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Sister Mary Catherine, Rock-and-Roll Nun
A song I wrote in one sitting, waiting for stuff to happen at work. The idea had been there for weeks; I originally wrote all the different chorae as one, but it grew too cumbersome. I guess the old songwriter compass did me a favor on this one...
Lyrics:
There's a new girl in town
She's been walking around
Turning heads up and down Ellison Street
See her in all the smoky bars
Singing songs by The Cars and Jefferson Starship
She strums her Strat like Hendrix
But she prays a lot like Martin Luther
I tried to talk to her but there's an anchor
On my tongue, I can't break through her
Excommunication barrier
What's a boy like me going to do with a woman like that
A woman like that Sister Mary Catherine, Rock and Roll nun
Every week I confess I'm still trying to guess
What she looks like underneath her
Ankle-length monastic dress,
I'd like to break her of her habit
Take her out to an R-rated movie
Figure out all the words that make her blush
This is no ordinary schoolboy crush
This is a yearning measured in truly biblical proportions
What's a boy like me going to do with a woman like that
A woman like that SMCRNRN
She keeps her little black book filled with all the
Names and numbers of the men she's ever worshipped
She says she loves a man, but he's a god
Inside my eyes, I know inside her heart there's room for more
There's a new girl in town
She's been walking around
Turning heads up and down Ellison Street
There's a bow in her auburn hair,
There's a chill in the autumn air as she
Sashays on by like the pavement's a runway
There's fire and brimstone in her eyes
She's on her knees, trying to save my wretched soul
I'm on her trail, I'm hiding beneath her cloistered bedroom window
What's a boy like me going to do with a woman like that
A woman like that SMCRNRN
