Nick Cave & 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