Church Underground Songtext / Lyric

She stood spot lit in a plain print dress

Came howling out of the wilderness

There beat a cunning and murderous heart

Beneath that calm exterior



You know my name, you don't know my mind

Don't doubt my eyes, they betray the past

And I've already forgotten

Much more than you will ever know



Every word that I have spoken is true

Except the ones that have been broken in two

Trying to make peace after the long night of pretend

Need a pawnbroker or a moneylender



Why do you do me down, Mister?

Sing "Hallelujah", sister

Turn up the volume just to turn it down

The trivial secrets buried with the profound

It's enough to put a church underground

It's enough to put a church underground






Deflowered young and then ever since

She's tried to wash off his fingerprints

So every charlatan and prince

Was made to feel inferior



She worked for tips in a 10-cent dance

Said moving pictures might pay perchance

10, 000 one-way tickets to the sparkling coast

From the blank interior



Everybody's either talking in code

Or getting ready to explode

And she was singing in a five-piece band

Seems that no one really wants this sound



Why do you do me down, Mister?

Sing "Hallelujah", sister

Turn up the volume just to turn it down

The trivial secrets buried with the profound

It's enough to put a church underground

It's enough to put a church underground



The shaft of fanlight streaked with rain

Poured through the glass, punched through the pain

A holy picture hidden in the midden of that poisoned stitch

Her lonely voice was just a ruin in these riches



She must have been dreaming this all along

Could she be redeeming herself in song?

I'm no one's martyred, plaster saint

Below the grease, beneath the paint



I'm rolling like barrel, swinging like a gallows

I'm rising up fast like all hell and all hallows



Why do you do me down, Mister?

Sing "Hallelujah," sister

I'll be damned or purgatory bound

Before those jokers ever understand



It's enough to put a church underground

It's enough to put a church underground

It's enough to put a church underground