The Sorrowful Wife Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

I married my wife on the day of the eclipse 

Our friends awarded her courage with gifts 

Now as the nights grow longer and the season shifts 

I look to my sorrowful wife 

Who is quietly tending her flowers 

Who is quietly tending her 

The water is high on the beckoning river 

And I made her a promise I could not deliver 

And the cry of the birds sends a terrible shiver 

Through me and my sorrowful wife 

Who is shiftin' the furniture around 

Who is shiftin' the furniture around 

Now we sit beneath the knotted yew 

And the bluebells bob up around our shoes 

And the task of remembering the tell tale clues 

Goes to my sorrowful wife 

Who is counting the days on her fingers 

Who is counting the days on her 

Come on help me baby, come on now 

Come on help me baby, I was a blind 

The grass here grows long and high 

Twists right up to the sky white clouds roll on by 

Come on now and help me baby 

I was a blind, I was a fool baby, I was blind 

A loose wind last night blew down 

Black trees bent to the ground 

Their blossoms made such a sound 

That I could not hear myself think baby 

I was blind, I was a fool, baby 

Yeah, I was blind fool, baby 

I was a fool, baby, I was blind baby 

Yeah fool baby 

I was blind fool, baby 

Blind baby 

Blind baby 

Blind baby 

Blind baby