's wife With legs like and butcher's knives A tattooed breast and flaming And a carnation in her teeth her way through the dance floor And I'm standing over by the Every eye gaping on John Finn's Yeah, every eye gaping on John wife Now John Finn's wife was something of a In a where to share a sworn secret was a solemn duty I had brass knuckles and a 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 me stares Armed, as they were, machetes And the night through the was full of lights Winking and awatching at John wife Winking and awatching at Finns' wife came the cops, all out on the town But it don't look like no trouble As they had for the bar in their lumpy And I slip my between the things of John Finn's wife And they to yawn awake, her things It was a warm and very ferocious The moon full of blood and And my eyes grew small and my grew tight As I plotted in the ear of John Finns' Enter John in his shrunken suit With his quick black eyes and black his filled-down teeth and a hobnail boot And his fists full of pistols in his at me and aiming at his wife The fall silent fearing for their lives And with fear in my guts like twine Cause all I got is brass and a bolo knife And mad John Finns' is all And the of us walk out of the hall Now the night bore down us all You could hear the in the thickets call And guns did flare and guns did And I planted my bolo in the neck Of mad Finn. I took his wretched life Now I'm near the bandstand Every hand on John Finns' wife Every hand on John Finns' wife And John wife Took all the flowers her hair And threw them on the And the did hum And the flies did buzz Poor Finn Lying upon the ground Lying dead the ground