| Song Length |
3:37 |
Genre |
Folk - Contemporary, Folk - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Very Slow (Under 70) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Quiet, Poignant |
Subject |
Marriage, Bad Love |
| Similar Artists |
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
If I had a wife
She'd be beauttiful
Cold as the night
Is pin-pricked and blue
If I had a wife
She'd be just like you
If I had a wife
She'd be like no one else
Keep herself to herself
A pin-pricked mystery who
If I didn't know better
I would say
That she was like you
If I had a wife
If I had a wife
If I had a wife
If I had a wife
She'd let life come between us
Then she'd kiss me like Judas
With a tear in her eye
Then she'd lay me like Judith
One last time
And leave me to die
So who needs a wife?
Who needs a wife?
Who needs a wife?
Cos if I had a wife
If I had a wife
She'd be just like you.
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