The Devil's Wife

Devil woman, devil doll,

Stick a pin in me and watch me crawl

You’re the other side of me that won’t put down the knife

Did you ever think that you might be the devil’s wife?

 

His first affair was with Jezebel

But she was even too hot for hell

His second was with Scheherazade

But he thought she thought she was God

 

When he was riding with Delilah

He tried forever to defile her

When he finally got to Cleopatra

That was a disastra

 

He had to escape to Macon, Georgia

From the time he spent with Lucretia Borgia

Then he found a fate worse than death

In his tête à tête with Lady MacBeth

 

But all of those harridans combined

They will have to stand in line

Which is forming on the right

There's a flood in the desert while in the city blight

But you cannot have known trouble and strife

Till you've had a drink with the devil's wife

 

Devil woman, devil doll,

Stick a pin in me and watch me crawl

You’re the other side that won’t put down the knife

Did you ever think

 

The devil's wife the devil's wife

She can't dance to save her life

The devil's wife the devil's wife

Her gaze is as a stiletto knife

With sorrow and grief her streets are rife

The devil's wife

 

She says, “It’s over and out”

She says, “It’s over and done”

Shoots him with his own gun

Kills him with his only son

 

It was raining hard on a cloudless day

When I first heard the demon pray

That he could somehow make her pay

 

He doesn't wait for her response

He tells her twice he tells her once

To memorize the Renaissance

 

He makes her read Nathaniel Hawthorne

He dresses her in raiment moth worn

Plays One Note Samba on a car horn

 

He hides behind the bedroom door

And frightens her with her paramour

When she severs his tongue

He grows two more

 

The devil's wife the devil's wife

She can't dance to save her life

The devil's wife the devil's wife

Her gaze is as a stiletto knife

With sorrow and grief her streets are rife

The devil's wife

 

She says, “It’s over and out”

She says, “It’s over and done”

Shoots him with his own gun

Kills him with his only son

 

As he is turning fact to fiction

She traps him in this contradiction

Until he's left without conviction

 

As he makes foolishness of wisdom

She manacles him inside a system

As he wails in pain and plays the victim

 

Then as he sits paralyzed

By the evil spell that she's devised

He feels criticized

 

And as he sits there moribund

She shoots him with his own gun

While sleeping with his only son

 

The devil's wife the devil's wife

She can't dance to save her life

The devil's wife the devil's wife

Her gaze is as a stiletto knife

With sorrow and grief her streets are rife

The devil's wife

 

She says, “It’s over and out”

She says, “It’s over and done”

Shoots him with his own gun

Kills him with his only son