Christina The Astonishing Lyrics by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Christina The Astonishing Lyrics

    Christina the astonishing
    Lived a long time ago
    She was stricken with a seizure
    At the age of twenty-two
    They took her body in a coffin
    To a tiny church in liege
    Where she sprang up from the coffin
    Just after the agnus dei
    She soared up to the rafters
    Perched on a beam up there
    Cried "the stink of human sin
    Is more that i can bear"
    Christina the astonishing
    Was the most astonishing of all
    She prayed balanced on a hurdle
    Or curled up into a ball
    She fled to remote places
    Climbed towers and trees and walls
    To escape the stench of human corruption
    Into an oven she did crawl
    O christina the astonishing
    Behaved in a terrifying way
    She would run wildly through the streets
    Jump in the meusse and swim away
    O christina the astonishing
    Behaved in terrifying manner
    Died at the age of seventy-four
    In the convent of st anna

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