John Finn's Wife (Live)-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

[ti:John Finn's Wife (Live)] [ar:Nick Cave & the bad seeds] [al:Live Seeds] [by:] [offset:0] [00:03.01]John Finn's Wife (Live) - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (尼克·凯夫和坏种乐队) [00:15.13]Well the night was deep and the night was dark [00:17.45]And I was at the old dance-hall on the edge of town [00:21.26] [00:25.02]Some big ceremony was going down [00:27.61] [00:30.09]Dancers writhed and squirmed and then [00:32.67]Came apart and then writhed again [00:34.99]Like squirming flies on a pin [00:37.90]In the heat and in the din [00:40.40]Yes in the heat and in the din [00:42.56] [00:43.24]And I start to thinking about [00:44.76]The brand new wife of mad John Finn [00:50.54] [00:52.45]Well midnite came and clock did strike [00:54.68]And in she came did John Finn's wife [00:57.25]With legs like scissors and butcher's knives [00:59.52]A tattooed breast and flaming eyes [01:01.39]And a crimson carnation in her teeth [01:04.13]Carving her way through the dance floor [01:06.74]And I'm standing over by the bandstand [01:09.19]Every eye gaping on John Finn's wife [01:11.59]Yeah every eye gaping on John Finn's wife [01:15.19] [01:35.84]Now John Finn's wife was something of a mystery [01:39.58] [01:40.10]In a town where to share a sworn secret was a solemn duty [01:44.25] [01:44.77]I had brass knuckles and a bolo knife [01:47.34]Over near the bandstand with John Finn's wife [01:49.53]She got perfumed breasts and raven hair [01:51.22] [01:51.90]Sprinkled with wedding confettis [01:53.14] [01:54.05]And a gang of garrotters were all giving me stares [01:56.87]Armed as they were with machetes [01:59.51] [02:03.60]And the night through the window was full of lights [02:05.99]Winking and awatching at John Finns' wife [02:08.25]Winking and awatching at John Finns' wife [02:12.59] [02:31.49]Next came the cops all out on the town [02:33.71]But it don't look like no trouble there [02:35.12] [02:35.72]As they head for the bar in their lumpy suits [02:38.28]And I slip my hand between the thighs of John Finn's wife [02:42.66]And they seemed to yawn awake her thighs [02:46.95]It was a warm and very ferocious night [02:49.45]The moon full of blood and light [02:51.55]And my eyes grew small and my eyes grew tight [02:53.82]As I plotted in the ear of John Finns' wife [02:57.95] [03:16.21]Enter John Finn in his shrunken suit [03:18.20]With his quick black eyes and black cheroot [03:20.52]With his filled-down teeth and a hobnail boot [03:22.77]And his fists full of pistols in his pockets [03:24.19] [03:24.96]Aiming at me and aiming at his wife [03:27.12]The band fall silent fearing for their lives [03:29.43]And with fear in my guts like tangled twine [03:31.70]Cause all I got is brass knuckles and a bolo knife [03:35.97]And mad John Finns' wife is all [03:39.65] [03:40.48]And the three of us walk out of the hall [03:45.33] [04:11.55]Now the night bore down upon us all [04:13.45]You could hear the crickets in the thickets call [04:16.30]And guns did flare and guns did bawl [04:18.89]And I planted my bolo knife in the neck [04:20.75]Of mad John Finn [04:22.77]I took his wretched life [04:25.42]Now I'm over near the bandstand [04:27.75]Every hand moving on John Finns' wife [04:29.90]Every hand moving on John Finns' wife [04:33.93] [04:53.95]And John Finns' wife [04:56.24] [04:58.22]Took all the flowers down [05:00.12] [05:01.85]From her hair [05:03.04] [05:03.78]And threw them on the ground [05:07.23] [05:08.09]And the flies did hum [05:12.27]And the flies did buzz around [05:16.19] [05:17.06]Poor John Finn [05:19.75]Lying dead upon the ground [05:23.70]Lying dead upon the ground