(l,m) Nick (p) Nick Cave & The Bad < Nick Cave: vocals; Mick Harvey: rhythm guitar, organ, vocals; Blixa Bargeld: guitar; Conway Savage: Martyn Casey: bass; Thomas drums; The Bad Seeds: vocals; Mick Harvey & David string arrangements; Dennis Karmazyn: cello; Bruce Dukov, Barbara Porter: > ( 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 ceremony was going Dancers writhed and and then, apart and then writhed again 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 John Well, midnite and clock did strike And in she came, did John Finn's With legs like and butcher's knives A tattooed breast and flaming And a crimson in her teeth Carving her way through the dance And I'm standing by the bandstand Every eye gaping on John Finn's Yeah, eye gaping on John Finn's wife Now John Finn's wife was something of a In a town where to share a sworn secret was a duty I had brass knuckles and a knife Over near the bandstand with John wife She got perfumed breasts and hair with wedding confettis And a gang of were all giving me stares Armed, as they were, with And the through the window was full of lights Winking and at John Finns' wife Winking and awatching at John wife Next the cops, all out on the town But it don't look no trouble there As they had for the bar in their lumpy And I slip my hand the things of John Finn's wife And they seemed to awake, her things It was a and very ferocious night The full of blood and light And my eyes small and my eyes grew tight As I in the ear of John Finns' wife Enter Finn in his shrunken suit With his quick black and black cheroot With his filled-down and a hobnail boot And his fists full of pistols in his Aiming at me and at his wife The band fall silent for their lives And fear in my guts like tangled twine all I got is brass knuckles 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 did bawl And I planted my bolo in the neck Of mad John Finn. I took his wretched Now I'm over the bandstand Every hand moving on John Finns' Every hand moving on Finns' wife And John wife all the flowers down From her And them on the ground And the did hum And the did buzz around Poor John Lying dead the ground Lying dead the ground