Wife Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

Here she comes, my wife 

See her down on the street 

Well, yeah, she's mine, supine 

Or up on her feet 

Yeah, here she comes 

Through the dog-breath heat 

With her concertina spine 

And her ballerina feet 

Under a punishing sun 

Under a red and green umbrella 

Call her name and beat the drum 

Through the condominiums and the favelas 

God is gone. We got to get a new one 

Not lock Him down in cathedrals and cages 

I found the eternal woman 

The fire that leapt from Solomon's pages 

O, baby, here she comes 

My righteous, ringless bride 

She is the soul of an ailing continent 

She is Latin America's pride 

There she runs, through the rain 

Through cities of packed dirt and bone 

She's prepared to accept the burden of the world's great pain 

Ah, here she comes 

I will love her for all time 

In her little, small floral skirt, so short 

Defying rhythm, defying rhyme 

The cats are crying like babies 

Up and down the alleys 

The kids are howling like cats 

With not enough in their bellies 

Here, she's gaily tripping through the streets 

Cats and kids stop to stare 

The kids all band their guitars 

They shoot their guns into the air 

She don't carry no gun 

Her lips are loaded up with kisses 

She got kisses all around her hips 

She got them criss-crossing her breasts 

Keep playing that song 

Don't let the band go home 

I tell you God is gone 

We are on our own 

Yeah, here she comes 

In a dress of red and yellow 

Up the steps to our home 

I got something to tell her 

I say, I say, b-b-b-b-b-baby! 

Ye-ye-ye-ye-ah! Yea-a-a-a-h! Uh-huh! 

0 b-b-b-baby! 

A-a-a-ah here she comes!