The Wish

4/25/96 Brixton Acadamy @ London, England

I'm gonna do a song now, that I wrote for my mother. Wrote it about ten years ago,
didn't have the nerve to play it. In this kind of business... in rock 'n roll, singing about
your mother doesn't go down that well. You sing about fucking your mother, that's
alright. That's the kind of sad business this is, unfortunately...  It's different in every
country, I've gone to Italy  ???  couple of weeks ago, they know a lot about loving your
mothers in that country. Then I was in Scotland, it was the day after a big tournament -
I don't know what fucking tournament it was, some big sports event [guy shouts]. I
don't follow that kind of thing. A lot of people got pretty high, obviously, they had
mothers to go home to. In the USA, it's reserved strictly for country singers and
gangsters, mother loving. Cause here in England, you got the Queen Mother, as Sadam
Hussein would say, the mother of all mothers. And... she has suffered the vicissitudes
of motherhood in the past few years... my mother was upset when I got divorced
[audience applauds]. But she's kind ??? on my way here I passed close to Queen
Mother's Sports Studio - I guess that's where she pumps iron. All right... on to the
entertainment... So, for all you mothers out there, and mother lovers [giggle].