Christina The Astonishing Lyrics - Singles - Cave Nick

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(l,m) Nick Cave 

(p) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 

percussion; Blixa Bargeld: guitar; Conway Savage: piano; 

Martyn Casey: bass; Thomas Wydler: drums, congas; 

The Bad Seeds: backing vocals; 

Mick Harvey & David Blumberg: string arrangements; 

Dennis Karmazyn: cello; Bruce Dukov, Barbara Porter: violins > 

( Henry's Dream [Mute, 1992] ) 

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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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