Lyric discussion by StickityWicket 

Cover art for John Finn's Wife lyrics by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Another reason Henry's Dream is such an amazing album - lyrically - musically its fantastic as well, but it is seriously a lyrical onslaught and this is a prime example.

I suppose there could be some metaphor going on here, but to me it just seems like something you could integrate into Murder Ballad (he had so many before the album - someone should release and modified murder ballads which all of them throughout his career) - but i digress.... Nick's telling a story, and a dirty violent one at that - enjoy.

i love the last two verses - love ALL the verses - love the song PERIOD