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Christina The Astonishing
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
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Christina, the Astonishing
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Lived a long, long time ago
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She was stricken with a seizure
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At the age of twenty-two
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They took her body in a coffin
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To a tiny church in Liege
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Where she sprang up from the coffin
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Just after the Agnus Dei
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She soared up to the rafters
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Perched on a beam up there
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Cried, "The stink of human sin
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The stink of human sin
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The stink is more that I can bear"
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And I said, "Oh, oh, oh"
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Christina, the Astonishing
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Was the most astonishing of all
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She prayed, balanced on a hurdle
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Or curled up into a ball
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She fled to remote places
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Climbed towers and trees and walls
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To escape the stench of corruption
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The stench of human corruption
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Into an oven, she did crawl
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And I said, "Oh, oh, oh"
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Christina, the Astonishing
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Behaved in a terrifying way
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She'd run wildly through the streets
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Jump in the Meusse and swim away
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Christina, the Astonishing
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Behaved in a terrifying manner
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She died at the age of seventy-four
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Died at the age of seventy-four
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In the convent of St. Anna
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And I said, "Oh, oh, oh"
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