Wife Lyrics

Wife lyrics

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 Wife 



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 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!