"Take Me To Church"

My lover's got humour
She's the giggle at a funeral
Knows everybody's disapproval
I should've worshipped her sooner

If the heavens ever did speak
She's the last true mouthpiece
Every Sunday's getting more bleak
A fresh poison each week

'We were born sick, ' you heard them say it

My Church offers no absolutes
She tells me, 'Worship in the bedroom.'
The only heaven I'll be sent to
Is when I'm alone with you—

I was born sick,
But I love it
Command me to be well
Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.

[Chorus 2x:]
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

If I'm a pagan of the good times
My lover's the sunlight
To keep the Goddess on my side
She demands a sacrifice

Drain the whole sea
Get something shiny
Something meaty for the main course
That's a fine looking high horse
What you got in the stable?
We've a lot of starving faithful

That looks tasty
That looks plenty
This is hungry work

[Chorus 2x:]
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins so you can sharpen your knife
Offer me my deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

No Masters or Kings
When the Ritual begins
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
Only then I am Human
Only then I am Clean
Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.

[Chorus 2x:]
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

...I was in the car and all those "AMENS!" started blaring out.

WTF? Is the radio on some Xian station by mistake? Double-checked. Nope, it was on one of our 2 "alternative"* stations here in L.A.

Then I listened closer to/read the lyrics and realized my mistake...

*Those 2 "alternative" stations aren't much of an alternative. Both have very tight playlists and often mirror each other - sometimes I flip from one station to the other and both are playing the same song.

If you visit here, go to the lower end of the FM band and you'll hit the non-commercial college stations - the REAL alternative music. You might hear some new local band, or jazz, or blues, or hillbilly swing from the Dark Ages.

Or some neat World Music, like Shantel's goofy "Disko Partizani." I found a huge Internet argument one night among a bunch of Eastern Europeans, trying to figure out the language he's singing in (other than English). The general consensus was Romanian, but mixed with some bizarr-o Romany (Gypsy) dialect that nobody could understand.

Love his mashup of Eastern European/Middle Eastern clichés - belly dancers, women in burqas, flying carpets. And electric balalaikas. I think...

Never heard of it.

Couldn't get though it.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ....

"giggle at a funeral"

dreadful lyrics.

My 13 year old daughter was playing it, and apologised because she knows I don't like religious music. I laughed and told her to look up the lyrics.