Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Christina the Astonishing Lyrics

Christina the Astonishing lived a long 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".

And I say ohhh...

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.

And I say ohhh...

Christina the Astonishing behaved in a terrifying way,
She'd run wildly through the streets, jump in the Meusse and swim away.
Christina the Astonishing behaved in terrifying manner,
She died at the age of seventy-four in the convent of St Anna.

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