DIET OF WORMS

DIET OF WORMS
(Currin)

----Too many influences. "About the One that got away."

Oh, she chewed a Diet of Worms, she was a Lutheran beauty with an ethereal glow
Oh, Amanda Jo, you once were my home and I still miss you so
Now, all those memories, they’re burning, in effigy, at time’s monastery
Time leaves you yearning to get drunk again, on those 95 theses

October 31st and you’re spinning down into the whirlpool of regrets
If only I had did what I was going to, if only to hang onto all you said
You should know that everything you did had me so amazed
When reason, sense and understanding were trampled upon by faith

Oh, Amanda Jo, together, we didn’t take no Bull
Why not even Carlton could hold us down with the strings that he pulled
And Mike, he wasn’t right for you, but then you were always free
Yeah, your heart, well, it was always your own Papacy

Oh, I still remember us wading, through that creek and like a bee
I wanted to drown, in your petals and drink your wine of salvation and be free
Oh, I know, you could’ve healed me and you’d let me nail your body down to a tree
But maybe, Dear, God knew that it wasn’t meant to be

I remember reading the Good News that was tattooed, on your heart
And that Light that shone through---kept me from falling apart
With fear and trembling, I use to give you a little of my time
And maybe, when I got it back, I became just a little more blind

Oh, Amanda Jo, together, we didn’t take no Bull
Why not even Carlton could hold us down with the strings that he pulled
And Mike, he wasn’t right for you, but then you were always free
Yeah, your heart, well, it was always your own Papacy

Just yesterday, I was swimming, in all the words, I wove into your hair
At Raven Rock and the shoreline of your heart flashed into my despair
When we were new, in the world, consubstantiating the transubstantiation
Well, maybe, someday, in the future past, someone will transubstantiate that consubstantiation

You could’ve been my Catherine of Bora, worn my faith, around your heart, like a wedding ring
Oh, well that would have been great, greater than the deepest of all dreams
‘Oh, Love, you know, if you and I had conspired with fate to grasp the sorry scheme of things entire
Wouldn’t we have shattered it all to bits and then re-mould-ed it nearer to our heart’s desire’

Oh, Amanda Jo, together, we didn’t take no Bull
Why not even Carlton could hold us down with the strings that he pulled
And Mike, he wasn’t right for you, but then you were always free
Yeah, your heart, well, it was always your own Papacy

God, where does the time go, well, “Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise.”
And when we become the Diet of Worms, I just can’t wait to see you again, on the other side



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